Re: trace of agriculture

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>
> van Driem's "Tibeto-Burma vs Indo-Chinese (in Sagart et al. "The
> peopling of East Asia" traces agriculture branching out with various
> etnolinguistic groups in East Asia. The one that should interest
> PIEists is this archaeological sequence:
>
> Sichuan Mesolithic and Neolithic (11500 - 2000 BC) ->
> Dadiwan Neolithic (Gansu & Shanxi) (6500 - 5200 BC) ->
> Majiayao Neolithic (ibd.) (3900 - 1800 BC) ->
> Northern Neolithic (Kashmir) (2500 - 1700 BC)
>
> where the story ends as far as he is concerned. It is the closest
> early agriculture gets to PIE. Does that mean agriculture is not
> native to PIE? If so, at least something did go out-of-India.
>
> Can anyone here continue the tale?

Neolithic in Europe starts before 6500 BC; reaches the Orkneys about
3500 BC. It had certainly reached Ukraine by 3000 BC.

Richard.