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  2. Anatolian hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The Anatolian hypothesis, also known as the Anatolian theory or the sedentary farmer theory, first developed by British archaeologist Colin Renfrew in 1987, proposes that the dispersal of Proto-Indo-Europeans originated in Neolithic Anatolia. It is the main competitor to the Kurgan hypothesis, or steppe theory, which enjoys more academic favor.

  3. Kurgan hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    In the 2000s, Alberto Piazza and Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza tried to align the Anatolian hypothesis with the steppe theory. According to Piazza, "[i]t is clear that, genetically speaking, peoples of the Kurgan steppe descended at least in part from people of the Middle Eastern Neolithic who immigrated there from Anatolia ."

  4. Indo-European migrations - Wikipedia

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    The Anatolian languages are the first Indo-European language family to have split off from the main group. Due to the archaic elements preserved in the now extinct Anatolian languages, they may be a "cousin" of Proto-Indo-European, instead of a "daughter", but Anatolian is generally regarded as an early offshoot of the Indo-European language group.

  5. Farming/language dispersal hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    According to the theory of a homeland in Levant, the distribution was expanded to Africa in conjunction with the spread of agriculture. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Terrazas Mata et al. (2013) have argued that the Proto-Afro-Asiatic speakers would have originated in the Middle East and subsequently migrated into the areas of North Africa, and the Horn of ...

  6. Proto-Indo-European homeland - Wikipedia

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    The Anatolian languages are the first Indo-European language family to have been separated from the main group. Due to the archaic elements preserved in the Anatolian languages, they may be a "cousin" of Proto-Indo-European, instead of a "child", but Anatolian is generally regarded as an early offshoot of the Indo-European language group. [2]

  7. Proto-Indo-Europeans - Wikipedia

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    The Armenian hypothesis, based on the glottalic theory, suggests that the Proto-Indo-European language was spoken during the 4th millennium BC in the Armenian Highland. This Indo-Hittite model does not include the Anatolian languages in its scenario.

  8. Archaeologists find 60,000-year-old hearth that Neanderthals ...

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    The hearth was found in a cave complex that had previously been shielded by sands for 40,000 years Archaeologists find 60,000-year-old hearth that Neanderthals may have used to make tar Skip to ...

  9. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language - Wikipedia

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    The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World is a 2007 book by the anthropologist David W. Anthony, in which the author describes his "revised Kurgan theory."