From: george knysh
Message: 52963
Date: 2008-02-13
> My own scenario is**
> 1. Anatolian never moved a mm.
> 2. The rest moved into ice-liberated Eastern
> European ground.
> Very earlier (= as soon as it became possible)
> After that :
> 3. PIE split into Western PIE (at least
> Italo-Celtic)
> and Eastern (Balto-Slavic, Greek, Germanic,
> Indo-Iranian, etc)
> 4. Agriculture reached Western PIE from Anatolia
> and that caused an expansion of
> Western PIE farther to the west.
> 5. Eastern PIE at that time remained half****GK: What is the evidence for *any* of the above?
> paleolithic
> until it received a layer of neolithic from
> Caucasus. (- 7 000 BC)
> 6. Probably Germanic benefited first from the
> horse's domestication
> and started expanding, further causing Indo-Iranian
> expansion.
> (Around - 4 000 BC)
> Then you are close to known History.
> 7. Greek when conquering Greece wiped out an archaic
> variety of PIE.
>
> Such an ancient datation requires a thorough
> examination of the arguments *why* a low
> datation has been proposed.