GREEK PREHISTORY AND LANGUAGE

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Wed Oct 13 01:51:38 UTC 1999


In the absense of written records, you can never "prove" an
invasion/migration.

There are plenty of historically attested migrations, which resulted in
linguistic replacement, which have left little or no archaeological evidence
-- the invasion of the Scotii which brought Gaelic to Scotland, for instance.

So it's a matter of the archaeologists fitting their data into the linguistic
evidence, not vice versa.  The stones and bones are silent; they have no
language.



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