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

> > 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

> According to the Anatolian farming hypothesis Greek came from Turkey
> along with the farmers, not from Ukraine.

You haven't provided anything that would support the claim that the
PIE Urheimat was in Anatolia.

> As far as the IIr, especially the Iranians, a detour through the
> steppes is quite unnecessary. Iran is next door to Turkey.

The Iranians didn't make a detour through the steppes. They lived on
them. Don't let the present geographical term Iran fool you. Even
today the Iranian languages Tadzhik and Pashtu are spoken outside of
Iran.

> What I find the most intriguing is the following. The time
> difference between the traditional date of Rig Veda and the
> Indological one is exactly the same, 3000 years, as the that between
> the Anatolian and the Kurgan theories.

Erh, why is that intriguing? Are you proposing that the Rgveda was
composed in Anatolia?


Torsten