Who are the Luwians?

Luwian Studies ^ | up to and including 2019 | unattributed

[Billthedrill]

Interesting stuff, and thanks for posting. I note that the evidence for the Luwians is, at the moment, primarily linguistic, which is probably all future archaeologists are going to have to demonstrate the existence of Florida Man and the Deadites.

[AdmSmith]

What happened to Kupanta-Kurunta?

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[Red Badger]

Brother Louie
Stories
Album: About Us

---

She was black as the night;
Louie was whiter than white
Danger, danger when you taste brown sugar
Louie fell in love overnight

Nothing bad, it was good
Louie had the best girl he could
When he took her home
To meet his mama and papa;
Louie knew just where he stood

Louie Louie Louie louie, Louie Louie Louie Lou I
Louie Louie Louie Louie, Louie Louie you’re gonna cry

There he stood in the night
Knowing what’s wrong from what’s right
He took her home to meet his mama and papa
Man, they had a terrible fight

Louie nearly caused a scene
Wishin’ it was a dream
Ain’t no diff’rence if you’re black or white
Brothers, you know what I mean, come on
Louie Louie Louie

Louie Louie Louie Louie, Louie Louie Louie Lou I
Louie Louie Louie Louie, Louie Louie you’re gonna cry

{Instrumental}

Louie Louie Louie Louie, Louie Louie Louie Lou I
Louie Louie Louie Louie, Louie Louie you’re gonna cry

[SunkenCiv]

He had his timeline viciously rearranged by some modern dolts.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Oatka]

There's a book by John Philip Cohane titled "The Key". which examines the possible worldwide dissemination of primitive Semitic cultures through linguistic study.

Interesting, but somewhat dry and in some places mind-numbing linguistic tracking down of place-names and claims there were two Pacific migrations thousands of years ago.

One comment I thought was really interesting was that places with double names like Pango Pango, Walla Walla, Bora Bora were always at the end of the track, indicating they were a "We stopped here." indicator.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Oatka, I think I have that around here somewhere.

[gleeaikin]

Thanks again for some fine lists. :-)

[SunkenCiv]

I'm surprised no one has made the glaringly obvious joke, though...

Why did the Luvians disappear? They were wiped out by the antediluvians!

[SunkenCiv]

Dang. I had a brilliant reply prepared, and apparently it vanished when my poor old CPU decided to freeze. And I don’t remember my reply now. Sooo, this one instead. :^) Good work, BTW.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3764396/posts?page=30#30

[Larry Lucido]

I'd like to thank the folks in Walma for their contribution to modern culture.

[Larry Lucido]

Dang. You got here first!

[Larry Lucido]

Actually, you got here first.

[SunkenCiv]

all modern women are jealous. Or somethin’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWFEy1lVUMI

[Deplorable American1776]

It is amazing about the ancient people on the planet. How did they fail? Was it by socialism? Or wars...

[SunkenCiv]

Conquest led to rule by a different culture, putting pressure on the local culture; devastation by disease often claims the oldest and youngest first, which leaves a demographic dead spot on the younger end, and eliminates a big chunk of institutional and cultural memory on the elder end; other stuff...

[sparklite2]

Before sundials, we had Ages

“Dad, what age is this?”
“It’s the Stone Age, Borf.”
“Does that mean we can get stoned?”
“No, this kind of stone means a rock.”
“Why don’t we call it the Age of Rock, then?”
“Because The Rolling Stones aren’t for 14,000 years.”
“But you said THIS is the Stone Age.”
“Shut up and roll me a doobie.”

[SunkenCiv]

Two things to watch out for -- number one, she pushes the "ancient Palestine" line of BS, and number two, the dating of the Luwians is based on the conventional pseudochronology, and is centuries too high.

Cuneiform writing on clay became wildly popular among the governing elites of the Ancient Near East. Although some societies, such as Egypt, only used cuneiform for their international correspondence, the Anatolians additionally adopted cuneiform for domestic use to write Hittite, Luwian, Hattic, and several other languages. But they also developed their own hieroglyphic script for inscriptions in Luwian only. Among other topics, this lecture explores where it came from, how widely it was used, and who could read it. Presented by Petra Goedegebuure, Associate Professor of Hittitology, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

Petra Goedegebuure | Luwian Hieroglyphs: An Indigenous Anatolian Syllabic Script from 3,500 Years Ago | The Oriental Institute | Published on February 11, 2016

Luwian Phoenician inscription:

Google

[SunkenCiv]

Eberhard Zangger (see the above posts) has put his entire book “The Future of the Past” [2001] online at Academia.

https://www.academia.edu/25590386/The_Future_of_the_Past_Archaeology_in_the_21st_Century?auto=download&email_work_card=download-paper