From: tgpedersen
Message: 47270
Date: 2007-02-05
>Which is also the conclusion of the authors on p. 24. Hm.
> This report concludes that even with very different statistical
> methods, PIE will have begun to split apart not in the Kurgan
> Urheimat theory range 3000-4000 BCE, but in the Anatolian Urheimat
> theory range 6000-7000 BCE (illustration p. 23). However, according
> to that same illustration, if we peel off the Anatolian languages,
> the rest of IE will have split up only 500 yrs before 'Kurgan time'
> and if we further peel off Tocharian the next split-up, separating
> Greek/Armenian/Albanian from the rest, takes place only 200 yrs
> before that time. Now Greek is supposed to have descended from the
> so-called Catacomb culture in the Eastern Ukraine, which means they
> stayed "home" in the Ukraine until well into Kurgan time. The
> separation of Indo-Iranian from Balto-Slavic and Western European
> takes place in the upper range of Kurgan time, ...