Re: another language reconstruction question

Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Speaking of the spread of IE langs, searching for "Colin
> Renfrew" should introduce you to a theory that IE was
> rather spread by early farmers than by warlike western
> steppe nomads. Less popular, and very probably less likely
> (like I could tell!), but interesting nonetheless.
Having Renfrew occupying ~2cm of my bookshelf ;) I wonder
why the farming theory is so much less likely than the nomad
theory.

||| daniel

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