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A NYT article today says a computer projection suggests PIE came from southern Turkey. What do you think?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/scien ... gests.html

An interesting article that manages to say almost nothing, as is now usual in US reporting.

I'm leaning toward the Anatolian idea, but I do understand the quibbles from the other side.

I am not a PIE scholar. I concentrate on my mother-tongue, English through a Red Neck filter, and that is about all I can handle. I did read the article Perry referenced. I guess the most I got out of it was one person accusing the other of "hand-wavy argument". Much of any argument is hand-wavy. Right now I am sticking to the old Steppes of Russia origin for PIE, just because it has been around a long time and plenty of hands have been waved over it. I thought the article was pretty well written since I give more lattitude than Slava. The guys admited that neither one of them was a linguist.

Here is another report on this topic, with a very Anatolian bias.

A better article, clearer and more focused.

I saw some interesting ages in this latest article from Slava. PIE 9,000 years ago in Anatolia, versus the steppes if Russia 5,000 years ago, gives one cause to pause. I have always wondered how PIE could be the mother of so many languages when it was only 5,000 years old. 9,000 years give us more wiggle room. Of course the supposed PIE in Russian would be a descendant of the Anatolian PIE. I am about to convert to Anatolian. But I will be a Baptist Anatolian.

There was also an article in Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/a-turkish-or ... es-1.11270
The comments section complains that the use of "Turkish origin" in the title was inappropriate and a source of confusion.

I'm still fascinated by this discussion. Using our imagination, is it likely that at some point in the past we could have shown up on the steppes or Anatolia or Atlantis and found a culture speaking PIE?