In 1786, he concluded, therefore, that there was an “IndoEuropean” family of languages that stretched from Ireland to India, and that probably stemmed from a single source. We might imagine that about 7,000 B.C. there was an “IndoEuropean tribe” that lived, perhaps, in what is now Turkey. It spread outward in all directions, carrying with it its language, which evolved in different ...
have been studying oak wood dredged from rivers in southern Germany, and from bogs in northern Germany and in Ireland, and have been piecing together tree-ring patterns, They have traced patterns back for 6,000 years. They also had a very old pattern that they finally matched up this year with the main pattern, pushing the calendar back a total of 7,300 years. There are other patterns which, ...