Posted on 11/27/2010 2:33:35 AM PST by the scotsman
There’s a bit of hypothesizing about the origins of the blue eyed blonds in Central Asia. One is that they were there all along ~ all the way to what is now Western China. Through time East Asian people have moved into the region.
They share a lot of other genetic material with these same groups as well.
The Sa'ami are the original Northern European people and they traveled widely at towards the end of the Great Glaciation.
We don't know if the Sa'ami were yet blue-eyed blonds at the time they began their journies which may have been as early as 15,000 years ago ~ LONG BEFORE the creation of any of the Indo-European languages.
Since the Kurds were the biggest problem faced by the Ten Thousand fighting their way out of the Middle East quite some time before Alex, this doesn’t seem to be their origin.
Yes, the ancient Greeks were blue eyed blondes... as was Ataturk...
Per the facial, hair, eyes - this is what iw as refering to.
612 BC: After the Babylonians destroyed the Assyrian capitals of Ashur and Nineveh, the Assyrian empire city of Arbela, today’s Erbil, becomes part of the Babylonian empire. [5]
539 BC: After Persian leader Cyrus the Great takes over Babylon, Arbela, today’s Erbil, joins the vast Achaemenid or ancient Persian empire. [6]
331 BC: Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia fight the Battle of Gaugamela, also known as the Battle of Arbela, about 75 kilometres north-west of Erbil. In the aftermath, Darius is murdered by his kinsmen and Alexander goes on to conquer the Persian Empire including Babylon, and extends his empire to the Punjab. [7]
Yemenite Jews also had “blondism” traits.
Not "lost", but I seem to recall reading somewhere that one of the Roman emperors told one of his legions "march to the eastern sea", and they took off east. Never heard from again.
Alexander and his core group regularly ACQUIRED soldiers from all sorts of ethnic groups and nations on their way East. When they finally were stopped along the Indus, and allowed to escape back to the West, the army just wasn’t what it had been back in Greece.
Definitely! - Same with Rome - and we are heading that direction by allowing our system to be infilitrated and torn apart from within.
My time in Iraq 2003- 2008 - I was able to go to alot of historical sites (becuase we had the guns) and was able to talk to alot of the locals (usually the older males - like grandpa’s) and they would talk about all sorts of things as they occurred...the youth though - didn’t care.
Although humanbeings aren't designed for "specific climates" there are limits, and it's only indoor life that tricks us into thinking they no longer apply.
I do recall that the Danish “Noah” Plaque shows Noah`s wife as Chinese. That would explain it.
I do recall that the Danish “Noah” Plaque shows Noah`s wife as Chinese. That would explain it.
Currently, the Sapma, the area where the Sa'ami primarily live (exclusive of America where up to 90% of them currently reside) extends from Norway through Sweden, through Finland, and around the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
It is now known their range thousands of years ago was far more extensive.
There are parts of Asia (in the region in the article) where you swear you are in Scandinavia based upon the looks of the residents.
In his autobiography, an English officer in the Indian Army (the Army of India when it was a British colony), wrote that a series of hills near his home station, in what is now Pakistan, were topped with Mesopotamian date palms. He said the locals claimed to be descended from Alexander the Great's soldiers, and that the date palms grew from date pits spat out by Alexander's troops, who were on guard duty. In an age before DNA, he could not tell if the first claim was true, but as an army officer, he stated that the hills topped with date palms were the hills a general would picket, if he was making sure that he was not surprised by a large army advancing out of India proper.
Would that make them Romanese or Chiroman?.
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