Hittites ~ Phrygians ~ Balkan peoples?

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

ECOLING at aol.com

>There has been much discussion of the Hittites and the Phrygians, and other
>names for these or other peoples of Anatolia and the Balkans (Thracians,
>Illyrians, Dacians, Moesians, etc. etc.),  which may have been incorrectly
>taken as distinct peoples in the past, instead of simply as different names
>used for the same peoples at different times or by different authors or
>cultures.

-- Hittite and Phrygian are distinct.  They're both IE, of course, but
Phrygian is not a member of the Anatolian subgroup of IE.  Like Armenian,
it's intrusive in Anatolia and is post-Hittite.