Bandkeramik and non-Anatolian PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu writes:

>Everything I've read on Phrygian, admittedly not much, seems to
>claim a different genetic relationship: Albanian, Armenian, Hellenic,
>Thracian. Anyone game enough to explain which one might be correct, if any,
>and why?

-- my own guess would be that Phrygian, Armenian and Hellenic were, in
origin, part of the same dialect-cluster and simply share a lot of late
isoglosses.  Thracian we simply don't know enough about to say.