Bandkeramik and non-Anatolian PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>So I'm connecting Bandkeramik with post-Anatolian PIE -'narrow PIE'.  I'm
>sure as an expert linguist you are familiar with the concept.

-- Quite.  Although you're now left with the little matter of explaining how
the entire area from Hungary to Greece ended up speaking languages which
evolved from PIE well after the branchoff of Anatolian.

Of course, that's a bagatelle.

>If you do not understand the connection I'm making between Bandkeramik and
>non-Anatolian PIE, please address that fact.

-- and here I thought you were agreeing with Renfrew...

>I won't address here your apparent claim that Myceanaean and Latin are almost
>identical languages (2 on a scale of 1-10 - a 1 score being I presume
>identical).

-- "quite similar" rather than "identical".

>I was being consistent with the subject - which was POST-ANATOLIAN PIE.

-- actually, we were discussing Renfrew's views on the spread of the IE
languages _as a whole_.