The Neolithic Hypothesis
JoatSimeon at aol.com
JoatSimeon at aol.com
Tue Mar 23 02:05:00 UTC 1999
>rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu writes:
>So, you believe it was in Anatolia or Central Asia before that?>
-- somewhere in the Ukraine-Kazahkstan area. Of course, it was probably
already _spreading_ before that, perhaps at the expense of related languages
of the same family. We can't recover those, of course.
[snip]
>I'd say sometime around 3500 BCE makes a sensible date for the spread
>of PIE into Europe.
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