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In the
prehistoric past the Uralids sent their dead out on a journey to the
underworld and exposed them in the wilderness in order to let their bones get
rid of flesh by birds of prey. The Lappids and Uralids practiced burial rites
that left no palpable after-death remains. Lapponoid races burnt their dead
fathers’ remains by cremation and deposited the ashes in sacks hanging on
tent-poles along forest paths. For palaeontologists such customs made them
invisible and distorted also the evidence of archaeological excavations. This
is why their Palaeolithic fates remain bedimmed by the thick mist of mystery.
For some authors their most probable cradle-land lies among the Bushmen in Namibia and South Africa. For others the primordial birthplace is
located in Vietnamese Annam and the Cantonese province of China.
Sound arguments for ‘out-of-Asia theories’ point out that Southeast Asia is the native
place of Sinoid tonal languages and the short-sized Anammite race. Its
subsistence exhibits higher rates of insectivorous alimentation and
omnivorous diet. Its tribesmen lived in nomadic circulation and lacked firm
ties with land possession. About 62,000 BP their populations sailed on bark
rafts throughout islands of the Southern Seas as far as Australia and Tasmania. Their presence
was everywhere evidenced by finds of human ashes and burnt bones. Remains of
their characteristic cremation burials were discovered in a site at Lake Mungo in Australia. There is little
consensus in their periodisation, some authors bring arguments for later
origin of 32,000 years BP. The tropical climate and the local
Melanesian neighbourhood mutated their countenance and gave them the
dark-skin shades of the Negrito ethnic group.
The Negrito populations in South East Asia must be
considered only as a side branch of Sinids, who got astray on their travels
all over the Sunda subcontinent. After 10,000 BP the withdrawal of glaciation
warmed up the seas, raised the sea level and flooded islands with high
waters. The cultural domain of Sinids is nowadays visible only thanks to the
unity of isolating languages of Chinese type. Anthropologists regard them as
a racial group of shorter brachycephals with the blood group A. They pertain
to the Y-DNA haplogroup O that encompasses Indochina, Tibet, Malaysia and Korea with Japan. One of reliable
distinguishing marks of their stock are burial practices of cremation rites
although they became rarer in China and their centre
shifted to India. The most
populous wave of their propagation to Punjab was launched by
the spread of the Cemetery H culture (1800 BC). Its continuation was the
appearance of the Andronovan techno-complex with incineration practices in
south Russia around 1500 BC.
Its westward move was probably brought about by the invasion of Aryan
herdsmen into India dated to 1600
BC. The route from Burma to Punjab was brought back
to life again by the dissemination of Buddhism after 600 BC. It teaching was
associated with Chinese Taoism that professed strict lawful determinism and
preached liturgy based on incineration rites.
The mainstream of Lapponoid urnfielders penetrated into Europe from several
directions. The northern branch of wanderers colonised the settlements of
Samoyeds and Lapplanders. In due course they were assimilated by Uralic
peoples. The middle branch arrived in Central Europe and contributed
to the rise of Slavonic nations. They formed the earlier Palaeo-Slavonic
layer of settlers and their women looked like Venuses of Dolní Věstonice. The
ceramic arts of Neolithic farmers induced them to bury the ashes in urns and
resulted in the rise of hybrid Stroked Ware cultures. A new wave arrived in
the Danube basin with the hosts of Lusatian Urnfielders (1300
BC) famed for their burial rows of urns. Their tribesmen probably looked like
Russian muzhiks clad in shirts
called rubashkas and lived in semisubterranean earthen houses (zemlyankas).
The southern branch of Lapponoid tribes made for the Near East and found new
homes in Africa. Their migrants were
probably identical to the Mesopotamian people with the slanting coffee-bean
eyes who spoke the reduplicative female language Eme-sal. In Africa their wanderers
underwent a long period of acculturation that gave them the dark-skinned
appearance of Pygmies and Negrillos. Their bark rafts accessed Europe from Gibraltar, Malta, Sicily and Libya and imported a
lot of African cultural and linguistic loans. Their tribes enriched the
Gravettian racial element by ethnic admixtures of African Bantu nations.
