The Neolithic Hypothesis

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at AOL.COM writes:

>-- all what years?  Virtually all our Mycenaean documents date from the same
>period.>>

>What are you talking about?

the 200 years (maximum) mentioned by the moderator, of course.  In fact,
it's less than that, since the _majority_ of our Linear B tablets, those from
the mainland, come from the destruction level of the palaces -- and the
palaces fell at roughly the same time.

>[ Moderator's comment: The Mycenaean documents span roughly 200 years, very
>little time speaking in historical linguistic terms.  The objection is
>warranted and hardly without meaning.

-- exactly.