SEMITIC URHEIMAT IS NORTH AFRICA Africa-to-Levant hypothesis Map of Semitic languages and statistically inferred dispersals. One hyptothesized location of the divergence of ancestral Semitic from Afroasiatic between the African coast of the Red Sea and the Near East is also indicated. Christopher Ehret has hypothesized that genetic analyses (specifically those of Y chromosome phylogeography and TaqI 49a,f haplotypes) shows populations of proto-Semitic speakers may have moved from the Horn of Africa or southeastern Sahara northwards to the Nile Valley, Northwest Africa, the Levant, and Aegean.[4] Edward Lipiński supports a Northwest African origin due to the relationship between a Pre-Semitic Afroasiatic language and the Niger–Congo languages, whose urheimat probably lies in Nigeria–Cameroon.[5] In support of this hypothesis, Lipiński points out that Proto-Semitic: – did not originate in Arabia, as previously hypothesized, since the region could not have supported massive waves of emigration before the domestication of camels in the second millennium BC.[3] – did not originate in Mesopotamia (and adjoining areas of modern Syria), since there is evidence the original inhabitants were a non-Semitic population. – shares more isoglosses and lexicostatistical convergences with the Berber languages than any other family, thereby; – showing signs of a link with Berber long after other Afro-Asiatic language families, such as Egyptic and Chadic, and; – was still spoken during the mid-Neolithic Subpluvial (i.e. 5th millennium BCE, when the Sahara was more humid). A Neolithic culture in the Sahara possibly related to Proto-Semitic collapsed due to desertification and climate change around 3500 BC, according to Lipiński – a fact attested by evidence such as rock art. This may have forced Proto-Semitic speakers to emigrate en masse through the Nile Delta to Western Asia. They were probably responsible for the collapse of the Ghassulian culture in Palestine around 3300 BC.[6] Another indication of the arrival of the proto-Semitic culture is the appearance of tumuli in 4th and 3rd millennium BC Palestine, which were typical characteristic of Neolithic North Africa.[6] It is possible that at this point, the ancestors of the speakers of Elamite moved towards Iran, although the inclusion of Elamite in Afroasiatic is only contemplated by a tiny minority.[7] The earliest wave of Semitic speakers entered the Fertile Crescent via Palestine and Syria and eventually founded the Akkadian Empire. Their relatives, the Amorites, followed them and settled Syria before 2500 BC.[6] The collapse of the Bronze Age in Palestine led the southern Semites southwards, where they reached the highlands of Yemen after 20th century BC. Those crossed back to the Horn of Africa between 1500–500 BC.[6] Recent Bayesian analysis suggests an origin for all known Semitic languages in the Levant around 3750 BCE, with a later single introduction from South Arabia into the Horn of Africa around 800 BCE. This statistical analysis could not, however, estimate when or where the ancestor of all Semitic languages diverged from Afroasiatic.[1] It thus neither conflicts nor confirms the hypothesis that the divergence of ancestral Semitic from Afroasiatic occurred in Africa.
Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology
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“This is a major genetic cause of corruption and low-trust in these nations.The
—“This is a major genetic cause of corruption and low-trust in these nations.The restriction of marriage to relatives decreases the level of outgroup altruism, resulting in the general trend of corruption in these nations.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-17 10:51:00 UTC
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You know, we tend to think of bronze evolving in the middle east, but metallurgy
You know, we tend to think of bronze evolving in the middle east, but metallurgy begins with copper in Serbia/Bulgaria during the late neolithic, and spreads west to spain, and north to british isles.
So both the wheel and metallurgy begin in europe (or at least, around the black sea).
So again, as far as I know, the ‘special event’ in human history happens around the black sea.
Sea levels in northern europe reached todays levels by 6000bc. They are using copper for decoration in 6000bc, and we have copper instruments from 5500bc, and the Black Sea deluge happens in 5600 BC.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-16 14:42:00 UTC
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Demographic Capital
Intellectual capital is over. The globalist era is ending. The only competitive advantages any population has are (a) demographic (b) normative and institutional, and (c) territorial. That’s it. We cannot compete with the numbers. We don’t have them. We gave those numbers away. So the only thing we can do is protect our assets (a) demographic, (b) normative and institutional, and (c) territorial.
