Black Sea Flood; was: non-Anatolian PIE

Anthony Appleyard mclssaa2 at fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk
Mon Mar 20 15:55:20 UTC 2000


Hans Holm <Hans_Holm at h2.maus.de> wrote:-

RD>Ryan and Pitman had not yet published their Black Sea Flood discovery.

> The black sea, or, more exact, its northwestern part, was 'flooded' in the
> middle of the 5th millennium BC, according to my information.

RD>Now that flood will have to be taken into account by anyone
RD>speculating how the community that gave us PIE could have been severed
RD>from the community that gave us PA.

>..< According to this time depth I would find it difficult if not daring
> to draw connections in favour of any theory of IE diversification.

(1) Please what are the bibliographic (ISBN etc) or scientific paper
references to any published books and papers on the Black Sea Flood theory?

(2) I suspect that this language discussion depends on how much more
communication there was between the steppes and Anatolia before the Black Sea
flood, If the deeper parts of the Black Sea were occupied by a big lake, or by
a deep dry furnace-hot salt-floored sink, then there may not have been much
more routine language contact across the Black Sea than there is now.



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