IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Stanley Friesen]

At 04:25 AM 1/25/00 -0500, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:
>Myself, I'd say that since population movements of various sorts (conquests,
>folk-migrations, refugees, colonizations, etc.) are common as dirt in the
>historical record as far back as we can see, and since they're also common in
>preliterate societies whenever these come under the observation of literate
>observers (18th and 19th-century Africa is full of them, for instance) then
>we have to assume that this was the case in prehistory.

Not to mention North America.  It is unpopular to say so, but there are
clear records of major Indian migrations *after* the arrival of Europeans
in the Americas.  (For instance when Lois and Clark went through the area,
the Dakota were not yet living in the Dakotas!)

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