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make reasonable arguments that the first Sumerians were refugees from Sundaland, in SE Asia, that went underwater about 8,000 years ago.

I've seen your earlier post. That idea does seem like a flight of fancy considering the lack of evidence, but it can't be discounted. however, the Sumerians would seem to still be Caucasoid in race

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"That idea does seem like a flight of fancy considering the lack of evidence, but it can't be discounted. however, the Sumerians would seem to still be Caucasoid in race."

Here's what Oppenheimer says on page 472 of his book.

"The Micronesians go so far as to say that the original inhabitants of the western homeland, the 'Men Of Mantang', had red hair and blue eyes and may also have gone to Samoa as well."

He goes on to say:

"Before I am accused of suggesting that a white super-race sailed the Pacific 4,000 years ago, I should say that I think that all these politically incorrect and recurrent myths about colour and technology differences are all still consistent with an Austronesian/Papuan or Asian/Melinesian dichotomy...."

Remember to that the Jomon and Ainu are in the region.
The oldest Jomon skeleton ever found in Japan is 13,000 years old.