From: jdcroft
Message: 524
Date: 2002-04-03
> [Alexander]It is interesting. But then again the same is observed with the Wavy
> Look, a strange situation. The leaders of the world economy of that
> period - farmers of PPNA and than of PPNB, who lived in permanent
> villages and whose way of life really needed pottery, - they didn't
> have vessels of clay (only a few of stone). But primitive Minhatta
> people, who is said to be nomadic hunter-gatherers, for whom to keep
> fragile clay pottery must be a great headache (I guess, wicker
> baskets were more convenient), - they had first-class pottery.
> Can't this situation be interpreted as following?Interesting thought. It is certainly not contradicted by the
> People of PPNA were substituted in Palestine with PPNB people of
> another origin, who had some advantages. It's a fact.
> Now a speculation. PPNA people didn't disappeared in this region.
> They just adopted to life under conditions of semi-desert and passed
> to (semi)-nomadic pastoralism and sporadic agriculture which left
> very weak traces. The situation is analogous to what happened with
> Indo-Europeans in the steppe - the same tendency of transition from
> "normal" farming to livestock-breading and nomadism. BTW, did you
> pay attention that social life described in the Bible (chapters
> about patriarchs) would fit very well to what we'd expect to see in
> early Indo-Europeans - strong patriarchat (only in these 2
> societies! - traces of matriarchat are well seen in all other much
> more sophisticated folks), the wealth=livestock etc. So, perhaps
> they were not "primitive", but "specifically developed", and when
> climate became worse for "normal" PPNB farmers, they substituted the
> PPNB people in old Palestinian sites again?
> [A]It is hard to say, until we get palaeogenetic studies of DNA sequences
> Amuq is famous due to the fact that the very first tin bronze
> subjects were made in this place (later the bronze technology spread
> from this region to Caucasus, Aegean region and later to Mesopotamia
> and more later to Egypt and so on). The very first bronze is dated
> 3000 BC. What is your opinion - was there an unbroken connection
> between PPNB, people of Amuq ware and people of Amuq bronze?
>
> In other words, can we say that the bronze developers were of the
> same origin as PPNB (and alternative to PPNA)?
> I think you guess that I'm thinking here aboutI wonder about opposition here. I tend towards a syncretic mutualism
> Nostratic/Non-Nostratic opposition in Near East.
> [A]I believe so - see my earlier comments about VSO, SOV and SVO splits.
> Is this classification (based on syntax) supported by phonetic,
> morphological and lexical observations?
> [A]Fascinating. This certainly seems significant. I have wondered
> I'm quoting V.Illich-Svitych, 1971 (Opyt sravneniya nostraticheskich
> yazykov):
>
> Root # 173. *kOr'i - 'lamb, sheep'
> Semito-Hamitic: *kr 'lamb, young ram'
> Semitic: *kr - Ugaritic kr; Hebrew kar 'lamb'; Akkadian kerru (Mari
> karru) 'ram'; Berber: *kr(r) - Tuareg ekrer 'ram'; Shelkha ikru
> 'young ram' (Sus 'kid', cf. Nefusi akrar 'goat'); Kabilian ikerri
> 'ram'; West-Chadic - Angas kir 'ram on fattening' Numerous parallels
> from Dravidian (*kori/kuri 'sheep') and Altaic (*kur'i/kor'i 'lamb'
> - in Turkic and Mongolic groups) follow, although the author points
> non-typical correspondence in vocals (having *o or *u in Altaic and
> Dravidian one should expect *w in Semito-Hamitic) and writes about
> the possibility of borrowing this root from a family into a family
> (but not inside a linguistic family between groups!). Indo-European
> *ker- 'horn' with a development into Greek krios <*kriFos)
> 'ram' is also mentioned.
> [A]Do you know if the early Bronze shows the arsenical Bronze production
> First of all, please note, that there are 2 cultures - Cernavoda-1
> (Eneolithic) and Cernavoda-3 (Early Bronze), both of the steppe
> origin. I guess they represent different waves of the steppe
> population. Besides, there was the Hamangia Neolithic culture at
> Cernavoda.
> There is a very good article specially devoted to interethnicHah! I can see I am going to have to learn that language! (I have
> relations on the territory of Moldova and around in Neolithic -
> Early Bronze. However, in Russian.
> http://stratum.ant.md/02_99/articles/derg/derg_99_2p.htm
> There is something in French:Bien, je peux parle francais.
> http://mistral.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/harsova/fr/dobro4.htm
> The sceptre shown is an argument for the steppe origin of this
> culture.