Who were the proto semites?

[Weedman]

Sumerians were not Semite.

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.

[Weedman]

@oblivion

you're probably right.

why would the proto-Semites have looked much or any different from historical Semites?

[StonyArabia]

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.

[Kamal900]

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.

Proto-semtic peoples came from the southern Levant, and they are characterized by the Haplogroup J1e or J1c3 which is common among Arabian and Levantine males(esp the Muslims).

[HillY35]

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.

[Sacrificed Ram]

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.

[Wadaad]

I'd just say that you're a direct descendant paternally of the earliest Semitic peoples. You're therefore very Near Eastern; Your ancestors were responsible for some of the earliest and most influential civilisations in human history without which there could be no Europe (named after a Semitic Goddess) or modernity as we know them today.

Dont reduce her ancestry and Semites in general to mere props for your narrative of the centrality and preeminence of European civilization.

[Sacrificed Ram]

Europe, seduced by a bull, seduced by a lamb, which will be the next pet?

[Wadaad]

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.

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.

[Sacrificed Ram]

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.

Despite I believe in Proto-cushitic influence in soutern arabia peninsula, after subdued by "semites". But this my belief is much based in biblical accounts than a deep study of history and archaeology.