Re: A China-Sumer connection?

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:45:26 GMT

As Isaac Asimov said in discussing Velikovsky, he wasn't expert in most
of the things V talked about, but he _was_ an expert in biochemistry,
and when V confused "hydrocarbons" with "carbohydrates," he knew he
wasn't worth bothering with.

Similary, I don't know much about Asian archeology (I do refuse to
believe that different groups of people in Asia weren't clever enough to
come up with things like agriculture and writing on their own), but I do
know something about historical linguistics. So I'll pare all this down
to a single howler:

phippsmartin@hotmail.com wrote:

> Where is the assumption here? How is this any different from the idea
> that Indo-European language and culture diffused outward from the
> Caucasus mountains?

IE didn't diffuse outward from the Caucasus mountains. An awful lot of
suggestions hvae been made for the "homeland" of "the Indo-Europeans,"
but the Caucasus is not a candidate.

(Also:

> > Neither of them ever quoted a single Sumerian text (myth or otherwise).
>
> They have now.

No, they haven't. Paul miscopied an _Akkadian_ text, not a Sumerian
one.) 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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