Re: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

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From: Francesco Brighenti

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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:14 PM

Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

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

> --- In cybalist@... s.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@>
> wrote:
> >
> > see the Proto-Dene-Caucasia n 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