Renfrew's Celtic Scenario

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>@4900BC - Migration spreads 'Narrow PIE'

-- 5300 BC for the spread of agriculture to the Atlantic, according to my
sources (Cunliffe, Hodder), but what's half a millenium between friends?

>@3300BC - Wide PIE disperses, speakers leave the Ukraine
>@ between 3000 and 2000BC - an early IE language arrives in Italy.

-- actually, most would say that Italic enters Italy rather later than that,
sometime after 2000 BCE.  Early Urnfield, perhaps.

>@ between 2000 and 1500BC - perhaps a dialect becomes Pre-Latin
>@ between  1500 and 1000BC - perhaps a dialect becomes proto-Latin
>@ between 1000 and 300BC -   a dialect becomes early Latin

-- 500 for early Latin.  776 is the traditonal date of UAC.

>Perhaps more importantly, inscriptions appearing in
>Latin, on the US Dollar, on religious objects and at the end of e-mail
>messages (but not on ogham sticks) show NO CHANGE IN THE LANGUAGE at all
>1800 years later!

-- this is a complete farce.  Latin has been a dead language for 1500 years,
preserved in fossilized written form.  It's as irrelevant as Sumerograms in
Akkadian.