Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@>
> wrote:
> >
> > see the Proto-Dene-Caucasian reconstruction for 'pig' proposed
> > by John Bengtson at
> >
> > http://jdbengt.net/articles/CILL30a.pdf
> > (see on p. 12 and n. 124 in the PDF document)
> >
> > According to Bengtson, Basque urde 'pig' appears to be cognate
> > with Proto-Caucasian *wHa:rtl'wV id. (Hunzib butlu, Lezgi
> > wak).
>
> And still Proto-Austronesian has *beRek "pig" which somehow must be
> related. A claim that this word is not a loan amounts to a claim
> that the speakers of the hypothetical Dene-Caucasian knew the pig,
> which are native to the South East Asian islands.

According to S. Starostin, Proto-Austronesian *beRek- 'domesticated
pig' would be ultimately cognate to "Proto-Sino-Caucasian"
*wHa:rl^._w@- 'pig' (virtually identical to the reconstructed Proto-
Caucasian lemma *wHa:rtl'wV- analyzed by Bengtson, see above) within
the ambit of his theorized "Borean" language superfamily:

http://tinyurl.com/yqby8f

> > Did Early Neolithic Dene-Caucasian speakers bring and pigs and
> > agriculture into Southeast Europe from Anatolia?
>
> Or did pigs come by sea?

Sure! Like these ones:

http://luciesfarm.com/artman2/uploads/1/normal_waterba8_1_.jpg
http://blogimage.roodo.com/soulwu/7bd01282.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/35z7hc

:^)

Regards,
Francesco