GREEK PREHISTORY AND IE (EVIDENCE?)

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: <JoatSimeon at aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 9:23 PM

>> X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>> Not 'the introduction of agriculture as such'

> -- yup.  Renfrew says PIE spread through Europe with agriculture.  This
> process begins in 7000 BCE, and reaches as far as the Low Countries well
> before 5000 BCE.

> Now, are you saying that this process spread Indo-European or not?  Yes or
> no?

How would some of you feel if Renfrew's premise were altered to:

Nostratic spread through Europe with agriculture.

?

Pat

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