(02-12-2024, 04:31 PM)Anglesqueville Wrote: Rodoorn, a question: let's admit for a moment that you are right and that historical linguistics has no real power to address questions of localization of prehistoric languages. In your opinion, are other disciplines better equipped than it for this? Or are these questions inherently idle and beyond any scientific inquiry?
A quest for a source (in most scientific disciplines called evidence or facts) is imo not idle, but quit basic.
I know no historian for example who doesn't underline the need for good and reliable sources.
Imo nothing idle let alone beyond any scientific inquiry.
To say it in other words: history writing without qualified sources is like a historic novel.