Their contributions finally resulted in the amalgamative synthesis of
Keltoid, Romance and Italic cultures with North African roots. The final phase
of their colonisations came about 1800 BC when Spain and Britain welcomed the
heralds of the Cinerary Urns. This ethnic faction assisted Basque and
Scottish landlords in their megalith-building labours. Despite their
subservient social position they later overpopulated their oppressors and
made them fuse with the wide masses of dwarfish brown-haired Keltoid, Gallic
and Gaelic newcomers. Their dialects were not intelligible to Slavs in Eastern Europe because they
were infiltrated with a lot of Africanisms. Notwithstanding, both mainstreams
of Gravettian colonists peopled Eurasia with the new
social class of diligent plebeian workers, who excelled in manual labours and
urban crafts.
The flourish of Gravettian cultures started around 33,000 BP and
united several currents of migrants. Their arts were renowned for carving
ivory Venuses, whose distribution spread from Siberia Mal’ta to the west ends
of Spain. Their famous chef-d’œuvre
was the Venus figurine of Dolní Věstonice, which displayed the typical
physiognomy of Sanid Bushwomen: a round head with short curly hair, long
hanging breasts, matronism, thick thighs (steatopygia) and lumbar lordosis.
Another infallible sign were Gravettian trapezoid lean-to huts with one-slope
roofs. Their people flooded entire Eurasia and populated
its mountainous regions with the brachycephalous Furfooz race. Its modern
progeny is seen in the Lapps and Tirolese Alpines renowned by melodic chants
with yodeling. Rich evidence of ritual cremations is missing but a convincing
proof is offered ex post by their Neolithic descendants who
manufactured the Stroked Ware. The invention of pottery made them replace
sacks of cremated ashes with ceramic hut-urns and face-urns. This dramatic
change of burial customs made their urnfields shine transparently through the
settlements of Eurasian farmers. A noninterchangeable trait in their funerary
urns was the decoration full of broken meanders and key patterns. It was peculiar
also to the Lusatians, Ainu, Australian Negrito, Athapaskans, Monte Albán in Mexico as well as Colli Albani in Italy.
The early beginnings of the Sinids
and Negritos in Southeast Asia are hard to detect since they were sprouting on the Sunda subcontinent
that disappeared under deep waters after interglacial warming. Nevertheless,
their migratory travels can be reconstructed in the following routes and
lineages.
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The Classification of Lappids
Pygmids (Y-hg A0) → Ewe-Igbo semi-Pygmids → Kalahari Sanids → Congo Bambutids
→ Galla Ethiopids (transmutation of Y-hg A into the more dominant
haplogroup E-M78).
Galla Ethiopids →
Levant Lappids → West Anatolian Lappids → Epirotic Albanids (Y-hg E-V13) → Gravettians.
Gravettians (33,000 BP), one-slope lean-to huts, Venuses with
curly hair and Pygmoid physiology, brachycephaly, matronism, long breasts,
lordosis → European
Epi-Gravettian (10,000 BC) → Alpines
[brachycephalous Furfooz race, 7000 BC] → Stroked Ware
(hut-urns, face-urns, 4500 BC) → Serbians + Slavs
+ Lugians + Luchane + Milchane.
Lusatian culture (short-sized
Lapponoids 1300 BC) → Wends +
Croatians + Czechs + Lakhs.
Gaelids → Deverel cinerary urns (1800 BC) → (Avalon in African Mauritania) → Celtiberi → Galicians (Spain) → Veneti (Vannes,
Armorica) → Gwened (Breton) → British Celts (Gaels and Albanians in
Scotland)
Annamite epicentre (first
southward migrations 62,000 BC) →
Sinids → Kuangids → Negritos.
