[tied] Re: Grimm's Law is about to expire (Collinge 1985, p. 267, T

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
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> The moutains of archaeological evidence
> > assembled by the
> > Renfrew/Bellwood school
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> ****GK: "Mountains"? (:=)) "Molehills" seems closer to
> reality...****

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis

"On the linguistic turf, there comes a severe attack by Kathrin Krell
(1998) who finds a great incongruity between the terms found in the
reconstructed Indo-European language and the cultural level met with
in the kurgans. For example, Krell holds that the Indo-Europeans had
reached an agricultural level whereas the Kurgan people were just at a
pastoral stage."

Krell, Kathrin Susanne. 1994. Modern Indo-European Homeland
Hypotheses: A critical examination of linguistic arguments. M.A.
thesis, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

http://groups.google.com.kh/group/aus.culture.true-blue/msg/ccda3c41c07b51e8

"Kathrin Krell has dealt very clearly and competently with the "Kurgan

> hypothesis". See:

> Gimbutas' Kurgan-PIE homeland hypothesis: a linguistic critique.
> In "Archaeology and Language", vol.2, pp.267-282, edited by
> Roger and Matthew Spriggs. ISBN 0-415-11761-5

> It is so clear and well-written that you need no special
> knowledge of comparative linguistics, Indo-European,
> Proto-Indo-European (PIE), whatever. Just a serviceable
> brain will do very nicely."

<http://cssaame.com/issues/24_2/benes.pdf>

M. Kelkar