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Demographic Capital
Intellectual capital is over. The globalist era is ending. The only competitive advantages any population has are (a) demographic (b) normative and institutional, and (c) territorial. That’s it. We cannot compete with the numbers. We don’t have them. We gave those numbers away. So the only thing we can do is protect our assets (a) demographic, (b) normative and institutional, and (c) territorial.
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Understanding Our Varied Mythos
Our myths split north of the black sea. The western (eventually odin), and eastern (eventually vedic). Then crossed over (shared) again south of the black sea (greek,anatolian, semitic, persian). But the differences remain the same. Authoritarian semitic, I don’t know how to cast persian except ‘like chinese’ as wisdom literature, the indic/vedic, and then the ‘rational’ germanic, roman, greek. So the spectrum of empirical to authoritarian to supernatural works eastward. I don’t know why other than to assume it’s a demographic necessity since we know the anatolians were working on religion as we understand it 8000bc. Even before the british isles were … 3000bc. So it s likely that the henge culture was informed of the anatolian culture. at least by story if not by experience. I assume that the semitic (fertile crescent) peoples had longer to work with the anatolian religion, and so that the persians (east) and the anatolians (west) and the greeks (far west), and the romans (farthest west), were all less affected given the distance. Unfortunately the fertile crescent meant food and that meant underclasses, and that mean authoritarianism. Hunters don’t need that stuff. 😉
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Understanding Our Varied Mythos
Our myths split north of the black sea. The western (eventually odin), and eastern (eventually vedic). Then crossed over (shared) again south of the black sea (greek,anatolian, semitic, persian). But the differences remain the same. Authoritarian semitic, I don’t know how to cast persian except ‘like chinese’ as wisdom literature, the indic/vedic, and then the ‘rational’ germanic, roman, greek. So the spectrum of empirical to authoritarian to supernatural works eastward. I don’t know why other than to assume it’s a demographic necessity since we know the anatolians were working on religion as we understand it 8000bc. Even before the british isles were … 3000bc. So it s likely that the henge culture was informed of the anatolian culture. at least by story if not by experience. I assume that the semitic (fertile crescent) peoples had longer to work with the anatolian religion, and so that the persians (east) and the anatolians (west) and the greeks (far west), and the romans (farthest west), were all less affected given the distance. Unfortunately the fertile crescent meant food and that meant underclasses, and that mean authoritarianism. Hunters don’t need that stuff. 😉
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1) Geographic escape of the regression to the mean. 2) Duration of planning and
1) Geographic escape of the regression to the mean.
2) Duration of planning and voluntary organization required to preserve cooperation (see also inuit peoples and amerindians)
3) Utility of people in scarcity vs disutility of others in density,
4) Geographic (horizontal) range of trade (information transfer) on the eurasian continent.
5) Temperate gradients that can only be defeated by tools, vs disease and tribal gradients that are defeated by reproduction and early maturity.
6) Negative pressure on the less able (shorter term) in winter climes. I mean, winters are the best agents of darwin.
7) The difference between central management of irrigation and therefore centralization of capital (fertile crescent, indus river, yellow river), and the lack of such need (or utility) in both europe and the plain and the black and caspian seas. (Our farmland is bigger and better and more distributed meaning capital and defense had to be distributed).
8) Combining the european wheel, with the anatolian bronze, with the steppe horse, and therefore freeing man from his bodily limits and creating a civilization that mastered ‘ooda loops’ (maneuver, markets) at every level.
9) Hence we are rarey first, but we are always fastest, because there is no faster way to adapt a society to constant change than ‘markets in everything’ adjudicated by the common law of tort (property).
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-15 11:52:00 UTC
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Their Poetry, Our Arguments
The Chinese use Riddles like we use Aphorisms. The difference is due to the high context low precision of their rather primitive language. Their poetry, our arguments.
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Their Poetry, Our Arguments
The Chinese use Riddles like we use Aphorisms. The difference is due to the high context low precision of their rather primitive language. Their poetry, our arguments.