Annamites → Samoyeds)
→Ainu → Chukchees → Hokan Indians (California) →
Arawaks (9500 BC) → Maipurean Chiquitos.
Athapaskans: Chukchees →
Na-Dene
group → Athapaskans (1500 BC).
Indids [cremations
burials with widows, ashes put into a sack and hung on a tent-pole] → Hindu → Cemetery H
culture (Punjab 1800 BC) → expulsion of Indids by Aryans? → Andronovo cremation culture (Kazakhstan 1500
BC).
Colchian Albanians (Armenia, Albania): Trialeti
culture (Georgia 3000 BC) → Colchis culture → Anatolian hut-urns and face-urns (Galatia?, 1700 BC) → Trojans.
Trojans → Trojan War 1186
and the abduction of Hellenes (Ionians ← *Alvaeones +
Aeolians ← *Alvaeoles) to
Greece as slaves
(Geometric Ware in the Dipylon cemetery of Athens) + Albanians
(Epeiros) → Veneti/Heneti? (Venice, Italy).
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Phratries
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Gauls/Gaels (kings) – Albanians/Lapps/Alpines
(priests) – Wends/Veneti/Anti – Croats – Czechs – Lekhs –
Mekhs
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Ecotype
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thick rain-forests,
nomadic foraging, clearings in mountainous woods, meagre existence as
village cottagers and urban craftsmen
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Nutrition
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omnivorous and insectivorous
subsistence, honey-eaters, nomadic strandlopers, gathering economy of
nomadic foragers
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Dwelling
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semidugouts, fogous, zemlyanki,
burdeis, earth lodges, lean-to shelters, semisubterranean houses with
one-slope lean-to roofs
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Cult
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worshipping deities
impersonating winds blowing to the four ends of the world, they are
represented by Janus-like statues or columns with one body
taking care of
laws and the way of all flesh (Chinese Taoism, Indian Buddhism, Tibetan
Bon), influence of determinist Protestant movements
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Burials
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incineration and cremation
burials, live widows burnt on funeral pyres together with their dead
husbands, cremated ashes put into a textile sack and hung on a tent-pole or
a roadside column (Buddhist stupa)
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Death
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aviotheism: forefathers’
souls survives as birds and every spring they return home in the embodiment
of swallows
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Visage
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short-legged undersized
muscular stature with brachycephalous skulls, round-headed skulls with an
upturned tip of the nose, waxy yellowish skin, infantile paedomorphic face,
curly hair, hairy body and a long beard
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Weapons
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backed leptolithic knives,
travelling kit-bags woven out of bast or grass, blowpipes with poisoned
arrows, poisoning alchemy with toadstools, saunas and sweathouses,
‘pyrolithic’ industry boiling food in pots and depressions by throwing hot
stones into water
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Clothing
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Russian-like rubashka,
grass-woven sandals (laptye), women clad in white, males wearing a
red hood with a pointed top and pumpkin, the appearance of fairy-tale elves
and coxcombs at medieval courts
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DNA
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ABO blood group A, Rh+,
Y-DNA haplogroups A, B and O, mtDNA M
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Tongues
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originally isolating
languages with reduplication, tonal prosody with phonologically relevant
tones or melodic accent, great pre-valence of monosyllabic words with open
final syllables, voiced-to-surd consonant correlation, implosive stops
instead of explosive occlusives, sucking clicks, satemism, velar and
guttural consonants shifted to palatal stops, fronting of back vowels, u → i/y, a series of nasal
vowels, the nominal category of masculine o-stems and feminine a-stems,
andronyms in -o, gyneconyms in -a, i/e-plurals
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Table 32. The cultural paradigm of
Lappids and Pygmids
Extract
from Pavel Bělíček: The Synthetic Classification of Human
Phenotypes and Varieties. The Atlas of Systematic Anthopology I, Prague 2018, ISBN 978-80-86580-51-7, pp. 95-98.
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