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LUXUS
There is a linguistic link too, if you remember that in vedic text the battle between the devas and the assur.
Assur is the name of a city, the name of the chief god among the Assuri people of Mesopotamia.
Interesting also that the ancient Egyptians credited the foundation of their civilization to Osiris also known as Asar, Asari, Aser, Ausar, Ausir, Wesir, Usir, Usire or Ausare....note Asari denotes him to be one of the Assuri people, probably an ancient king amongst themedit on 29-9-2013 by LUXUS because: (no reason given)
Hanslune
Genetic studies have shown connections between populations in western (modern) India/Pakistan and Mesopotamia.
Research was also carried out by another team (Sołtysiak et al 2013) examining fifty-nine dental non-metric traits on a sample of teeth from 350 human skeletons excavated at three sites in the lower middle Euphrates valley. This showed a stable population until after the Mongolian invasion which resulted in a large depopulation of northern Mesopotamia in the 13th century CE. The final major change occurred during the 17th century with Bedouin tribes arriving from the Arabian Peninsula.
New study
This may represent either that the individuals are descendants of migrants from much earlier times (Palaeolithic), spreading the clades of the macrohaplogroup M throughout Eurasia and founding regional Mesopotamian groups like that of Terqa, or they are from merchants moving along trade routes passing near or through the region
There are no traces in the modern Syrian population (of theses), which is explainable as the dental study showed, by later depopulation and recolonisation, but opens up the possibilities of further work to examine the routes of both populations and civilisations.
edit on 27/9/13 by Hanslune because: (no reason given)
Hanslune
Excellent contributions Sinter Klass and Pumpkinworks, whoa heavy reading. I'll have to read that over at least twice or more to understand what has been presented.
It will be interesting to see how all this falls out in 20-25 years
punkinworks10
Hanslune
Excellent contributions Sinter Klass and Pumpkinworks, whoa heavy reading. I'll have to read that over at least twice or more to understand what has been presented.
It will be interesting to see how all this falls out in 20-25 years
Hey there Hans,
Dr. Dziebel's blog is top shelf science, albeit a non traditional interpretation.
It usually takes me three times to digest it, to a point.
He makes a very good argument for a multi regional origin of modern humans.
The science of genetics has made great strides in the last several years, that combined with linguistics, comparative mythology and kinship studies is showing that the traditional view of "out of Africa " is somewhat lacking.
demongoat
i suppose it makes sense, the silk road would make a really good route to get to europe. it could have been both, maybe camp followers and soldiers left their dna?