From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58557
Date: 2008-05-16
>He offered examples but I don't know that he proved it
> > My instinct is that most large language groups
> spread
> > out after the development of agriculture.
> > The exceptions, of course are mainly areas where
> > agriculture never arrived until recently --South
> > Africa. And where a specialized technology
> performed a
> > role analogous to agriculture --the adaptation to
> > Arctic life among the inuit and the introduction
> of
> > the dingo and the boomerang into Australia about
> > 4-6,000 years ago which probably accounts for the
> > spead of Pama-Nyungan.
> > But it's just my intuition. Someone else will have
> to
> > back it up or discredit it with evidence
> >
>
> I think Peter Bellwood introduced that as a theory.
>
>
> Torsten
>