Extracts from Migration in World History (Manning 2005)

Extracts from Migration in World History (Manning 2005)
Continuing back into the deeper past, we may ask whether the
Indo-European was part of a broader and earlier grouping of languages.
Indeed, the answer is yes, and the most authorititative summary is
that of Greenberg, who identified the super-family of languages he has
labeled Eurasia tic. The Eurasiaitc super-family comprises seven
major families of languages of Eurasian and the Arctic, of which the
Indo-European languages are but one. As I (Manning) will show in
Chapter 3 the least-moves estimate of the Eurasia tic homeland is near
the Pacific coast of north Asia (Manning 2005, p. 31)."
"And since socio-scientific analysis in the nineteenth century focused
especially on racial identity, there was reason to try to link Semitic
speakers to Indo-European speakers on the grounds that both were part
of a Caucasian race, based especially on assessment of skin color
(Manning 2005, p. 49)."
"The best documented case of the breakthrough from initial
experimentation to full-scale agriculture and food production is that
of wheat, developed on the highlands of the Anatolian Peninsula and
the adjoining lowland of the Fertile Crescent. Archaeological results
have confirmed the overlapping species of wheat that were
domesticated. Many of these lands were inhabited by speakers of the
Semitic groups of Afroasiatic languages; some may have been inhabited
by speakers of the Hittite group of Indo-European languages. Grain
barley, developed in virtually the same region under similar condition
(Manning 2005, p. 65)."
Manning, P. (2005). Migration in world history. New York:
Routledge. ISBN 0-415-31147-0