1. Negro Civilisations on the
Asian Continent
BS Class 6
Marcia Clarke
Saturday, 29 March 2014

2. Where is he from?

3. What about these?

4. The Early East

5. Introduction to the Peopling of Ancient
Asia
 Evidence from Archaeology and Anthropology
 200,000 BP Homo Sapiens Sapiens in Africa –
Mitochondrial DNA
 95,000 BP Homo Sapiens Sapiens in Asia – Jabal
Qazfeh
 10,000 BP Natufian Culture in Palestine – Asia’s
first Culture
 QUOTE: Sir Arthur Keith 1932 – Master of the
British Anthropologists

6. What did he say?

7. What did he say?

8. Evidence from Written Documents
 Summary of the Greek and Roman writer’s
findings
 QUOTE: Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, 1928
 QUOTE: Lady Lugard, 1905

9. What did they say?

10. Use of combined data
 QUOTE: Mr Joseph Widney, 1907

11. What did he say?

12. ANY QUESTIONS?
Introduction to the Peopling of Ancient Asia

13. Phoenicia/Canaan
 The Phoenicians/Canaanites were in ancient
Israel/Palestine
 They had a number of city states – Tyre,
Joppa, Byblos and Sidon
 They were a maritime power

14. The Map

15. Who were these people?
 Phoenicia is Greek for Red
 Canaan is a “son of Ham” according to the
Hebrews
 Role of admixture with Hebrews
 QUOTE: Herodotus, 450 BC
 QUOTE: Lady Lugard, 1905 AD

16. What did Herodotus say?

17. What did Lady Lugard say?

18. The Nimrud Ivories, 9th Century BC

19. There is more

20. Conclusion on the Phoenicians
 Conclusion on the Ethnicity Question
 Conclusion on the Cultural Question

21. Some facts about the Phoenicians
 Founders of Mediterranean Colonies
 Voyages to Ancient Britain
 Trade with Dynasty IV Egypt
 Founders of Carthage in 814 BC
 Important link in the development of the
Modern alphabet
 QUOTE: Anthony Browder, 1992

22. What did Browder say?

23. ANY QUESTIONS?
Phoenicia/Canaan

24. Arabia Felix
 This is modern day Yemen in South Arabia
 Also known as Saba (or Sheba) = star worship
 Arabia was traditionally divided by European
geographers into Felix (Happy), Petrae
(Stony), Deserta (Desert)
 The Joctanides invaded the region in 1800 BC

25. The Map

26. Who were the Arabs?
 QUOTE: John Baldwin, 1869

27. What did he say?

28. The Peopling of Arabia
 Split into North and South
 Role of African Slave Trade versus
indigenous Blacks
 Role of European Slave Trade and White
Arabs

29. Is there any hard evidence?

30. Birth of the Sabaean Civilisation
 Archaeologists give dates of between 1500
BC and 700 BC
 Queen of Sheba – Bilqis or Makeda
 Economy based on the export of frankincense
and myrrh
 Role of the great Sage – Lockman or Aesop

31. The capital city of Marib

32. Cultural links with Ethiopia continued until
7th Century AD

33. ANY QUESTIONS?
Arabia Felix
BREAK!

34. The Map

35. Elam
 This is modern day Iran
 Like Sumer, they built ziggurats and wrote in
cuneiform
 The capital city was Susa
 The culture flourished from 3150 BC to 539
BC
 In 539 BC, they were occupied by the White
Persians

36. Who were the Elamites?
 QUOTE: Marcel Dieulafoy, 1892

37. What did he say?

38. From Assyrian Art …

39. The Choga Zambil Ziggurat

40. More

41. ANY QUESTIONS?
Elam

42. Indus Valley
 A very ancient civilisation flourished in the Indus
Valley region of Pakistan and Western India
 This civilisation was invaded and conquered
between 2000 and 1500 BC
 The conquerors called themselves Aryans
(‘Nobles’)
 Their conquest is called the First Reich
 QUOTE: S. G. Blaxland-Stubbs, 1937

43. What did he say?

44. The Map

45. What did they find?
 QUOTE: John G. Jackson, 1970

46. What did he say?

47. Who were these black-skinned people?
 QUOTE: Godfrey Higgins Esq., 1836
 QUOTE: V. T. Rajshekar, 1994

48. What did Higgins say?

49. What did Rajshekar say?

50. And there is more …

51. Is there any other evidence?

52. And there is more …

53. Even more …

54. Charles Finch, 1991

55. ANY QUESTIONS?
Indus Valley

56. What have we learned about …
 Phoenicia?
 Arabia Felix?
 Elam?
 Indus Valley?

57. Negro Civilisations on the
Asian Continent
That’s All Folks!