Re: [tied] Sredny-Stog, Dniepr-Donets, or Pit-Grave?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> --- "C. Darwin Goranson" <cdog_squirrel@...>
> wrote:
>
> > I've read that the PIEans could have been any of
> > these, or even a
> > mixture of them. What's the current, widely-accepted
> > idea in regard to
> > this issue of origins? And where did THOSE cultures
> > come from?
>
> ****GK: Serednyi Stih ("Middle Crag", after a location
> on the southward bend of the Dnipro r.) is the prime
> candidate for the "pre-expansion" locale of IE (though
> not necessarily the first IE culture) for those who
> favour the East European steppe as the heimat.

If I understand correctly, there seem to be two major gaps in
archaeologically connecting the major IE groups:

1) Globular Amphora v. Sredny Stog.

2) Iranian v. Indo-Aryan.

An interesting idea I've seen on the latter is that people of the BMAC
switched from farming to pastoralism, and also switched to speaking
Indo-Iranian (possibly already the Indic branch), and them moved East.

Richard.