[jimtorr]

Oh, yes. I always forget about the Hurrian peoples, and Urartu, and Hatti. I hadn't heard about the Hittites being invaders, though.

[blam]

Ryan & Pittman in their book, Noah's Flood, (a book about the saltwater Mediterranean Sea flooding into the Black Sea), speculate that the flood 7,600 years ago caused the people around that area to migrate up all the river valleys bringing agriculture and their language with them into Europe.
Linguists have traced all the Indo-European languages to Anatolia lending support to their theory....and agriculture words were the key.