Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> I have written another mail to M. Knysh about that.

****GK: You should let our linguists have a go at
it.****

> I consider that Przeworsk is not Eastward enough to
> account for Germanic
> features.
> Przeworsk looks like Thraco-dacian homeland.

****GK: Impossible. Przeworsk did not exist before the
3rd c. BCE****

>

> How did Hungarians make their way throughout half
> Eurasia and reach Hungary,
> still being a typically Ugric language ?

****GK: There is archaeological evidence for this
trek.***

> What's the problem with Germanic stepping out of
> "nowhere" and conquering
> all North Europe ?

****GK: What's the time frame?****

>
> Eurasia -2 000 BC was not compartimented in States
> with barbed-wire borders
> and customs officers.
> It's hardly surprising that a mobile population with
> the help of horses and
> horse-driven carriages can pop up anywhere, very far
> away from the place
> where it previously was.

****GK: In principle. Additional proof is needed
(historical if available, archaeological,
ethnographic, linguistic of course, etc..) to make a
convincing argument.****

>
> Srubnaja Culture is clearly Indo-Iranian.
> I would choose Afanasevo and Andronovo cultures as
> Germanic homeland,
> not excluding that these cultures could be homeland
> to Yenisei and Tocharian
> as well.

****GK: There is nothing in European archaeology
proving that carriers of Afanasevo or Andronovo moved
westward. The cultures of the "Germanic" areas have no
retrospective links to Afanasevo and Andronovo other
than through their common ancestor, Serednyj Stih
(Sredny Stog) Corded Ware. Your scenario is thus as
archaeologically impossible as these things may
be.****

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