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Posted by arthurkemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
Afrocentrists often use studies based on the teeth of pre-Dynastic Egyptians proving they were Negroes.

The claims are laughable.

Ancient Egyptians had simple, mass-reduced teeth. This contrasts with the dental pattern of Sub-Saharan Africans who had (Irish, 2000) massive complex teeth:
Dentitions of Late Pleistocene Jebel Sahaba Nubians have extremely high frequencies of complex, mass-additive (and other) traits, including UI1 labial curvature, UI1 shoveling, Bushman Canine, UC distal accessory ridge, midline diastema, sixcusped LM1, LM2 Y-5, and LP1 Tome’s root. Furthermore, they exhibit low frequencies of typical North African features. This trait combination is ubiquitous in sub-Saharan Africans (Irish & Turner, 1990; Irish, 1993, 1997, 1998a,b, for details).
From a newer article:
However, all 15 samples exhibit morphologically simple, mass reduced dentitions that are similar to those in populations from greater North Africa (Irish, 1993, 1998a–c, 2000) and, to a lesser extent, western Asia and Europe (Turner, 1985a; Turner and Markowitz, 1990; Roler, 1992; Lipschultz, 1996; Irish, 1998a). Similar craniofacial measurements among samples from these regions were reported as well (Brace et al., 1993).
And from Hanihara et al. a different study which shows the same Caucasoid affiliations of the Egyptian dental pattern.

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Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples.
Irish JD.

Qualitative and quantitative methods are employed to describe and compare up to 36 dental morphological variants in 15 Neolithic through Roman-period Egyptian samples. Trait frequencies are determined, and phenetic affinities are calculated using the mean measure of divergence and Mahalanobis D(2) statistics for discrete traits; the most important traits in generating this intersample variation are identified with correspondence analysis. Assuming that the samples are representative of the populations from which they derive, and that phenetic similarity provides an estimate of genetic relatedness, these affinities are suggestive of overall population continuity. That is, other than a few outliers exhibiting extreme frequencies of nine influential traits, the dental samples appear to be largely homogenous and can be characterized as having morphologically simple, mass-reduced teeth. These findings are contrasted with those resulting from previous skeletal and other studies, and are used to appraise the viability of five Egyptian peopling scenarios. Specifically, affinities among the 15 time-successive samples suggest that: 1) there may be a connection between Neolithic and subsequent predynastic Egyptians, 2) predynastic Badarian and Naqada peoples may be closely related, 3) the dynastic period is likely an indigenous continuation of the Naqada culture, 4) there is support for overall biological uniformity through the dynastic period, and 5) this uniformity may continue into postdynastic times.


Sources (in order of appearance):
Irish JD, (2000) The Iberomaurusian enigma: north African progenitor or dead end? J Hum Evol. 2000 Oct;39(4):393-410.

Irish JD and Turner C, (1990) West African dental affinity of Late Pleistocene Nubians: Peopling of the Eurafrican-South Asian triangle II. Homo 41:42-53.

Irish JD, (1993) Biological affinities of late Pleistocene through modern African aboriginal populations: the dental evidence. Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Irish JD, (1997) Characteristic high- and low-frequency dental traits in sub-Saharan African populations. Am J Phys Anthropol 102:455–467.

Irish JD, (1998a) Dental morphological indications of population discontinuity and Egyptian gene flow in post-Paleolithic Nubia. In: Lukacs JR, editor. Human dental development, morphology, and pathology: a tribute to Albert A. Dahlberg. University of Oregon anthropological papers 54. Eugene: University of Oregon Press. p 155–172.

Irish JD, (1998b) Dental morphological affinities of late Pleistocene through recent sub-Saharan and North African peoples. Bull Mem Soc Anthropol Paris 10:237–272.

Brace et al (1993) Clines and clusters versus “race”: A test in ancient Egypt and the case of a death on the Nile. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 36, 1-36.

Hanihara T and Ishida H, (2005) Metric dental variation of major human populations American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 128 Issue 2, Pages 287 - 298.

Irish JD, (2006) Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.


Craniofacial morphology

One of the best ways to determine the race of a population is their skull type. A study was done by (Brace et al., 1993) who tested 24 various cranial measurements from around the world. The Ancient Egyptians were encluded. The results showed that the predynastic Egyptians clustered well with SW Asia and Neolithic Europe, North Africa, and NE Africa.
The Egyptian skulls showed very little similarity to Negroid African skulls from the distant south to west.
The plot shows relationships between these tested populations:


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I shouldn't need to explain the results. You can clearly see the Egyptians cluster well with Caucasoid Eurasians and DO NOT cluster with Negroids.

I do notice that Upper Egypt, which was really to the south, is closer to the Negroid cluster. This may indicate slight Negroid admixture.

Other studies have come to similar conclusions:
Howells(1989,1995) and Froment (1992,1994)

SOURCES:
Brace, et al. (1993) Clines and Clusters Versus "Race": A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 36:1-31

Howells WW (1989) Skull Shapes and the Map.Craniometric Analyses in the Dispersion of Modern Homo. Cambridge: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

Howells WW (1995) Who's Who in Skulls. Ethnic Identification of Crania from Measurements. Cambridge: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

Froment A (1992) Origines du Peuplement de l'Egypte Ancienne: l'Apport de l'anthropobiologie. Archéo-Nil 2:79-98.

Froment A (1994) Race et Histoire: La recomposition ideologique de l'image des Egyptiens anciens. Journal des Africanistes 64:37-64.

More

http://www.geocities.com/enbp/mds3d.html

Afrocentrists often use studies based on the teeth of pre-Dynastic Egyptians proving they were Negroes.

The claims are laughable.

Ancient Egyptians had simple, mass-reduced teeth. This contrasts with the dental pattern of Sub-Saharan Africans who had (Irish, 2000) massive complex teeth:
Dentitions of Late Pleistocene Jebel Sahaba Nubians have extremely high frequencies of complex, mass-additive (and other) traits, including UI1 labial curvature, UI1 shoveling, Bushman Canine, UC distal accessory ridge, midline diastema, sixcusped LM1, LM2 Y-5, and LP1 Tome’s root. Furthermore, they exhibit low frequencies of typical North African features. This trait combination is ubiquitous in sub-Saharan Africans (Irish & Turner, 1990; Irish, 1993, 1997, 1998a,b, for details).
From a newer article:
However, all 15 samples exhibit morphologically simple, mass reduced dentitions that are similar to those in populations from greater North Africa (Irish, 1993, 1998a–c, 2000) and, to a lesser extent, western Asia and Europe (Turner, 1985a; Turner and Markowitz, 1990; Roler, 1992; Lipschultz, 1996; Irish, 1998a). Similar craniofacial measurements among samples from these regions were reported as well (Brace et al., 1993).
And from Hanihara et al. a different study which shows the same Caucasoid affiliations of the Egyptian dental pattern.

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Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples.
Irish JD.

Qualitative and quantitative methods are employed to describe and compare up to 36 dental morphological variants in 15 Neolithic through Roman-period Egyptian samples. Trait frequencies are determined, and phenetic affinities are calculated using the mean measure of divergence and Mahalanobis D(2) statistics for discrete traits; the most important traits in generating this intersample variation are identified with correspondence analysis. Assuming that the samples are representative of the populations from which they derive, and that phenetic similarity provides an estimate of genetic relatedness, these affinities are suggestive of overall population continuity. That is, other than a few outliers exhibiting extreme frequencies of nine influential traits, the dental samples appear to be largely homogenous and can be characterized as having morphologically simple, mass-reduced teeth. These findings are contrasted with those resulting from previous skeletal and other studies, and are used to appraise the viability of five Egyptian peopling scenarios. Specifically, affinities among the 15 time-successive samples suggest that: 1) there may be a connection between Neolithic and subsequent predynastic Egyptians, 2) predynastic Badarian and Naqada peoples may be closely related, 3) the dynastic period is likely an indigenous continuation of the Naqada culture, 4) there is support for overall biological uniformity through the dynastic period, and 5) this uniformity may continue into postdynastic times.


Sources (in order of appearance):
Irish JD, (2000) The Iberomaurusian enigma: north African progenitor or dead end? J Hum Evol. 2000 Oct;39(4):393-410.

Irish JD and Turner C, (1990) West African dental affinity of Late Pleistocene Nubians: Peopling of the Eurafrican-South Asian triangle II. Homo 41:42-53.

Irish JD, (1993) Biological affinities of late Pleistocene through modern African aboriginal populations: the dental evidence. Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Irish JD, (1997) Characteristic high- and low-frequency dental traits in sub-Saharan African populations. Am J Phys Anthropol 102:455–467.

Irish JD, (1998a) Dental morphological indications of population discontinuity and Egyptian gene flow in post-Paleolithic Nubia. In: Lukacs JR, editor. Human dental development, morphology, and pathology: a tribute to Albert A. Dahlberg. University of Oregon anthropological papers 54. Eugene: University of Oregon Press. p 155–172.

Irish JD, (1998b) Dental morphological affinities of late Pleistocene through recent sub-Saharan and North African peoples. Bull Mem Soc Anthropol Paris 10:237–272.

Brace et al (1993) Clines and clusters versus “race”: A test in ancient Egypt and the case of a death on the Nile. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 36, 1-36.

Hanihara T and Ishida H, (2005) Metric dental variation of major human populations American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 128 Issue 2, Pages 287 - 298.

Irish JD, (2006) Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.
 
Posted by arthurkemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
What about limb-ratio claims by Negrocentrsists? Are these in any way good racial indicators?

Not really.



This is because they're too dependent on environment.

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For example, high-altitude and low-altitude Andeans evolved different limb proportions in response to their different environments(Weinstein 2005), even though they are essentially the same people.



This is a chart showing cural index (Stringer and Gamble, 1993) - which is Tibia/Femur length:


These numbers give a high (0.82) correlation between crural index and mean annual temperature.



So yes, Egyptians are relatively heat-adapted, but then so are Melanesians and Arizona Indians. Heat adaptation is by no means unique to sub-Saharan Africans.

And the Negrocentrists do not learn this.

Why?



SOURCES:

Weinstein KJ (2005), Body proportions in ancient Andeans from high and low altitudes, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 128, no. 3, pg. 569-585.



Stringer C and Gamble C (1993), In search of the Neanderthals: solving the puzzle of human origins. Pg 92.
 
Posted by arthurkemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
More Negrocentric bull****:

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Negrocentrists often use this image to prove that the anceint Egyptians thought of themselves as Negroes.

This is not so - and an utter lie.



It is a composite of a modern drawing.

But don't take my word for it, I'm no Egyptologist or University professor. But Frank Yurco is:

Those figures in the Lepsius Erganzungsband, pl. 48 are actually not

Lepsius' work, but a re-edition done in 1913, as I showed in my article

in Egypt in Africa (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997).

To make matters worse, the hieroglyph texts between these figures were

garbled. The original scenes both in Sety I's tomb and in Ramesses III's

tomb showed the Egyptians and the Ku****es as distinctly different.

Also, the hieroglyphs on the real walls are distributed between each

of the four figures depicting each type. You can now view the real

photographs of both the Sety I and Ramesses III walls in Hornung's volumes

on the Valley of the Kings. I have been inside both tombs myself and have

seen these scenes and their texts, and on the basis of this, the depiction

in the Erganzungsband is not a real depiction of what is on the walls but

rather a pastische, arranged from Lepsius' notes and garbled in the

process. It is unfortunate that so many people have depended on this

depiction as reality, when a look at the walls in both tombs shows that

patently it is not reality.



Most sincerely,



Frank J. Yurco

University of Chicago



--

Frank Joseph Yurco fjyurco@midway.uchicago.edu



Here is a copy of some figures from the Seti I tomb by Minutoli in 1820, possibly when the tomb was in better shape.

From left: four Libyans, Nubian, Syrian, and Egyptian.  -




Does the Egyptian look Negroid? Of course not.



Only a foolish, inept Afrocentric would claim just because that Egyptian has somewhat darkish skin (Though perfectly in the Mediterannean range) he is a Negro.

When they obviously viewed Negroes as a different race entirely.



Egyptians with Negroid African slaves. Memphis, tomb of Horemheb. Dynasty XVIII, prior to 1348 B.C. Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico. Note the racial differences.


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Posted by arthurkemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
From Black Athena Visited



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Table 1:


http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6903/clzetpmf9h3sa7911tde.jpg


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Source:

Lefkowitz MR and Rogers GM, (1996). Black Athena revisited. Edition: 4, illustrated. ISBN 0807845558, 9780807845554. Page 139-141.

And sources cited in the book:

Howells WW (1986). Physical Anthropology of the Prehistoric Japanese. in Windows on the Japanese Past: Studies in Archaeology and Prehistory, edited by EW Pearson, GL Garnes, and KL Hutterer, 85-90.



Woo TL, Morant GM (1934). A Biometric Study of the "Flatness" of the Facial Skeleton in Man". Biometrika, Vol. 26, No. 1/2. pp. 196-250.



Petrie WMF (1901). The Races of Early Egypt. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Great Britain and Ireland 31:248-55.



Petrie WMF (1911). Roman Portraits and Memphis. Vol. 4. London: Bernard Quaritch.



Martin R (1928). Lehrbuch der Anthropologie in systematischer Darstellung. Vol. 2, Kraniologie, Osteologie. Jena: Gustav Fischer.



Howells WW (1973). Cranial Variation in Man: A study by Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Difference among Recent Human Populations. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 69. Cambridge: Peabody Museum, Harvard University.



Brace CL, Hunt KD (1990) A nonracial craniofacial perspectieve on human variation: A(ustralia) to Z(uni). American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

In-text numerical citations:


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Posted by arthurkemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
Where the ancient Egyptians white ?

THE RED HAIRED RAMSES II - LAST SIGNIFICANT WHITE PHARAOH

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^ Red and straight hair a features rare in negroes but typical in whites.
 
Posted by Apocalypse (Member # 8587) on :
 
Nice!!!!

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Posted by DULL-RAB debunkedd (Member # 16646) on :
 
You lose again WHITE NURD- ARTHUR KEMP...


diagram 3- dental A- nurd loses

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diagram 4- nurd loses
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Limb proportion studies - nurd loses
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Black Americans, Black Africans or dark skinned tropial peoples resemble/physically closer to modern and ancient Egyptians than whites. Whether ancient or modern, the pattern is the same. - Nurd loses

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Data from C. Loring Brace 1993 debunked - nurd loses

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Brace 2005 - early Euros looked like africans - nurd loses

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timeline of the Nile Valley- Africa - nurd loses

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Posted by alTakruri (Member # 10195) on :
 
Hey 'Poc Away thanks for not biting the bait.
Hope the young ones learn and catch on soon,
we ain't got nothing to prove but they sure do!!!

D'ya thinj Simple Sister's got an ass like we never seeeeen?
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Li'l' Red Corvette
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quote:
Originally posted by Apocalypse:
Nice!!!!

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Posted by SirInfamous (Member # 16497) on :
 
Arthur Kemp, good data, I'm impressed. But all this shows is that Egyptians were and are Caucasoids.

It does nothing to prove that ancient Egypt was a "Nordic desert empire" as you maintain in your ridiculous book (if you are even the real Arthur Kemp).

I want to see craniofacial dendrograms that show ancient Egyptians clustering with Swedes and Northern Germans before Northeast Africans.

So, can we stop with the Nordicism crap? Which is basically the Northern European version of Afrocentrism.

I know Northern Europeans do not start becoming relevant in history until Medieval times, but that is no excuse to make up fantasy history to make a few Northern European children feel better.

Ancient Egypt, Sumeria, Persia, Greece, and Rome were built by "Nordics"??? All while the real "Nordics" in their real racial homeland were illiterate and had no architecture beyond rockpiles?

BTW, trust me if you were to see the ancient (or even modern for that matter) Upper Egyptians, they are some pretty dark motherfuckers. I assure you none would be mistake for a "white man" by your a commoner in the U.S.A

but anyways, good data.
 
Posted by astenb (Member # 14524) on :
 
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3948/kellscrossexposure.png

Hmmmm parroting Arthur Kemp huh?
OWNED !!!!!
 
Posted by astenb (Member # 14524) on :
 
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For the Lazy.
 
Posted by SirInfamous (Member # 16497) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by astenb:
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For the Lazy.

Where did this conversation take place? And what "study" are they talking about?
 
Posted by astenb (Member # 14524) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by SirInfamous:
quote:
Originally posted by astenb:
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For the Lazy.

Where did this conversation take place? And what "study" are they talking about?
http://www.siftingsands.org/forums/showthread.php?t=223&page=8

HERE.
The images in question are:

1. Showing how Haplogroup E is primarily African.
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2. Showing the migration route of Eastern Africans from Ethiopia populating Sudan and Egypt.
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3. Showing specific Male Chromosomes (E-M78) shared by North East Africans and those in the Sahara: Ethiopians, Kenyans, Somalis, Sudanese and Egyptians, etc.
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Enjoy.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Daaamn!!!,Astenb I know their s,,,it was weak but can't even defend it with some good ol fashioned 19th cent.Morton,Nott,Gliddon or some Coon Carlton.S. My,my,my what in the world is White Supremacist scholorship coming to. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by arthurkemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
That letter is obviously forged.
 
Posted by SirInfamous (Member # 16497) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by astenb:
quote:
Originally posted by SirInfamous:
quote:
Originally posted by astenb:
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For the Lazy.

Where did this conversation take place? And what "study" are they talking about?
http://www.siftingsands.org/forums/showthread.php?t=223&page=8

HERE.
The images in question are:

1. Showing how Haplogroup E is primarily African.
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2. Showing the migration route of Eastern Africans from Ethiopia populating Sudan and Egypt.
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3. Showing specific Male Chromosomes (E-M78) shared by North East Africans and those in the Sahara: Ethiopians, Kenyans, Somalis, Sudanese and Egyptians, etc.
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Enjoy.

That's pretty interesting, but what exactly does this have to do with the race of the Ancient Egyptians?

Balkan people and Italians carry E3B (as well as J2) but the downstream clade they carry (E-V13) differentiates them with North Africans and arrived in the Neolithic times to Europe.

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of course, this does not negate the descent from pristine E3B or E-M78.
 
Posted by arthurkemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
Kellcross has never reffered to you as a her. Kellcross is talking to Americtech right now about getting Egyptwaswhite's internet connection shut up. You will be next astenb also I am not the "real" arthur kemp but a fan.
 
Posted by Red,White, and Blue + Christian (Member # 10893) on :
 
BTW, We both use Benjamin Franklin the great Abolitionist as an icon.

quote:
Originally posted by arthurkemp:

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If you look at your own chart you will see that American Black on the last line is closest to Egyptian.


The Egyptians are Cushites similat to other East Africans. I have met modern Egyptians living in NYC where I am starting from when I was in 7th grade. They are of two types.

1. a paleskinned "Arab" type
2. a medium brown lightskinned Black type

Of course, there a very dark people in modern day Egypt.
 
Posted by Red,White, and Blue + Christian (Member # 10893) on :
 
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The Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie said that he was not a Negro. Yet, Jamaica, West Indies is where the Ethiopian monarch and dynasty are revered. Not, all Blacks are Negroes. Negroes tend to come from West Africa. Cushites, come from East Africa.

This is a Melanesian
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Posted by astenb (Member # 14524) on :
 
Bull Shiit she know she wrote it. I and i have no idea who the other person was. But she is actually right The evidence cannot be refuted for it is fact. And NO v13 is NOT the more pristine version of E3b! What group of monkeys trained you to spout that one?
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E3b* is the most pristine. Found mostly in Ethiopia. Where do you see V13 in that picture - You dont because it is only a minor subclade. When your further Break down M78 and M78 travels OUT of Africa and has sex with your European Ancestors - you get V13
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Read it and weep.
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
If she wrote it why did she call you a "she" instead of a "he" ? That alone exposes you fraudsters.
 
Posted by astenb (Member # 14524) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
If she wrote it why did she call you a "she" instead of a "he" ?

Who knows? She didnt send that to me. She sent it to another person that sent it to me. I then replied to that person asking how she had the ability to delete a post and then pasted it in the forum. But none of that matters. If she wrote it she knows in her heart was is correct and she is smarter for that. If she didnt write it then that just means she is still a Fool. And the 3 pictures after the post is even more important than her confession. WHAT OF THE EVIDENCE? Regardless of if she wrote it:
-Haplogroup E STILL has an origin in Africa.
-haplogroup E is still Characteristic of MOST AFRICANS.
-E3B originated in current Sub Saharan East African........Migrated to Egypt etc.
-Both of you are still Lame brain DOOFUS ASSSWIPES! LOL
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
She is currently working on having your internet connection shut up.
 
Posted by astenb (Member # 14524) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
She is currently working on having your internet connection shut up.

What is wrong with you - You STOOPID COUNTRY HICK!?!?

Shut off my internet connection for WHAT?
-How is she going to "shut off my internet connection"
-She is calling "Ameritech" - What are they going to do.
-Who will she speak to and what would you/her/dumbasss/ say?
You Tennessee Bumpkins need to learn something. The world doesn't not revolve around your trailer home.
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
This Topic should be more like Eurocentric lies:

Gerald Massey, English writer and author of the book, Egypt the Light of the World, wrote, "The dignity is so ancient that the insignia of the Pharaoh evidently belonged to the time when Egyptians wore nothing but the girdle of the Negro." (p 251)

Sir Richard Francis Burton, a 19th century English explorer, writer and linguist in 1883 wrote to Gerald Massey, "You are quite right about the "AFRICAN" origin of the Egyptians. I have 100 human skulls to prove it."

Scientist, R. T. Prittchett, states in his book The Natural History of Man, "In their complex and many of the complexions and in physical peculiarities the Egyptians were an "AFRICAN" race (p 124-125).

The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century B.C.E., saw the Egyptians face to face and described them as black-skinned with woolly hair.

