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Post by cjm on Jul 25, 2017 16:53:49 GMT
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Post by Trog on Jan 31, 2018 8:36:39 GMT
Oh yes, by the way, she's from Georgia. So was Joseph Stalin. Who apparently considered himself a bit of a poet. Probably in the same way Hitler thought of himself as an artist-painter.
(I remember you were thinking of moving there).
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Post by cjm on Feb 2, 2018 5:31:25 GMT
Oh yes, by the way, she's from Georgia. So was Joseph Stalin. Who apparently considered himself a bit of a poet. Probably in the same way Hitler thought of himself as an artist-painter. (I remember you were thinking of moving there). Interesting. Not really wanting to move there (yet). I just think that its pre-historical significance is perhaps underexplored. If I could just have a look around, I am sure I could change that!  Just joking, of course. Since discovered that the language is a non- Indo European one ( Kartvelian group). How is it possible that Georgia could have been a gateway for populating Europe without being related to the main language group? Makes one think that Indo European is a much more recent concoction or that the projected movement into Europe is wrong. |
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Post by Trog on Feb 2, 2018 7:59:58 GMT
Depends on what you mean with populating Europe.
Georgia probably was a gateway for populating Europe, but that was about 30,000 years ago and has nothing to do with the Indo-Europeans.
The Indo-Europeans moved into Europe from what is today roughly the Ukrainian area and mostly through the northern parts of Europe, about 25,000 years later. That is long after Europe was already populated, (probably with the descendants of people who did indeed move through Georgia) and populated not with Indo-Europeans. At the same time, starting from about 6000 years ago, some of them (Indo Europeans) also moved into Greece and also Turkey, where they established the Hittite Empire.
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Post by cjm on Feb 2, 2018 17:54:30 GMT
This would solve a number of problems:
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Post by cjm on Jan 5, 2021 18:53:40 GMT
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Just joking, of course. Since discovered that the language is a non- Indo European one (