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How late did the brachycranic "armenoid" types really enter southern Mesopotamia
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] Getting back to the topic... [QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [qb] In 1972 Historian William Langer - “The population of both Upper and Lower Mesopotamia in prehistoric times belonged to the brown or Mediterranean race. While this basic stock persisted in historical, times especially in the south, it became increasingly, mixed especially with broad-headed Armenoid peoples from the northeastern mountains owing to the recurrent incursions of mountain tribes into the plain.” In William L. Langer – An Encyclopedia of World History, Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 1972 Now I'm wondering if scientists like Ogihara and Makishima are actually saying the "Armenoid" or brachycranic type in Mesopotamia dates from a period chronologically subsequent to the Sumerians and Akkadians. If so the whole Aryanist view of Near Eastern history collapses. The Parthian period is, of course, very late in Mesopotamian history. [IMG]http://i746.photobucket.com/albums/xx108/khazraj/sumerianly.jpg[/IMG] [/qb][/QUOTE]What about the [URL=http://www.archaeology.org/0807/abstracts/urkesh.html]Hurrians[/URL]? I have read in several sources that the Hurrians represented a northern peoples with brachycephalic features who had significant cultural and perhaps genetic influence on Sumerians as well. I find it hard to believe this northern 'brachycranial' element only appeared as late as the Parthians when so many Sumerian portraits suggest otherwise. [/qb][/QUOTE]This is why I am asking when these northern "brachcranic" or white people came into Mesopotamia. Were earlier anthropologists just going by find of sculpture and bas reliefs and basing their conclusions of what Hurrians and others looked like on that? This becomes a real intriguing question now if the scientists are claiming broad -heads i.e. whites entered Mesopotamia only in the Parthian period. I am not sure that is what they are claiming, though. However it has long been said that the brown "Mediterranean" race i.e. hamitic populations of uruk Jemdet Nasr, and the more Negroid populations of Eridu and the Ubaid centers long predate the entry of the prominent nosed, brachycranic whites i.e. so called "Armenoids" or "Alpines" of early anthropologists. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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