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Napolskikh V. V. Once more on the Nostratic «original home» and interdisciplinary in prehistorical studies

Vladimir V. NAPOLSKIKH — Member of the RAS, Udmurt State University; Kazan Federal University (Russia, Izhevsk; Kazan)
E‑mail: vovia@udm.ru

 

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ABSTRACT. The article examines the problems that arose in discussions with colleagues after the publication of the author’s first article on the problem of Nostratic original home and the disintegration of the Proto-Nostratic community (Etnografia. 2018. № 1), which suggested a hypothesis on connection of the Proto-Nostratic with a complex of paleolithic cultures of the “mammoth steppe” in the periglacial zone of Eurasia from the Northern Black Sea to the upper reaches of Lena and Amur, and its disintegration caused by the intensification of the runoff of the glacial lakes along the Turgai spillway and transgression of the Caspian Sea. The first set of problems is related to the inner classification of the Nostratic languages. The author insists on the division of nostratic languages into Western (Kartvelian and Indo-European) and Eastern (Ural-Yukaghir, Altai and Escaleutian, possibly — Dravidian) groups and on the special genetic connections between Uralic and Yukaghir languages within the Nostratic framework and shows the failure of criticism of the Yukaghiro-Uralic hypothesis. The second set of problems is connected with the paleogeographic reconstruction of the last glaciation used by the author for his hypothesis. In fact, there are at least two competing points of view in glaciology: the model of Grosswald-Hughes and the “minimalist” model, which negates the presence of a massive ice sheet and extensive water reservoirs in Western Siberia. The arguments of the proponents of both reconstructions are considered and the conclusion is made about the need to understand the methods of individual sciences in complex prehistorical studies.

 

KEYWORDS: prehistory, Northern Eurasia, Nostratic macro-family, Yukaghiro-Uralic family, last glaciation, glaciology, paleogeographical reconstruction

 

УДК 902
DO I 10.31250/2618-8600-2019-3(5)-109-121

 

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