The Elamites

[Smeagol]

Does anybody know anything about the racial type of these people? I read they could possibly have had a Dravidian origin.

[Yehiel]

they were offspring of shem

[Sergente Alligator]

who is them?

[Han Cholo]

Does anybody know anything about the racial type of these people? I read they could possibly have had a Dravidian origin.

But evidently, these Dravidians wouldn't have been the modern ones who have a shitload of Aboriginal Indian admixture. Either way, we know that if certain language has an origin somewhere, it doesn't mean the racial elements have to be directly transplanted into new territories. It could have been a elite dominance thing.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Does anybody know anything about the racial type of these people? I read they could possibly have had a Dravidian origin.

I doubt they had a dravidian origin. Long story short no one knows for sure but I am pretty sure IVC had Indid type people already, before elam became a city. So they would have had to pass through all of india for that to happen.

Dravidians probably DID migrate from somewhere westwards or else the afro-asiatics migrated into africa from south india. However it basically had to have happened before this time.

There are some who argue that elamites are black but it's notable "eccentric" types like Clyde Winters. Afro-asiatics for that matter probably were not "black" either. Just like assyrians obviously were not what we call semitics today. It's another migration theory ala indo-european migration in prehistory that doesn't really add up that much and doesn't have any proof.

[Smeagol]

But evidently, these Dravidians wouldn't have been the modern ones who have a shitload of Aboriginal Indian admixture. Either way, we know that if certain language has an origin somewhere, it doesn't mean the racial elements have to be directly transplanted into new territories. It could have been a elite dominance thing.

That's true. Also, you're right that the original Dravidian speakers would not have looked like modern Tamils do for example. Dravidian Urheimat was probably in the Middle East, I guess In Iran, but I don't know enough about the subject to be sure.

[Han Cholo]

That's true. Also, you're right that the original Dravidian speakers would not have looked like modern Tamils do for example. Dravidian Urheimat was probably in the Middle East, I guess In Iran, but I don't know enough about the subject to be sure.

Research about this is scarce. I guess Elamites looked like you would expect an aboriginal from there to look like, although it's hard to tell due to Mongol genocides around that region. I'm guessing they looked some sort of Levantines, except with no Mediterranean sea admix. I would also thing they would show some South-Central Asian components.

[aherne]

Apparently, Semitic was very strong among them:



But, considering Elamites spoke a non-Semitic language, this is likely just copying Mesopotamian art slavishly.