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

me wrote:

A stable material culture keeps a language in shape, while a
changing material culture makes a language shift.

Then, how had hunter gatherers in Indonesia developed thousands of
languages by the time they were discovered by civilization? If their
material culture had remained unchanged, their language should have
remained unchanged according to your theory.

No, because he'll just add another ad hoc explanation. He knows what
he's doing, Franziskus, and when he doesn't he just fills the gap.
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