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Sand-Covered Huns City Unearthed
China Daily ^
| 10-8-2002
Posted on 10/10/2002 5:43:05 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Fascinating stuff! If you ever start a ping list (hint hint), I'm sure a LOT of us would be happy to be on it :-)
To: Marie Antoinette; ET(end tyranny); FreeLibertarian; Bohemund; Seeking the truth; FreetheSouth!
Okay...Ping.
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posted on
10/11/2002 8:40:20 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
Neat stuff. Thanks for the ping!
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posted on
10/11/2002 9:21:05 PM PDT
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Bohemund
To: blam
I am just overwhelmed by the interest in this thread. LOL! I'm fascinated by this stuff, bookmark it, and read it again. I'm just not intelligent enough to make comments about it. But make no mistake, it does get read (even though it's 12:30 PM here LOL).
To: blam
I do believe that the Xiongnu, the Scytians and the Picts are related. I think so,too.
To: Boomer Geezer
Ooops, meant 12:30 AM here. Anyway, dittos on the ping list if you ever establish one ... add me to it!
To: blam
Imagine who is in this whole area around 1800BC!! The people we now call "Picts". Nobody knows what they called themselves.
To: rmlew
Hungarians are a mixed people. They share a language root with only two other groups of people,the Finns,and a tribe of original Russian "Indians" (for lack of a better word)called the Mari. Since the Mari look and lived exactly like American Indians,and the Finns also had a similiar appearance,I'm thinking the Picts originated in what is now called Hungary,and they are the "missing link" in this stew pot. They were a traveling people,and I strongly suspect they were the original "Vikings",too. This would help explain why this group of white people had a language built on the same base as the Asiatic-looking Mari and Finns.
To: blam
The original Scythians were Indo-European; however, some scholars believe they eventually mixed with Mongoloid populations. The Picts were probably related to the Basque, but as far as I can tell, nobody has proven anything definite regarding their ethnicity, only that they were eventually subsumed by Irish and Norse invaders. The Huns, of course, were primarily Mongoloid. Frankly, I don't see how all of this adds up to those populations being related in the sense you are implying.
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posted on
10/12/2002 1:22:07 AM PDT
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Hemlock
To: blam
Add me! Add me!
To: Black Agnes
"Add me! Add me!" Okay. I've decided to keep a small 'handwritten' list.
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posted on
10/12/2002 11:16:08 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Hemlock
"Frankly, I don't see how all of this adds up to those populations being related in the sense you are implying." I noticed that you have an MA in anthropology. I will try harder over the next few days to make a (more) convincing story. PS, I lived out your way in the mid-60's to mid-70's.
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posted on
10/12/2002 11:21:40 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
ping me too?
To: Clara Lou
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posted on
10/12/2002 11:41:50 AM PDT
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blam
To: blam
"Add me too!!" (...please?!)
I always click on your posts and I'm never disappointed!
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posted on
10/12/2002 11:45:23 AM PDT
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lucyblue
To: lucyblue
""Add me too!!" (...please?!)"I always click on your posts and I'm never disappointed!"
Well, okay then.
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posted on
10/12/2002 12:22:04 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
I noticed that you have an MA in anthropology. I will try harder over the next few days to make a (more) convincing story. PS, I lived out your way in the mid-60's to mid-70's.
Please do! I'm definitely not saying that you're wrong, only that I don't recall any evidence in support of your position. However, I didn't spend a lot of time studying ancient populations. Ultimately, though, there are links between all populations, so the question is how these groups are related, not if they're related. What I'm saying is that there is no evidence that these groups have a common linguistic heritage or came from a common, identifiable population.
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10/12/2002 12:32:59 PM PDT
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Hemlock
To: Hemlock
" What I'm saying is that there is no evidence that these groups have a common linguistic heritage or came from a common, identifiable population." I understand and appreciate your position... I may not make the case to everyone's satifaction and it will probabably be circumstancial. I think the Altai Mountain region will be the key though. Stay tuned.
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posted on
10/12/2002 12:41:12 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
Hmmmmmm. Separated at birth?
To: blam
Altaic languages include Mongolian, Turkish, Korean and Japanese.
Looking at the spread of these countries, it argues the point that there was a lot of migration, adaptation, assimilation.
as Huns became European in culture
some from Europe and western Asia became Oriental in culture.
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