the Wheel and Dating PIE or NW-IE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In fact, given the archaic characteristics of the Baltic and Slavic
languages, the lack of apparent substratal influence, and the high percentage
of their vocabulary which can be traced back to PIE, I would say that their
position (_at the earliest recorded periods_) would be indicative of the PIE
urheimat.

Not that it would be identical, but that it would be fairly close.

At the earliest historic attestation, Slavic is in what's now eastern Poland
and the northwestern Ukraine, with Baltic to the north -- Baltic-speaking
tribes reached as far east as Moscow as late as the early medieval period,
and a vast swath from the Baltic Sea to the Volga is characterized by Baltic
river-names although it became Slavicized later.