Anthropologist, Count Constatin de Volney (1727-1820),spoke about the race of the Egyptians that produced the Pharaohs. He later paid tribute to Herodotus' discovery when he said:

The ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood mixed for several centuries with that of the Romans and Greeks, must have lost the intensity of it's original color, while retaining none the less the imprint of it's original mold. We can even state as a general principle that the face (referring to The Sphinx) is a kind of monument able, in many cases, to attest to or shed light on historical evidence on the origins of the people."

The fact that the ancient Egyptians were black-skin prompted Volney to make the following statement:
"What a subject for meditation, just think that the race of black men today our slaves and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, science and even the use of our speech."


The testimony of the ancients, the scriptures, & many Egyptologists, along with archaeology confirms that the Egyptians during biblical times were a "BLACK" PEOPLE.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Really who is going to take A Nut like Kemp seriously.

Any fool who thinks that Ancient Egypt was Nordic really has no place on this forum. Is it just me but I think the Stormfront nuts are trying to force out the scholarship and FACTS we post on this forum.

Peace
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Really who is going to take A Nut like Kemp seriously.

Any fool who thinks that Ancient Egypt was Nordic really has no place on this forum. Is it just me but I think the Stormfront nuts are trying to force out the scholarship and FACTS we post on this forum.

Peace

Right on. Well we shall give those barbarians what they want. Who has evidence for a case and wants to hide it when he is trying to win the case?
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by astenb:
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
She is currently working on having your internet connection shut up.

What is wrong with you - You STOOPID COUNTRY HICK!?!?

Shut off my internet connection for WHAT?
-How is she going to "shut off my internet connection"
-She is calling "Ameritech" - What are they going to do.
-Who will she speak to and what would you/her/dumbasss/ say?
You Tennessee Bumpkins need to learn something. The world doesn't not revolve around your trailer home.

She owns a webhosting company and knows how to get things done. If I were you I would be cautious.
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
Kemp

Did you read my first post on this thread?
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
quote:

Gerald Massey, English writer and author of the book, Egypt the Light of the World, wrote, "The dignity is so ancient that the insignia of the Pharaoh evidently belonged to the time when Egyptians wore nothing but the girdle of the Negro." (p 251)

He was looking at the nubian pharaohs when they conquered Egypt.

quote:

Sir Richard Francis Burton, a 19th century English explorer, writer and linguist in 1883 wrote to Gerald Massey, "You are quite right about the "AFRICAN" origin of the Egyptians. I have 100 human skulls to prove it."

Taking from the nubian dynasties of Egypt.

quote:

Scientist, R. T. Prittchett, states in his book The Natural History of Man, "In their complex and many of the complexions and in physical peculiarities the Egyptians were an "AFRICAN" race (p 124-125).

He was not looking at the nordic founders of Egypt but at the Nubian conquerers.

quote:

The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century B.C.E., saw the Egyptians face to face and described them as black-skinned with woolly hair.

After Nubian invasions

quote:


Anthropologist, Count Constatin de Volney (1727-1820),spoke about the race of the Egyptians that produced the Pharaohs. He later paid tribute to Herodotus' discovery when he said:

The ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood mixed for several centuries with that of the Romans and Greeks, must have lost the intensity of it's original color, while retaining none the less the imprint of it's original mold. We can even state as a general principle that the face (referring to The Sphinx) is a kind of monument able, in many cases, to attest to or shed light on historical evidence on the origins of the people."

The fact that the ancient Egyptians were black-skin prompted Volney to make the following statement:
"What a subject for meditation, just think that the race of black men today our slaves and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, science and even the use of our speech."


The testimony of the ancients, the scriptures, & many Egyptologists, along with archaeology confirms that the Egyptians during biblical times were a "BLACK" PEOPLE.

Count's words are based on a subjective viewpoint of a monument and Herodotus's words during the nubian invasion of Egypt.
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
quote:

Gerald Massey, English writer and author of the book, Egypt the Light of the World, wrote, "The dignity is so ancient that the insignia of the Pharaoh evidently belonged to the time when Egyptians wore nothing but the girdle of the Negro." (p 251)

He was looking at the nubian pharaohs when they conquered Egypt.

quote:

Sir Richard Francis Burton, a 19th century English explorer, writer and linguist in 1883 wrote to Gerald Massey, "You are quite right about the "AFRICAN" origin of the Egyptians. I have 100 human skulls to prove it."

Taking from the nubian dynasties of Egypt.

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Scientist, R. T. Prittchett, states in his book The Natural History of Man, "In their complex and many of the complexions and in physical peculiarities the Egyptians were an "AFRICAN" race (p 124-125).

He was not looking at the nordic founders of Egypt but at the Nubian conquerers.

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The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century B.C.E., saw the Egyptians face to face and described them as black-skinned with woolly hair.

After Nubian invasions

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Anthropologist, Count Constatin de Volney (1727-1820),spoke about the race of the Egyptians that produced the Pharaohs. He later paid tribute to Herodotus' discovery when he said:

The ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood mixed for several centuries with that of the Romans and Greeks, must have lost the intensity of it's original color, while retaining none the less the imprint of it's original mold. We can even state as a general principle that the face (referring to The Sphinx) is a kind of monument able, in many cases, to attest to or shed light on historical evidence on the origins of the people."

The fact that the ancient Egyptians were black-skin prompted Volney to make the following statement:
"What a subject for meditation, just think that the race of black men today our slaves and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, science and even the use of our speech."


The testimony of the ancients, the scriptures, & many Egyptologists, along with archaeology confirms that the Egyptians during biblical times were a "BLACK" PEOPLE.

Count's words are based on a subjective viewpoint of a monument and Herodotus's words during the nubian invasion of Egypt.

Dude, I don't fall into traps that easliy. I have two words for you and not your opinionS.

PROVE IT!
 
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He had to be looking at the nubians because the original egyptains were nordics. Its common sense really.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Kemp

you are really a bore, You ignore evidence and try to write off everthing as being Nubians.

You prove yourself to be dumber then AryanEgypt.

Now what about these FACTS:
Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture

Christopher Ehret
Professor of History, African Studies Chair
University of California at Los Angeles

Ancient Egyptian civilization was, in ways and to an extent usually not recognized, fundamentally African. The evidence of both language and culture reveals these African roots.

The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt.


Sir Alan Gardiner:
These were long-headed-dolicocephalic is the learned term-and below even medium stature, but Negroid features are often to be observed. Whatever may be said of the northerners, it is safe to describe the dwellers in Upper Egypt as of essentially African stock , a character always retained despite alien influences brought to bear on them from time to time." (pg. 392; Egypt of the Pharaohs 1966)


X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980).

Courtesy of James Harris and Edward Wente:

In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults.


The people who bear the greatest resemblence to the ancient Egyptians, at present, are the Nubians; and next are the Abyssinians;
page 530

Edward Lane
Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians

The period when sub-Saharan Africa was most influential in Egypt was a time when neither Egypt, as we understand it culturally, nor the Sahara, as we understand it geographically, existed. Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472

Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and
immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues

A-M Mekota1, M Vermehren2

Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13

"Materials and methods
In 1997, the German Institute for Archaeology headed an excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. At this time, three types of tissues were sampled from different mummies: meniscus (fibrocartilage), skin, and placenta. Archaeological findings suggest that the mummies dated from the New Kingdom (approximately
1550_/1080 BC)..... The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."

"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

The nature of the body plan was also investigated by comparing the intermembral, brachial, and crural indices for these samples with values obtained from the literature. No significant differences were found in either index through time for either sex. The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-Negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983). Sonia Zakrzewski (2003)

"On the Origin of the Egyptians. Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North." Mary Lefkowitz

Now Kemp prove to us that you are more then a lonely race loon and try and refute these FACTS.

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
KEMP

Word of advice, The studies I posted come from White scholars so your Afrocentric nonsense does not apply.

Peace
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
King, I am about to write a complete refuation to black egypt so far it's nintey seven pages I will address your "evidence" in the book.

For right now we are talking about your friend's forgery.
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
He had to be looking at the nubians because the original egyptains were nordics. Its common sense really.

LOL, Such a noob.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Kemp

You are nothing more then a Fraud. The FACTS I posted are just that, FACTS. You can't refute them because it comes from many unbiased sources unless you are saying that the White Scholars have a vested interest in claiming Ancient Egypt as Black.

Also that is just the tip of the Iceberg. I have more facts for you to read and Learn:

Recent studies find the ancient Egyptians had a tropical body plan like sub-Saharan 'black' Africans and were not cold-adapted like European type populations. Tropical body plans also indicate darker-skin.


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"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the "super-Negroid" body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.


a 2008 Study puts the ancient Egyptians closer to US Blacks than whites:

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"Intralimb (crural and brachial) indices are significantly higher in ancient Egyptians than in American Whites (except crural index among females), i.e., Egyptians have relatively longer distal segments (Table 4). Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks... Many of those who have studied ancient Egyptians have commented on their characteristically ''tropical'' or ''African'' body plan (Warren, 1897; Masali, 1972; Robins, 1983; Robins and Shute, 1983, 1984, 1986; Zakrzewski, 2003). Egyptians also fall within the range of modern African populations (Ruff and Walker, 1993), but close to the upper limit of modern Europeans as well, at least for the crural index (brachial indices are definitely more ''African'').. In terms of femoral and tibial length to total skeletal height proportions, we found that ancient Egyptians are significantly different from US Blacks, although still closer to Blacks than to Whites.


Comparisons of linear body proportions of Old Kingdom and non-Old Kingdom period individuals, and workers and high officials in our sample found no statistically significant differences among them. Zakrzewski (2003) also found little evidence for differences in linear body proportions of Egyptians over a wider temporal range. In general, recent studies of skeletal variation among ancient Egyptians support scenarios of biological continuity through time. Irish (2006) analyzed quantitative and qualitative dental traits of 996 Egyptians from Neolithic through Roman periods, reporting the presence of a few outliers but concluding that the dental samples appear to be largely homogeneous and that the affinities observed indicate overall biological uniformity and continuity from Predynastic through Dynastic and Postdynastic periods.

Zakrzewski (2007) provided a comprehensive summary of previous Egyptian craniometric studies and examined Egyptian crania from six time periods. She found that the earlier samples were relatively more homogeneous in comparison to the later groups. However, overall results indicated genetic continuity over the Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, albeit with a high level of genetic diversity within the population, suggesting an indigenous process of state formation. She also concluded that while the biological patterning of the Egyptian population varied across time, no consistent temporal or spatial trends are apparent. Thus, the stature estimation formulae developed here may be broadly applicable to all ancient Egyptian populations.."
("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55


Older limb studies find the same- Blacks and closer to the Egyptians than whites:

"In this regard it is interesting to note that limb proportions of Predynastic Naqada people in Upper Egypt are reported to be "Super-Negroid," meaning that the distal segments are elongated in the fashion of tropical Africans.....skin color intensification and distal limb elongation are apparent wherever people have been long-term residents of the tropics." (C.L. Brace, 1993. Clines and clusters..")


"An attempt has been made to estimate male and female Egyptian stature from long bone length using Trotter & Gleser negro stature formulae, previous work by the authors having shown that these rather than white formulae give more consistent results with male dynastic material... When consistency has been achieved in this way, predynastic proportions are founded to be such that distal segments of the limbs are even longer in relation to the proximal segments than they are in modern negroes. Such proportions are termed "super-negroid"...

Robins (1983) and Robins & Shute (1983) have shown that more consistent results are obtained from ancient Egyptian male skeletons if Trotter & Gleser formulae for negro are used, rather than those for whites which have always been applied in the past. .. their physical proportions were more like modern negroes than those of modern whites, with limbs that were relatively long compared with the trunk, and distal segments that were long compared with the proximal segments. If ancient Egyptian males had what may be termed negroid proportions, it seems reasonable that females did likewise."
(Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986. Predynastic Egyptian stature and physical proportions. Hum Evol 1:313-324. Ruff CB. 1994.)


The ancient Badarians were quite representative of ancient Egyptians as a whole and showed clear links with tropical Africans to the south. They have been sometimes excluded in studies of the ancient Egyptian population, which shows continuity in its history, not mass influxes of foreigners until the late periods.

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"As a result of their facial prognathism, the Badarian sample has been described as forming a morphological cluster with Nubian, Tigrean, and other southern (or \Negroid") groups (Morant, 1935, 1937; Mukherjee et al., 1955; Nutter, 1958, Strouhal, 1971; Angel, 1972; Keita, 1990). Cranial nonmetric trait studies have found this group to be similar to other Egyptians, including much later material (Berry and Berry, 1967, 1972), but also to be significantly different from LPD material (Berry et al., 1967). Similarly, the study of dental nonmetric traits has suggested that the Badarian population is at the centroid of Egyptian dental samples (Irish, 2006), thereby suggesting similarity and hence continuity across Egyptian time periods. From the central location of the Badarian samples in Figure 2, the current study finds the Badarian to be relatively morphologically close to the centroid of all the Egyptian samples. The Badarian have been shown to exhibit
greatest morphological similarity with the temporally successive EPD (Table 5). Finally, the biological distinctiveness
of the Badarian from other Egyptian samples has also been demonstrated (Tables 6 and 7).

These results suggest that the EDyn do form a distinct morphological pattern. Their overlap with other Egyptian samples (in PC space, Fig. 2) suggests that although their morphology is distinctive, the pattern does overlap with the other time periods. These results therefore do not support the Petrie concept of a \Dynastic race" (Petrie, 1939; Derry, 1956). Instead, the results suggest that the Egyptian state was not the product of mass movement of populations into the Egyptian Nile region, but rather that it was the result of primarily indigenous development combined with prolonged small-scale migration, potentially from trade, military, or other contacts.

This evidence suggests that the process of state formation itself may have been mainly an indigenous process, but that it may have occurred in association with in-migration to the Abydos region of the Nile Valley. This potential in-migration may have occurred particularly during the EDyn and OK. A possible explanation is that the Egyptian state formed through increasing control of trade and raw materials, or due to military actions, potentially associated with the use of the Nile Valley as a corridor for prolonged small scale movements through the desert environment.
(Sonia R. Zakrzewski. (2007). Population Continuity or Population Change: Formation of the Ancient Egyptian State. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 132:501-509)


Ancient Egyptians most related to other Africans and are part of a Nilotic continuity rather than something Mediterranean or Middle Eastern

"Certainly there was some foreign admixture [in Egypt], but basically a homogeneous African population had lived in the Nile Valley from ancient to modern times... [the] Badarian people, who developed the earliest Predynastic Egyptian culture, already exhibited the mix of North African and Sub-Saharan physical traits that have typified Egyptians ever since (Hassan 1985; Yurco 1989; Trigger 1978; Keita 1990.. et al.,)... The peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and much of East African Ethiopia and Somalia are now generally regarded as a Nilotic continuity, with widely ranging physical features (complexions light to dark, various hair and craniofacial types) but with powerful common cultural traits, including cattle pastoralist traditions.." (Frank Yurco, "An Egyptological Review," 1996 -in Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, Black Athena Revisited, 1996, The University of North Carolina Press, p. 62-100)
African peoples are the most diverse in the world whether analyzed by DNA or skeletal or cranial methods. Attempts to deny this are rooted in racism and error. African people, particularly SUB-SAHARAN Africans, vary the most in how they look, more so than any other population in the world.

"Estimates of genetic diversity in major geographic regions are frequently made by pooling all individuals into regional aggregates. This method can potentially bias results if there are differences in population substructure within regions, since increased variation among local populations could inflate regional diversity. A preferred method of estimating regional diversity is to compute the mean diversity within local populations. Both methods are applied to a global sample of craniometric data consisting of 57 measurements taken on 1734 crania from 18 local populations in six geographic regions: sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, East Asia, Australasia, Polynesia, and the Americas. Each region is represented by three local populations.

Both methods for estimating regional diversity show sub-Saharan Africa to have the highest levels of phenotypic variation, consistent with many genetic studies."
(Relethford, John "Global Analysis of Regional Differences in Craniometric Diversity and Population Substructure". Human Biology - Volume 73, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 629-636)

"The living peoples of the African continent are diverse in facial characteristics, stature, skin color, hair form, genetics, and other characteristics. No one set of characteristics is more African than another. Variability is also found in "sub-Saharan" Africa, to which the word "Africa" is sometimes erroneously restricted. There is a problem with definitions. Sometimes Africa is defined using cultural factors, like language, that exclude developments that clearly arose in Africa. For example, sometimes even the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea) is excluded because of geography and language and the fact that some of its peoples have narrow noses and faces.

However, the Horn is at the same latitude as Nigeria, and its languages are African. The latitude of 15 degree passes through Timbuktu, surely in "sub-Saharan Africa," as well as Khartoum in Sudan; both are north of the Horn. Another false idea is that supra-Saharan and Saharan Africa were peopled after the emergence of "Europeans" or Near Easterners by populations coming from outside Africa. Hence, the ancient Egyptians in some writings have been de-Africanized. These ideas, which limit the definition of Africa and Africans, are rooted in racism and earlier, erroneous "scientific" approaches." (S. Keita, "The Diversity of Indigenous Africans," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Clenko, Editor (1996), pp. 104-105. [10])


Modern DNA studies find even though some African peoples look different, they are genetically related through the PN2 transition clade of the Y-chromosone. Thus light-skinned African Libyans and dark-skinned Zulus are all genetically related Africans ,even though they don't look exactly the same.

"But the Y-chromosome clade defined by the PN2 transition (PN2/M35, PN2/M2) shatters the boundaries of phenotypically defined races and true breeding populations across a great geographical expanse. African peoples with a range of skin colors, hair forms and physiognomies have substantial percentages of males whose Y chromosomes form closely related clades with each other, but not with others who are phenotypically similar. The individuals in the morphologically or geographically defined 'races' are not characterized by 'private' distinct lineages restricted to each of them." (S O Y Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)


"Recall that the Horn-Nile Valley crania show, as a group, the largest overlap with other regions. A review of the recent literature indicates that there are male lineage ties between African peoples who have been traditionally labeled as being ''racially'' different, with ''racially'' implying an ontologically deep divide. The PN2 transition, a Y chromosome marker, defines a lineage (within the YAPþ derived haplogroup E or III) that emerged in Africa probably before the last glacial maximum, but after the migration of modern humans from Africa (see Semino et al., 2004). This mutation forms a clade that has two daughter subclades (defined by the biallelic markers M35/215 (or 215/M35) and M2) that unites numerous phenotypically variant African populations from the supra-Saharan, Saharan, and sub-Saharan regions.."
(S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679-689, 2004.)
keita2004neanalysis.htm

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages.. Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world." (Tishkoff SA, Williams SM., Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2002 Aug (8):611-21.)

DNA of some modern Egyptians found a genetic ancestral heritage to East Africa:
"The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity of 58 individuals from Upper Egypt, more than half (34 individuals) from Gurna, whose population has an ancient cultural history, were studied by sequencing the control-region and screening diagnostic RFLP markers. This sedentary population presented similarities to the Ethiopian population by the L1 and L2 macrohaplogroup frequency (20.6%), by the West Eurasian component (defined by haplogroups H to K and T to X) and particularly by a high frequency (17.6%) of haplogroup M1. We statistically and phylogenetically analysed and compared the Gurna population with other Egyptian, Near East and sub-Saharan Africa populations; AMOVA and Minimum Spanning Network analysis showed that the Gurna population was not isolated from neighbouring populations. Our results suggest that the Gurna population has conserved the trace of an ancestral genetic structure from an ancestral East African population, characterized by a high M1 haplogroup frequency. The current structure of the Egyptian population may be the result of further influence of neighbouring populations on this ancestral population."
(Stevanovitch A, Gilles A, Bouzaid E, et al. (2004) Mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity in a sedentary population from Egypt.Ann Hum Genet. 68(Pt 1):23-39.)

Tishkoff et al:

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages (see online link to Ethnologue). Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world(TABLE 1).However,most studies report only a few markers in divergent African populations, which makes it difficult to draw general conclusions about the levels and patterns of genetic diversity in these populations (FIG. 1). Because genetic studies have been biased towards more economically developed African countries that have key research or medical centres, populations from more underdeveloped or politically unstable regions of Africa remain undersampled (FIG. 1). Historically, human population genetic studies have relied on one or two African populations as being representative of African diversity, but recent studies show extensive genetic variation among even geographically close African populations, which indicates that there is not a single 'representative' African population."
-- Tishkoff NATURE REVIEWS | GENETICS VOLUME 3 | AUGUST 2002


"Genetic studies that attempt to recover the biological history of the species have generally found that there is a split between their restricted African samples and "the rest of the world." These approaches conceptualize human population history as a series of bifurcations with each node being relatively uniform. The "Africans" usually used are either the short statured Aka or Mbuti, Khoisan speakers, or West African stereotype s, in keeping with a socially, not scientifically constructed concept of African. Studies using individuals as the unit of analysis evince a different pattern. A select subset of Africans called the "group of 49" forms a unit versus the rest of humankind. However the latter individuals ("rest of humankind") also includes non-East African sub-Saharans. Hence there is no "racial" split. As has been stated, the idea that human variation can be described as being structured by subspecies(races) that are treated as lineages is fundamentally false. In actuality, also, although averages are used, the gene studies usually give us histories that are not necessarily the same as population histories."
Writing African History Chapter 4, Physical Anthropology and African History, Shomarka Keita University of Rochester Press p.134

Continent wide African DNA linkages
"The most extensive pan-African haplotype (16189 16192 16223 16278 16294 16309 16390) is in the L2a1 haplogroup. This sequence is observed in West Africa among the Malinke, Wolof, and others; in North Africa among the Maure, Hausa, Fulbe, and others; in Central Africa among the Bamileke, Fali, and others; in South Africa among the Khoisan family including the Khwe and Bantu speakers; and in East Africa among the Kikuyu. Closely related variants are observed among the Tuareg in North and West Africa and among the East African Dinka and Somali."
(-- Bert Ely , Jamie Lee Wilson , Fatimah Jackson and Bruce A Jackson. (2006). African-American mitochondrial DNAs often match mtDNAs found in multiple African ethnic groups. BMC Biology 2006, 4:34)

"It is of interest that the M35 and M2 lineages are united by a mutation - the PN2 transition. This PN2 defined clade originated in East Africa, where various populations have a notable frequency of its underived state. This would suggest that an ancient population in East Africa, or more correctly its males, form the basis of the ancestors of all African upper Paleolithic populations - and their subsequent descendants in the present day."
(--Bengtson, John D. (ed.), In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. 2008. John Benjamins Publishing: pp. 3-16)


Egyptian Y-chromosome haplotypes show preponderance is with African clusters not Europe or the Near East


Other DNA quotes from S.O.Y. Keita
See: http://www.geocities.com/keitadnaquotes.htm


Recent DNA studies of the Sudan show genetic unity and linkage between the Sudanic, Horn, Egyptian, Nubian and other Nilotic peoples, confirming earlier skeletal/cranial studies and historical data. (Yurco (1989, 1996), Keita (1993,2004, 2005) Lovell (1999), Zakrewski (2003, 2007) et. al). Of note is that DNA data shows that some peoples linked to one of the oldest Egyptian populations, the original Copts, have a significant frequency of the B-M60 marker, indicating early colonization of Egypt by Nilotics in the state formation period.

