Makalu wrote:
yes the sumerians "came" later as a very gradual result of nodite intermarriage with the adamites to the north...they were concurrent. you will need to explain how the sumerians took over garden territory
Gradually, I would think, after the Second Garden.
Quote:
the quote says north of sumer
Where is that quote (not doubting it exists, just wanting to see it in context)
What do make of this 'short way'? Appears to be another piece of circumstantial evidence against the northern theory. It must be explained since the northern pinch point was several hundred miles from the nearest point of the Euphrates to the First Garden.
76:1.3 (847.5) ...The two rivers themselves were a good natural defense in those days, and a short way north of the second garden the Euphrates and Tigris came close together so that a defense wall extending fifty-six miles could be built for the protection of the territory to the south and between the rivers.