Re: VMs: An Error in Allen's Star Names

[RSRICHMOND@xxxxxxx]

Not sure I'm quite following Big Jim's segue from Fabre d'Olivet (who was a 
major influence on the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf, 
perhaps somewhat discredited but still much beloved among us amateur 
linguistics folk) to Marija Gimbutas.....

But anyone interested in the origin of languages should see "Farmers and 
Their Languages: The First Expansions" by Jared Diamond (Geography, UCLA) and 
Peter Bellwood (Archeology etc., Canberra) in Science (the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science journal) 25 April 2003;300:597-603.

Bob Richmond
Knoxville, Tennessee
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