Re: From words to dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or phylogeneti

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

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> > 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, ...
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> Which is also the conclusion of the authors on p. 24. Hm.
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> Torsten

Tha authors conclude that there was a rapid divergence at the *time*
of the supposed Kurgan expansions. They are not saying that those
exapansions happen *from* the Kurgan area.

M. Kelkar