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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] The Semitic speakers were not the first people to live in the Area. Eventhough Sumerian is no longer spoken in the Middle east we know that the Sumerians lived in the region. Many Amerindian groups live in and near Chicago,Amerindian languages are no longer spoken in the Chicago region, and the average Chicagoan does not carry Amerindian genes. As a result, just because many people in the area today speak Semitic languages and carry "Semitic genes" does not mean that the Natufians, who belonged to a different culture and ethnic group (i.e., negroes) than any Semitic group living in the Levant today, is not proof that the Natufians were Semitic speakers. We know the people were called Anu, because the Sumerian texts claim that the original people in the area were Anu or Anunaki. Egyptians claimed the first rulers of Egypt were also called Anu. The archaeologist referred to these Khoisan speakers as Bushman Hottentots. W.E. B. DuBois, discussed these Negroes in the The World and Africa, pp.86-89. DuBois noted that[b] "There was once a an "uninterrupted belt' of Negro culture from Central Europe to South Africa"[/b] (p.88).These people were smaller than Semitic speakers. Below is one of the early articles on the Natufians [QUOTE] BONES OF CANNIBALS A PALESTINE RIDDLE Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. New York Times 1857; Aug 4, 1932; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2003) pg. 21 Negroid people of 5000 B. C.Unlike Any Modern Race Described by Keith. ATE BODIES OF ENEMIES Men, Short of Stature, Burned Bones of Dead After Burial, London Session Hears. TEETH OF WOMEN DRAWN Linking relics to Burnt Skeletons from Ur scientist speculate an old cremation custom. Wireless to NEW YORK TIMES London Aug. 3 Seven or eight thousand years ago in what geologist call modern times a race of negroid cannibals lived In Palestine, burned the bones of their dead after burial, and devoured the bodies of their enemies. Skulls and thighbones of this race were unearthed within the last four years, first at Shukbah near Jerusalem and later in caves at Mount Carmel, and because they puzzled the excavators who found them they received the new name “Natufians.” Today the first authoritative account of them was given by Sir Arthur Keith to the congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences and showed them to be one of the greatest riddles of archaeology. [b]They were clearly a Negroid people, said Sir Arthur, with wide faces flat- noses and long large heads. They were short of stature 5 feet 3 or 4 inches tall-and their thighs and legs were remarkably strong. [/b][/QUOTE]. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mystery Solver: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mystery Solver: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: The first people to dominate the area were the Sumerians. [/QUOTE]Would depend on time frame. For instance, who was dominant in the area during the "Natufian" inhabitation there? [/QUOTE]The founders of civilization in South West Asia [b]were the Anu people, archaeologists call Natufians[/b].[/QUOTE]You know this because...? [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: In Palestine the Natufians established intensive grass collection. The Natufians used the Ibero-Maurusian tool industry (see F. Wendorf, The History of Nubia, Dallas,1968, pp.941-46).[/QUOTE]What do you think of as "Ibero-Maurusian"? Why that designation, when we are dealing with new microlithic tools originating in mainland Africa and transferred into the Levant via the Nile Valley? [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: I believe that the Natufians given the craniometric evidence for this group probably were San and/or Khoisan . [/QUOTE]What cranio-metric evidence has led you to that conclusion? [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: Up to today many Khoisan people live in East Africa, the origination point for the Natufian people. I would guess that the Natufians spoke a Khoisan language.[/QUOTE]No Khoisan language is known to occur in the "Near East", but Afrasan languages do predominate in that region from the Levant downwards. What markers linguitics-wise and genetics-wise, would help us learn about this close Natufian-Khoisan linkage you speak of? [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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