John Croft:
This would tie in with my theory (supported by Sumerian accounts of
their own origins), that they came from Bahrein. Ubaid culture had
spread into the area early on. By the Jemdat Nasr period, Bahrein was
abandonned to nomads (the arrival of Semites), and protoliterate
Sumeria was writing in the Sumerian language.
Gerry: So you're saying that the Sumerians are from Bahrein. Are you
placing the Ubaid Culture in Bahrein before the Sumerians or are you
saying the Ubaid Culture is synonymous with Sumerian? And when the
Semites arrived, did they displace the Sumerians or had the Sumerians
already left? Also is Sumeria synonymous with Sumer?
John: Thus there was a greater distance between the Bahreini Sumerians
and the Elamite-Dravidian dialect chain, stretching from the Zagros to
the Indus and possibly beyond.
Gerry: Hmmmm. We're now talking language rather than people?
John: Is this what you were wanting?
Gerry: YES. Thank you. Do you have more?
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Gerald Reinhart
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