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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BlessedbyHorus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] ^ My thoughts: The above findings confirm the suprastraum theory of Indo-European migrations into Greece-- that is the actual IE speaking Proto-Greeks were themselves a small group who entered the region and spread their language and some of their culture among the predominant natives. This seems to be the prevailing theory of the spread of IE in other regions including India. By the way, the same theory may also apply to the Pre-Proto-Semitic speakers who entered the Levant from Africa. Many people tend to identify the Mycenaeans with the early Hellenes (Greeks); however, 'Mycenaean' is a label applied to an archaeological group that was Bronze Age mainland Greece. While there is no doubt that early Hellenes were among the Mycenaean peoples, to identify the Mycenaeans as a whole as Greek is erroneous. Even the Hellenes in their ancient histories say that before the sons/tribes of Hellen spread forth there were 'Autochthones' (Aboriginal) peoples who ruled the peninsula and islands. The chief group who lived in the peninsula were a people called the Pelasgoi/Pelasgians whom the Greeks learned the art of building temples and other monuments and learned the rituals of worship. But there were other peoples mentioned like the Lapiths, Myrmidons, Minyans, Hyantes, Curetes, etc. etc. Even the few surviving texts from the Mycenaean period written in Linear B script while in an early from of Greek show many nouns and names of places and deities having non-Greek/non-IE origin. By the way, there were [b]three[/b] main cultures in the Bronze Age Aegean-- the Mycenaean of mainland Greece, the Minoan of Crete, and the Cycladic of the Cycladic Islands. Are there any references to the latter?? [/qb][/QUOTE]Good post. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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