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

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

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

Fig 3 is just a comparison of timelines; not geography. The rapid
divergence can came from Anatolia or for that matter South Asia. The
2003 Nature article by the same authors I have posted earlier, supports
the Anatolian hypothesis.

M. kelkar

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> which means that they are rejecting neither and espousing neither.
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> Torsten
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