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"Haplogroup E-M78, however, is more widely distributed and is thought to have an origin in eastern African. More recently, this haplogroup has been carefully dissected and was found to depict several well-established subclades with defined geographical clustering (Cruciani et al., 2006, 2007). Although this haplogroup is common to most Sudanese populations, it has exceptionally high frequency among populations like those of western Sudan (particularly Darfur) and the Beja in eastern Sudan... Although the PC plot places the Beja and Amhara from Ethiopia in one sub-cluster based on shared frequencies of the haplogroup J1, the distribution of M78 subclades (Table 2) indicates that the Beja are perhaps related as well to the Oromo on the basis of the considerable frequencies of E-V32 among Oromo in comparison to Amhara (Cruciani et al., 2007)...

These findings affirm the historical contact between Ethiopia and eastern Sudan (1998), and the fact that these populations speak languages of the Afroasiatic family tree reinforces the strong correlation between linguistic and genetic diversity (Cavalli-Sforza, 1997)."

"Genetic continuum of the Nubians with their kin in southern Egypt is indicated by comparable frequencies of E-V12 the predominant M78 subclade among southern Egyptians."

"The Copt samples displayed a most interesting Y-profile, enough (as much as that of Gaalien in Sudan) to suggest that they actually represent a living record of the peopling of Egypt. The significant frequency of B-M60 in this group might be a relic of a history of colonization of southern Egypt probably by Nilotics in the early state formation, something that conforms both to recorded history and to Egyptian mythology."
Source:
(Hisham Y. Hassan 1, Peter A. Underhill 2, Luca L. Cavalli-Sforza 2, Muntaser E. Ibrahim 1. (2008). Y-chromosome variation among Sudanese: Restricted gene flow, concordance with language, geography, and history. Am J Phys Anthropology, 2008.)


Older research notes the physical makeup of the original Copts, now confirmed by recent DNA data above:
"In Libya, which is mostly desert and oasis, there is a visible Negroid element in the sedentary populations, and at the same is true of the Fellahin of Egypt, whether Copt or Muslim. Osteological studies have shown that the Negroid element was stronger in predynastic times than at present, reflecting an early movement northward along the banks of the Nile, which were then heavily forested." (Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. "Populations, Human")


Haplogroup E3A and E3B represent more than 70% of the Y-chromosones on the African continent, with varying proportions found in different parts of the continent. In some African populations for example, E3B exceeds 80%. Migrations out of Africa, are responsible for the spread of E3b to Europe. Non-Africans thus acquired a sub-set f African genes through this migration.


"In Europe, the overall frequency pattern of haplogroup E-M78 does not support the hypothesis of a uniform spread of people from a single parental Near Eastern population... The Y chromosome specific biallelic marker DYS271 defines the most common haplogroup (E3a) currently found in sub-Saharan Africa. A sister clade, E3b (E-M215), is rare in sub-Saharan Africa, but very common in northern and eastern Africa. On the whole, these two clades represent more than 70% of the Y chromosomes of the African continent. A third clade belonging to E3 (E3c or E-M329) has been recently reported to be present only in eastern Africa, at low frequencies.. The new topology of the E3 haplogroup is suggestive of a relatively recent eastern African origin for the majority of the chromosomes presently found in sub-Saharan Africa."

"In conclusion, we detected the signatures of several distinct processes of migration and/or recurrent gene flow associated with the dispersal of haplogroup E3b lineages. Early events involved the dispersal of E-M78d chromosomes from eastern Africa into and out of Africa, as well as the introduction of the E-M34 subclade into Africa from the Near East. Later events involved short-range migrations within Africa (E-M78? and E-V6) and from northern Africa into Europe (E-M81 and E-M78ß), as well as an important range expansion from the Balkans to western and southern-central Europe (E-M78a). This latter expansion was the main contributor to the present distribution of E3b chromosomes in Europe."

(Cruciani, F, et. al. (2004) Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa, Am J Hum Genet. 74(5): 1014-1022.)


Somalis link much more heavily with African populations such as those in Kenya and Ethiopia than Middle Eastern or European ones according to DNA evidence. Eurasian genes only accounted for about 15% of the mix among Somalis, typically associated with recent Arab influence. On such key common DNA markers as E3b1, Europeans only weighed in at 5%, and Middle Easterners at approximately 6%. The overwhelming link of Somalis- over 85% of the total is with Africans. Kenya and Ethiopia are located in "sub-Saharan" Africa.

"The high frequency (77.6%) of haplogroup E3b1 was characteristic of male Somalis. The frequency of E3b1 was significantly lower in Ethiopian Oromos (35.9%), Ethiopian Amharas (22.9%), Egyptians (20.0%), Sudanese (17.5%), Kenyans (15.1%),10 Iraqis (6.3%), Northern Africans (6.1%), Southern Europeans (0.5-5.1%) and sub-Saharan populations." (Sanchez et al.,(2005) High frequencies of Y chromosome lineages characterized by E3b1, DYS19-11, DYS392-12 in Somali males, Eu J of Hum Genet (2005) 13, 856-866)

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Simplistic "race percentage" models are dubious in Africa which has the highest genetic diversity in the world. That diversity proceeded from deeper sub-Saharan Africa, to East and N.E. Africa, then to the rest of the globe. All other populations, including Europeans and "Middle easterners" carry this diversity which was built into Africa to begin with. Africans thus don't need any "race mix" to look different. Their diversity is built-in and supplied the whole globe. Any returnees or "backflow" to Africa looked like Africans, including Europeans. (Brace 2005, Hanihara 1996, Holliday 2003).

" These studies suggest a recent and primary subdivision between African and non-African populations, high levels of divergence among African populations, and a recent shared common ancestry of non-African populations, from a population originating in Africa. The intermediate position, between African and non-African populations, that the Ethiopian Jews and Somalis occupy in the PCA plot also has been observed in other genetic studies (Ritte et al. 1993; Passarino et al. 1998) and could be due either to shared common ancestry or to recent gene flow. The fact that the Ethiopians and Somalis have a subset of the sub-Saharan African haplotype diversity and that the non-African populations have a subset of the diversity present in Ethiopians and Somalis makes simple-admixture models less likely; rather, these observations support the hypothesis proposed by other nuclear-genetic studies (Tishkoff et al. 1996a, 1998a, 1998b; Kidd et al. 1998) that populations in northeastern Africa may have diverged from those in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa early in the history of modern African populations and that a subset of this northeastern-African population migrated out of Africa and populated the rest of the globe. These conclusions are supported by recent mtDNA analysis (Quintana-Murci et al. 1999)."
[Tishkoff et al. (2000) Short Tandem-Repeat Polymorphism/Alu Haplotype Variation at the PLAT Locus: Implications for Modern Human Origins. Am J Hum Genet; 67:901-925]


Data on Ethiopian peoples like the Oromo are underreported even though they make up the largest group percentage wise in the Ethiopian population, (50%) and are often pooled with others, hiding and obscuring their overall contribution to the Ethiopian gene pool.

"This difference, not revealed in the study by Passarino et al. (1998), in which the Oromo were underrepresented, might reflect distinct population histories."
(--Semino, et al. (2002). Ethiopians and Khoisan Share the Deepest Clades of the Human Y..")

"These data, together with those reported elsewhere (Ritte et al. 1993a, 1993b; Hammer et al. 2000) suggest that the Ethiopian Jews acquired their religion without substantial genetic admixture from Middle Eastern peoples and that they can be considered an ethnic group with essentially a continental African genetic composition." (Cruciani, et. al Am J Hum Genet. 2002 May; 70(5): 1197-1214. "A Back Migration from Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa Is Supported by High-Resolution Analysis of Human Y-Chromosome Haplotypes)


Afrocentric critic Mary Leftokwitz says Egypt was peopled by persons from sub-Saharan Africa:

"Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North. See Bruce G. Trigger, "The Rise of Civilization in Egypt," Cambridge History of Africa (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982), vol I, pp 489-90; S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54.
(Mary Lefkotitz (1997). Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. Basic Books. pg 242) [/QB][/QUOTE]


In Black Athena Revisited, Lefkowitz finds similarity between Egyptians and Sudanics and recommends the work of conservative anthropologist Nancy Lovell for more research on the subject.

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"not surprisingly, the Egyptian skulls were not very distance from the Jebel Moya [a Neolithic site in the southern Sudan] skulls, but were much more distance from all others, including those from West Africa. Such a study suggests a closer genetic affinity between peoples in Egypt and the northern Sudan, which were close geographically and are known to have had considerable cultural contact throughout prehistory and pharaonic history... Clearly more analyses of the physical remains of ancient Egyptians need to be done using current techniques, such as those of Nancy Lovell at the University of Alberta is using in her work.."


Lefkotitz cites Keita 1993 in Not Out of Africa. Here is Keita on the Jebel Moya studies:

"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Jebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." [/img]
S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


Here is the work of the anthropologist so strongly recommended by Lefkowitz, Nancy Lovell:


"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

and

"must be placed in the context of hypotheses informed by archaeological, linguistic, geographic and other data. In such contexts, the physical anthropological evidence indicates that early Nile Valley populations can be identified as part of an African lineage, but exhibiting local variation. This variation represents the short and long term effects of evolutionary forces, such as gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection, influenced by culture and geography." ("Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999). pp 328-332)


The same Nancy Lovell recommended by Lefkowitz studied dental traits among some high status persons of the key Egyptian Naqada group and found that they resembled the peoples of Nubia.

T. Prowse, and N. Lovell "Concordance of cranial and dental morphological traits and evidence for endogamy in ancient Egypt"
American journal of physical anthropology. 1996, vol. 101, no2, pp. 237-246 (2 p.1/4)


A biological affinities study based on frequencies of cranial nonmetric traits in skeletal samples from three cemeteries at Predynastic Naqada, Egypt, confirms the results of a recent nonmetric dental morphological analysis. Both cranial and dental traits analyses indicate that the individuals buried in a cemetery characterized archaeologically as high status are significantly different from individuals buried in two other, apparently non-elite cemeteries and that the non-elite samples are not significantly different from each other. A comparison with neighboring Nile Valley skeletal samples suggests that the high status cemetery represents an endogamous ruling or elite segment of the local population at Naqada, which is more closely related to populations in northern Nubia than to neighboring populations in southern Egypt.


Lefkowitz warns against Eurocentric "racial" analysis as to the Egyptians and Nubians.

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"The Nubian tribute-bearers are painted in two skin tones, black and dark brown. These tones do not necessarily represent actual skin tones in real life but may serve to distinguish each tribute-bearer from the next in a row in which the figures overlap. Alternatively, the brown-skinned people may be of Nubian origin, and the black-skinned ones may be farther south 9Trigger 1978, 33). The shading of skin tones in Egyptian tomb paintings, which varies considerably, may not be a certain criterion for distinguishing race. Specific symbols of ethnic identity can also vary. Identifying race in Egyptian representational art, again, is difficult to do- probably because race (as opposed to ethnic affiliation, that is, Egyptians versus all non-Egyptians) was not a criterion for differentiation used by the ancient Egyptians...


Northern Egypt shows more physical variation than the south, but not necessarily as part of any significant 'race' mix, but local, built-in variation. They were closer to southerners than any other peoples. In comparisons with "Middle Eastern" populations of the same ancient period, the Egyptians link more closely with other Africans than the Middle Easterners. Africans vary in how they look because they have the highest built-in molecular diversity to begin with.

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"..sample populations available from northern Egypt from before the 1st Dynasty (Merimda, Maadi and Wadi Digla) turn out to be significantly different from sample populations from early Palestine and Byblos, suggesting a lack of common ancestors over a long time. If there was a south-north cline variation along the Nile valley it did not, from this limited evidence, continue smoothly on into southern Palestine. The limb-length proportions of males from the Egyptian sites group them with Africans rather than with Europeans." (Barry Kemp, "Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation. (2005) Routledge. p. 52-60)


"Individuals from different geographical regions frequently plotted near each other, revealing aspects of variation at the level of individuals that is obscured by concentrating on the most distinctive facial traits once used to construct ''types.''The high level of African interindividual variation in craniometric pattern is reminiscent of the great level of molecular diversity found in Africa." (S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679-689, 2004.)

Quote on northern Egypt analysis- the Qarunian (Faiyum) remains (c. 7000 BC)
"The body was that of a forty-year old woman with a height of about 1.6 meters, who was of a more modern racial type than the classic 'Mechtoid' of the Fakhurian culture (see pp. 65-6), being generally more gracile, having large teeth and thick jaws bearing some resemblance to the modern 'negroid' type." (Beatrix Midant-Reynes, Ian Shaw (2000). The Prehistory of Egypt. Wiley-Blackwell. pg. 82)


Modern studies show diversity in how people look is heavily based on distance from sub-Saharan Africa, not merely climate. In genetically diverse Africa, broad-nosed people live on the cool or cold mountain slopes of East Africa or the hot, dry Sahara, and narrow-nosed peoples like many Fulani like in the wet tropics of West Africa. Yellowish-skinned San tribes live in the hot zones of Southern Africa.

"The relative importance of ancient demography and climate in determining worldwide patterns of human within-population phenotypic diversity is still open to debate. Several morphometric traits have been argued to be under selection by climatic factors, but it is unclear whether climate affects the global decline in morphological diversity with increasing geographical distance from sub-Saharan Africa. Using a large database of male and female skull measurements, we apply an explicit framework to quantify the relative role of climate and distance from Africa. We show that distance from sub-Saharan Africa is the sole determinant of human within-population phenotypic diversity, while climate plays no role. By selecting the most informative set of traits, it was possible to explain over half of the worldwide variation in phenotypic diversity. These results mirror those previously obtained for genetic markers and show that 'bones and molecules' are in perfect agreement for humans." (Distance from Africa, not climate, explains within-population phenotypic diversity in humans. (2008) by: Lia Betti, François Balloux, William Amos, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Andrea Manica, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 2008/12/02)


Analysis of skeletal and cranial remains reveals that the ancient Egyptians of the early Dynastic and pre-Dynastic phases, link closer to nearby Saharan, Sudanic and East African populations than Mediterranean and Middle Eastern peoples. Greeks, Romans, Hyskos, Arabs and others were to appear later in Egyptian history. Craniometric studies generally place ancient Upper Egyptian populations closer to the range of tropical Africans in the Nile Valley and East Africa than to Mediterraneans, or Middle Easterners.

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S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Kebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." (Keita 1993)

"When the unlikely relationships [Indian matches] and eliminated, the Egyptian series are more similar overall to other African series than to European or Near Eastern (Byzantine or Palestinian) series." (Keita 1993)

"Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant."(Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa: Their Interaction. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472 )

"Analysis of crania is the traditional approach to assessing ancient population origins, relationships, and diversity. In studies based on anatomical traits and measurements of crania, similarities have been found between Nile Valley crania from 30,000, 20,000 and 12,000 years ago and various African remains from more recent times (see Thoma 1984; Brauer and Rimbach 1990; Angel and Kelley 1986; Keita 1993). Studies of crania from southern predynastic Egypt, from the formative period (4000-3100 B.C.), show them usually to be more similar to the crania of ancient Nubians, Kushites, Saharans, or modern groups from the Horn of Africa than to those of dynastic northern Egyptians or ancient or modern southern Europeans."
(S. O. Y and A.J. Boyce, "The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians", in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 20-33)


"There is no archaeological, linguistic, or historical data which indicate a European or Asiatic invasion of, or migration to, the Nile Valley during First Dynasty times. Previous concepts about the origin of the First Dynasty Egyptians as being somehow external to the Nile Valley or less native are not supported by archaeology... In summary, the Abydos First Dynasty royal tomb contents reveal a notable craniometric heterogeneity. Southerners predominate. (Kieta, S. (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)"

"The predominant craniometric pattern in the Abydos royal tombs is 'southern' (tropical African variant), and this is consistent with what would be expected based on the literature and other results (Keita, 1990). This pattern is seen in both group and unknown analyses... Archaeology and history seem to provide the most parsimonious explanation for the variation in the royal tombs at Abydos.. Tomb design suggests the presence of northerners in the south in late Nakada times (Hoffman, 1988) when the unification probably took place. Delta names are attached to some of the tombs at Abydos (Gardiner, 1961; Yurco, 1990, personal communication), thus perhaps supporting Petrie's (1939) and Gardiner's contention that north-south marriages were undertaken to legitimize the hegemony of the south. The courtiers of northern elites would have accompanied them.

Given all of the above, it is probably not possible to view the Abydos royal tomb sample as representative of the general southern Upper Egyptian population of the time. Southern elites and/or their descendants eventually came to be buried in the north (Hoffman, 1988). Hence early Second Dynasty kings and Djoser (Dynasty 111) (Hayes, 1953) and his descendants are not buried in Abydos. Petrie (1939) states that the Third Dynasty, buried in the north, was of Sudanese origin, but southern Egypt is equally likely. This perhaps explains Harris and Weeks' (1973) suggested findings of southern morphologies in some Old Kingdom Giza remains, also verified in portraiture (Drake, 1987). Further study would be required to ascertain trends in the general population of both regions. The strong Sudanese affinity noted in the unknown analyses may reflect the Nubian interactions with upper Egypt in predynastic times prior to Egyptian unification (Williams, 1980,1986)..." (S. Keita (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)


"When the Elephantine results were added to a broader pooling of the physical characteristics drawn from a wide geographic region which includes Africa, the Mediterranean and the Near East quite strong affinities emerge between Elephantine and populations from Nubia, supporting a strong south-north cline. (Barry Kemp. (2006) Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. p. 54)


Afrocentric critic C. Loring Brace's 2005 study groups ancient Egyptian populations like the Naqada closer to Nubians and Somalis than European, Mediterranean or Middle Eastern populations. Brace's study shows that the closest European linking with Africans in Egypt or Nubia are Middle Stone Age Portugese and Neolithics, OLDER populations more closely resembling AFRICANS than modern Europeans. Early Neolithic populations, like the Nautifians, in what is now Israel, show sub-Saharan 'negroid' affinities. (Brace, et al. The questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European craniofacial form, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 3; 103(1): p. 242-247.)


"The Niger-Congo speakers, Congo, Dahomey and Haya, cluster closely with each other and a bit less closely with the Nubian sample, both the recent and the Bronze Age Nubians, and more remotely with the Naqada Bronze Age sample of Egypt, the modern Somalis, and the Arabic-speaking Fellaheen (farmers) of Israel. When those samples are separated and run in a single analysis as in Fig. 1, there clearly is a tie between them that is diluted the farther one gets from sub-Saharan Africa" (Brace, 2005)

"The surprise is that the Neolithic peoples of Europe and their Bronze Age successors are not closely related to the modern inhabitants, although the prehistoric/modern ties are somewhat more apparent in southern Europe. It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa... Interestingly enough, however, the small Natufian sample falls between the Niger-Congo group and the other samples used. Fig. 2 shows the plot produced by the first two canonical variates, but the same thing happens when canonical variates 1 and 3 (not shown here) are used. This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic), .. When canonical variates are plotted, neither sample ties in with Cro-Magnon as was once suggested. The data treated here support the idea that the Neolithic moved out of the Near East into the circum-Mediterranean areas and Europe by a process of demic diffusion but that subsequently the in situ residents of those areas, derived from the Late Pleistocene inhabitants, absorbed both the agricultural life way and the people who had brought it." (Brace, 2005)


Both skeletal/cranial and DNA studies by other authors confirm that some Neolithics did not derive from the Near East. They most likely resembled African populations. Hence comparisons using older European Neolithics versus Africans are comparisons with older prehistoric Europeans who looked more like Africans, than modern 'white' Europeans, as shown by Brace (2005), and Hanihara (1996) also, who states "Early West Asians looked like Africans."

"The absence of mtDNA haplogroup J in the ancient Portuguese Neolithic sample suggests that this population was not derived directly from Near Eastern farmers. The Mesolithic and Neolithic groups show genetic discontinuity implying colonisation at the Neolithic transition in Portugal." (CHANDLER, H.; SYKES, B.; ZILHÃO, J. (2005) - Using ancient DNA to examine genetic continuity at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Portugal, in ARIAS, P.; ONTAÑÓN, R.; GARCÍA-MONCÓ, C. (eds.) - «Actas del III Congreso del Neolítico en la Península Ibérica», Santander, Monografías del Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria 1, p. 781-786.)

