Posted on 12/04/2003 9:30:18 AM PST by blam
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The indus valley civilization starts around the same period as this city ended. There are no connections found YET, but there very well may be.
To me, the Indus valley people were Dravidian speakers - I base this on the presence of Brahui speakers amongst Pashto speakers in what is now Pakistan.
Keeping that hypothesis, it looks like speakers of an aggulatinative language family were spread from what is now south india along the coast of India to the indus river system, to Elam, Dilmun and Sumer and probably related to the Hurrians/Georgians.
Yes, please add me to the list.
In Anthropology my oldest professor would always tell his classes, “I am a Anthropologist not because of a degree on paper but because sky colleagues consider me an Anthropologist.”
He was in school in the 1940’s before the word was as common. I suspect his explanation fits many experience d professionals as formal training is not always a guarantee of competence. Computer software disciplines often are like this with theoretical and standardized training is soon obsolete but many SW engineers hold psychology, math, business, science degrees, etc.
I would like to read sources for this - linguistic, historical, etc. It could be helpful to some work I do.
Do you have any links, resources about these relationships? I would be very interested.
Jacob's paper linking Elamites to Dravidians
White paper on Elam being a bridge between the ancient near east and the Dravidians
A white paper postulating that the language of the Indus valley was Dravidian
Another one, more details on the Elamite and Tamil connections
I wonder if the story of Atlantis is not about one particular city, but is based on the memories/stories of various ancient submerged cities.
Indian lore from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska in the last 20 years is being looked at more with regard to geologic changes. Ancient stories of earthquakes from the subduction zone fault show up in the PNW.
In Alaska the advance and retreat of glaciers are chronicled in their fables. “The Ice King pursued his princess and destroyed the village that had stolen her....”
Note: this topic is from . Thanks Cronos for those new links, and thanks again blam for the topic.
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