What race were the Hittite ruling class?

[Vratyas]

Carlton Coon stated that the majority of the crania of the Hittite era were cappadocian but didnt mention the type of the Indo-European speaking Hittite ruling class that seem to have come from Europe.

[McCauley]

Nordid.

[wvwvw]

Nordid.

How Nordid? ;)

[Anglojew]

Indo-Europeans so probably Nordid.

[StonyArabia]

The Hittites were Anatolian people, they would have looked similar to modern day Turks, who don't have much Mongoloid ancestry, although some of them do. Hittites were Indo-Europeanized Anatolian folks nothing more and nothing less. No wonder their skulls matches cappadocians, and that element is very strong in modern day Turks minus the Mongoloid/Turanid influence some of them have.

[McCauley]

How Nordid? ;)

100% Nordid.

[wvwvw]

Hittite lacks some features of the other Indo-European languages, such as a distinction between masculine and feminine grammatical gender, subjunctive and optative moods, and aspect. Various hypotheses have been formulated to explain these contrasts.

Some linguists, most notably Edgar H. Sturtevant and Warren Cowgill, have argued that it should be classified as a sister language to Proto-Indo-European, rather than a daughter language, formulating the Indo-Hittite hypothesis. The parent, Indo-Hittite, lacked the features not present in Hittite, which Proto-Indo-European innovated.

Other linguists, however, have taken the opposite point of view, the Schwund ("loss") Hypothesis, that Hittite (or Anatolian) came from a Proto-Indo-European possessing the full range of features, but simplified. A third hypothesis, supported by Calvert Watkins and others, viewed the major families as all coming from Proto-Indo-European directly. They were all sister languages or language groups. Differences might be explained as dialectical.

According to Craig Melchert, the current tendency is to suppose that Proto-Indo-European evolved, and that the "prehistoric speakers" of Anatolian became isolated "from the rest of the PIE speech community, so as not to share in some common innovations."Hittite, as well as its Anatolian cousins, split off from Proto-Indo-European at an early stage, thereby preserving archaisms that were later lost in the other Indo-European languages.

[wvwvw]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nIIahxtBgu0/TySu1fmj2QI/AAAAAAAAAY0/OFFN3DeGNf8/s1600/anatol_2.jpg

In what is now Turkey, about 95 miles east of Ankara, near the current city of Boğazköy, lies the site of Hattusas (or Hattusa, or Hattusha). Hattusas was the capital city of a people called the Hittites, who built an empire starting around 1650 B. C.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7A7Rjqc38So/TySu7qbsOuI/AAAAAAAAAY8/XoFL1hL_qQQ/s1600/Hattusas+map.jpg
Aerial view of the ruins of Hattusas

[Sharkeatpeople]

his God looks Nordid-Hittite God on bull:
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/sharkeatpeople/32878223080HittiteGodonbull2_zpsc119962a.jpg

[Armenian Bishop]

Carlton Coon stated that the majority of the crania of the Hittite era were cappadocian but didnt mention the type of the Indo-European speaking Hittite ruling class that seem to have come from Europe.

Weren't Cappadocians largely a Hellenistic People, or counted among Pontic Greeks?

[Vratyas]

100% Nordid.

Any references?

[wvwvw]

Our modern day evaluation of the Hittites would probably lead us to think that these people were safe from all threat and able to outmatch all comers. In spite of all this, however, someone (we don't know who) invaded and destroyed the Hittite Empire, almost overnight. They destroyed every vestige of this gargantuan civilization so completely that scholars, until fairly recent times, regarded all references to the Hittites in the Old Testament as allegorical. Researchers could find no evidence of them.

Mighty Hattusas itself was leveled to the ground. Who could have destroyed a militaristic empire, firmly entrenched behind impenetrable stone walls, supported by a powerful and experienced standing army? The entire Hittite Empire was literally erased off the face of the map by someone, not in a long struggle like you would expect, but with ease.

[Nehellenia]

r1b? so predominately Atlanto-East Meds with mix of Anadolid

[Smeagol]

Mediterranids, Anatolids, and Armenids.

[Smeagol]

r1b? so predominately Atlanto-East Meds with mix of Anadolid

Haplogroups say nothing about race.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

The Hittites were Anatolian people, they would have looked similar to modern day Turks, who don't have much Mongoloid ancestry, although some of them do. Hittites were Indo-Europeanized Anatolian folks nothing more and nothing less. No wonder their skulls matches cappadocians, and that element is very strong in modern day Turks minus the Mongoloid/Turanid influence some of them have.

Nope, anatolia was completely wiped out. There's no genetic continuity at all. And the idea that turks are even 2% native is just laughable.

[Rambo07]

Meds and Anatolids.

All the Anatolian Indo European languages died out. It would be interesting to hear them

[blogen]

Nordid my ass.

Taurid king:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Priest-King_or_Diety%2C_about_1600_BC%2C_Hittite%2C_North _Syria%2C_basalt_with_bone_eyes_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC08114.JPG

Armenoid warrior statue:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Kunulua-statue-side.jpg

Armenoid god sculptures:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5289/5293548423_d291853d51_o.jpg
http://www.hittitemonuments.com/ivriz/ivriz04.jpg

Eastern Dinarid (Caucasid type) warriors:
http://www.hittitemonuments.com/karkamis/kargamis83.jpg

Armenoid king:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l3LZp4y2eqQ/UEe4JwD7xPI/AAAAAAAABmI/n0qv5Rxyczs/s1600/060.JPG

etc.

The Hittite elite was a typical Anatolian population too.

[Scholarios]

http://eachlittleworld.typepad.com/.a/6a00e554503eee88330133f32c8241970b-800wi

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iFxK97leHV4/UkDBJblJFCI/AAAAAAAAbgw/IVE62SYFwMY/s1600/1-IMG_8389-002.JPG

Now Classify!!

[Scholarios]

They look like cartoons of Armenians.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Our modern day evaluation of the Hittites would probably lead us to think that these people were safe from all threat and able to outmatch all comers. In spite of all this, however, someone (we don't know who) invaded and destroyed the Hittite Empire, almost overnight. They destroyed every vestige of this gargantuan civilization so completely that scholars, until fairly recent times, regarded all references to the Hittites in the Old Testament as allegorical. Researchers could find no evidence of them.

Mighty Hattusas itself was leveled to the ground. Who could have destroyed a militaristic empire, firmly entrenched behind impenetrable stone walls, supported by a powerful and experienced standing army? The entire Hittite Empire was literally erased off the face of the map by someone, not in a long struggle like you would expect, but with ease.

No one invaded it, there was a civil war and it fell apart.

[blogen]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iFxK97leHV4/UkDBJblJFCI/AAAAAAAAbgw/IVE62SYFwMY/s1600/1-IMG_8389-002.JPG

Now Classify!!

Another Eastern Dinarid (and probably an Armenoid in the background).

[StonyArabia]

They look like cartoons of Armenians.

Armenians are an Anatolian people.

[Nehellenia]

We have to go with the Cappadocian context, so most likely looking like these ->

http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/bilder/cappadocian.jpg

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5326/aturkishmansized5oh.jpg

http://i653.photobucket.com/albums/uu253/Tyranos/q.jpg

http://www.euskaraz.net/Argitalpenak/Mugi/Mugi19/03/Mugi19_002_5_Josune_Bereziartu.jpg

[HellLander87]

Probably they were some variation of gypsies.

[teodor11]

Anatolids, Meds, Caucasians, some Germanics

[johen]

Armenians are an Anatolian people.

Did ancient Anatolian migrate to Armenia? or the opposite?