GREEK PREHISTORY AND IE (EVIDENCE?)

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/7/00 9:33:02 PM Mountain Standard Time, X99Lynx at aol.com
writes:

<< Let me suggest a date of @4500BC for the functional final unity of
non-Anatolian 'narrow PIE' and located it at that time stretching from
Holland across north central in a 6 degree lat band to the upper Dniestr,
Dnieper and Bug - the extent of the Bandkeramik culture. >>

-- Renfrew specifically hypothesizes that IE entered Europe _from_ Anatolia
at the time of the _first_ introduction of agriculture into SE Europe, which
is dated to 7000 BCE.

This means that, according to you, PIE must have retained _complete
linguistic unity for 3500 years_ (minimum).