Re: Reaching Down (was: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Norther

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60749
Date: 2008-10-09

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From: "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
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Subject: [tied] Re: Reaching Down (was: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian,
Northern Caucasian



> >
> > I think the Peter Bellwood theory is basically correct, that the
> > large language families are the result of small hunter-gatherer
> > groups learning the (Wörter und) Sachen of agriculture, then going
> > on to fill out the landscape around them.
> > Torsten

Two pdf files under Bellwood in the files section.
M. Kelkar

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There's something much better here :
http://arts.anu.edu.au/AandA/people/staff/pdfs/bellwood2003.pdf

It's fairly uncommittal,
probably because Bellwood wrote this with somebody else.

Arnaud
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