Whereas it is more common that someone has a profession in science etc
and then pursues some form of art as a pastime, for the last 30 years I
pursued art - wildlife fine art as my vocation, so that I would
be free to pursue investigations and theories of a scientific nature as
my personal pursuit. Since the internet began and I obtained a website
(by about 1998) I have documented my writing on the internet, selecting
the best and most finished works. Originally in web pages, when pdf's
became the standard for scholarly papers, I moved to writing in .doc
format and converting to pdf's. When the website "academia.edu" came
into being I posted pdf's there as well as on my website. See the same
papers at https://independent.academia.edu/APaabo
VENETI
After the Roman era, peoples called
"Veneti" were
located at northeast Europe, the south Baltic coast, northern
Italy, maybe Slovenia. There is so little ancient historical texts
about them to determine who they were, and what was their language or
origins. As a result scholars have offered many theories, including
claims they were
Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, Latin. Nobody made the connection with the
amber trade and possible origins in the Baltic source of amber and the
Finnic language found there. I (Andres Pääbo) investigated the ancient
Venetic, pre-Roman,
inscriptions in northern Italy, dating back over 500 years before the
rise of Rome. Because the Adriatic north Italic Veneti are shown by
archeology and ancient texts to have been the conduit for Baltic amber
travelling to Greece, I felt the inscriptions may be Finnic
(probable language at the sources of Baltic amber) Working on it for
several years I found so much evidence that the inscriptions
were in an archaic Finnic language, that I was able to offer an
interpretation for almost every complete sentence and continued
to
reconstruct a basic grammar that paralleled common grammar in Estonian
and Finnish today, on the basis that grammar changes much slower than
words and the resemblance to modern Finnish/Estonian grammar
should be noticable.
My focus of the Finnic language, notably Estonian lead me to learn to
understand how the Finnic (generally Finno-Ugric) languages had
ultimate origins in canoe-oriented aboriginal peoples across
post-glacial northern Europe and that explains how a portion of them
became the ancient long distance traders who established the large
scale economy of Europe from the Bronze Age up to the Iron Age. The
linguistic theory about the Finnic peoples, proves to be wrong, as it
was developed over a century ago when information from archeology and
other sciences did not exist to confirm or reject the original theory.
Thus I also wrote about the Finnic languages in general, which were
first defined as "Uralic".