Recent content by Shamshi243

Mitanni are an early Indo-Aryan or Indo-Iranian split from Central Asia, but later Iranians arrived in Iran likely around the late Iron age I/early Iron age II. Much of the Iranian contribution in Assyrians and Mesopotamia is post-Iron age from the Parthian period. Kassites aren't Indo-Iranians...

Not any that were confirmed to my knowledge. There's no reason to assume that would be the case, subclades of Q probably weren't in Mesopotamia yet, these would've come by way of later Iranian contribution from the Parthian period.

L-M317 isn't particularly 'South Asian', it's definitely West Asian in origin and has been found in Bronze age remains. For your particular case I would guess it's something from Roman times that made way to France, and from there onto Sussex in England in the later medieval period. France is...

There's a difference between a Y-DNA haplogroup and the Y-chromosome here, the former is only a part of the latter. The latter also has a small recombining region and the SRY gene, but mostly non-coding regions that don't really affect much if anything. If there's any effect from the haplogroups...

That's impossible to ascertain since no ancient Assyrian monarchs were tested. Many possibilities.

Natufian is mostly Dzudzuana or ANF-like, with a third of its ancestry coming from a Taforalt-like source. When using Natufians instead of PPNB it could display more ANF, but the nature of PPNB itself is still uncertain. To add further, G25 is not particularly accurate when it comes to...

You have no genuine interest in this topic and you're constantly ignoring the claims you've made after they're dismissed, without acknowledging that you were mistaken, choosing instead to nitpick on topics which you haven't researched adequately. It's very clear that you're not arguing in good...

You started out claiming Palestine's population was mainly in the cities, and somehow extrapolated a verse describing Ramle's country as 'waste' to mean Palestine had no population. Now after you've done a quick Wiki search, you contend with the 80-75% rural range for the 16th century. Thank you...

Dude, this is comical. You took an excerpt describing the strip of country straddling between Jaffa and Rama, and somehow projected that into Palestine's whole settled landscape and its rural vs urban distribution. This is the equivalent of saying most of Nevada is uninhabited desert, therefore...

Right, Herodotus lumps the region as 'Palestine', which is very interesting, but the etymology of Palestine itself is not Greek. Our friend here seems to not know that 'Israel' was also originally not a geographic name, but the name of a tribe/confederation/people. There's almost a unanimous...

Not only was Palestine as a whole well-populated during the 18th-19th century, which was recorded by many travelers who visited the area, the rural population comprised ~85-90% of the total population. Anyone even a tiny bit familiar with the Levant's demography and history knows that. You're...

Curious: how do you pronounce "Muslim"?

It's appalling that you're not seeing the contradiction and problem in what you're saying, you've stopped responding because you can't seriously spew what you just said above in a rational argument. Nazis justified the Holocaust as an inevitable 'solution' to the Jews living over the Germanic...

Couldn't have said it any better. To further affirm what you've said, early Zionist literature is amply clear on the nature of the process; it was firmly described as 'colonization' and parallels are often made between Palestinians and the Aztecs. Thus, indeed, the environment in which Zionism...

Modern Zionism started out as a secular movement in lieu of rising European nationalism in the 19th century, it's not religious at its core at all. There's a reason many anti-Zionist Jews come from the ultra Orthodox 'Haredi' milieu.