re: #245 engineer dog

mmm 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

The theories that don’t involve Clancy Brown acting like a complete nutter with a big sword tend to slip from my recall.

But you’re absolutely correct that there’s multiple ideas about how the language moved—doubtless things have moved on since the Kurgan hypothesis, and likely with good reason, so I ain’t going to argue. I haven’t kept up on theories and don’t really have a strong opinion, but I used to be a little wary of the old linguist theories that had Indo-European as the language of some conquering group. Now that I’ve glanced at the concept, I guess I’ll go look at what the newer thinking is saying.