"Early Europeans still resembled modern tropical peoples - some resemble modern Australian and Africans, more than modern Europeans.. Nor does the picture get any clearer when we move on to the Cro-Magnons, the presumed ancestors of modern Europeans. Some were more like present-day Australians or Africans, judged by objective anatomical observations." (Christopher Stringer, Robin McKie (1998). African Exodus. Macmillan, p. 162)


Early Europeans, as recently as 6,000-9000 years ago, looked somewhat like Africans in terms of retained 'tropical' characteristics. Cold adaptation was to bring about several physical changes over time from the initial Out of Africa migrations to Europe. Retained traces of 'tropical' characteristics, indicate a "large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans." (Holliday and Churchill 2003).

"Body proportions covary with climate, apparently as the result of climatic selection. Ontogenetic research and migrant studies have demonstrated that body proportions are largely genetically controlled and are under low selective rates; thus studies of body form can provide evidence for evolutionarily short-term dispersals and/or gene flow. Replacement predicts that the earliest modern Europeans will possess "tropical" body proportions (assuming Africa is the center of origin), while Regional Continuity permits only minor shifts in body shape, due to climatic change and/or improved cultural buffering. .. results refute the hypothesis of local continuity in Europe, and are consistent with an interpretation of elevated gene flow (and population dispersal?) from Africa, followed by subsequent climatic adaptation to colder conditions." (Holliday, Trenton (1997) Body proportions in Late Pleistocene Europe and modern human origins. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 423-447)


".. while the Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans have significantly higher (i.e., tropically-adapted) brachial and crural indices than do recent Europeans, they also have shorter (i.e., cold-adapted) limbs. The somewhat paradoxical retention of "tropical" indices in the context of more "cold-adapted" limb length is best explained as evidence for Replacement in the European Late Pleistocene, followed by gradual cold adaptation in glacial Europe." (Holliday, Trenton (1999) Brachial and crural indices of European Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans. Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 36, Issue 5, May 1999, Pages 549-566)


"Stature, body mass, and body proportions are evaluated for the Cheddar Man (Gough's Cave 1) skeleton. Like many of his Mesolithic contemporaries, Gough's Cave 1 evinces relatively short estimated stature (ca. 166.2 cm [5' 5']) and low body mass (ca. 66 kg [146 lbs]). In body shape, he is similar to recent Europeans for most proportional indices. He differs, however, from most recent Europeans in his high crural index and tibial length/trunk height indices. Thus, while Gough's Cave 1 is characterized by a total morphological pattern considered 'cold-adapted', these latter two traits may be interpreted as evidence of a large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans." (TRENTON W. HOLLIDAY a1 and STEVEN E. CHURCHILL. (2003). Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of body size and shape, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology, 58:37-44 Cambridge University Press)


More data showing early Europeans were tropically adapted types like Africans
"Body proportions are under strong climatic selection and evince remarkable stability within regional lineages. As such, they offer a viable and robust alternative to cranio-facial data in assessing hypothesised continuity and replacement with the transition to agro-pastoralism in central Europe. Humero-clavicular, brachial and crural indices in a large sample (n=75) of Linienbandkeramik (LBK), Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age specimens from the middle Elbe-Saale-Werra valley (MESV) were compared with Eurasian and African terminal Pleistocene, European Mesolithic and geographically disparate recent human specimens. Mesolithic Europeans display considerable variation in humero-clavicular and brachial indices yet none approach the extreme "hyper-polar" morphology of LBK humans from the MESV. In contrast, Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age peoples display elongated brachial and crural indices reminiscent of terminal Pleistocene and "tropically adapted" recent humans. These marked morphological changes likely reflect exogenous immigration during the terminal Fourth millennium cal BC. Population expansion and diffusion is a function of increased mobility and settlement dispersal concomitant with significant technological and subsistence changes in later Neolithic societies during the late fourth millennium cal BCE."
-- Gallagher et al. "Population continuity, demic diffusion and Neolithic origins in central-southern Germany: the evidence from body proportions." Homo. 2009;60(2):95-126. Epub 2009 Mar 4.


Early West Asians looked like Africans. Thus any ancient returnees or "backflow" from West Asia back to Africa is by people who look like Africans to begin with. Brace 2005 shows this as to Europeans. Hanihara 1996, demonstrates this below as to West Asians (i.e. 'Middle easterners'). Also see above.

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"Distance analysis and factor analysis, based on Q-mode correlation coefficients, were applied to 23 craniofacial measurements in 1,802 recent and prehistoric crania from major geographical areas of the Old World. The major findings are as follows: 1) Australians show closer similarities to African populations than to Melanesians. 2) Recent Europeans align with East Asians, and early West Asians resemble Africans. 3) The Asian population complex with regional difference between northern and southern members is manifest. 4) Clinal variations of craniofacial features can be detected in the Afro-European region on the one hand, and Australasian and East Asian region on the other hand. 5) The craniofacial variations of major geographical groups are not necessarily consistent with their geographical distribution pattern. This may be a sign that the evolutionary divergence in craniofacial shape among recent populations of different geographical areas is of a highly limited degree. Taking all of these into account, a single origin for anatomically modern humans is the most parsimonious interpretation of the craniofacial variations presented in this study."
(Hanihara T. Comparison of craniofacial features of major human groups. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1996 Mar;99(3):389-412.)


Older studies often show misclassification or exclusion of Nile Valley remains deemed 'negroid'. Although clearly of the "African" type, such remains were frequently relabeled "Mediterranean."

"Analyses of Egyptian crania are numerous. Vercoutter (1978) notes that ancient Egyptian crania have frequently all been lumped (implicitly or explicitly) as Mediterranean, although Negroid remains are recorded in substantial numbers by many workers... "Nutter (1958), using the Penrose statistic, demonstrated that Nagada I and Badari crania, both regarded as Negroid, were almost identical and that these were most similar to the Negroid Nubian series from Kerma studied by Collett (1933). [Collett, not accepting variability, excluded "clear negro" crania found in the Kerma series from her analysis, as did Morant (1925), implying that they were foreign..." (S. Keita (1990) Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 83:35-48)


Different features among Africans, particularly EAST AFRICANS, like narrow noses are not due to different "race" mixes but are part of the built-in physical diversity and variation of African peoples. Narrow noses appear in the oldest African populations for example, in Kenya's Gamble Cave complex. East Africans like Somalians or Kenyans do not need any outside race "mix" or migration to make them look the way they do.

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".. all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in a number of body proportions.. There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to the populations of Europe and western Asia.. In skin colour, the Tutsi are darker than the Hutu, in the reverse direction to that leading to the caucasoids. Lip thickness provides a similar case: on an average the lips of the Tutsi are thicker than those of the Hutu." [Jean Hiernaux, The People of Africa (1975), pgs 42-43, 62-63)

"In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the whole world range is covered in the sub-continent. Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the average nose widths covers 92 per cent of the world range: only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record. Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage....."
- Jean Hiernaux, "The People of Africa" 1975 p.53, 54

"Prehistoric human crania from Bromhead's Site, Willey's Kopje, Makalia Burial Site, Nakuru, and other localities in the Eastern Rift Valley of Kenya are reassessed using measurements and a multivariate statistical approach. Materials available for comparison include series of Bushman and Hottentot crania. South and East African Negroes, and Egyptians. Up to 34 cranial measurements taken on these series are utilized to construct three multiple discriminant frameworks, each of which can assign modern individuals to a correct group with considerable accuracy. When the prehistoric crania are classified with the help of these discriminants, results indicate that several of the skulls are best grouped with modern Negroes. This is especially clear in the case of individuals from Bromhead's Site, Willey's Kopje, and Nakuru, and the evidence hardly suggests post-Pleistocene domination of the Rift and surrounding territory by "Mediterranean" Caucasoids, as has been claimed. Recent linguistic and archaeological findings are also reviewed, and these seem to support application of the term Nilotic Negro to the early Rift populations." (Rightmire GP. New studies of post-Pleistocene human skeletal remains from the Rift Valley, Kenya. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1975 May;42(3):351-69. )

"....inhabitants of East Africa right on the equator have appreciably longer, narrower, and higher noses than people in the Congo at the same latitude. A former generation of anthropologists used to explain this paradox by invoking an invasion by an itinerant "white" population from the Mediterranean area, although this solution raised more problems than it solved since the East Africans in question include some of the blackest people in the world with characteristically wooly hair and a body build unique among the world's populations for its extreme linearity and height.... The relatively long noses of East Africa become explicable then when one realizes that much of the area is extremely dry for parts of the year." (C. Loring Brace, "Nonracial Approach Towards Human Diversity," cited in The Concept of Race, Edited by Ashley Montagu, The Free Press, 1980, pp. 135-136, 138)

"The .... excavations at Gogoshiis Qabe (Somalia) uncovered eleven virtually complete and articulated primary burials...Closest morphological affinities are with early Holocene skeletons from Lake Turkana, Kenya...and Lake Besaka, Ethiopia.."
(S. Brandt, (1986) The Upper Pleistocene and early Holocene prehistory of the Horn of Africa. Journal African Archaeological Review. Volume 4, Number 1, Pages 41-82 )

"The role of tall, linearly built populations in eastern Africa's prehistory has always been debated. Traditionally, they are viewed as late migrants into the area. But as there is better palaeoanthropological and linguistic documentation for the earlier presence of these populations than for any other group in eastern Africa, it is far more likely that they are indigenous eastern Africans. ... prehistoric linear populations show resemblances to both Upper Pleistocene eastern African fossils and present-day, non-Bantu-speaking groups in eastern Africa, with minor differences stemming from changes in overall robusticity of the dentition and skeleton. This suggests a longstanding tradition of linear populations in eastern Africa, contributing to the indigenous development of cultural and biological diversity from the Pleistocene up to the present."
(L . A . SCHEPARTZ, "Who were the later Pleistocene eastern Africans?" The African Archaeological Review, 6 (1988), pp. 57- 72)


Recent study shows ancient Egyptians physically more like tropically adapted Black Americans than White Americans, confirming older studies that show today's Egyptians in general are closer to US blacks than Northern Europeans, and Southern Europeans as well.


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"We also compare Egyptian body proportions to those of modern American Blacks and Whites... Long bone stature regression equations were then derived for each sex. Our results confirm that, although ancient Egyptians are closer in body proportion to modern American Blacks than they are to American Whites, proportions in Blacks and Egyptians are not identical... Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks. ..brachial indices are definitely more 'African'... There is no evidence for significant variation in proportions among temporal or social groupings; thus, the new formulae may be broadly applicable to ancient Egyptian remains." ("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55


Africa is the most genetically diverse region in the world with the original man being from East Africa according to conservative scholars:

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages.. Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world." (Tishkoff SA, Williams SM., Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2002 Aug (8):611-21.)

" In other words, all non-Africans carry M168. Of course, Africans carrying the M168 mutation today are the descendants of the African subpopulation from which the migrants originated.... Thus, the Australian/Eurasian Adam (the ancestor of all non-Africans) was an East African Man." (Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis, Wiley-Blackwell: 2006, pg 108)


The Natufians, early inhabitants of the Sinai - Israel- Palestine area, and reputed pioneers of several Neolithic agricultural and technological developments, appear to have had "Negroid" affinities. Important Natufian sites include Mt. Carmel, Jericho and several others.


"Against this background of disease, movement and pedomorphic reduction of body size one can identify Negroid (Ethiopic or Bushmanoid?) traits of nose and prognathism appearing in Natufian latest hunters (McCown, 1939) and in Anatolian and Macedonian first farmers, probably from Nubia via the unknown predecesors of the Badarians and Tasians....". (Biological Relations of Egyptians and Eastern Mediterranean Populations during pre-Dynastic and Dynastic Times. J. Lawrence Angel. Journal of Human Evolutiom. 1972:1, 1, Pg 307)

"The Mushabians moved into Sinai from the Nile Delta, bringing North African lithic chipping tecniques."
("Pleistocene connections between Africa and Southwest Asia: an archaeological perspective. O. Bar-Yosef. African Archaeological Review. 5 (1987) Pg 29)

"It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa... Interestingly enough, however, the small Natufian sample falls between the Niger-Congo group and the other samples used... This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic.." (C.L Brace, et. al. 2005. The Questionable contribution of the Neolithic...)


Early inhabitants of the general Natufian Israel area show limb proportions suited to tropical peoples- similar to sub-Saharan's homeland

"However, the real revelation came when Erik [Trinkhaus] inserted his data on the Cro-Magnons of Europe and the Skhul-Qafzeh skeletons from Israel into the equations. In this case, he got a figure of 85 percent for the shinbone-thighbone ratio. Not only were they unlike the Neanderthals, but these people actually fell at the other extreme in their readings on the limb thermometer. The predicted average temperature of origin for folk with an 85% shin-thigh fraction, indicating much longer extremities relative to trunk length - was about 20 degrees higher than the Neanderthals', suggesting a subtropical- if not tropical- homeland!" (African Exodus By Christopher Stringer, Robin McKie, McMillan: pg 79-83)


The 1993 'Clines and Clusters' study by C.L. Brace, et. al. has been used to minmize or downplay the realtionship between Egypt and its African neighbors. For example it:

--Created an "African" or "sub-Saharan" group, but excluded the Maghreb (including parts of the Sahara and Sahel), the Sudan and the Horn area (Ethiopia and Somalia) even though these latter two are BELOW the Sahara, and thus "sub-Saharan".

--Excluded the Badari, and Naqada I and II, key Egyptian groups, thus obscuring the Sudanic/Saharan character of numerous early samples, noted in several earlier analyses.
Ignored the formative range of the Saharans on Egypt, from the megaliths and cattle cults of the Nabta Playa to early mummification practices was ignored. T

--Excluded the Nubian population of the Badari and early Naqada period, including the rich remains of the well documented Qustul culture, near the present Sudanese-Egyptian border, again obscuring the close relationship between the two peoples.

--Created a vague "Bronze Age" grouping of Nubians, and a "modern" group of medieval samples, an era long after the dynasties and when Nubia had experienced more gene flow of that and the later Arab incursions, beginning in the 700s. Sampling thus ignored the early Badari/Naqada Nubians, jumped the 25th Dynasty era, and shifted to the medieval era in the age range of the Arab conquests.
Used Somalian samples that were modern, and thus within the range of recent gene flow (such as the Arab era), particularly on the coast.

--The result was a "comparison" finding that the ancient Egyptians had no relationship "at all" to other "sub-Saharan" peoples and were relatively distant from the Nubians and Somalians. peoples. This finding has been undermined by the subsequent research of several scholars, including limb proportion studies.

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"However, Brace et al. (1993) find that a series of upper Egyptian/Nubian epipalaeolithic crania affiliate by cluster analysis with groups they designate "sub-Saharan African" or just simply "African" (from which they incorrectly exclude the Maghreb, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa), whereas post-Badarian southern predynastic and a late dynastic northern series (called "E" or Gizeh) cluster together, and secondarily with Europeans. In the primary cluster with the Egyptian groups are also remains representing populations from the ancient Sudan and recent Somalia. Brace et al. (1993) seemingly interpret these results as indicating a population relationship from Scandinavia to the Horn of Africa, although the mechanism for this is not clearly stated; they also state that the Egyptians had no relationship with sub-Saharan Africans, a group that they nearly treat (incorrectly) as monolithic, although sometimes seemingly including Somalia, which directly undermines aspects of their claims. Sub-Saharan Africa does not define/delimit authentic Africanity." (S.O.Y. Keita. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data". Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)


Brace carefully excluded the Badari- a key native pre-dynastic group that led into the dynasties, and suggested possible European immigration to ancient Egypt. Keita put this to the test and found that the excluded group matched up more closely with Africans than Europeans.

"An examination of the distance hierarchies reveals the Badarian series to be more similar to the Teita in both analyses and always more similar to all of the African series than to the Norse and Berg groups (see Tables 3A & 3B and Figure 2). Essentially equal similarity is found with the Zalavar and Dogon series in the 11-variable analysis and with these and the Bushman in the one using 15 variables. The Badarian series clusters with the tropical African groups no matter which algorithm is employed (see Figures 3 and 4).. In none of them did the Badarian sample affiliate with the European series."(S.O.Y. Keita. Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)

More on the biased and skewed 'true negro' model

"Another example of the use of a socially constructed typological paradigm is in studies of the Nile Valley populations in which the concept of a biological African is restricted to those with a particular craniometric pattern (called in the past the 'True Negro' though no 'True White' was ever defined). Early Nubians, Egyptians, and even Somalians are viewed essentially as non-Africans, when in fact numerous lines of evidence and an evolutionary model make them a part of African biocultural/biogeographical history. The diversity of 'authentic' Africans is a reality. This diversity prevents biogeographical/biohistorical Africans from clustering into a single unit, no matter the kind of data." (The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence, S. O. Y. Keita, Rick A. Kittles, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 99, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 534-544)

"..presents all tropical Africans with narrower noses and faces as being related to or descended from external, ultimately non-African peoples. However, narrow-faced, narrow-nosed populations have long been resident in Saharo-tropical Africa... and their origin need not be sought elsewhere. These traits are also indigenous. The variability in tropical Africa is expectedly naturally high. Given their longstanding presence, narrow noses and faces cannot be deemed `non-African."(S.O.Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993), page 134 )

"Another example of the use of a socially constructed typological paradigm is in studies of the Nile Valley populations in which the concept of a biological African is restricted to those with a particular craniometric pattern (called in the past the 'True African' though no 'True White' was ever defined). Early Nubians, Egyptians, and even Somalians are viewed essentially as non-Africans, when in fact numerous lines of evidence and an evolutionary model make them a part of African biocultural/biogeographical history. The diversity of 'authentic' Africans is a reality. This diversity prevents biogeographical/biohistorical Africans from clustering into a single unit, no matter the kind of data."
---Keita and Kittles. "The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence." American Anthropologist 99, no. 3 (September 1997): 534-544

Hair and the 'true negro'
"Strouhal (1971) microscopically examined some hair which had been preserved on a Badrarian skull. The analysis was interpreted as suggesting a stereotypical tropical African-European hybrid (mulatto). However this hair is grossly no different from that of Fulani, some Kanuri, or Somali and does not require a gene flow explanation any more than curly hair in Greece necessarily does. Extremely "wooly" hair is not the only kind native to tropical Africa.." (S. O. Y. Keita. (1993). "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54)


Sampling bias and the true negro. In some Nile Valley research sampling bias persists such as drawing samples from the far north of Egypt, boscuring the region's genetic complexity. The stereotypical "true negro" type is still used to artifically separate related peoples and obscure a fuller, more accurate picture of African genetic diversity. Sampling bias appears both in DNA studies (noted by Keita) and in cranial studies (noted by Egyptologist Barry Kemp).

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Keita on DNA studies drawing samples from the far north, an area with more foreign settlement and gene flow

"However, in some of the studies, only individuals from northern Egypt are sampled, and this could theoretically give a false impression of Egyptian variability (contrast Lucotte and Mercier 2003a with Manni et al. 2002), because this region has received more foreign settlers (and is nearer the Near East). Possible sample bias should be integrated into the discussion of results." (S.O.Y. Keita, A.J. Boyce, "Interpreting Geographical Patterns of Y Chromosome Variation1," History in Africa 32 (2005) 221-246 )

Egyptologist Barry Kemp on the worldwide CRANID database that used northern samples near the Mediterranean as "representative" of the ancient Egyptians, and classifying them in a "European" direction, while excluding key historic sites further south..

"If, on the other hand, CRANID had used one of the Elephantine populations of the same period, the geographic association would be much more with the African groups to the south. It is dangerous to take one set of skeletons and use them to characterize the population of the whole of Egypt." (Barry Kemp, Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation, Routledge: 2005, p. 55)


Modern anthropology shows that the ancient Egyptians are well within the range of tropical Africa, contradicting older research in the 1990s that sought to deny any relationship. The anthropologist below, Nancy Lovell was recommended by Mary lefkowitz in Black Athena Revisted.


"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)


One of the oldest remains from Upper Egypt, shows strong sub-Saharan affinities, and early northern Egypt also shows sub-Saharan affinities through cultural traits- the 'Nubian complex' of technology and production.

"The morphometric affinities of the 33,000 year old skeleton from Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt are examined using multivariate statistical procedures.. The results indicate a strong association between some of the sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age (MSA) specimens, and the Nazlet Khater mandible. Furthermore, the results suggest that variability between African populations during the Neolithic and Protohistoric periods was more pronounced than the range of variability observed among recent African and Levantine populations." (PINHASI Ron, SEMAL Patrick (2000). The position of the Nazlet Khater specimen among prehistoric and modern African and Levantine populations. Journal of human evolution. 2000, vol. 39, no3, pp. 269-288 )

"..Middle Paleolithic and the transition to the Upper Paleolithic in the Lower Nile Valley are described... the Middle Paleolithic or, more appropriately, Middle Stone Age of this region starts with the arrival of new populations from sub-Saharan Africa, as evidenced by the nature of the Early to Middle Stone Age transition in stratified sites. Throughout the late Middle Pleistocene technological change occurs leading to the establishment of the Nubian Complex by the onset of the Upper Pleistocene." (Van Peer, Philip. Did middle stone age moderns of sub-Saharan African descent trigger an upper paleolithic revolution in the lower nile valley? Anthropologie. vol. 42, no3, pp. 215-225)


Dental studies provide evidence that the ancient Egyptian population maintained a high degree of continuity into the early, mid and late Dynastic periods. A key ancient group, the Badari, found to link to tropical African metrics, was excluded by such studies as Brace (1993) but dental research shows they link well with later pre and Dynastic populations. J. Irish's 2006 dental study examined the ancient Badarian people excluded by Brace and found that they were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like." His dental results show that:

QUOTE:

"Despite the difference, Gebel Ramlah [the Western Desert- Saharan region] is closest to predynastic and early dynastic samples from Abydos, Hierakonpolis, and Badari.."

the Badarians were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like"

"A comparison of Badari to the Naqada and Hierakonpolis samples .. contradicts the idea of a foreign origin for the Naqada (Petrie, 1939; Baumgartel, 1970)"

Evidence in favor of continuity is also demonstrated by comparison of individual samples. "Naqada and especially Hierakonpolis share close affinities with First-Second Dynasty Abydos.. These findings do not support the concept of a foreign dynastic ''race''"

"Thus, despite increasing foreign influence after the Second Intermediate Period, not only did Egyptian culture remain intact (Lloyd, 2000a), but the people themselves, as represented by the dental samples, appear biologically constant as well."

