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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 47290
Date: 2007-02-06

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

This is what they say:
"It is evident from figure 3 that the two theories of Indo-European
origin may not, in fact, be mutually exclusive"

which means that they are rejecting neither and espousing neither.


Torsten