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A 2003 analysis of "87 languages with 2,449 lexical items" found an age range for the "initial Indo-European divergence" of 7,800–9,800 years, which was found to be consistent with the Anatolian hypothesis. In 2006, the authors of the paper responded to their critics. In 2011, the same authors and S. Greenhill found that two different datasets were also consistent with their theory. An analysis by Ryder and Nicholls (2011) found that: "Our main result is a unimodal posterior distribution for the age of Proto-Indo-European centred at 8400 years before Present with 95% highest posterior density interval equal to 7100–9800 years before Present." which was found to support the Anatolian Hypothesis. A computerized phylogeographic study published in 2012 in Science, using methods drawn from the modeling of the spatial diffusion of infectious diseases, also supported the Anatolian hypothesis.
In a post on his popular blog, Greek Anthropologist Dienekes Pontikos wrote that he considered an origin of Indo-European in Neolithic Anatolia was "still the best hypothesis", citing the above studies as well as evidence that the methodology of the studies was correct.
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