I know. It's a well proven fact.
but there was a group in a PART of ancient Sumeria that helped give rise to Semitic peoples, that's the point.
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@oblivion
you're probably right.
why would the proto-Semites have looked much or any different from historical Semites?
Proto-Semites were the Bedouin like people. Yemenite Jews, Ethnic Saudis, and Jordanians show the highest amount of proto-Semitic ancestry, well groups like Assyrians are to Armenian like to be even Semitic.
I am inclined to think, according to how my brain processes all these things, that the Jewish people probably originated in their present-day sovereign territory. It is the crossroads of Africa, Europe, and Asia, and gains an important perspective as being such, when held over time.
The high diversity of J haplogroup in Southern Arabian Peninsula, Socrota Island and even Africa sugest more a movement from south to north than north to south as Anglojew and Bioblitzkrieg proposed.
Europe, seduced by a bull, seduced by a lamb, which will be the next pet?
Not to mention the fact that Arabian peninsula is the only part of the middle east that has been thoroughly Semitic with no other language subgroup (even other Afroasiatic languages) represented, through all of recorded history. This is not the case for either Mesopotamia or even the southern levant.