[blam]

"Blam, with X Factor folks in hand, given their historic practices, we may well have a chunk of the descendants of the original Sumerians with a probable connection to India, and maybe even Sundaland."

That's intriguing...but, I'd expect to see 'X' out in the Pacific Islands if true.

[muawiyah]

I'm sure that eventually we will find some intact bone marrow or some other tissue in the Euphrates valley that dates back to 8000 to 9000 years BC.

Some of the samples will have the X Factor genes. Others are going to show mitochondrial DNA configurations typical of SE Asian populations of that time.

That will address the issue here where we have people with Dravidian traditions regarding reincarnation combined in a population with X Factor genes.