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[QUOTE]Originally posted by matu: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: ^ A few cents to the above info. First, because the Hittite polity was an empire, it is no surprise that Egyptian depictions of national 'Hittites' were heterogeneous and differ in both physical features and clothing. [b] Exactly [/b] Second, the Hattians who did represent the core or main populace of the empire were an indigenous non-Indo-European speaking people who were ruled by the IE speaking Hittite/Nesili. [b] And here I thought that per the Table of Nations in Gen 10, the Hattians were Japhetites (Europeans), and the Semetic speaking Hittites were the invading Canaanites to the Land of Hatti. [/b] Judging from all descriptions and depictions of them from other peoples in the ancient world as well as skeletal remains, the Hattians were traditionally described by scholars to be a brachycephalic (broad-headed) 'Armenoid' people with prominent hooked noses and was a type common from Asia Minor, the Caucasus, and the northern areas of Assyria and Syria. It is because of this many scholars suggest the region to be the home of the so-called 'Jewish-type' which was actually Hurrian and differed from the 'original Semitic type' of other parts of the Levant, Assyria, and northern Arabia. And though I haven't seen it first hand, I have read that there were Egyptian depictions of actual Hittite/Nasili elites who looked more European i.e. small aquiline noses with blue eyes and even blonde hair. [b] Could those blonde hair blue eyed people be the indigenous people of Land of Hatti, even though they were pejoratively called Hittites? [/b] Lastly the 'mongol' type is actually a mis-characterization of some of the early Hittite and other IE remains of northeastern Anatolia and the Caucasus as they were brachycephalic people with horse-riding culture that is similar to though not identical to Mongol nomads of the steppes. [/QB][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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