tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post3261112766333338885..comments2024-03-09T15:46:44.638+01:00Comments on For what they were... we are: Are ancient mtDNA sequences from Syria of Indian origin?Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-24431599756753441672013-09-17T06:19:26.432+02:002013-09-17T06:19:26.432+02:00That's an interesting piece of info, thanks.That's an interesting piece of info, thanks.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-64896185643617728812013-09-17T05:23:10.268+02:002013-09-17T05:23:10.268+02:00Back in 2005, I saw an online article about the di...Back in 2005, I saw an online article about the discovery of an image (on a cylindrical seal, maybe?) from bronze age Mari, which was identified as being unmistakably similar to images of a temple in the Indus Valley. I recall the article also mentioned a bronze age trade road connecting Mari with the Indus. Mari was a major production facility for the bronze industry, so perhaps they were importing tin from South Asia, presuming their copper was coming from Cyprus?John Rudminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11589752671578961154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-44489436865011455512013-09-13T17:28:37.446+02:002013-09-13T17:28:37.446+02:00Assyrian affinity is not what I gather from the ma...Assyrian affinity is not what I gather from the maps I have seen (now and always): the Assyrian core is limited to Assur, after all they are a Semitic frontier offshoot in an essentially non-Semitic area, and their homeland is anyhow located at the Tigris (within modern Iraq, Saladin province), not at the Euphrates and not within the borders of the Syrian state.<br /><br />Now regarding Amoritic, it's harder to discern indeed because this group was much more widespread and eventually controlled also much of Mesopotamia. Nearby Mari was ruled first by the people maybe related to Sumer, destroyed by the Akkadians but rebuilt, and later ruled by the Amorites, being finally destroyed by Babylon. <br /><br />As for Terqa, it was first ruled by Mari, then Babylonians (originally Chaldeans, akin to Amorites but later ruled by the Kassites too, non-Semitic), and only in the last period by the Assyrians. But, as in the case of Mari, I do not think that we can attribute their base population to either conqueror elite, although some Amorite relation is plausible (for example they worshiped the same fertility god, Dagon, venerated also in other Amorite cities of Syria and Lebanon). <br /><br />In any case, I thank you for raising these concerns because I now realize that the Hurrian attribution is probably not correct either and that the sites are not really in Western Kurdistan but in Arabic territory. I will correct that.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-18060123905087284742013-09-13T16:51:16.431+02:002013-09-13T16:51:16.431+02:00The location of these two sites connect it with (S...The location of these two sites connect it with (Semitic) Assyrian or Amoritic origins, not Hurrian/Mitanni. The later group was centered in the northern rim of Mesopotamia, while these places are more to the south.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04594183125726102476noreply@blogger.com