Re: Problems with Bomhard

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 530
Date: 2002-04-03

John:
>I also think agriculture was initially developed by
>NW Caucasians who were in close proximity to Nostratic languages (hence
>explaining the presence of NWC vocab for agricultural items in a number of
>Nostratics (but not all of them
>I understand)).

Examples? My view is that the NWC were originally from Central
Asia, connecting them more closely with SinoTibetan, while the
NEC language was more native to the area. I would say that
people speaking Proto-Caucasic (ancestor of NEC and HU) were the
first to develop agriculture.


- love gLeN


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