[blam]

"The Jomon I'm no expert on, but I've a colleague who has completed linguistic studies of the Ainu dialect (which is quite different from native Japanese-which is derived from Korean, despite what the Japanese might want to believe), and his conclusions were that Ainu is a derivative of Turkic."

This may interest you.

The Relationship Between The Basque And Ainu

[warchild9]

It's always dangerous for me to bring up languages since I'm not a linguist.

A lot of research into these matters is new, so researchers go on "gut instinct" often, and have to run from their academic superiors, depending on what school they teach in. And, of course, if they don't teach in a "name" school, they're ignored.

These matters of the origins of civilization seem self-evident to me; it's just a matter of waiting for the evidence to come in to maintain, or change, one's ideas.