Re: Problems with Bomhard

Alexander:

>All these cultures are either definitely agricultural
>or represent the phase of transition from hunting-gathering to
> >agriculture.

Erh, but agriculture surely came long after the dispersal of
Nostratic which is dated to approximately 15000 BCE. Agriculture
should be irrelevant to what we are discussing here.

>So we can expect that earliest Neolithic groups from Africa entered Africa
>in the beginning of the 6th mill.BC.
>Is it too late or early enough to explain differencies between
>linguistic groups of the AfroAsiatic family?

Yep. AfroAsiatic is pre-agricultural. The Semitic branch alone
seems to extend back into the Neolithic.

>I don't know. However, linguistic groups of the IndoEuropean family seem to
>have separated only in the Early Bronze Age, i.e. not earlier than 3000 BC.

If you include the Anatolian branch as part of what you call
"the IndoEuropean family", then we must date the initial dispersal
of IndoEuropean to around 4000 BCE, not 3000 BCE.


- love gLeN


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