re: #230 The Ghost of a Flea

Standing theory is that proto-Indo-European starts somewhere around the Urals, then pushes out in multiple waves of migration. At one point the theoried group were associated with burial mounds (kurgan) in that region, resulting in the name, the Kurgan Hypothesis.

As in Clancy Brown’s character in the original Highlander. I shit you not.

mmmmm i don’t like the kurgans so much and i take colin renfrew’s point of view that it was the people who brought farming over from anatolia to the balkans at about 6000 bc makes more sense

marija gimbutas likes the kurgans but she’s not a linguist