http://www.allempires.com/forum/foru...331&PN=1&TPN=2
As my personal contribution to this debate, this is my main working hypotheis, expressed graphically:
1) Gloto-chronological tree of Cavalli-Sforza et al. (with my own suggested datations):
2) This is my own reconstruction of the expansion of IE languages, blending this tree and archaeological evidence of the expansion and evolution of the so called Kurgan cultures (over a map of modern distribution of IE tongues):
I've obviated the Albanian and Armenian branches for which I don't have any good explanation so far.
An alternative for the Cavalli-Sforza tree is the following (whose authorship I can't recall). Yet, even if this one would be right, the dates ((BP=before present) are too early for what I can understand, what makes me think that they should be reviewed forward by at least 1500 years.
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