Aryan Invasion/migration Theories & Debates -2

[pusan]

Promising find. My congratulations. A pre-neolithic movement out of India cannot be ruled out given the genetic data.



My only objection is to associating it with spread of IE vocabulary out of India (the 'mus' cognates).



- The 'mus' vocabulary only travels westward from India, not eastward with the mouse ?

- The proposed migration path means a satemized IE from India maintains vocabulary till Persia (Avestan); then completely loses in Mesopotamia, reappears in Anatolia (but missing the important wagon-part vocabulary of cakra, aksha, isha). Then regains the almost complete IE vocabulary in the Mycenaen Greek and Aegean area, but completely centumized. The author dosen't explain the Baltic spread, but assuming that IE spreads further to the Baltic, it regains satemization! This is very irregular.

- How come 'mus' vocabulary isn't used much amongst the farming communities of south indian language family, where iluka, ili etc are more common. In south india, 'mus' vocabulary is mostly used in ritual, not functional context. It's hard to imagine out-of-india 'mus' vocabulary overpowering lands as far as europe but not southern states.



IMHO, author would not have associated the human migration event with spread of IE, if they'd have looked at a broader picture of IE vocabulary spread which is a bronze age event. Peer-review is a must in any inter-disciplinary study.