Two IE phylogenies, three PIE migrations, and four kinds of steppe pastoralism
Journal: Voprosy âzykovogo rodstva
Year: 2013

This paper defends and elaborates a Pontic-Caspian steppe homeland for PIE dated broadly between 4500-2500 bc. First I criticize the Bouckaert et al. phylogeny, rooted in Anatolia, published in Science in August 2012. Then I describe archaeological evidence for three migrations from the Pontic-Caspian steppes into neighboring regions, dated to 4500-2500 bc, that parallel the sequence and direction of movements for the first three branches in the Ringe phylogeny (Ringe, Warnow and Taylor 2002) of