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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 24 May 2008 - Volume 06<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark Dreyer</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Anthropology" 2008.05.24 (04) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Dear Ron &
Mike.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L
"Anthropology"</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First to
Ron: Veels geluk aan u en uwe! I reckon you'll make a fine great uncle, but
don't let them run away with you (I rather fear you will).</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mike, Hi!</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I hold with Ron here, but let's look at the two questions
separately,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mike: TWO questions:</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
<div>1. The mysteries of the origin of the
Basques?</div>
<div>2. The alleged presence of a SECOND race, comparable to
the pygmies in Africa, South and South-East Asia and (formerly)
Australia.</div>
<div> </div>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark; on 1.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I reckon the Basques are a homogenous survival of European
strains of Homo Sapiens Sapiens isolated by the Wurm Glaciation in the Pyrinees.
With the retreat of the Wurm other strains could return, & blended with the
surviving population in the more accessible areas, leaving the isolated Basques
- well - isolated. I think with Ron that these were the megalithic people that
built Stonehenge, Carnac, the structures on Malta & the stone circles, long
barrows on the Ahaggar plateau in Algeria & the cromlechs in the High
Galilea in Israel. I don't assume the Basques did it but they were related to
those who did. Luc made two points that impress me, that Iberia at that time
must have been fat country, to give this hunting people the leisure to develop
such an artistic culture. All we have to support this thesis is that as
Basques have told me, the root-forms of Basque technical language reach back to
a stone-age culture, with the word 'knife' for example going back to the name
for 'flint' & 'ceiling' means literally 'the roof of the cave'</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On 2.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What tickles me is the question of Cagot origins.
Excepting for their diminutive stature (to which too many genetic variables
apply) & I speak under correction, but all the other unique features: Black
hair, dark eyes, ears, head-shape, blood type & webbed digits, are dominant,
not recessive. Now isolation brings out recessives, but it might just as well
isolate dominants, so there you have it. I concede the fact of these people only
because I have seen samples of all these in one somatype
(incidentally, Ron, I hadn't known that bit about webbed hands,
& they have far & away from an extreme form of this condition,
but our friends have that too). I wouldn't compare Cagots to the pygmies in
Africa. I reckon African negritos are outgrowths of the local Central African
Negro somatype, & have no relation to negritos elswhere in the World. The
tropical jungle of Central Africa is an old, old jungle in climatic terms,
with ample time to breed its own unique kinds of many local creatures. Those
recent discoveries of Homo Floresiensis, Mike: They made you sit up & pay
attention, hey! I don't see they're related. But that is another delicious
story. There are too many reports from utterly unrelated cultures all over
the World of a 'Little People" to dismiss without further
examination.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yrs,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark <br><br>---------<br><br>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Anthropology<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">First to
Ron: Veels geluk aan u en uwe!</div>
<br>Thanks, Mark! Considering the suddenness, I'm rather suspecting it's a "buy baby" (not a cry baby, though, judging by the pictures, and no webbed digits either).<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> I reckon you'll make a fine great uncle, but
don't let them run away with you (I rather fear you will).</span><br></div><br>Probably more likely a case of running away <u>from</u> me. So far I've only succeeded in making pets and horses run away with me, oh, and some water fowl. I'm rather popular in the animal world. I've noticed that I catch the attention of children also, but I'm not always sure if that's a good thing.<br>
<br>And now home to the Lowlands!<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Groete,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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