Re: Neanderthal and PIE

--- On Sat, 10/11/08, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:

> From: Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>

> Hypothesis:
> a small number of Neanderthal survivors discovered
> something
> around 30K years ago that made them immortal or at least
> extremely long-lived.  The small community made a habit of
> cremating its few casualties, which is why there are no
> Neanderthal
> fossils or skeletons more recent than that.  About 6K years
> ago,
> they were wiped out, but not before their ancient language
> had
> been picked up as a hieratic language by a neighboring
> group
> of Homo sapiens.
OR...

Bigfoot STILL speaks PIE. They are, after all, very conservative, and adverse to any
kind of change. So conservative, in fact, that in spite of thousands of
centuries of separation, and tens of thousands of generations gone by, Yeti in
the Himalayas still speaks the same language as Sasquatch in the Pacific
Northwest.

Now that's something that's REALLY fun to believe! ;-)

--gary