Alphabet, yes. Alphabet spread through trade, specifically among the
merchants and traders who needed to use it. Not genetic takeover.
Proto Indo-Europeans and Indo-Europeans were concentrated around the Black
Sea region and teh area immediately north of the Taurus Mountains,
eastward
toward Khoristan. Not on the Atlantic seaboard. ;)
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Dora Smith
Austin, TX
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"John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Dora Smith wrote:
>> The genetic mythology seems to be that Phoenicians formed large
>> Indo-European or whatever colonies all along the Mediterranean. Ummm,
>> that would have been the Sea Peoples, who were a mixture of
>> proto-Indo-European and Indo-European people,
>
> Really? "A mixture of proto-Indo-European and Indo-European people"? Is
> this related to the theory that eastern North America was settled by a
> mixture of Anglo-Saxon and English colonists?
>
> By the way, ever hear of Carthage?
>
> Or the alphabet?
>
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