evil Ind0-Eur0peans try to steal our noble past :rolleyes:
This is mainly to do with Eurocentrism, especially Nordocentrism.
08-28-2013, 11:20 PM
Proto-Shaman
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Originally Posted by Progon
Are you serious their considered the first civilization. They wrote done things and among other stuff they contributed to mankind
I think they are related to PIE's and Ural-Altaics, maybe Nostratic.
08-28-2013, 11:22 PM
Szegedist
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Originally Posted by Progon
Are you serious their considered the first civilization. They wrote done things and among other stuff they contributed to mankind
Yes, my ancestors were great people.
08-28-2013, 11:25 PM
Smeagol
They weren't Turanic or anything like that, they weren't Indo-European either, they were mostly some type of Mediterranean according to the surviving crania.
08-28-2013, 11:26 PM
Pjeter Pan
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Originally Posted by Kipchak Håkan
I think they are related to PIE's and Ural-Altaics, maybe Nostratic.
Afrocentrics claim them to be black? Is that possible
08-28-2013, 11:27 PM
Pleurat
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Originally Posted by Horatio
They weren't Turanic or anything like that, they weren't Indo-European either, they were mostly some type of Mediterranean according to the surviving crania.
Pontid , East Med?
08-28-2013, 11:28 PM
Smeagol
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Originally Posted by Progon
Afrocentrics claim them to be black? Is that possible
No, it's not possible. The Sumerians depicted themselves as West Asian looking, and anyway we have the skeletal remains to prove they were Caucasoid.
08-28-2013, 11:28 PM
Smeagol
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Originally Posted by Pleurat
Pontid , East Med?
Some near Eastern type.
08-28-2013, 11:30 PM
Pleurat
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Originally Posted by Horatio
Some near Eastern type.
I thought you meant euro meds.
08-28-2013, 11:31 PM
Proto-Shaman
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Originally Posted by Horatio
They weren't Turanic or anything like that, they weren't Indo-European either, they were mostly some type of Mediterranean according to the surviving crania.
Reha Oğuz Türkkan, a Turkish historian, thought Sumerians came from the Ural mountains, from one of the Alpine races.