[blam]

Huh, I believe both of these. The language came from the east to Turkey and then was spread across Europe by the farmers who were displaced by the Black Sea flood in 5700BC.

[Little Bill]

Blam: Take a compass and put it at the base of the Ural mountains and draw a big circle. Then look at the Indo-European language distribution from China to Europe, India, and Iran, that seems to be the nexus.

There may have been a spreading of agriculture from the Black Sea event but it wasn't Indo-European.

By the ways how did you make out with the storm?

[SunkenCiv]

IMV, Indo-European languages arrived much later than that -- still very long ago -- and their most recent (still ancient) wellspring was Central Asia. And of course, I'm of the view that everyone has always come from elsewhere. As Ashleigh Brilliant once wrote, "Elsewhere has always been one of my favorite places."