Intense colonization of the Caucasus took place in the Acheulian times, although there are archaeological finds ща Abbevillian time. By the end of the Acheulean period, people have already invaded the territory of modern Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and North Caucasus. Obviously, this large area has since been inhabited continuously, but there is speculation that the first settlers here were the people of the Mongoloid anthropological race. The grounds for this assumption came after the study of the relationship of the Sino-Tibetan languages. The Tibetan language was formed at Kara in the upper valleys of the Kura and the Coruh, Chinese was in the valley of the Aras near Lake Sevan. The ancestral home of Lepcha people was further along of the of downstream the Aras. Burmese was formed near the lake was formed Van Burmese, and Kachyn was near the Lake Urmia (Rezaieh. The area in the valley of the Great Zab was settled likely by the ancestors of the people Lepcha or Kiranti, which settlement places may be somewhere in the eastern part of Asia Minor, if we bear in mind their current place of settlements and their distant kinship with the rest of the Sino-Tibetan languages. |