Prehistory Mailbag! Archaeology, Language, and the Advantages of Farming
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The Early Neolithic Farmers of Europe Probably Spoke an Afro-Asiatic Language
The word for bull seems to be derived from an Afro-Asiatic term. If you get real creative with some other borrowings, you might be able to say that there was a language somewhere in there. There is a theory that says the languages have been around for much longer in Europe. That's counter to what's called the Anatolian hypothesis of Indo-European languages.
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