(Joel D. Irish (2006). Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Dental Affinities Among Neolithic Through Postdynastic Peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.)


Africans have the highest dental diversity
"Previous research by the first author revealed that, relative to other modern peoples, sub-Saharan Africans exhibit the highest frequencies of ancestral (or plesiomorphic) dental traits... The fact that sub-Saharan Africans express these apparently plesiomorphic characters, along with additional information on their affinity to other modern populations, evident intra-population heterogeneity, and a world-wide dental cline emanating from the sub-continent, provides further evidence that is consistent with an African origin model." (Irish JD, Guatelli-Steinberg D.(2003) Ancient teeth and modern human origins: an expanded comparison of African Plio-Pleistocene and recent world dental samples. Hum Evol. 2003 Aug;45(2):113-44. )


Ancient Egyptian civilization was indigenous with continuity among its peoples, not an influx of Middle Easterners, Europeans or other outsiders like Arabs until relatively late in history

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"Some have argued that various early Egyptians like the Badarians probably migrated northward from Nubia, while others see a wide-ranging movement of peoples across the breadth of the Sahara before the onset of desiccation. Whatever may be the origins of any particular people or civilization, however, it seems reasonably certain that the predynastic communities of the Nile valley were essentially indigenous in culture, drawing little inspiration from sources outside the continent during the several centuries directly preceding the onset of historical times..." (Robert July, Pre-Colonial Africa, 1975, p. 60-61)


"overall population continuity over the Predynastic and early Dynastic, and high levels of genetic heterogeneity, thereby suggesting that state formation occurred as a mainly indigenous process."
(Zakrzewski, S.R. (2007). "Population continuity or population change: Formation of the ancient Egyptian state". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132 (4): 501-509)

"the peoples of the steppes and grasslands to the immediate south of Egypt domesticated cattle, as early as 9000 to 8000 B.C. They included peoples from the Afroasiastic linguistic group and the second major African language family, Nilo-Saharan (Wendorf, Schild, Close 1984; Wendorf, et al. 1982). Thus the earliest domestic cattle may have come to Egypt from these southern neighbors, circa 6000 B.C., and not from the Middle East.[148] Pottery, another significant advance in material cultural may also have followed this pattern, initiatied "as early as 9000 B.C. by the Nilo-Saharans and Afrasians who lived to the south of Egypt. Soon thereafter, pots spread to Egyptian sites, almost 2,000 years before the first pottery was made in the Middle East."
(Christopher Ehret, "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 25-27)


X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies show some to be linked physically to Nubian types, and some documented royal officials are clearly "Negroid' like Pepi-seneb, an eminent scribe c. 2745 BC. Some royal New Kingdom mummies also show melanin frequencies consistent with Negroid origin.


"In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults."
(An X-ray atlas of the royal mummies. Edited by J.E. Harris and E.F. Wente. (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980.) Review: Michael R. Zimmerman, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 56, Issue 2 , (1981) Pages 207 - 208)

"While the Upper Nile Egyptians show phenotypic features that occur in higher frequencies in the Sudan and southward into East Africa (namely, facial prognathism, chamaerrhiny, and paedomorphic cranial architecture with specific modifications of the nasal aperature), these so-called Negroid features are not universal in the region of Thebes, Karnak, and Luxor."
(Kennedy, Kenneth A.R., T. Plummer, J. Chinment, "Identification of the Eminent Dead: Pepi, A Scribe of Egypt," In Katherine J. Reichs (ed.), Forensic Osteology, 1986.)


German Institute for Archaeology -excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. In several of the noble specimens:
"The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."
(Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues", Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13)


Nubians were ethnically the closest people to the Egyptians. Conflict between the two were typical clashes between kingdoms without the simplistic "racial" models drawn by some 20th century writers.
Quote 1:
"The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)

- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Quote 2:

"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region.4 As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."

- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


Ancient Egyptian religion closer to the religion of African regions than to Mesopotamia, Europe or the Middle East

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Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508
"A large number of gods go back to prehistoric times. The images of a cow and star goddess (Hathor), the falcon (Horus), and the human-shaped figures of the fertility god (Min) can be traced back to that period. Some rites, such as the "running of the Apil-bull," the "hoeing of the ground," and other fertility and hunting rites (e.g., the hippopotamus hunt) presumably date from early times.. Connections with the religions in southwest Asia cannot be traced with certainty."
"It is doubtful whether Osiris can be regarded as equal to Tammuz or Adonis, or whether Hathor is related to the "Great Mother." There are closer relations with northeast African religions. The numerous animal cults (especially bovine cults and panther gods) and details of ritual dresses (animal tails, masks, grass aprons, etc) probably are of African origin. The kinship in particular shows some African elements, such as the king as the head ritualist (i.e., medicine man), the limitations and renewal of the reign (jubilees, regicide), and the position of the king's mother (a matriarchal element). Some of them can be found among the Ethiopians in Napata and Meroe, others among the Prenilotic tribes (Shilluk)."
(Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508)


Egyptian dynastic civilization based from the 'darker' south (Upper Egypt) not the north (Lower Egypt)

QUOTE(s):
"While not attempting to underestimate the contribution that Deltaic political and religious institutions made to those of a united Egypt, many Egyptologists now discount the idea that a united prehistoric kingdom of Lower Egypt ever existed."


"While communities such as Ma'adi appear to have played an important role in entrepots through which goods and ideas form south-west Asia filtered into the Nile Valley in later prehistoric times, the main cultural and political tradition that gave rise to the cultural pattern of Early Dynastic Egypt is to be found not in the north but in the south.":
The Cambridge History of Africa: Volume 1, From the Earliest Times to c. 500 BC, (Cambridge University Press: 1982), Edited by J. Desmond Clark pp. 500-509

"..the early cultures of Merimde, the Fayum, Badari Naqada I and II are essentially African and early African social customs and religious beliefs were the root and foundation of the ancient Egyptian way of life." (Source: Shaw, Thurston (1976) Changes in African Archaeology in the Last Forty Years in African Studies since 1945. p. 156-68. London.)


Egyptian state founded from the south, and indigenous in character. Egyptians dominated Palestine in some eras.

"What is truly unique about this state is the integration of rule over an extensive geographic region, in contrast to other contemporaneous Near Easter polities in Nubia, Mesopotamia, Palestine and the Levant. Present evidence suggests that the state which emerged by the First Dynasty had its roots in the Nagada culture of Upper Egypt, where grave types, pottery and artifacts demonstrate an evolution of form from the Predynastic to the First Dynasty, This cannot be demonstrated for the material culture of Lower Egypt, which was eventually displaced by that which originated in Upper Egypt. Hierarchical society with much social and economic differentiation, as symbolized in the Nagada II cemeteries of Upper Egypt, does not seem to have been present, then, in Lower Egypt, a fact which supports an Upper Egyptian origin for the unified state. Thus archaeological evidence cannot support earlier theories that the founders of Egyptian civilization were an invading Dynastic race from the east.."

"Egyptian contact in the 4th millennium B.C. with SW Asia is undeniable, but the effect of this contact on state formation is Egypt is less clear... The unified state which emerged in Egypt in the 3rd millenium B.C. however, was unlike the polities in Mesopotamia, the Levant, northern Syria, or Early Bronze Age Palestine- in sociopolitical organization, material culture, and belief system. There was undoubtedly heightened commercial contact with SW Asia in the 4th millennium B.C., but the Early Dynastic state which emerged in Egypt is unique and religious in character."
(Bard, Kathryn A. 1994 The Egyptian Predynastic: A Review of the Evidence. Journal of Field Archaeology 21(3):265-288.)

"From Petrie onwards, it was regularly suggested that despite the evidence of Predynastic cultures, Egyptian civilization of the 1st Dynasty appeared suddenly and must therefore have been introduced by an invading foreign 'race'. Since the 1970s however, excavations at Abydos and Hierakonpolis have clearly demonstrated the indigenous, Upper Egyptian roots of early civilization in Egypt.

Contact between northern Egypt and Palestine was overland, as evidence in northern Sinai demonstrates.. Israeli archealogists suggest that this evidence represents a commercial network established and controlled by the Egyptians as early as EBA Ia, and that this network was a major factor in the rise of the urban settlements found later in Palestine EBA II. Naomi Porat's technological study of ceramics from EBA sites in southern Palestine clearly demonstrates that in EBA Ib strata many of the pottery vessels used for food preparation were probably manufactured by Egyptian potters using Egyptian technology but local Palestinian clays. In EBA Ib strata there are also many storage jars made from Nile silt and marl wares, which must have been imported from Egypt. Not only did the Egyptians establish camps and way stations in northern Sinai, but the ceramic evidence also suggests that they established a highly organized network of settlements in southern Palestine where an Egyptian population was in residence."
(Ian Shaw ed. (2003) The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt By Ian Shaw. Oxford University Press, page 40-63)


Much older scholarship shows cultural similarities between ancient Egypt and the rest of Africa, contradicting claims of Middle Eastern inspiration.

--Specific central African tool designs found at the well known Naqada, Badari and Fayum archaeological sites in Egypt (de Heinzelin 1962, Arkell and Ucko, 1956 et al). Shaw (1976) states that "the early cultures of Merimde, the Fayum, Badari Naqada I and II are essentially African and early African social customs and religious beliefs were the root and foundation of the ancient Egyptian way of life."
Pottery evidence first seen in the Saharan Highlands then spreading to the Nile Valley (Flight 1973).
Art motifs of Saharan rock paintings showing similarities to those in pharaonic art. A number of scholars suggest that these earlier artistic styles influenced later pharaonic art via Saharans leaving drier areas and moving into the Nile Valley taking their art styles with them (Mori 1964, Blanc 1964, et al)

--Earlier pioneering mummification outside Egypt. The oldest mummy in Africa is of a black Saharan child (Donadoni 1964, Blanc 1964) Frankfort (1956) suggests that it is thus possible to understand the pharaonic worldview by reference to the religious beliefs of these earlier African precursors. Attempts to suggest the root of such practices are due to Caucasoid civilizers from elsewhere are thus contradicted by the data on the ground.

--Several cultural practices of Egypt show strong similarities to an African totemic clan base. Childe (1969, 1978), Aldred (1978) and Strouhal (1971) demonstrate linkages with several African practices such as divine kingship and the king as divine rainmaker.

--Physical similarities of the early Nile valley populations with that of tropical Africans. Such connections are demonstrated in the work of numerous scholars such as Thompson and Randall Mclver 1905, Falkenburger 1947, and Strouhal 1971. The distance diagrams of Mukherjee, Rao and Trevor (1955) place the ancient Badarians genetically near 'black' tribes such as the Ashanti and the Taita. See also the "Issues of lumping under Mediterranean clusters" section above for similar older analyses.

--Serological (blood) evidence of genetic linkages. Paoli 1972 for example found a significant resemblance between ABO frequencies of dynastic Egyptians and the black northern Haratin who are held to be the probable descendants of the original Saharans (Hiernaux, 1975).

--Language similarities which include several hundred roots ascribable to African elements (UNESCO 1974)

--Ancient Egyptian origin stories ascribing origins of the gods and their ancestors to African locations to the south and west of Egypt (Davidson 1959)

--Advanced state building and political unity in Nubia, including writing, administrative apparatus and insignia some 300 years before dynastic Egypt, and the long demonstrated interchange between Nubia and Egypt (Williams 1980)

--Newer studies (Wendorf 2001, Wilkinson 1999, et al.) confirm these older analyses. Excavations from Nabta Playa, located about 100km west of Abu Simbel for example, suggest that the Neolithic inhabitants of the region were migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, based on cultural similarities and social complexity which is thought to be reflective of Egypt's Old Kingdom

--Other scholars (Wilkinson 1999) present similar material and cultural evidence- including similarities between predynastic Egypt and traditional African cattle-culture, typical of Southern Sudanese and East African pastoralists of today, and various cultural and artistic data such as iconography on rock art found in both Egypt and in the Sudan.


Assorted demic diffusion theories holding a mass influx of Europeans or Middle Easterners to Africa bringing cattle and agriculture to the natives is not supported by credible evidence. Indigenous development is most likely.

"Furthermore, the archaeology of northern Africa DOES NOT SUPPORT demic diffusion of farming from the Near East. The evidence presented by Wetterstrom indicates that early African farmers in the Fayum initially INCORPORATED Near Eastern domesticates INTO an INDIGENOUS foraging strategy, and only OVER TIME developed a dependence on horticulture. This is inconsistent with in-migrating farming settlers, who would have brought a more ABRUPT change in subsistence strategy. "The same archaeological pattern occurs west of Egypt, where domestic animals and, later, grains were GRADUALLY adopted after 8000 yr B.P. into the established pre-agricultural Capsian culture, present across the northern Sahara since 10,000 yr B.P. From this continuity, it has been argued that the pre-food-production Capsian peoples spoke languages ancestral to the Berber and/or Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, placing the proto-Afroasiatic period distinctly before 10,000 yr B.P."

Source: The Origins of Afroasiatic
Christopher Ehret, S. O. Y. Keita, Paul Newman;, and Peter Bellwood
Science 3 December 2004: Vol. 306. no. 5702, p. 1680


When claims of European or 'Mediterranean' migrant influx to ancient Egypt before the Hyskos/Greek/Roman era are analyzed research data conclusively debunks them.
Quote from "Early Nile Valley Farmers From El-Badari"


Male Badarian crania were analyzed using the generalized distance of Mahalanobis in a comparative analysis with other African and European series from the Howells?s database. The study was carried out to examine the affinities of the Badarians to evaluate, in preliminary fashion, a demic diffusion hypothesis that postulates that horticulture and the Afroasiatic language family were brought ultimately from southern Europe. (The assumption was made that the southern Europeans would be more similar to the central and northern Europeans than to any indigenous African populations.) The Badarians show a greater affinity to indigenous Africans while not being identical. This suggests that the Badarians were more affiliated with local and an indigenous African population than with Europeans.
(S.O.Y. Keita. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data". Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)


The Sahara and the Sudan seem to have provided a major source for the genesis of Egyptian civilization contributing many of its unique elements.

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"a critical factor in the rise of social complexity and the subsequent emergence of the Egyptian state in Upper Egypt (Hoffman 1979; Hassan 1988). If so, Egypt owes a major debt to those early pastoral groups in the Sahara; they may have provided Egypt with many of those features that still distinguish it from its neighbors to the east."
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 17, 97-123 (1998), "Nabta Playa and Its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory," Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild.

"Over the last two decades, numerous contemporary (Khartoum Neolithic) sites and cemeteries have been excavated in the Central Sudan.. The most striking point to emerge is the overall similarity of early neolithic developments inhabitation, exchange, material culture and mortuary customs in the Khartoum region to those underway at the same time in the Egyptian Nile Valley, far to the north." (Wengrow, David (2003) "Landscapes of Knowledge, Idioms of Power: The African Foundations of Ancient Egyptian Civilization Reconsidered," in Ancient Egypt in Africa, David O'Connor and Andrew Reid, eds. Ancient Egypt in Africa. London: University College London Press, 2003, pp. 119-137)


"Sub-Saharan" genetic elements found as far afield as the Turkish and Greek regions

F. X. Ricaut, M. Waelkens. (2008). Cranial Discrete Traits in a Byzantine Population and Eastern Mediterranean Population Movements Human Biology - Volume 80, Number 5, October 2008, pp. 535-564

"A late Pleistocene-early Holocene northward migration (from Africa to the Levant and to Anatolia) of these populations has been hypothesized from skeletal data (Angel 1972, 1973; Brace 2005) and from archaeological data, as indicated by the probable Nile Valley origin of the "Mesolithic" (epi-Paleolithic) Mushabi culture found in the Levant (Bar Yosef 1987). This migration finds some support in the presence in Mediterranean populations (Sicily, Greece, southern Turkey, etc.; Patrinos et al.; Schiliro et al. 1990) of the Benin sickle cell haplotype. This haplotype originated in West Africa and is probably associated with the spread of malaria to southern Europe through an eastern Mediterranean route (Salares et al. 2004) following the expansion of both human and mosquito populations brought about by the advent of the Neolithic transition (Hume et al 2003; Joy et al. 2003; Rich et al 1998). This northward migration of northeastern African populations carrying sub-Saharan biological elements is concordant with the morphological homogeneity of the Natufian populations (Bocquentin 2003), which present morphological affinity with sub-Saharan populations (Angel 1972; Brace et al. 2005). In addition, the Neolithic revolution was assumed to arise in the late Pleistocene Natufians and subsequently spread into Anatolia and Europe (Bar-Yosef 2002), and the first Anatolian farmers, Neolithic to Bronze Age Mediterraneans and to some degree other Neolithic-Bronze Age Europeans, show morphological affinities with the Natufians (and indirectly with sub-Saharan populations; Angel 1972; Brace et al 2005), in concordance with a process of demic diffusion accompanying the extension of the Neolithic revolution (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1994)."

"Following the numerous interactions among eastern Mediterranean and Levantine populations and regions, caused by the introduction of agriculture from the Levant into Anatolia and southeastern Europe, there was, beginning in the Bronze Age, a period of increasing interactions in the eastern Mediterranean, mainly during the Greek, Roman, and Islamic periods. These interactions resulted in the development of trading networks, military campaigns, and settler colonization. Major changes took place during this period, which may have accentuated or diluted the sub-Saharan components of earlier Anatolian populations. The second option seems more likely, because even though the population from Sagalassos territory was interacting with northeastern African and Levantine populations [trade relationships with Egypt (Arndt et al. 2003), involvement of thousands of mercenaries from Pisidia (Sagalassos region) in the war around 300 B.C. between the Ptolemaic kingdom (centered in Egypt) and the Seleucid kingdom (Syria/Mesopotamia/Anatolia), etc.], the major cultural and population interactions involving the Anatolian populations since the Bronze Age occurred with the Mediterranean populations form southeastern Europe, as suggested from historical and genetic data."

""In this context it is likely that Bronze Age events may have facilitated the southward diffusion of populations carrying northern and central European biological elements and may have contributed to some degree of admixture between northern and central Europeans and Anatolians, and on a larger scale, between northeastern Mediterraneans and Anatolians. Even if we do not know which populations were involved, historical and archaeological data suggest, for instance, the 2nd millennium B.C. Minoan and later Mycenaean occupation of Anatolian coast, the arrival in Anatolia in the early 1st millennium B.C. of the Phrygians coming from Thrace, and later the arrival of settlers from Macedonia in Pisidia and in the Sagalassos territory (under Seleucid rule). The coming of the Dorians from Northern Greece and central Europe (the Dorians are claimed to be one of the main groups at the origin of the ancient Greeks) may have also brought northern and central European biological elements into southern populations. Indeed, the Dorians may have migrated southward to the Peloponnese, across the southern Aegean and Create, and later reached Asia Minor."


Ancient Egyptian language is part of the Afrasian or Afroasiatic group which has its origins in Africa, and together with other archaeological evidence firmly makes it an African culture. Acording to mainstream research:

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"Ancient Egyptian civilization was, in ways and to an extent usually not recognized, fundamentally African. The evidence of both language and culture reveals these African roots. The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt. The ancient Egyptian language belonged to the Afrasian family (also called Afroasiatic or, formerly, Hamito-Semitic). The speakers of the earliest Afrasian languages, according to recent studies, were a set of peoples whose lands between 15,000 and 13,000 B.C. stretched from Nubia in the west to far northern Somalia in the east. They supported themselves by gathering wild grains. The first elements of Egyptian culture were laid down two thousand years later, between 12,000 and 10,000 B.C., when some of these Afrasian communities expanded northward into Egypt, bringing with them a language directly ancestral to ancient Egyptian. They also introduced to Egypt the idea of using wild grains as food." (Christopher Ehret (1996) "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture." In Egypt in Africa Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press)


"Ancient Egypt belongs to a language group known as 'Afroasiatic' (formerly called Hamito-Semitic) and its closest relatives are other north-east African languages from Somalia to Chad. Egypt's cultural features, both material and ideological and particularly in the earliest phases, show clear connections with that same broad area. In sum, ancient Egypt was an African culture, developed by African peoples, who had wide ranging contacts in north Africa and western Asia." (Morkot, Robert (2005) The Egyptians: An Introduction. Routledge. p. 10)

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ANCIENT EGYPTIANS AND HAIR
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Mummification practices and dyeing of hair
Hair studies of mummies note that color is often influenced by environmental factors at burial sites. Brothwell and Spearman (ref in Fletcher's works-1963) point out that reddish-brown ancient color hair is usually the result of partial oxidation of the melanin pigment. Other causes of hair color "blonding" involve bleaching, caused by the alkaline in the mummification process. Color also varies due to the Egyptian practice of dyeing hair with henna. Other samples show individuals lightening the hair using vegetable colorants. Thus variations in hair color among mummies do not necessarily suggest the presence of blond or red-haired Europeans or Near Easterners flitting about Egypt before being mummified, but the influence of environmental factors.
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Egyptian practice of putting locks of hair in mummy wrappings.

Racial analysis is also made problematic by the Egyptian practice of burying hair, in many "votive or funerary deposits buried separately from the body, a practice found from Predynastic to Roman times despite its frequent omission from excavation reports." (Fletcher 2002) In examining hair samples Fletcher (2004) notes that care is needed to determine what is natural scalp hair, versus hair from a wig, versus hair extensions to natural locks. Tracking the exact source of hair is also critical since the Egyptians were known to have placed locks of hair from different sources among mummy wrappings. (The Search for Nefertiti, By Joann Fletcher, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 93-94, 96; Joann Fletcher, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HAIR AND WIGS, THE OSTRACON THE JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2; SUMMER 2002)
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Hair for wigs often obtained through trade not mass waves of "Caucasoid" migrants.

