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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:
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> That is pretty much what I mean. And as for my use of the Kurgan
> Hypothesis, the scenario I gave is not at all meant to say "Here.
> This is how it happened. No questions," but rather a POSSIBLE
> history.
> > Peter
>
It is time to Kurganize the Kurgan theory once and for all!
According to Trudy Kawami (msg # 1944, on Indo-Eurasian Research, Oct
13, 2005).
"I (Kawami) have no idea what goes on in linguistic circles, but in
archaeological
ones Gimbutas' "kurgan-theory" is now irrelevant. There is far more
information about the Bronze Age on the steppes where it is clear that
there were MANY types of cultures (& probably languages but we have no
writing so we can't really know). Most steppe archaeologists today are
more interested the physical evidence than New Age romanticism."
http://www.berkshiremuseum.org/new/disp.php?20050514.pr
"Trudy S. Kawami, Director of Research for the Arthur M. Sackler
Foundation, received her Ph.D. in art history and archaeology from
Columbia University, where she specialized in the art of ancient
Western Asia. She has carried out research in Turkey, Iran and Israel,
and in major European museums. The author of Monumental Art of the
Parthian Period in Iran (Leiden: 1987), and Ancient Iranian Ceramics
from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (New York: 1992), Dr. Kawami
has published numerous articles and lectures frequently. She currently
teaches a course on the art of the ancient Near East at the School of
Visual Arts in New York City."
M. Kelkar