The Neolithic Hypothesis

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu writes:

>So, you believe it was in Anatolia or Central Asia before that?>

-- somewhere in the Ukraine-Kazahkstan area.  Of course, it was probably
already _spreading_ before that, perhaps at the expense of related languages
of the same family.  We can't recover those, of course.

 [snip]
 >I'd say sometime around 3500 BCE makes a sensible date for the spread
 >of PIE into Europe.