Re: [tied] Q: Gray & Atkinson's dating of PIE at -8000 BP

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 31465
Date: 2004-03-17

17-03-2004 12:59, Francesco Brighenti wrote:

>
> Dear List Members,
>
> I would like to read some comments by competent linguists on Gray &
> Anderson's recent theory placing the various IE proto-families'
> branching off from PIE at dates 2,000 years earlier than the dates
> arrived at by linguistic paleontology. The results of their research
> are published in the following article:
>
> R. D. Gray and Q. D. Atkinson, "Language-tree divergence times
> support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin", _Nature_ 426
> (November 27, 2003), pp. 435-9
>
> Abstract:
> http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?
> file=/nature/journal/v426/n6965/abs/nature02029_fs.html&dynoptions=doi
> 1079516692
>
> Article in _Science_ 302 (November 28, 2003):
> http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/alb-
> shkenca/attachments/20031203/4d2f3b0a/1490a.pdf
>
> Article in _The New York Times_ (March 16, 2004):
> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/science/16LANG.html?
> pagewanted=all&position=
>
> As a layman in linguistics I would also know whether Gray &
> Anderson's methodology is correct form the linguists' point of view.

Check the archives. The "Nature" article was discussed here a few months
ago.

Piotr