The Neolithic Hypothesis

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>Without this standardizing force, epecially among sedentary populations, like
>sedentary farmers separated by thousands of years from one another, one
>should not even expect PIE to have been PIE a relatively short distance from
>the place of origin

PIE				Lithuanian
*wlkwos				vilkas

-- that's a pretty emphatic resemblance, seeing as it's at least 4000 years,
and probably about 5000, since PIE arrived in the East Baltic area.

Myself, I'd say sometime around 3500 BCE makes a sensible date for the spread
of PIE into Europe.