[tied] Re: From words to dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or phyl

From: Max Dashu
Message: 47416
Date: 2007-02-11

Torsten,

I'm in agreement with what you say here but am interested in what
sources you are drawing on.

Max

>Those people who left a trail of destroyed fortifications and general
>disruption behind them in South Eastern Europe are assumed to have
>spoken IE languages, because nothing on that scale is documented from
>a later period, so if IE languages are intrusive in Europe, those
>people most likely brought them here. Also, the timing of the
>incursions matches generally that of the Kurgan hypothesis.