Comment Re:I'll believe it (Score 1) 195
:) The fossil record is available, and well studied (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis). The evidence suggests that the language actually arose as a result of trade among the inventors of agriculture along the once-freshwater Black Sea, which had been cut off from the ocean, and flooded when the rising Mediterranean overtopped the Bosporus strait. The deluge forced everyone to flee in different directions in a very short period of time, which might be why it's so hard to pinpoint the exact "birthplace" of the language.