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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Neith-Athena: [qb] I have read here and elsewhere that Jewish people were originally not so light-skinned as they are today. Obviously being Semites they were originally from East Africa, but what about around the time when "civilization" per the Eurocentrists begins in the Middle East?[/qb][/QUOTE]Well we don't know exactly when and where for certain Semitic arrived to Western Asia. Linguists can only hypothesize based on constructions of words or phrases, and since most linguists think that since Semitic split from a northern tier that encompassed Egyptian and Berber, that it would have likely entered through the Sinai and into the Levant. I believe the timeframe was estimated to be 10,000-8,000 B.C.E. The funny thing is that corresponding culture in the Levant at that time called Natufian was not only characterized as the first to develop agriculture (and thus civilization) but was anthropologically first categorized as "negroid"! We even have genetic evidence from modern Levantine populations of East African lineages derived from that same time period. Coincidence, I think not. [QUOTE][qb]Are there any theories as to the origin of the Sumerians? I know it is considered a language isolate, but would appreciate knowing of any possible theories as to their origin. [/qb][/QUOTE]Sumerian is an [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language]agglutinative language[/URL] that at best only bears a distant relation to the [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurro-Urartian_languages]Hurro-Urartian languages[/URL] of northern Mesopotamia through Anatolia. But still Sumerian seems to be a vestige of another distinct language family that apparently did not survive. The region from which it probably originated (many hypothesize in Central Asia) was overtaken by Indo-European speakers. By the way Clyde claims Sumerian to be an African language based only on the fact that it is agglutinative as well as similarities between random assorted words-- NO evidence of a direct genetic link. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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