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black people. Osiris, the most ancient Black-skinned Ethnic Group
Egyptian god was black-coloured. The from Greece to Minoans of Crete seem to have been brownish. Bhārata
Cretan men in ancient paintings of Crete are represented black. Pre-Aryan Greeks were called Pelasgians. The word itself means, 'the dusky ones'. They were dark-colouredo. The land to the south-west of Bhārata was known as Gedrosia, meaning the land of the blacks. Thus we find that the people inhabiting the vast regions of Greece, Cyclades, Egypt, Western Asia and Bhārata were darkskinned.
Father Heras holds that this black-skinned ethnic group is the Mediterranean type. It is most numerous of Proto-Australoids the four definite types of skulls discovered and Mediter
raneans among the few human remains unearthed 1. Lingiustic
Evidence at Mohenjodaro. He equates the Mediterranean type with the l'ravidian ethnic type in India which bears nearest resemblance to that of the ancient Sumerians. The Mediterranean type is dolichocephalic. This type is found in Asia Minor, Egypt, Cyclades, Crete and Greece." Father Heras completely ignores the Proto-Australoid skulls found at Mohenjodaro. He failed to attach due significance to their comparative ethnic values. S. K. Chatterjee, mostly on linguistic grounds holds, “The Austric protoAustraloids were spread over the greater part of India in the Indus and the Ganges Valleys when the Aryans first met them...... The land was inhabited by people of the two different language-cultures, the Dravidian speakers and the Austric speakers, which gave the Aryan speech its greatest opportunity. Jules Bloch the great linguist, does not agree with this hypothesis and remarks, “Cerebral ! form, which represents normally in Vedic intervocalic d, disappears from classical Sanskrit...... Another fact all
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