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From: hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 03:10:59 GMT
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petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich) writes:

>In article <hubey.785359521@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
>H. M. Hubey <hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu> wrote:
>>sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:

>>There are further questions: Unless the IE folks liked living in
>>harsh lands, there's no explanation of why they conquered/settled
>>Anatolia, Iran, India, Central Asia while gingerly avoiding 
>>the "Land Between the Rivers". ...

>	Actually, there was a brief Indo-Aryan presence about 1500 BCE in 
>that territory, the Mitanni kingdom.

This area still seems to be southeastern Turkey and not further south.
If Anatolia was the home of the IE's as Gamkrelidze suggests then
there'd be more of them around Sumeria and they should not have 
bypassed it. Meanwhile, they seem to have overrun Iran and the
Harappans so it seems to be that their origin would have been
closer to those regions so that they'd have enough massed power
to overwhelm them. 

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						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
