Re: Negau

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

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> The sea between the islands in Indonesia, with the exception of the
> Wallace line, is less than 100 m deep. That means it would have been
> solid ground in the last ice age, and was drowned in three floods.
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Oh, OK. I was thinking more along the lines of an eastern
Atlantis-type cataclysm. Seems like Oppenheimer is much worth
reading, since this idea seems reasonable.

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> Now that is unsustained. Check the archives for 'millet' and 'rice'. eg.
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/13966
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/42285
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/42758
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Interesting the number of correspondences for the bar-/bur- root.
Does this correspond to the Germanic *bariz "barley"? But I still
don't think correspondences such as these are enough to convince me of
a universal ur-language of the world.

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> > In much of the Old World, the idea of agriculture and metals
> themselves, rather than the technologies, probably gave rise to
> separate creations of technologies and domestications.
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> I wish I knew what that meant.
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What I understood is that once metallurgy is developed, then one can
use the metals in machinery, construction, metal pottery, weaponry,
etc.; once cereal and other food-plant cultivation is settled, the
sustenance-security that results allows societies to focus on
domesticating animals.

AJ

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