The reasons for this has to be Uralic speaking Northern Eurasian migration into Anatolia at the end of the Last Ice Age some 13,000 years ago this being the population group of the core Neolithic region that expanded and developed into Northern Mesopotamian Halaf culture and then the Ubaid of Southern Mesopotamia and Iran, the Sumerian language that emerged from that containing Uralic and Dravidian elements as well as Northern Caucasian from NE Iranian groups.
The Hattic region of Anatolia then having been the core region for expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia.
The Hittite records have bi-lingual Hattic texts as well as the oldest recorded Indo-European Luwian/Hittite and Northern Caucasian/Hurrian as they were close neighbours, ethnic groups and languages having contracted into that region.
The paper discusses a method to decipher and gives examples.
Jordan Nelson
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Joshua Bennett
Alright. I'll check it out but I am skeptical.
Nicholas Thomas
Really makes you think
Carter Bennett
Still reading the article and I will admit, I am impressed. I've read articles comparing Sumerian with PIE and modern IE languages and have been unconvinced. However this cognate comparison, at least at face value, seems compelling to me.
Easton Parker
Yes it seems good and ties up a few loose ends, establishing the importance of Hatti land.
The standards and figurines, which represent some of the most elaborated metallurgical craftsmanship in Bronze Age western Asia,do not find comparison in contexts outside of north-central Anatolia
The forms may have been created to be consumed in the burials they were found in.The fundamental innovation at Alaca höyük is that metal forms had become imbued with sacred associations.
There is no evidence from the archeogenetic record of Siberian related migrations into Anatolia from that period…BUT there is indeed evidence of Siberian related ancestry in Iranian neolithic farmers, which would indeed very likely be a population ancestral to Sumerians in all likelihood. What these Siberians spoke back then it's unknown for sure, but some form of proto-Uralic wouldn't be out of question I think.
