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

> Fig 3 is just a comparison of timelines; not geography. The rapid
> divergence can came from Anatolia or for that matter South Asia.

Which rapid divergence?

> The 2003 Nature article by the same authors I have posted earlier,
> supports the Anatolian hypothesis.

So they changed their minds. Or rather, they can now accommodate both
theories. Personally I think Anatolia is off center for an Urheimat
that spawned Tocharian. It should be placed more centrally to Anatolia
and Sinkiang. South Asia is a possibility for that matter. A location
of the Urheimat of Inner IE, ie the language ancestral to the IE
languages minus Anatolian and Tocharian, in the Ukraine is compatible
with European archaeology.


Torsten