Urheimat in Lithuania? (was Re: the Wheel and Dating PIE or NW-IE)

[Robert Whiting]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

> In fact, given the archaic characteristics of the Baltic and Slavic
> languages, the lack of apparent substratal influence, and the high
> percentage of their vocabulary which can be traced back to PIE, I
> would say that their position (_at the earliest recorded periods_)
> would be indicative of the PIE urheimat.

Isn't this at variance with the "innovative core -- archaizing periphery"
model?  Following this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion,
Lithuania is the Urheimat.

Bob Whiting
whiting at cc.helsinki.fi