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From: "R. & G. Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith Builders
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:13:26 -0500
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Ellen -

Why must I have all the answers - the complete big bumper book of the
Indo-Europeans and prehistoric Europe - to have a rough or working
hypothesis concerning R1b1c and centum Indo-European? If I don't
have encyclopedic knowledge of the whereabouts and status of each
and every y-haplogroup at every stage of European prehistory then I
must be completely wrong?

Are you asserting that Greek and the Anatolian languages are the oldest
known IE languages? I believe Hittite is the earliest for which we have
documentary evidence, but that certainly does not make it the oldest IE
language nor is it a sign that IE first arose in Anatolia. As Mallory points
out in his book, the IEs appear to have been a minority in a sea of non-IE
speakers in Anatolia. He also points out that there is evidence that IE
moved from West to East across Anatolia - in the exact opposite direction
one would expect, if Renfrew's Neolithic Farmers hypothesis is correct.

My own personal belief is that perhaps the original inhabitants of W. Europe
came from the Middle East (not to be conflated with Central Asia) or at
least from the area of the Mediterranean. This accounts for the apparent
disconnect
or mismatch between W. Euro y-dna and mtDNA that Dr. Wells mentions in
his recent book.

Now, honestly, I am tired of discussing this subject.

Rich


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