"Upper limit" of PIE

[Stanley Friesen]

At 01:08 AM 2/24/00 -0500, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:
>Probably rather later.  My own take would be "sometime after 4000 BCE" for
>the split with Anatolian;  "Sometime after 3500" for the beginning of the
>breakup of the rest of PIE.

I would agree entirely.  I was just stating a terminus non ante quem.  Any
earlier date is just too unlikely to be considered seriously, and that date
was (intentionally) on the extreme side.

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