I found this, Hans:

“The earliest inhabitants of [the] southern plain were physically similar to the modern inhabitants, although the teech of the skulls from the Royal Cemetery at Ur were said to be unusually large. There are no indications from the skeletal evidence of a mixture of physical types, no evidence for example of brachycephalic Sumerians and dolichocephalic Semites, a dichotomy once suggested on the evidence of the art. … Sir Arthur Keith, reporting on the human remains from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, notes that all the skulls he was able to measure were big and long and narrow with a good cranial capacity (Keith 1934). It seems likely that the earliest inhabitants of southern Iraq arrived from a number of different areas, and it would be logical to suggest that a number of slightly different physical types may have been present … “ (Crawford, H., 2nd ed. 2004, “Sumer and the Sumerians”: 11.)

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