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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Trond Engen <trond@...> wrote:
> E.g., the maximum density Urheimat of IIr is in Eastern Turkey,
> and that of Greek in the Aegaean, both in blatant contradiction to what
> we think we know from archaeology and ancient myths.
A big problem here is that there is no Iranian steppe language documented well enough to influence the result. The best I can think of is the Jász dialect of Ossetian from Hungary - but I suspect the fragments are usable.
The result they obtain is a homeland somewhere from Anatolia to just west of the Dniester. That is not very far from what one might conclude just from the branching of Indo-Hittite into Anatolian and non-Anatolian. If the trajectory of Indo-Iranian were fixed, it might change the result to *inconclusive* between Anatolian and steppe origins.
A deterrent to trying to repeat the analysis is that the technical supplement contains mention of the hardware they used - an array of graphics cards was used to perform the calculations!
Richard.