The use of wigs made of varying hair also complicates attempts at 'racial' analysis. Fletcher (2002) shows that many Egyptian wigs have been found with what is defined as straighter 'cynotrichous' hair. This however is hardly a marker of massive European or Near Eastern presence or admixture. Fletcher notes that the Egyptians often eschewed their own personal hair, shaving carefully and using wigs widely. The hair for these wigs was often obtained through trade. Indeed, "hair itself being a valuable commodity ranked alongside gold and incense in account lists from the town of Kahun." Egyptian trading links with other regions is well known, and a prized commodity like straighter 'cynotrichous' hair could have been easily obtained via the Sahara, Levant, the Maghreb, Mediterranean contacts, or even the hair of Asiatic war captives or casulaties from Egypt's numerous conflicts.
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Red-headed Ramses- routine for genetic variability in Africa not "whiteness"

Rameses came along comparatively late in Egyptian history, when outsiders toEgypt like the Hyskos were increasing in the region. Detailed microscopic analysis during the 1980s (Balout 1985) identified some of the hair of Egyptian Pharoah Rameses II as being a yellowish-red. Such a finding should not be surprising given the wide range of physical variability in Africa, the most genetically diverse region on earth, out of which flowed other population groups. Indeed, blondism and various other hair shades are not unknown in East Africa or Nubia, particularly in children, nor are such hair color variants uncommon in dark-haired or dark skinned populations like the Australians. (Hrdy 1978) Given the range of genetic variability in Africa, a red-haired Rameses is hardly unusual. Rameses' reign, in the 19th Dynasty, came over 1,500 years after the Egyptian state had been established, and after the Hyskos interlude. Such latecomers to Egypt, like the Hyskos, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs etc would add their own genetic strands to the nation's mix. Whatever the blend of genes that occurred with Rameses, his hair offers little supposed "proof" of a "white" or "Nordic" Egypt. If anything, X-rays of the royal mummies by mainstream scientists show that the Egyptians pharoahs and other royals had several uncomfortable 'Negroid' leanings. (http://www.geocities.com/nilevalleypeoples/xraymummies1.htm)
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Red hair can be readily produced by dark-skinned populations- just check out Australia and pheomelanin

The finding of Rameses "red" hair also deserves further scrutiny. The analysis found evidence of dyeing to make the hair yellowish-red, but some elements were untouched by the dye. These elements of yellowish-red hair in Balout's study, were established on the basis of the presence of pheomelanin, a red-brown polymeric pigment in the skin and hair of humans. However, pheomelanin can also be found in persons with dark brown or even black hair as well, which gives it a reddish hue. Most natural melanins contain sulfur, which is typically associated with pheomelanin. In scientific tests of melanin, black hair contained as much as 5% sulfur, 3% lower than the 8.8% found in Irish red hair, but exceeding the 2.3% found in Scandinavian blond hair. (Jolles, et al. 1996) Thus the yellowish-red hair discovered on Rameses is well within the range of human variation for dark haired people, whatever the exact gene combination that led to the condition.

As noted above, such variation began with ancient African populations. Most red hair is found in northern and western Europe, especially in the British Isles, and even then it appears in minor frequencies in Europe- some 4% of the population. It is unlikely such populations had any major contact or influence in the ancient Nile Valley. The analysis on Rameses also did not show classic "European" red hair but hair of a light red to yellowish tinge. Black haired or dark-skinned populations are quite capable of producing such yellowish-red color variants on their own, as can be seen in today's east and northeast Africa (see child's photo above). Nor is such color variation unusual to Africa. Native dark-skinned populations in Australia, routinely produce people witn blond or reddis hair. .

The analysis also found Rames' hair to be cymotrich or wavy, again a characteristic quite within the range of overall African or Nile valley physical and genetic diversity. A "pure" Nordic type of straight hair was thus not established for Rameses. Hence the notion of white Europeans or red-headed Caucasoids from other areas flowing into ancient Egypt to add hair variation.

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REFERENCES

Joann Fletcher, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HAIR AND WIGS, THE OSTRACON THE JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2; SUMMER 2002

The Search for Nefertiti, By Joann Fletcher, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 93-94, 96

Brothwell. D., and R. Spearman 1963 The hair of earlier peoples. In: Science in Archaeology. D. Brothwell and E. Higgs, eds. Thames and Hudeon, London, p. 427-436

Daniel Hrdy 1978- Analysis of Hair Samples of Mummies from Semna South, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (1978) 49: 277-262)

Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 83:35-48 (1990


Hair Styles and History, by Cyril Aldred, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 15, No. 6 (Feb., 1957), pp. 141-147)

L. Balout, C. Roubet and C. Desroches-Noblecourt, and was titled La Momie de Ramsès II: Contribution Scientifique à l'Égyptologie (1985).

Formation and Structure of Human Hair: Biology and Structure, By Pierre Jollès, Helmut Zahn, H. Höcker, Birkhäuser, 1996, pp. 200-225


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NUBIA AND EGYPT

Close relationships between Nubians and Egyptians in various eras, contradicting "racial war" claims


"The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)

- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Integration of Nubian and egyptian elites in some eras


"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region.4 As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."
- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


using the same methods of those who see "racial wars" between Nubians and Egyptians, one can also see "racial" wars against "white" west Asians who were often conquered or put to tribute by the ancient Egyptians. applying a consistency using the same methods:


RAMESES II. SLAYING THE ASIATICS BEFORE RA, THE TUTELARY DEITY OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABÛ-SIMBEL..


THE DISCOURSE OF AMEN-RA,
LORD OF THRONES.

Thou hast struck off the heads of the Asiatics, and their children cannot escape from thee. Every land illuminated by thy diadem is encircled by thy might; and in all the zone of the heavens there is not a rebel to rise up against thee. The enemy bring in their tribute on their backs, prostrating themselves before thee, their limbs trembling and their hearts burned up within them."

Campaign against "white" Mittani in parts of Lebanon:

"He is a king valiant ... Naharin which its lord had deserted out of fear ... I hacked up its towns and villages and I set fire to them ... I carried off their inhabitants ... also their herds of cattle ... I felled all their plantations and their fruit trees ...I had many vessels ... built on the mountains of God's Land in the neighborhood of the Lady of Byblos ... then on that mountain of Naharin, my Majesty erected my stela, carved out of the mountain on the western side of the Euphrates.."


Conquest against and tribute from "white" Palestine:

"Tribute of the princes of Retenu, who came to do obeisance ... to the souls of his majesty... Now every harbor at which his majesty arrived was supplied with loaves and with assorted loaves, with oil, incense, wine, f[ruit] ---- abundant were they beyond everything ...


Tribute from 'white' Lebanon:

The chieftains, lord of Lebanon, construct the royal ships in order that people may sail south in them to bring all the marvels of the "Garden" to the palace. LPH. ... The chieftains of Retjenu (Retenu) who drag the flagpoles by means of oxen to the shore, it is they who come with their dues to the place where his majesty is, to the Residence in ...... bearing all the fine products brought as marvels of the south and being taxed for tribute annually as (with) all bondsmen of his Majesty."


Operations against more 'white' 'Troglodytes':


"Then my Majesty made them take their oaths of allegiance as follows: never again shall we do anything evil against Menkheperre (another name for Thutmose III), may he live forever ...
Then my Majesty had them set free on the road to their cities*). They went off on donkeys for I had seized their chariotry. I captured their inhabitants for Egypt and their property likewise." [W. Helck transl. by B. Cummings (1982), `Urkunden der 18. Dynastie', `Egyptian Historical Records of the Later 18th Dynasty']

"His majesty proceeded northward, to overthrow the Asiatics (Mntyw-Stt). His majesty arrived at a district, Sekmem (Skmm) was its name. His majesty led the good way in proceeding to the palace of `Life, Prosperity, and Health (L.P.H.,' when Sekmen had fallen, together with Retenu (Rtnw) the wretched, while I was acting as rearguard." [Breasted, `Records', Vol. I, Sec. 680]
Time of Seti the Great - Presentation of Syrian Prisoners and Precious Vessels to Amon

"Smiting the Troglodytes, beating down the Asiatics (Mn·t·yw), making his boundary as far as the `Horns of the Earth', as far as the marshes of Naharin (N-h-r-n)." [Ibid., Vol. III, Sec. 118;]

"Slaying of the Asiatic Troglodytes (Ynw-Mn·t·yw [Menate, Manasseh]), all inaccessible countries, all lands, the Fenkhu of the marshes of Asia, the Great Bend of the sea (w'd-wr)."


Booty seized from "white" Caananites:

".... 340 living prisoners; 83 hands; 2,401 mares; 191 foals; 6 stallions; ... young ...; a chariot, wrought with gold, (its) pole of gold, belonging to the chief of `M-k-ty' (as the land around Jerusalem was called); .... 892 chariots of his wretched army; total, 924 (chariots); a beautiful suit of bronze armor, belonging to the chief of Jerusalem; .... 200 suits of armor, belonging to his wretched army; 502 bows; 7 poles of (mry) wood, wrought with silver, belonging to the tent of that foe. Behold, the army of his majesty took ...., 297 ...., 1,929 large cattle, 2,000 small cattle, 20500 white small cattle." [JBRE, `Records', Vol. II, Sec. 435; See also the following sections.]


Tribute from "white" Assur/Assyria
"The tribute of the chief of Assur (Ys-sw-r): genuine lapis lazuli, a large block, making 20 deben, 9 kidet; genuine lapis lazuli, 2 blocks; total, 3; and pieces, [making] 30 deben; total, 50 deben and 9 kidet; fine lapis lazuli from Babylon (Bb-r); vessels of Assur of hrrt- stone in colors, ---- very many." "Tribute of the chief of Assur: horses ---. A ---- of skin of the M-h-w as the [protection] of a chariot, of the finest of --- wood; 190(+x) wagons --- --- wood, nhb wood, 343 pieces, carob wood, 50 pieces; nby and k'nk wood, 206 pieces; olive oil, ------.." [BREASTED, Vol. II, Sec. 446, 449]


"Whites" put to slave labor in Egypt.

from Project Guttenberg full text of:
A HISTORY OF EGYPT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PERSIAN CONQUEST
BY JAMES HENRY BREASTED,
II, 760-1, 773. 2 II, 761.

Inscription
"the Asiatics of all countries came with bowed head, doing obeisance to the fame of his majesty."


book text:

"Thutmose's war-galleys moored in the harbour of the town; but at this time not merely the iceaUh of Asia was unloaded from the ships; the Asiatics themselves, bound one to another in long lines, were led down the gang planks to begin a life of slave- labour for the Pharaoh (Fig. 119). They wore long matted beards, an abomination to the Egyptians ; their hair hung in heavy black masses upon their shoulders, and they were clad in gaily coloured woolen stuffs, such as the Egyptian, spotless in his white linen robe, would never put on his body.

Their arms were pinioned behind them at the elbows or crossed over their heads and lashed together ; or, again, their hands were thrust through odd pointed ovals of wood, which served as hand-cuffs. The women carried their children slung in a fold of the mantle over their shoulders. With their strange speech and uncouth postures the poor wretches were the subject of jibe and merriment on the part of the multitude ; while the artists of the time could never forbear caricaturing them. Many of them found their way into the houses of the Pharaoh's favourites, and his generals were liberally rewarded with gifts of such slaves; but the larger number were immediately employed on the temple estates, the Pharaoh's domains, or in the construction of his great monuments and buildings.

Now do you see how foolish and dumb is your Nordic stupidness is? No scholar promotes the Dynastic race Theory only low selfesteem kids and Dumb Adults on the Internet. I guess that is why no one takes you seriously.

Peace
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
@ King's post


African Studies" is not acceptable. Those guys are nothing but ideologues in acdemic disguise. :roll eyes:

The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt.


No academic credentials. :roll eyes:


A bunch of popular writers - cite JOURNAL articles.


Upper egypt is southern egypt - near nubia. Any surprise they found buried blacks there? No.


What's her point - that everyone goes back to africa? Not relevent. The ISSUE is were the egyptians indistinct from the subsaharan africans of the the time.
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
I don't think he can since he thought we would post bias SO CALLED afrocentric facts LOL. Now Kemp go ahead and prove us and the many anceint and modern historians wrong.
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
@ King's post


African Studies" is not acceptable. Those guys are nothing but ideologues in acdemic disguise. :roll eyes:

The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt.


No academic credentials. :roll eyes:


A bunch of popular writers - cite JOURNAL articles.


Upper egypt is southern egypt - near nubia. Any surprise they found buried blacks there? No.


What's her point - that everyone goes back to africa? Not relevent. The ISSUE is were the egyptians indistinct from the subsaharan africans of the the time.

Well here are a few Europeans for you:

THE PREDOMINANT AND ORIGINAL POPULATION OF ANCIENT EGYPT ACCORDING TO EUROPEAN “SCHOLARS” AND “HISTORIANS”


Quote from 1867 by Egyptologist Champollion-Figeac - “The first tribes that inhabited Egypt that is, the Nile Valley between the Syene cataracts and the sea, came from Abyssinia to Sennar. The ancient Egyptians belonged to a race quite similar to the Kennous or Barabras, present inhabitants of Nubia. In the Copts of Egypt we do not find any of the characteristic features of the ancient Egyptian population. The Copts are the result of crossbreeding with all the nations that have successively dominated Egypt . It is wrong to seek in them the principal features of the old race.” From Letters published by Champollion-Figeac (Founding Egyptologist).

Also written by Jean Francois Champollion

“Dr. Larrey investigated this problem in Egypt; he examined a large number of mummies, studied their skulls, recognized the principle characteristics, tried to identify them in the various races living in Egypt, and succeeded in doing so. The Abyssinian seemed to him to combine them all, except for the black race. The Abyssinian has large eyes, an agreeable glance.prominent cheekbones; the cheeks form a regular triangle with prominent angles of the jawbone and mouth; the lips are thick without being everted as in Blacks; the teeth are fine, just slightly protruding ; finally, the complexion is merely copper-colored: such are the Abyssinians observed by Dr. Larrey generally known as Berbers or Barabras, present-day inhabitants of Nubia.” quoted in the African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality published by Lawrence Hill, 1974 by Cheikh Anta Diop.

1886 – “The fundamental character of the Egyptians in respect of physical type, language and tone of thought, is Negritic. The Egyptians were not negroes, but they bore resemblance to the negro which is indisputable.†Found in - Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson and Arthur Gilman, London, 1886, p. 24.

1911 - Anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith - “the physical characteristics of the present day Nubian, Beja, Danakil, Galla, and Somali populations are if we leave out of account the alien negro and Semitic traits…are an obvious token of their undoubted kinship with the proto-Egyptians.†. Found on page 75 in The Ancient Egyptians and the Origin of Civilization (London/New York, Harper & Brothers).

“The Egyptians, though healthy, large and robust were clumsy in their forms and course in their features. Like other African tribes they were woolly haired, flat-nosed and thick lipped, and if not absolutely black were very near it in color.” Found in Specimens of Ancient Sculpture Society of Dilettanti, Vol 1. quoted by J.A. Rogers, Nature Knows No Color Line p. 41, 1952.

1939 - “…the type of certain Pharaohs, like Ramses II, appears related to the Abyssinian type.” Quote found in, The Races of Europe, Macmillan, 1939 p. 96 by anthropologist and racist Carleton S. Coon of the University of Pennsylvania (a supporter of the eugenics movement in America).

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European Historians On the Fellaheen of Egypt and Sinai in Contrast to the Turks and Copts until the 19th Century

Up until the 19th century, and in the centuries previous, European visitors to Egypt commonly contrasted the dark brown, “half-naked†and indigenous Fellaheen agriculturalists with the “fair†or “pale-complexioned†Turkish-originated population of Egypt dressed in robes and furs that had entered the country in large numbers. Today most natives of the United Arab Republic of Eygpt consider themselves (thanks to European colonials) representative of the indigenous people of ancient Egypt . However, it is clear that less than a century ago this was not the case. Most of the agriculturalists in Egypt had absorbed for centuries the incoming Bedouins of the Arabian peninsula who were according to most accounts dark or brown and the same color as the indigenous Egyptians, as well as large numbers of slaves in early days from Asia and later mostly African and Slavic slaves. Descendants of Byzantines made up a significant number of the early “Copts†during the Muslim era. On the other hand Turks in the 18th through 20th centuries made up a rather significant portion of Egypt ’s major cities and their descendants remain representative of the upper class of Egypt as well as other regions of North Africa.

1845 - A traveling lawyer from the mid 19th century Dawson Borrer wrote of, “gaunt brown fellahs half unclad, women wrapped up in scanty unwashed garments… with their faces daubed in curious devices of blue paint… and naked children…†from A Journey from Naples to Jerusalem, by Way of Athens, Egypt and the Peninsula of Sinai…†p. 90 by Dawson Borrer, Esquire translation by M. Linant de Bellefonde.

1860s - Lucie A. Duff Gordon wrote of the appearance of Turkish Mamluk soldiers in Egypt that were fair and blue-eyed who “contrast curiously with the brown Fellaheen.†Gordon In Letters from Egypt 1863-1865 by p. 351-352 published by Elibron Classics in 2001.

1861 - William Henry Bartlett - “The streets swarm with Turks in splendid many-coloured robes, half naked brown skinned Arabs…†The Nile Boat, Or Glimpses of the Land of Egypt by William Henry Bartlett 1861 p. A. Hall, Virtue and Co.

1870 – Samuel Sharpe on city of Alexandria in 1870, “…the poor of the city, as of old are the half naked brown-skinned Fellahs.†in The History of Egypt : From the Earliest Times ‘Til the Conquest of the Arabs Vol. II, p. 386, London : George Bell and Sons 1885.

1878 - On the nile at Farshut “the swarms of brown Fellaheen†are described in A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Vol. I 1878. p. 150 published by

1875 - The Fellaheen are described “chocolate brown†in the text, Contributions to the Ethnology of Egypt in the Journal of Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 4, 1875, pp. 223-254

1879 - “If you have no wind you lie in the river and watch the idle flapping of the sail and the crowd of black and brown fellahs howling for baksheesh…†from Around the World with General Grant : A Narrative of the Visit of General U.S. Grant, Ex-President of the United States to Various Countries in Europe , Asia and Africa in 1877, 1878, 1879 published by John Russell Young, Volume I 1879.

1899 – With regard to the city of Cairo with it’s fair-skinned Turks and its native Arab fellaheen - “east of this line 500,000 brown skinned Arabs are living in the quaintest and most delightful, but at the same time dirtiest and most dilapidated streets.. Cairo has a population of some 600,000 inhabitants†p. 74 from The Redemption fo Egypt by William Basil Worsfold published in 1899 by G. Allen.

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Contemporary news article 14 August 2002, Issue No. 598, Cairo , AL -AHRAM -

2002 - The Muslim News Online concerning upper class in Egypt and continued treatment of the dark-skinned or brown Egyptians:

“… racial prejudice is not exclusively directed at those from sub-Saharan Africa. Upper class Egyptians, often fairer than their poorer compatriots, invariably look down on lower class Egyptians who tend to be darker in complexion. There is a subtle correlation between lower income and darker complexion. The Egyptian upper classes and elites tend to be noticeably lighter in complexion than their poorer and working class compatriots. “They labour in the sun,” is sometimes the cynical explanation.†Retrieved two August 27, 2008.

Edited by
Dana Marniche
September 7, 2008
 
Posted by SirInfamous (Member # 16497) on :
 
quote:


E3b* is the most pristine. Found mostly in Ethiopia. Where do you see V13 in that picture - You dont because it is only a minor subclade. When your further Break down M78 and M78 travels OUT of Africa and has sex with your European Ancestors - you get V13

that's exactly what I said dumb dumb.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Kemp

I am losing Brain cells even entertaining your BS. You say African Studies is Biased, Please show us how they are Biased?

Fool how do you not understand that Upper Egypt was where the majority of Ancient Egyptians Live.

Also we see links with socalled Nubia from the prophecy of Neferti:

Then a king will come from the South,
Ameny, the just)fied, by name,
Son of a woman of Ta-Seti, child of Upper Egypt.
He will take the white crown

http://ib205.tripod.com/prophecy_neferti.html

That is from the 12th Dynasty, What I fail to see is any reference to Nordics, I see they held the South of Egypt in High regard.

Now do yourself a favor and read and learn from the long post of mine.

Peace
 
Posted by SirInfamous (Member # 16497) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
He had to be looking at the nubians because the original egyptains were nordics. Its common sense really.

NO, the illiterate people North of the Alps the Romans called "Barbarians" were the only "Nordics" in the ancient world.
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by SirInfamous:
quote:


E3b* is the most pristine. Found mostly in Ethiopia. Where do you see V13 in that picture - You dont because it is only a minor subclade. When your further Break down M78 and M78 travels OUT of Africa and has sex with your European Ancestors - you get V13

that's exactly what I said dumb dumb.
The following info from a Eurocentric weblog shows the uselessness of arguing over haplotypes and genetics without physical anthropological foundations:


“A back migration from Asia to Africa took place around 15,000 years ago, with a group of R1b1* people moving to Egypt, Sudan and spreading in different directions inside Africa to Rwanda, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau. The hotspot is Cameroon. R1b1* was observed at a frequency of up to 95% in some tribes of northern Cameroon (like the Kirdi), and about 15% nationwide. It is probably where the early R1b people first settled, then spread south and east along the coast.”

The problem a lot of people are unaware that most Cromagnon and paleolithic, mesolithic and neolithic people around the Mediteranean including in North Africa were not biologically or not closely affiliated represented by modern Europeans. 15,000 years ago the majority of people in North africa were Mechtoids and other “Cro-Magnon” type people with craniofacial traits that were strongly tropical. These people had very little direct connection to modern European peoples or those called “Eurasian in the Middle East. in fact they were closer to modern sub-Saharan Africans.

