Re: Vinca script, cross bar angle - Ki Ri Ke

"Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

John Atkinson wrote:

Do you really think the Europeans were so different?

Not Europeans per se, but the place they lived, cold
Europe in the Ice Age.

Mate, we had glaciers too. Or, if you want a really cold place with BIG
glaciers, what about most of USA and Canada? No single language there! (400
plus in fact, belonging to 60-odd families).

The cultures of Australia are
basically the same as the one of the Middle Stone
Age of South Africa, Blombos cave, 75 000 BP.

Absolute rubbish. You obviously know nothing whatever about Australian
culture, art, or archeology

Life in Ice Age Europe was different, triggered art,
a very homogenuous art at that, with varieties but
on the basis of the same ideas. They were the leading
culture of their time,

Which time is that? Up to maybe 40 000 years ago, Africa was ahead.
Australia took the lead culturally till maybe 15 000 years ago. Between
15000 and 2000 years ago SW Asia and north Africa were ahead. From 2000 to
less than 1000 years ago, East Asia had the leading culture. Europe took
the lead for the first time less than a thousand years ago. Around 1000 AD,
the American cities were bigger than those of Europe.

and the leading civilization always
has a well kept language.

Sez you.

They had to cooperate in
their climate, they had to build large camps,

But they didn't build particularly large camps. Without agriculture or
similar concentrated resources, they couldn't.

they
had to be hospitable to each other,

There's little evidence of that, either before or after they settled down!


they had to help
each other all along the rivers of the Gyuenne. You
can't possibly study language without considering
material life. I base my claims on a thorough study
of cave art, I don't get my ideas out of the blue.

You appear to have "studied" only _European_ cave art. Perhaps it's time
for you to spread your gaze a little wider?

J.


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