Re: new book on the spread of IE

On Feb 9, 8:05 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 9, 3:10 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Feb 8, 2:12 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You've read the book already????? Then please summarize Anthony's
"claim to solve the riddle."

I haven't seen the book yet, but will read it when it arrives
in our library. For the time being I am happy with the result
of Anthony's work, and the praising words of Mallory (which
I well read). Anthony's opinion, solidified in field work, goes
along with my model of language evolvement in Eurasia.
First was the Ice Age language spoken by Homo sapiens
sapiens all over Eurasia, but with the main center in the
refuge of the Franco-Cantabrian space, where we find the
amazing cave art. Language mirrors life, and life is changed
by technology. Revolutionary changes arrived with the end
of the Ice Age, with early agriculture at the base of the
Karacadag near Göbekli Tepe in southeast Anatolia 10,000
years ago, and with the mining and melting of copper in the
Jordan valley and in Anatolia at the same time. This must
have led to a new level of language I'd like to call Japhetic,
reviving an obsolete term and using it more generally.
The next revolution occured with the casting of bronze,
about 6,000 years ago. Anatolia is rich in copper, while
tin is found in Central Asia, so we may well assume that
the first bronze was cast somewhere in the Eurasian
steppes, between Anatolia and Central Asia. Bronze
allowed to make bridles, bridles allowed to tame horses,
and the rest is well known. The new life forms following
this revolution resulted in the language called Indo-European.

The problem, in my opinion, is the lacking time depth of
Proto-Indo-European, and the hapless term proto. We
don't consider English Proto-Martian, and we don't call
primates proto-humans.

Maybe that's because primates didn't evolve out of humans (or vice
versa).

Yet humans and primates do descend from a common stock of
proto-primates.

Christopher Ingham
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