Bandkeramik and non-Anatolian PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>The one glitch is that it is not the proto-Hittites/Anatolians who left, but
>the 'Indo-European' community - the first splitting or branching occuring in
>either case.

-- that simply does not work and makes no sense.  Eg., Hittite is intrusive
in Anatolia, the internal relationships of the other IE languages show none
of the links one would expect (eg., Greek is not particularly closely related
to Anatolian), etc.

>My read on this is that "PIE minus Anatolian" forms on the Danube and becomes
>Bandkeramik.

-- leaving what, exactly, in the Balkans and the Mediterranean areas which
were neolithicized via an east-to-west movement?

>(and possibly proto-Phrygian-Thracian, though don't hold me to that.)

-- good thing you added the qualifier, since Phrygian shows close links to
Greek and none in particular to Anatolian.

>the advantage of plausibility - for what that is worth in this crazy world.

-- if one disregards all linguistic considerations, which is odd, when one is
trying to solve a _linguistic_ problem.

>whom must have by the way had an extremely adequate language of their own,
>but who nevertheless left no substrate.

-- you have evidence for there being no LBK substrate in, eg., proto-Germanic?