This has been known for many decades by anthropologists and modern physical anthropologists using genetic based traits have basically confirmed the earlier conclusions. Thus, the study done by Brace and several other reputable physical anthropological specialists who wrote and edited the paper proving the unrelatedness of most modern Europeans with ancient pre- Bronze Age Europeans showed very strong tropical and “Negroid” traits well into the neolithic. It also concluded many Bronze Age people were apparently not closely connected genetically to modern Europeans based on 24 well-tested craniofacila traits including the Mahalonobis statistic. “The surprise is that the Neolithic peoples of Europe and their Bronze Age successors are not closely related to the modern inhabitants, although the prehistoric/modern ties are somewhat more apparent in southern Europe. It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa.”

However the unrelatedness of ancient stone age Europeans to modern Europeans has long been known thus we hear from the following specialists earlier. Professor Willis Boughton in 1896, The History of Ancient Peoples 334-337: “Archeologists have found remains of three races in Europe. Two of these are generally classed as blacks, may be known as the Constant and the Cro-Magnon Race.”

“The discoveries of abundant prehistoric remains all over Europe particularly France. These with one accord tended to show that European aborigines of the Stone age were not Mongoloid like the Lapps, after all but the exact opposite. In every detail they resembled rather the dolicocecephalic Negoes of Africa.”” William Z. Ripley, Races of Europe p. 436

“The importance of the skeleton of the Cro- Magnon type is that in stature, prognathousm and shape of the orbits they exhibit approximation to the negro type more than any other which have been found in Europe.” P. 96 in Isaac Taylor, The Origin of the Aryans, first published 1889.

And in 2005 the Brace paper asserts - “If this analysis shows nothing else it demonstrates that the oft repeated European feeling that the Cro-Magnons are ‘us’ is more a product of anthropological folklore than the result of the metric data available from the skeletal remains.” see “The Questionable contribution of the Neolithic and Bronze Age to European Craniofacial form”, Loring Brace, Noriko Seguchi, Conrad B. Quintyn, Sherry C. Fox, A. Russell Nelson, Sotiris K. Manolis, by the National Academy of Sciences, which basically shows how weak the physical link is between modern Europeans and most ancient Europeans including pre-Bronze Age Eurasiatic, regardless of what haplotype or other dna traits went where. This is due to the prevalence of African looking people in Europe and Asia until the neolithic. Something that early specialists before pseudoanthropological musings of Coon. (And even he classified the bulk of the small “Mediterranean Neolithic people as noticeably “Negroid” in craniofacial character.)

Brace’s study found that only a couple of populations in neolithic Germany to have some connection to the modern Europeans and Middle Easterners, including the modern Gaunches and Basques, and northward Berber speakers (also mainly mesocranic and brachycephalic peoples) unlike ancient Africans and modern Africans and ancient paleolithic and most neolithic Europeans and Eurasians.

In addition, recent studies have again shown as Lepsius had in the past that ancient Egyptians had essentially tropical traits.

Thus we read in another recent article, “The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-Negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations.” (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). found in “Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions”. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.

Finally it should understood that, just because certain haplotypes or other dna traits came to be carried by a variety of modern populations says little about where a modern population or physical type originated. What it does suggest, however, is that many modern Europeans and the affiliated modern Eurasian populations have asorbed previous non-Europoid populations that were present in European, North African and Eurasian regions. The Greeks, Kabyles and other European-like types may be a good example of this.
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
Oops. I guess the above article was to much for your fantasy Kemp.
 
Posted by DULL-RAB debunkedd (Member # 16646) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp/White Nord:
He had to be looking at the nubians because the original egyptains were nordics.

dream on...

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Posted by SirInfamous (Member # 16497) on :
 
Bishop, I'm very aware people 15,000 years ago didn't resemble people now. Europeans 15,000 years ago would look nothing like they do now.

But this is also true for Africans as well, just look...modern "Negroid" Africans are closer to modern Greeks/Anatolians than they are to "Archaic AFricans".

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Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by DULL-RAB debunkedd:
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp/White Nord:
He had to be looking at the nubians because the original egyptains were nordics.

dream on...

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LoL, I bet he want include none of the facts he got today in his new eurocentric book that he is working on. [Smile]
 
Posted by SirInfamous (Member # 16497) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Bishop:
[QB]
quote:
Originally posted by DULL-RAB debunkedd:

LoL, I bet he want include none of the facts he got today in his new eurocentric book that he is working on.
What you guys call "Eurocentric" is vague. Arthur Kemp's retarded book is like the Nordic version of Clyde Winter's Afrocentric fantasies.

You call Mary Leftowitz a "Eurocentric" and then call Arthur Kemp the same thing?

Arthur Kemp is a clown who's ideas are radical and supported by 0 fact. No one believes them but stupid white noob children.

A woman like Mary Lefowitz is not. She is mainstream classical scholarship.

Actually Kemp was doing fine here until he called the Egytpians "Nordic" lol

The data posted at the beginning of this thread still holds.
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by SirInfamous:
Bishop, I'm very aware people 15,000 years ago didn't resemble people now. Europeans 15,000 years ago would look nothing like they do now.

But this is also true for Africans as well, just look...modern "Negroid" Africans are closer to modern Greeks/Anatolians than they are to "Archaic AFricans".

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I think that study is bias.
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
The African -American community has not been able to improve its circumstances despite the fact that the hardworking industrious and thrifty white race taxpayers have had to spend over a trillion dollars trying to elevate this population into a civilized standard of living.

Despite our best intentions every social welfare program has failed.

The sad truth is by any measurement the negro race in america is worse off today than it has been over the past 100 years of history.

THe prisons are filled to capacity, the cities are even worse than 3rd world status.

The living conditions are nothing short of depraved and barbaric and yet the criminal politicians are encouraging blacks to have more children,offering even greater welfare and other racial preference benefits to single black mothers.

THE ONLY SOLUTION IS MASSIVE STERILIZATION PROGRAMS ,NO MATTER THE COST!

FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL BLESS US FOR RELIEVING THEM OF THE GREAT BURDENS OF HAVING TO DEAL WITH FUTURE GENERATIONS OF USELESS BLACKS

BLACKS RACE FOLKS ARE OUR [SURPLUS POPULATION THAT WE NEED TO SWIFTLY DEAL WITH] in order to save the nation!
 
Posted by Bishop (Member # 16652) on :
 
Kemp so are you a jew?
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by arthurkemp:
Where the ancient Egyptians white ?

THE RED HAIRED RAMSES II - LAST SIGNIFICANT WHITE PHARAOH

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^ Red and straight hair a features rare in negroes but typical in whites.

That pretty much looks like an old white man if you ask me. Of course I don't know what his skin tone would have been.
 
Posted by Apocalypse (Member # 8587) on :
 
alTakruri wrtoe:
quote:
Hey 'Poc Away thanks for not biting the bait.
Hope the young ones learn and catch on soon,
we ain't got nothing to prove but they sure do!!!

D'ya thinj Simple Sister's got an ass like we never seeeeen?

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Lol! Looks like despite our best efforts the little fishies have been ravenous - taking bait from any and all trolls. But here's to little red Corvettes [Smile]
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Yeah simple irl, nobody diputes that Ramses is anything but a red headed north african caucasian except the regulars here on ES. They are the only people that ever question it.
 
Posted by The Gaul (Member # 16198) on :
 
Can get with a corvette engine [Big Grin] [Wink]

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Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
YAAAAAAWWWWNNNN!!! The moderators should do something about these quacks. Else most regulars will disppaear until something or someone really interesting appears. Nordic AE!!! LOL

quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
Yeah simple irl, nobody diputes that Ramses is anything but a red headed north african caucasian except the regulars here on ES. They are the only people that ever question it.


 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Possible the moderators should do something about you xyyman. Like many of the reulars you are fond of presenting information without historioraphic backup. I have never heard a mainstream Eyptoloist say Ramses II was a black man.
 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
riiiiight!! and the earth is flat. Red-headed africans. GTFOH
 
Posted by White Nord (Member # 14093) on :
 
For future use against these bogus Afrocentric studies!


quote:
'''MODERN SKELETAL STUDIES PLACE EGYTIANS CLOSER TO AFRICAN GROUPS'''

"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-Negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.

SKEWED RESULTS - the so-called “Negroid body plan” is not Egyptian but mixed Nubian:

“The ancient Egyptians have been described as having a “Negroid” body plan (Robins, 1983). Variations in the proximal to distal segments of each limb were therefore examined. Of the ratios considered, only maximum humerus length to maximum ulna length (XLH/XLU) showed statistically significant change through time. This change was a relative decrease in the length of the humerus as compared with the ulna, suggesting the development of an increasingly African body plan with time. This may also be the result of Nubian mercenaries being included in the sample from Gebelein [/u]…The earliest evidence of Nubians living in Egypt comes during the OK. Throughout the MK, the pharaonic frontier lay on the Second Cataract (in present-day Sudan); during this period, movements northwards from Nubia are especially likely. Together with the known presence of Nubian mercenaries in Gebelein (Fischer, 1961), the MK sample may represent a Nubian rather than Egyptian population. (Variation in Ancient Egyptian Stature and Body Proportions Sonia R. Zakrzewski 2003)

So here we have the truth at last. The so called “negroid body plan” is not Egyptian after all, but Nubian which is MIXED. Of course it is expected that lumping non-Egyptian Nubians in with Egyptians is going to skew the results. I am not surprised that you would completely edit out this powerful little fact. Notice there is a DIFFERENCE between Nubian and Egyptian and Nubians arrive during the OK, this means they werent presently there before!

"..sample populations available from northern Egypt from before the 1st Dynasty (Merimda, Maadi and Wadi Digla) turn out to be significantly different from sample populations from early Palestine and Byblos, suggesting a lack of common ancestors over a long time. If there was a south-north cline variation along the Nile valley it did not, from this limited evidence, continue smoothly on into southern Palestine. The limb-length proportions of males from the Egyptian sites group them with Africans rather than with Europeans." (Barry Kemp, "Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation. (2005) Routledge. p. 52-60)

None of this Negrocentric **** says it groups them with negroids or even sub-Saharans. Kemp got his info from the study “Predynastic Egyptian Stature And Physical Proportions” ( Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986 Human Evolution) in which it explicitly states: “This does not mean that the ancient Egyptians were negroes; indeed, in their art they clearly distinguished between their own facial features and skin colour and those of people from further south.”

Whites & Egyptians have mass-reduced teeth while negroids have large teeth:

quote:
Qualitative and quantitative methods are employed to describe and compare up to 36 dental morphological variants in 15 Neolithic through Roman-period Egyptian samples. Trait frequencies are determined, and phenetic affinities are calculated using the mean measure of divergence and Mahalanobis D2 statistics for discrete traits; the most important traits in generating this intersample variation are identified with correspondence analysis. Assuming that the samples are representative of the populations from which they derive, and that phenetic similarity provides an estimate of genetic relatedness, these affinities are suggestive of overall population continuity. That is, other than a few outliers exhibiting extreme frequencies of nine influential traits, the dental samples appear to be largely homogenous and can be characterized as having morphologically simple, mass-reduced teeth . These findings are contrasted with those resulting from previous skeletal and other studies, and are used to appraise the viability of five Egyptian peopling scenarios. Specifically, affinities among the 15 time-successive samples suggest that: 1) there may be a connection between Neolithic and subsequent predynastic Egyptians, 2) predynastic Badarian and Naqada peoples may be closely related, 3) the dynastic period is likely an indigenous continuation of the Naqada culture, 4) there is support for overall biological uniformity through the dynastic period, and 5) this uniformity may continue into postdynastic times.” (“Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples” J.D. Irish Copyright 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.)

the observation that teeth of American blacks are larger than those of American whites.” (“Tissue contributions to sex and race: Differences in tooth crown size of deciduous molars” Edward F. Harris, Joseph D. Hicks, Betsy D. Barcroft College of Dentistry, University of Tennessee 2001)

The largest teeth are found among Australians, followed by Melanesians, Micronesians, sub-Saharan Africans , and Native Americans. Philippine Negritos, Jomon/Ainu, and Western Eurasians have small teeth ,” (“Metric dental variation of major human populations” Tsunehiko Hanihara, Hajime Ishida Department of Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, Saga Medical School)

“Neolithic through Roman-period Egyptian samples were demonstrated to have “simple, mass-reduced teeth” (“Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples” J.D. Irish)

American negroids have large teeth compared to those of American whites.

There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians , exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas. " (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

This is not surprising that SOUTHERN EGYPTIANS who were mixed NUBIANS have southern affinities. Nor does it lump northern Egyptians in with southern ones. They were careful not to.

Even in comparisons to American Blacks, the ancient Egyptians are found closer to said Blacks that American Whites or Europeans

We also compare Egyptian body proportions to those of modern American Blacks and Whites... Long bone stature regression equations were then derived for each sex. Our results confirm that, although ancient Egyptians are closer in body proportion to modern American Blacks than they are to American Whites, proportions in Blacks and Egyptians are not identical ... Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks. ..brachial indices are definitely more ‘African’... There is no evidence for significant variation in proportions among temporal or social groupings; thus, the new formulae may be broadly applicable to ancient Egyptian remains." ("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55
 
Posted by White Nord (Member # 14093) on :
 
quote:
“An attempt has been made to estimate male and female Egyptian stature from long bone length using TROTTER & GLESER negro stature formulae, previous work by the authors having shown that these rather than white formulae give more consistent results with male dynastic material. Evidence is presented that the tibia length should include the spine in the later (1958) formulae and should exclude it in the earlier (1952) formulae. It is also shown that better results are obtained if the constants in the stature formulae are modified so as to conform more exactly with the basic data published by TROTTER & GLESER. When consistency has been achieved in this way, predynastic proportions are founded to be such that distal segments of the limbs are even longer in relation to the proximal segments than they are in modern negroes. Such proportions are termed <<super-negroid>>… On the subject of estimating living stature from skeletal remains, BROTHWELL (1981 p. 101) mentions that the equations which the archaeologist is generally advised to use are those of TROTTER & GLESER (1952, 1958) based on the long bone lengths of modern North American subjects; he adds, however, that modern formulae may not be appropriate to earlier populations', and no physical anthropologist is fully content with the statistics so far produced. Where living height cannot be measured directly, it is clear that the credibility of estimates must depend upon criteria such as plausibility and consistency. In the case of Egyptian mummies, for instance, the estimate may be plausible if the deviation from the measured mummy length can be explained in terms of observable deformities such as collapse of the cervical spine, curvature of the thoracic spine, or foot-droop. The estimate is consistent if individual long bones give similar results, and this will depend upon the skeleton ancient times having limb and trunk proportions similar to those of the subjects on which the modern formulae were based. ROBINS (1983) and ROBINS & SHUTE (1983) have shown that more consistent results are obtained for ancient Egyptian male skeletons if TROTTER & GLESER formulae for negro subjects are used, rather than those for whites which have always been applied in the past. This does not mean that the ancient Egyptians were negroes; indeed, in their art they clearly distinguished between their own facial features and skin colour and those of people from further south. It does, however, suggest that their physical proportions were more like those of modern negroes than those of modern whites, with limbs that were relatively long compared with the trunk, and distal limb segments that were long compared with the proximal segments.”(“Predynastic Egyptian Stature And Physical Proportions” Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986 Hum Evol 1:313–324. Ruff CB. 1994)

'''CONTINUITY OF THE NILE VALLEY PEOPLES'''

"Certainly there was some foreign admixture [in Egypt], but basically a homogeneous African population had lived in the Nile Valley from ancient to modern times... [the] Badarian people, who developed the earliest Predynastic Egyptian culture, already exhibited the mix of North African and Sub-Saharan physical traits that have typified Egyptians ever since (Hassan 1985; Yurco 1989; Trigger 1978; Keita 1990.. et al.,)... The peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and much of East African Ethiopia and Somalia are now generally regarded as a Nilotic continuity, with widely ranging physical features (complexions light to dark, various hair and craniofacial types) but with powerful common cultural traits, including cattle pastoralist traditions.." (Frank Yurco, "An Egyptological Review," 1996 -in Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, Black Athena Revisited, 1996, The University of North Carolina Press, p. 62-100)

It doesn’t state who is “foreign” but admits that there was a MIX while labeling it “homogeneous “ LOL. And we know those “variations” are due to Caucasian gene flow that is why they are able to determine “NORTHERN” and southern mtdnas:

“Previous genetic studies of Egyptian, Nubian, and Sudanese populations allowed for distinguishing between two mtDNA types : the so called “southern” (Sub-Saharan) and “northern” (Eurasian) (for details see: Chen et al. 1995; Krings et al. 1999). To obtain the frequencies of these mtDNA types, amplification of the HVRI region and three RFLP markers was conducted. The authors succeeded in analysing RFLP markers in 34 samples and HVRI sequences in 18 of the samples. Both populations, ancient and contemporary, fit the north-south clinal distribution of “southern” and “northern” mtDNA types (Graver et al. 2001). However, significant differences were found between these populations.

“As for mtDNA (Krings et al., [1999]), the present study on the Y-chromosome haplotype shows that there are northern and southern Y-haplotypes in Egypt…proportions of northern and southern mtDNA differed significantly between Egypt, Nubia, and the Southern Sudan.” (“Brief Communication: Y-Chromosome Haplotypes in Egypt G. Lucotte* and G. Mercier International Institute of Anthropology)

North African populations are considered genetically closer to Eurasians than to sub-Saharans.” (“Female gene pools of Berber and Arab neighboring communities in central Tunisia: microstructure of mtDNA variation in North Africa Human Biology2005”)
 
Posted by MindoverMatter718 (Member # 15400) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by White Nord:
SKEWED RESULTS - the so-called “Negroid body plan” is not Egyptian but mixed Nubian:

Again, yes one sample might have had Nubians present but not the other dynasties you nitwit.

Each population tested clustered together from Badarians through Dynastic Egypt and all exhibited the tropical body plans.


Variation in Ancient Egyptian Stature and Body
Proportions
Sonia R. Zakrzewski*

The nature of the body plan was also investigated by comparing the intermembral, brachial, and crural indices for these samples with values obtained from the literature. No significant differences were found in either index through time for either sex. The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983). The values for the brachial and crural indices show that the distal segments of each limb are longer relative to the proximal segments than in many “African” populations (data from Aiello and Dean, 1990).

This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations.



quote:
Originally posted by White Nord:
Whites & Egyptians have mass-reduced teeth while negroids have large teeth:

Again, teeth can alter due to ones diet, the shift to agriculture led these individuals to go through biological changes....


Biological Changes in Human Populations with Agriculture Clark Spencer Larsen Department of Anthropology and Research Laboratories of Anthropology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3120

Agriculture has long been regarded as an improvement in the human condition: Once Homo sapiens made the transition from foraging to farming in the Neolithic, health and nutrition improved, longevity increased, and work load declined. Recent study of archaeological human remains worldwide by biological anthropologists has shown this characterization of the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture to be incorrect. Contrary to earlier models, the adoption of agriculture involved an overall decline in oral and general health. This decline is indicated by elevated prevalence of various skeletal and dental pathological conditions and alterations in skeletal and dental growth patterns in prehistoric farmers compared with foragers. In addition, changes in food composition and preparation technology contributed to craniofacial and dental alterations, and activity levels and mobility decline resulted in a general decrease in skeletal robusticity. These findings indicate that the shift from food collection to food production occasioned significant and widespread biological changes in human populations during the last 10,000 years.

 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
White Nord

You must of creamed your pants when you thought that the Super-Negroid body plan was because of Nubians.

Too bad that you don't seem to be able to read your own studie. It said MK was probably because of Nubians, but we "know" the OK, NK etc clustered together. So you trying to play it off as "because of Nubians" has been easily refuted.

Why would you post the same thing in two forums.

You must of been really giddy. [Big Grin]

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
WhiteNord

Also something you seem to forget while you were creaming your pants.

Tropical Body Plans Is just "ONE" line of evidence that shows Ancient Egyptians were African. here is some more facts:

Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture

Christopher Ehret
Professor of History, African Studies Chair
University of California at Los Angeles

Ancient Egyptian civilization was, in ways and to an extent usually not recognized, fundamentally African. The evidence of both language and culture reveals these African roots.

The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt.


Sir Alan Gardiner:
These were long-headed-dolicocephalic is the learned term-and below even medium stature, but Negroid features are often to be observed. Whatever may be said of the northerners, it is safe to describe the dwellers in Upper Egypt as of essentially African stock , a character always retained despite alien influences brought to bear on them from time to time." (pg. 392; Egypt of the Pharaohs 1966)


X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980).

Courtesy of James Harris and Edward Wente:

In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults.


The people who bear the greatest resemblence to the ancient Egyptians, at present, are the Nubians; and next are the Abyssinians;
page 530

Edward Lane
Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians

The period when sub-Saharan Africa was most influential in Egypt was a time when neither Egypt, as we understand it culturally, nor the Sahara, as we understand it geographically, existed. Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472

Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and
immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues

A-M Mekota1, M Vermehren2

Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13

"Materials and methods
In 1997, the German Institute for Archaeology headed an excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. At this time, three types of tissues were sampled from different mummies: meniscus (fibrocartilage), skin, and placenta. Archaeological findings suggest that the mummies dated from the New Kingdom (approximately
1550_/1080 BC)..... The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."

"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

The nature of the body plan was also investigated by comparing the intermembral, brachial, and crural indices for these samples with values obtained from the literature. No significant differences were found in either index through time for either sex. The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-Negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983). Sonia Zakrzewski (2003)

"On the Origin of the Egyptians. Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North." Mary Lefkowitz

Read and Learn.

Peace
 
Posted by Henu (Member # 13490) on :
 
Doesn't belong in Egyptology. Moved.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by arthurkemp:

What about limb-ratio claims by Negrocentrsists? Are these in any way good racial indicators?

Not really.

This is because they're too dependent on environment.

You dummy! Of course limb ratios are dependent on environment because they are evolutionary adaptations! And the long limb ratios of Egyptians have not only been described as "negroid" but "super negroid"! by Robins and others!

