--- alexandru_mg3 <
alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
> > There is abundant
> > evidence of this in the steppes of Europe and
> adjacent
> > areas as of the mid-3rd millennium BC (and even
> > earlier).
>
> A steppe is not an environment where a civilization
> could develop,
> increase in number and finally to expand in such a
> way in which the
> Indo-Europeans have done.
****GK: Of course it is. And the expansion was not
necessarily of the organic "crescite et
multiplicamini" variety, as you rather strangely
assume. Quite a few other ethna would on this scenario
have been drawn into the IE-zation process. Including,
eventually, the Danubians. Besides the examples
already given, think of Rome in 500 BC, or the Slavs
in 400 AD. Under favourable historical circumstances,
it could have been the Trypilians. "Cold weather"
didn't stop them from developing mega-protocities ca.
4000 BC.The Dnipro-Donetsk/Khvalynsk area is thus a
very good staging ground for subsequent IE
expansion.****
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