‘Indo-European’ – Beyond The Homeland Question
Twenty years ago, in 2003, a study in Nature that analysed ‘a matrix of 87 languages with 2,449 lexical items’ came to the conclusion that the Indo-European languages ‘expanded with the spread of agriculture from Anatolia around 8,000–9,500 years Before Present (BP)’. The study used the model to evaluate two dominant hypotheses – Steppe expansion…
