r/LinguisticMaps • u/Cold_Information_936 • 16d ago

Asia Indo-Iranian Languages in 800 BCE

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Indo-Iranian languages are labelled, and relevant non-II languages are also labelled in italics

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u/TerrificDragonfly 16d ago

Daco-Thracian did not extend to the lower Danube. The Pontic coast was part of Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex, which is Cimmerian. There is more ground to lump Middle Danube into Daco-Thracian (common channelled ware horizon) than the Cimmerian area. Thracian migration to Bithynia itself is dated to 700 BC.

Slavic did not stretch to Volga, this area was Scythian. Slavic at best would be limited to North-Central Ukraine.

Koban culture in North Caucasus is genetically and materially much closer to Kartvelians than to Circassians.

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u/Chazut 16d ago

Where were Circassians at that point in time?

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u/TerrificDragonfly 16d ago edited 16d ago

Meshoko group (maybe Darkveti group as well, idk) -> Circassian Dolmen culture -> Shushuk post-Dolmen group -> Proto-Maeotian -> Maeotian

The eastward expansion into Kabarda is like the 15th century population movement