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To: SunkenCiv; blam

They may not have gotten as far as Britain, but one theory I’ve seen is that farmers from the Black Sea region migrated up the Danube valley after the Bosporus dam broke and flooded the region around the Sea. Same theory that others pushed east, ultimately to Tocharia. The time frame would seem to fit with this paper.


20 posted on 09/04/2009 9:58:16 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Martha's Vineyard is great! Hey, honey, let's take a drive . . . .)
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To: colorado tanker
"They may not have gotten as far as Britain, but one theory I’ve seen is that farmers from the Black Sea region migrated up the Danube valley after the Bosporus dam broke and flooded the region around the Sea. Same theory that others pushed east, ultimately to Tocharia. The time frame would seem to fit with this paper."

I like this idea too. (Also,spreads Indo-European language) However, Oppenheimer's DNA studies (mostly) doesn't support it.

22 posted on 09/04/2009 11:56:54 AM PDT by blam
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To: colorado tanker

The Tocharians were probably descendants of people who’d been there for a long while (see that recent topic about the Tarim basin mummies). Their language was fortuitously preserved in written form; it’s not too far gone to think that there were plenty of others in Central Asia which were not preserved, or some which may yet be found. Tocharian (A & B) is extinct, and seems to be alone on its branch — based on what has survived. Seems likely that there were a bunch of other twigs.

But yeah, the Danube farmers coming out of the flooding Black Sea basin (inundation took perhaps 50 years) is theorized by Ryan and Pitman.


26 posted on 09/04/2009 4:29:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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