Post by topdog on May 14, 2005 10:36:04 GMT -5
What are you thoughts on this citation?
Robert Silverberg,Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations, Bantam Books, 1963, p.137
"The Khmers began to develop their civilization about 2,000 years ago[we learn from a modern investigator] under the influence of traders from India and later from China. A Chinese traveller of the third century A.D. reported, "The men are all ugly and black. Their hair is curly. They go naked and barefoot." A later account of the Khmer region, which the Chinese call Funan, said, ..."The people of Funanmake rings and bracelets of gold and vessels of silver." In the middle of the sixth century, Funan merged with another Khmer kingdom known as Chenla to form a larger nation that called itself Kambujadesa--in its westernized form, Cambodia."
My real question is just who are these Khmers that are described as being 'black' with curly hair? Is that referring to some Negrito type people in the Cambodian area?
Robert Silverberg,Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations, Bantam Books, 1963, p.137
"The Khmers began to develop their civilization about 2,000 years ago[we learn from a modern investigator] under the influence of traders from India and later from China. A Chinese traveller of the third century A.D. reported, "The men are all ugly and black. Their hair is curly. They go naked and barefoot." A later account of the Khmer region, which the Chinese call Funan, said, ..."The people of Funanmake rings and bracelets of gold and vessels of silver." In the middle of the sixth century, Funan merged with another Khmer kingdom known as Chenla to form a larger nation that called itself Kambujadesa--in its westernized form, Cambodia."
My real question is just who are these Khmers that are described as being 'black' with curly hair? Is that referring to some Negrito type people in the Cambodian area?