Spearheading the search for a Mother Tongue

Spearheading the search for a Mother Tongue have been  Aaron Dolgopolsky, now at Haifa University in Israel. and Vitaly Shevoroshkin, now at the University of Michigan. It was primarily on the latter's initiative that a "breakthrough" conference was held at the University of Michigan in November 1988. Titled "Language and Prehistory'" the conference brought together, from seven countries, more than forty scholars from the fields of linguistics, anthropology,archaeology, and genetics. The consensus was that there had been a "mono-genesis" of human languages--a Mother Tongue in a "proto-proto-proto stage" at a time about 100,000 years ago. Still, scientists from other fields relating to the anotomy of speech, such as Philip Lieberman of Brown University and Dean Falk of the State University of New York  at Albany, see speech as a trait of Homo sapiens from the very first appearance of these "Thinking/Wise Man."   Pp 223  Source Gemesis Revisited by Zecharia Sitchin      

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