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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 05:42:42 GMT
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Basically, I see the situation for IE about 3000 BC as being
as follows:

	Late Yamna ==> Indo-Greek or Proto-Helleno-Thaco-Dacian
	Ezero and related cultures ==> Proto-Anatolian
	Afanasievo ==> Pre-Proto-Tocharian
	Corded Ware ==> Italo-Celto-Germanic (?+ Balto-Slavic too)
		(Though the Baden culture could be Balto-Slavic).

[Note, I do not think the spread of IE into northern Europe
necessarily requires massive population movements, or perhaps
even without conquests, as a prestige language can easily replace
another, less prestigous one, even without massive population
movements - perhaps a language associated with wealth from
trade, and with political power, through chiefly marriages,
could become the predominant language of a trade zone].
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