12-30-2009, 09:15 AM
I had another encounter with Nichols' 'Linguistic Diversity'. The author was able to deduce a 100K migration into ~Tropical Asia. 50K-30K secondary migration into ~Oceania, Europe and Inner Asia. And a post glacial migration. It is in the last phase that IE, Iranian, Turkic, and Mongolian all expand out from the East, with Uralic as an everpresent witness.