GREEK PREHISTORY AND IE (EVIDENCE?)

[Stanley Friesen]

At 12:42 AM 2/5/00 -0500, X99Lynx at aol.com wrote:

>Yes.  SORRY.  But yes.  Not 'the introduction of agriculture as such' - The
>term 'middle neolithic' as applied to Europe as a whole (not locally)
>encompasses my 4500-4000BC date.  For some reason you are calling the whole
>process 'early neolithic'.  Neolithic is basically a distinction from
>mesolithic.  Early neolithic in Europe as a whole generally denotes the
>period before 5000BC.  Locally the term is sometimes used when different
>sub-periods can be identified.  But in terms of Europe, farming 'as such' is
>also being introduced in the late neolithic and in some areas even in the
>'European iron age.'

This is a different use of the terms than I am familiar with.  I guess I
have not often come across their use for "Europe as a whole".

But this still doesn't change the basic facts: the agricultural revolution
is too old, and took too long to spread over Europe, for it to be
associated with PIE.  Whether one uses local terminology or pan-European
terminology does not change this fact.

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