Re: [tied] No person and number endings in IE Nordwestblock?

> I did not say that Nordic physical types were the substrate, and

autochthonous. That is what you are saying, is that not right?

>

But in case you asked me I think the 'Nordic physical type'
is 'autochthonous' (ie. got there first) and the invading IE-
speakers were not. The first brachycephalic skulls in Scandinavia
are found in Neolithic graves.

> Rather, I think it likelier that Nordic physical types speaking

a non-IE language invaded Northern territory already inhabited by
PIE-speaking ethnics.

>

You are not the only one to think that. I don't.


Torsten