GREEK PREHISTORY AND IE (EVIDENCE?)

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>So you are saying a proto-language of Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian and Phrygian
>was located in the Ukraine?  And this language was not PIE or even narrow
>PIE.

-- in an area spanning the Ukraine, possibly into the northern Balkans at
some point.

>What dates would you put on that language?

-- "dialect continuum".  Dates?  "After 3000 BCE, before 2000 BCE".

>Would you have any notion of how that group of speakers would correlate with
>archaeologically?

-- languages are not pots.  There's usually no way to make a one-to-one
correlation between material culture and language.