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Hope you are aware that according to Sumerian mythology they migrated from Iran Plateau toward Mesopotamia .so Sumerian believed they had more relation with us than people of Arabian peninsula
It was in the links yo posted about Dilmun civilization ,I thought you read them before posting the links .
That's not correct since there is a consensus that Semites originated on the Arabian Peninsula and geographically speaking Southern Iraq is also just next door to the Arabian Peninsula. Sumerians spoke an language isolate but they were with all due probability related to the Semites that already lived next to them or the ancestors of the Semites - the Neolithic populations of the ME.
If we assume that the Marsh Arabs are somehow related to the Sumerians as many have claimed, since there are certain similarities, then genetic tests have established that 80% of them belong to 1 single Haplogroup. The J1 Haplogroup whose origin is the Arabian Peninsula.
As everybody can see here below:
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Y-chromosomes of Marsh Arabs
In search of the genetic footprints of Sumeria... [BMC Evol Biol. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
For millennia, the southern part of the Mesopotamia has been a wetland region generated by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before flowing into the Gulf. This area has been occupied by human communities since ancient times and the present-day inhabitants, the Marsh Arabs, are considered the population with the strongest link to ancient Sumerians. Popular tradition, however, considers the Marsh Arabs as a foreign group, of unknown origin, which arrived in the marshlands when the rearing of water buffalo was introduced to the region.
RESULTS:
To shed some light on the paternal and maternal origin of this population, Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation was surveyed in 143 Marsh Arabs and in a large sample of Iraqi controls. Analyses of the haplogroups and sub-haplogroups observed in the Marsh Arabs revealed a prevalent autochthonous Middle Eastern component for both male and female gene pools, with weak South-West Asian and African contributions, more evident in mtDNA. A higher male than female homogeneity is characteristic of the Marsh Arab gene pool, likely due to a strong male genetic drift determined by socio-cultural factors (patrilocality, polygamy, unequal male and female migration rates).
CONCLUSIONS:
Evidence of genetic stratification ascribable to the Sumerian development was provided by the Y-chromosome data where the J1-Page08 branch reveals a local expansion, almost contemporary with the Sumerian City State period that characterized Southern Mesopotamia. On the other hand, a more ancient background shared with Northern Mesopotamia is revealed by the less represented Y-chromosome lineage J1-M267*. Overall our results indicate that the introduction of water buffalo breeding and rice farming, most likely from the Indian sub-continent, only marginally affected the gene pool of autochthonous people of the region. Furthermore, a prevalent Middle Eastern ancestry of the modern population of the marshes of southern Iraq implies that if the Marsh Arabs are descendants of the ancient Sumerians, also the Sumerians were most likely autochthonous and not of Indian or South Asian ancestry.
Haplogroup J-P209 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Which link? It just says that the Sumerians regarded the Dilmun as holy land apparently.
Also you must know that the first people native to the ME and the world outside of Africa lived on the Arabian Peninsula for thousands upon thousands of years. That is why every person outside of Africa ancestors lived on the Arabian Peninsula for thousands of years.
The first people who inhabited Iran had lived on the Arabian Peninsula for thousands of years. Of course this was long, long ago. Just saying.
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