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^ And look which group comes closest to ancient Egyptians!! LOL

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For example, high-altitude and low-altitude Andeans evolved different limb proportions in response to their different environments(Weinstein 2005), even though they are essentially the same people.
altitude has nothing to do with it-- it is latitude!
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Originally posted by SirInfamous:

Arthur Kemp, good data, I'm impressed. But all this shows is that Egyptians were and are Caucasoids.

It does nothing to prove that ancient Egypt was a "Nordic desert empire" as you maintain in your ridiculous book (if you are even the real Arthur Kemp).

Actually Kemp FAILS to prove the Egyptians were "caucasoid" anymore than they were 'Nordics'!

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^ According to Kemp all these black Pharaohs above are 'Nubians' from the 25th dynasty! And according to YOU 'Infamous' they are 'Mediterranean' cacasians! BOTH of you are insanely wrong! LMAO
 
Posted by SirInfamous (Member # 16497) on :
 
quote:
! And according to YOU 'Infamous' they are 'Mediterranean' cacasians! BOTH of you are insanely wrong! LMAO
No, I never said they were "Mediterranean caucasians". I challenge you to find a post of mine where I said that.

The Notion of Mediterranean/Nordic/Alpine etc races are no longer used in modern physical anthropology. They are outdated terms.

What I did say is that the data Kemp posted still holds.

If you want my take, (which is the closest to reality) they were Northeast Africans..with Modern Egyptians being physically the closest. Far, Far, away from African American Negroids from West Africa who seem to be obsessed with them.

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Posted by Jari-Ankhamun (Member # 14451) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by SirInfamous:
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! And according to YOU 'Infamous' they are 'Mediterranean' cacasians! BOTH of you are insanely wrong! LMAO
No, I never said they were "Mediterranean caucasians". I challenge you to find a post of mine where I said that.

The Notion of Mediterranean/Nordic/Alpine etc races are no longer used in modern physical anthropology. They are outdated terms.

What I did say is that the data Kemp posted still holds.

If you want my take, (which is the closest to reality) they were Northeast Africans..with Modern Egyptians being physically the closest. Far, Far, away from African American Negroids from West Africa who seem to be obsessed with them.

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Modern Egyptians, you do realize they are several modern Egyptians and the closest of the "Modern" Egyptians are the Upper Egyptian Saidies...a fact any sane poster on this site will attest too.

So Alpine and Mediterrainian Race is no longer used but "African American" "NEGRIODS" is still used....Wait is "Negriod" even a F-ing word....you little closet racist.... Let me guess the Egyptians were "North African Darksinned Whites...I mean North African Caucasians(sarcasm) GTFOH....
 
Posted by Jari-Ankhamun (Member # 14451) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
The African -American community has not been able to improve its circumstances despite the fact that the hardworking industrious and thrifty white race taxpayers have had to spend over a trillion dollars trying to elevate this population into a civilized standard of living.

Despite our best intentions every social welfare program has failed.

The sad truth is by any measurement the negro race in america is worse off today than it has been over the past 100 years of history.

THe prisons are filled to capacity, the cities are even worse than 3rd world status.

The living conditions are nothing short of depraved and barbaric and yet the criminal politicians are encouraging blacks to have more children,offering even greater welfare and other racial preference benefits to single black mothers.

THE ONLY SOLUTION IS MASSIVE STERILIZATION PROGRAMS ,NO MATTER THE COST!

FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL BLESS US FOR RELIEVING THEM OF THE GREAT BURDENS OF HAVING TO DEAL WITH FUTURE GENERATIONS OF USELESS BLACKS

BLACKS RACE FOLKS ARE OUR [SURPLUS POPULATION THAT WE NEED TO SWIFTLY DEAL WITH] in order to save the nation!

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Egyptsearch is Dead Folks....Mods...LOOK AT THE DEAD carcass of a once great webpage for the discussion of African academia and Africana studies. Now Egypt search is on par with Stormfront a bunch of racist lowlifes blaming blacks and minorities for all their wrongs.

The stupidity and ignorance coming from this posters mouth would only be tolerated on a site such a Stormfront or Mathildas blog...
 
Posted by SirInfamous (Member # 16497) on :
 
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North African populations are considered genetically closer to Eurasians than to sub-Saharans.” (“Female gene pools of Berber and Arab neighboring communities in central Tunisia: microstructure of mtDNA variation in North Africa Human Biology2005”) [/QB]
Absolutely, much closer.

Craniofacially, genetically, you name it.

Even the Ethiopians/Sudanese of East Africa are closer.

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These Afrocentics think there is some sort of homogeneous "African race" and then I suppose once a guy from Egypt steps into the Sinai Peninsula magically a new "Asian race" appears...It doesn't work that way.
 
Posted by SirInfamous (Member # 16497) on :
 
quote:
So Alpine and Mediterrainian Race is no longer used but "African American" "NEGRIODS" is still used....Wait is "Negriod" even a F-ing word....you little closet racist.... Let me guess the Egyptians were "North African Darksinned Whites...I mean North African Caucasians(sarcasm) GTFOH
"Negroid" is a term still used, it's on the dendrogram I pasted.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
People don't let the Haters Drive you away from posting.

They(Racists) are trying to take over the forums. They want to squeeze out regular posters and have this place discredited. Please posters understand we are in the middle of a war. A war for Egyptsearch. We must defend this place from the racists. Don't think that we don't notice that we have a higher volume of Racist posers.

This is done on purpose because we have discredited many mainstream lies. It will be us who have to hold the ship up. You will never find a forum where we can reach the mainstream and force them to stop posting lies about Egypt and Africa in general.

I ask the truthseekers to not give up but fight the good fight. Remember we were the main reason why Natgeo had that "Black" pharoah nonsense. It was the mainstreams way of giving us a bone. If you want the bone plus the meat, you will have to continue to fight the good fight. We are slowly winning the war as we can see with how much the mainstream keeps giving us a little drop of truth. I ask "ALL" truthseekers to keep the pressure on and never give up.

Peace
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
quote:
Originally posted by arthurkemp:

What about limb-ratio claims by Negrocentrsists? Are these in any way good racial indicators?

Not really.

This is because they're too dependent on environment.

You dummy! Of course limb ratios are dependent on environment because they are evolutionary adaptations! And the long limb ratios of Egyptians have not only been described as "negroid" but "super negroid"! by Robins and others!

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^ And look which group comes closest to ancient Egyptians!! LOL

quote:
For example, high-altitude and low-altitude Andeans evolved different limb proportions in response to their different environments(Weinstein 2005), even though they are essentially the same people.
altitude has nothing to do with it-- it is latitude!
quote:
Originally posted by SirInfamous:

Arthur Kemp, good data, I'm impressed. But all this shows is that Egyptians were and are Caucasoids.

It does nothing to prove that ancient Egypt was a "Nordic desert empire" as you maintain in your ridiculous book (if you are even the real Arthur Kemp).

Actually Kemp FAILS to prove the Egyptians were "caucasoid" anymore than they were 'Nordics'!

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All of those pics were of nubian's.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Of course your dumb lying ass would say that. But they're NOT. They are Egyptians!

Mentuhotep 11th dynasty
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Tiye, wife of Amunhotep III, grandmother of Tutankhamun 18th dynasty
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King Tutankhamun 18th dynasty
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Queen Hatshepsut 18th dynasty
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Posted by Red,White, and Blue + Christian (Member # 10893) on :
 
A Kemp and White Nord,

You are wasting your time. Give it up. Egypt is an African country. Not all Africans look alike. So what.

I've met modern Egyptians. They have joined African American organizations. They have married African Americans. They live in Black neighborhoods.

As far as Ethiopians are concerned, they are some of the greatest Afrocentrists.

Years ago, I saw a movie called Sankofa by the Ethiopian producer Haile Gerima. It has been the people along the Nile River who have been on the vangaurd of Afrocentrism. You can't see the obvious. And of course, the French are a 1000 years of the African Americans in Afrocentrism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gerima

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Posted by Red,White, and Blue + Christian (Member # 10893) on :
 
Our great African American scholar wrote this on ancient Egypt

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III ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT
Having viewed now the land and movements of African people in main outline, let us scan more narrowly the history of five main centers of activity and culture, namely: the valleys of the Nile and of the Congo, the borders of the great Gulf of Guinea, the Sudan, and South Africa. These divisions do not cover all of Negro Africa, but they take in the main areas and the main lines in development.

First, we turn to the valley of the Nile, perhaps the most ancient of known seats of civilization in the world, and certainly the oldest in Africa, with a culture reaching back six or eight thousand years. Like all civilizations it drew largely from without and undoubtedly arose in the valley of the Nile, because that valley was so easily made a center for the meeting of men of all types and from all parts of the world. At the same time Egyptian civilization seems to have been African in its beginnings and in its main line of development, despite strong influences from all parts of Asia. Of what race, then, were the Egyptians? They certainly were not white in any sense of the modern use of that word--neither in color nor physical measurement, in hair nor countenance, in language nor social customs. They stood in relationship nearest the Negro race in earliest times, and then gradually through the infiltration of Mediterranean and Semitic elements became what would be described in America as a light mulatto stock of Octoroons or Quadroons. This stock was varied continually: now by new infiltration of Negro blood from the south, now by Negroid and Semitic blood from the east, now by Berber types from the north and west.

Egyptian monuments show distinctly Negro and mulatto faces. Herodotus, in an incontrovertible passage, alludes to the Egyptians as "black and curly-haired" 1--a peculiarly significant statement from


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one used to the brunette Mediterranean type; in another passage, concerning the fable of the Dodonian Oracle, he again alludes to the swarthy color of the Egyptians as exceedingly dark and even black. Æschylus, mentioning a boat seen from the shore, declares that its crew are Egyptians, because of their black complexions.

Modern measurements, with all their admitted limitations, show that in the Thebaid from one-seventh to one-third of the Egyptian population were Negroes, and that of the predynastic Egyptians less than half could be classed as non-Negroid. Judging from measurements in the tombs of nobles as late as the eighteenth dynasty, Negroes form at least one-sixth of the higher class. 1

Such measurements are by no means conclusive, but they are apt to be under rather than over statements of the prevalence of Negro blood. Head measurements of Negro Americans would probably place most of them in the category of whites. The evidence of language also connects Egypt with Africa and the Negro race rather than with Asia, while religious ceremonies and social customs all go to strengthen this evidence.

The ethnic history of Northeast Africa would seem, therefore, to have been this: predynastic Egypt was settled by Negroes from Ethiopia. They were of varied type: the broad-nosed, woolly-haired type to which the word "Negro" is sometimes confined; the black, curly-haired, sharper featured type, which must be considered an equally Negroid variation. These Negroes met and mingled with the invading Mediterranean race from North Africa and Asia. Thus the blood of the sallower race spread south and that of the darker race north. Black priests appear in Crete three thousand years before Christ, and Arabia is to this day thoroughly permeated with Negro blood. Perhaps, as Chamberlain says, "one of the prime reasons why no civilization of the type of that of the Nile arose in other parts of the continent, if such a thing were at all possible, was that Egypt acted as a sort of channel by which the genius of Negro-land was drafted off into the service of Mediterranean and Asiatic culture." 2

To one familiar with the striking and beautiful types arising from the mingling of Negro with Latin and Germanic types in America, the puzzle of the Egyptian type is easily solved. It was unlike any of its neighbors and a unique type until one views the modern mulatto; then the faces of Rahotep and Nefert, of Khafra and Amenemhat I,


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of Aahmes and Nefertari, and even of the great Ramessu II, become curiously familiar.

The history of Egypt is a science in itself. Before the reign of the first recorded king, five thousand years or more before Christ, there had already existed in Egypt a culture and art arising by long evolution from the days of paleolithic man, among a distinctly Negroid people. About 4777 B.C. Aha-Mena began the first of three successive Egyptian empires. This lasted two thousand years, with many Pharaohs, like Khafra of the Fourth Dynasty, of a strongly Negroid cast of countenance.

At the end of the period the empire fell apart into Egyptian and Ethiopian halves, and a silence of three centuries ensued. It is quite possible that an incursion of conquering black men from the south poured over the land in these years and dotted Egypt in the next centuries with monuments on which the full-blooded Negro type is strongly and triumphantly impressed. The great Sphinx at Gizeh, so familiar to all the world, the Sphinxes of Tanis, the statue from the Fayum, the statue of the Esquiline at Rome, and the Colossi of Bubastis all represent black, full-blooded Negroes and are described by Petrie as "having high cheek bones, flat checks, both in one plane, a massive nose, firm projecting lips, and thick hair, with an austere and almost savage expression of power." 1

Blyden, the great modern black leader of West Africa, said of the Sphinx at Gizeh: "Her features are decidedly of the African or Negro type, with 'expanded nostrils.' If, then, the Sphinx was placed here--looking out in majestic and mysterious silence over the empty plain where once stood the great city of Memphis in all its pride and glory, as an 'emblematic representation of the king'--is not the inference clear as to the peculiar type or race to which that king belonged?" 2

The middle empire arose 3064 B.C. and lasted nearly twenty-four centuries. Under Pharaohs whose Negro descent is plainly evident, like Amenemhat I and III and Usertesen I, the ancient glories of Egypt were restored and surpassed. At the same time there is strong continuous pressure from the wild and unruly Negro tribes of the upper Nile valley, and we get some idea of the fear which they inspired throughout Egypt when we read of the great national rejoicing which followed the triumph of Usertesen III (c. 2660-22) over


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these hordes. He drove them back and attempted to confine them to the edge of the Nubian Desert above the Second Cataract. Hemmed in here, they set up a state about this time and founded Nepata.

Notwithstanding this repulse of black men, less than one hundred years later a full-blooded Negro from the south, Ra Nehesi, was seated on the throne of the Pharaohs and was called "The king's eldest son." This may mean that an incursion from the far south had placed a black conqueror on the throne. At any rate, the whole empire was in some way shaken, and two hundred years later the invasion of the Hyksos began. The domination of Hyksos kings who may have been Negroids from Asia 1 lasted for five hundred years.

The redemption of Egypt from these barbarians came from Upper Egypt, led by the mulatto Aahmes. He founded in 1703 B.C. the new empire, which lasted fifteen hundred years. His queen, Nefertari, "the most venerated figure of Egyptian history," 2 was a Negress of great beauty, strong personality, and of unusual administrative force. She was for many years joint ruler with her son, Amenhotep I, who succeeded his father. 3

The new empire was a period of foreign conquest and internal splendor and finally of religious dispute and overthrow. Syria was conquered in these reigns and Asiatic civilization and influences poured in upon Egypt. The great Tahutmes, III, whose reign was "one of the grandest and most eventful in Egyptian history," 4 had a strong Negroid countenance, as had also Queen Hatshepsut, who sent the celebrated expedition to reopen ancient trade with the Hottentots of Punt. A new strain of Negro blood came to the royal line through Queen Mutemua about 1420 B.C., whose son, Amenhotep III, built a great temple at Luqsor and the Colossi at Memnon.

The whole of the period in a sense culminated in the great Ramessu II, the oppressor of the Hebrews, who with his Egyptian, Libyan, and Negro armies fought half the world. His reign, however, was the beginning of decline, and foes began to press Egypt from the white north and the black south. The priests transferred their power at Thebes, while the Assyrians under Nimrod overran


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[paragraph continues] Lower Egypt. The center of interest is now transferred to Ethiopia, and we pass to the more shadowy history of that land.

The most perfect example of Egyptian poetry left to us is a celebration of the prowess of Usertesen III in confining the turbulent Negro tribes to the territory below the Second Cataract of the Nile. The Egyptians called this territory Kush, and in the farthest confines of Kush lay Punt, the cradle of their race. To the ancient Mediterranean world Ethiopia (i.e., the Land of the Black-faced) was a region of gods and fairies. Zeus and Poseidon feasted each year among the "blameless Ethiopians," and Black Memnon, King of Ethiopia, was one of the greatest of heroes.

"The Ethiopians conceive themselves," says Diodorus Siculus (Lib. III), "to be of greater antiquity than any other nation; and it is probable that, born under the sun's path, its warmth may have ripened them earlier than other men. They suppose themselves also to be the inventors of divine worship, of festivals, of solemn assemblies, of sacrifices, and every religious practice. They affirm that the Egyptians are one of their colonies."

The Egyptians themselves, in later days, affirmed that they and their civilization came from the south and from the black tribes of Punt, and certainly "at the earliest period in which human remains have been recovered Egypt and Lower Nubia appear to have formed culturally and racially one land." 1

The forging ahead of Egypt in culture was mainly from economic causes. Ethiopia, living in a much poorer land with limited agricultural facilities, held to the old arts and customs, and at the same time lost the best elements of its population to Egypt, absorbing meantime the oncoming and wilder Negro tribes from the south and west. Under the old empire, therefore, Ethiopia remained in comparative poverty, except as some of its tribes invaded Egypt with their handicrafts.

As soon as the civilization below the Second Cataract reached a height noticeably above that of Ethiopia, there was continued effort to protect that civilization against the incursion of barbarians. Hundreds of campaigns through thousands of years repeatedly subdued or checked the blacks and brought them in as captives to mingle their blood with the Egyptian nation; but the Egyptian frontier was not advanced.

A separate and independent Ethiopian culture finally began to


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arise during the middle empire of Egypt and centered at Nepata and Meroe. Widespread trade in gold, ivory, precious stones, skins, wood, and works of handicraft arose. 1 The Negro began to figure as the great trader of Egypt.

This new wealth of Ethiopia excited the cupidity of the Pharaohs and led to aggression and larger intercourse, until at last, when the dread Hyksos appeared, Ethiopia became both a physical and cultural refuge for conquered Egypt. The legitimate Pharaohs moved to Thebes, nearer the boundaries of Ethiopia, and from here, under Negroid rulers, Lower Egypt was redeemed.

The ensuing new empire witnessed the gradual incorporation of Ethiopia into Egypt, although the darker kingdom continued to resist. Both mulatto Pharaohs, Aahmes and Amenhotep I, sent expeditions into Ethiopia, and in the latter's day sons of the reigning Pharaoh began to assume the title of "Royal Son of Kush" in some such way as the son of the King of England becomes the Prince of Wales.

Trade relations were renewed with Punt under circumstances which lead us to place that land in the region of the African lakes. The Sudanese tribes were aroused by these and other incursions, until the revolts became formidable in the fourteenth century before Christ.

Egyptian culture, however, gradually conquered Ethiopia where her armies could not, and Egyptian religion and civil rule began to center in the darker kingdom. When, therefore, Shesheng I, the Libyan, usurped the throne of the Pharaohs in the tenth century B.C., the Egyptian legitimate dynasty went to Nepata as king priests and established a theocratic monarchy. Gathering strength, the Ethiopian kingdom under this dynasty expanded north about 750 B.C. and for a century ruled all Egypt.

The first king, Pankhy, was Egyptian bred and not noticeably Negroid, but his successors showed more and more evidence of Negro blood--Kashta the Kushite, Shabaka, Tarharqa, and Tanutamen. During the century of Ethiopian rule a royal son was appointed to rule Egypt, just as formerly a royal Egyptian had ruled Kush. In many ways this Ethiopian kingdom showed its Negro peculiarities: first, in its worship of distinctly Sudanese gods; secondly, in the rigid custom of female succession in the kingdom, and thirdly, by the election of kings from the various royal claimants to the throne. "It


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was the heyday of the Negro. For the greater part of the century. . . . Egypt itself was subject to the blacks, just as in the new empire the Sudan had been subject to Egypt." 1

Egypt now began to fall into the hands of Asia and was conquered first by the Assyrians and then by the Persians, but the Ethiopian kings kept their independence. Aspeluta, whose mother and sister are represented as full-blooded Negroes, ruled from 630 to 600 B.C. Horsiatef (560-525 B.C.) made nine expeditions against the warlike tribes south of Meroe, and his successor, Nastosenen (525-500 B.C.) was the one who repelled Cambyses. He also removed the capital from Nepata to Meroe, although Nepata continued to be the religious capital and the Ethiopian kings were still crowned on its golden throne.

From the fifth to the second century B.C. we find the wild Sudanese tribes pressing in from the west and Greek culture penetrating from the east. King Arg-Amen (Ergamenes) showed strong Greek influences and at the same time began to employ the Ethiopian speech in writing and used a new Ethiopian alphabet.

While the Ethiopian kings were still crowned at Nepata, Meroe gradually became the real capital and supported at one time four thousand artisans and two hundred thousand soldiers. It was here that the famous Candaces reigned as queens. Pliny tells us that one Candace of the time of Nero had had forty-four predecessors on the throne, while another Candace figures in the New Testament. 2

It was probably this latter Candace who warred against Rome at the time of Augustus and received unusual consideration from her formidable foe. The prestige of Ethiopia at this time was considerable throughout the world. Pseudo-Callisthenes tells an evidently fabulous story of the visit of Alexander the Great to Candace, Queen of Meroe, which nevertheless illustrates her fame: Candace will not let him enter Ethiopia and says he is not to scorn her people because they are black, for they are whiter in soul than his white folk. She sent him gold, maidens, parrots, sphinxes, and a crown of emeralds and pearls. She ruled eighty tribes, who were ready to punish those who attacked her.

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[paragraph continues] Nubians (Nobadæ) from the west to repel them. These Nubians eventually embraced Christianity, and northern Ethiopia came to be known in time as Nubia.

The Semitic mulattoes from the east came from the highlands bordering the Red Sea and Asia. On both sides of this sea Negro blood is strongly in evidence, predominant in Africa and influential in Asia. Ludolphus, writing in the seventeenth century, says that the Abyssinians "are generally black, which [color] they most admire." Trade and war united the two shores, and merchants have passed to and fro for thirty centuries.

In this way Arabian, Jewish, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman influences spread slowly upon the Negro foundation. Early legendary history declares that a queen, Maqueda, or Nikaula of Sheba, a state of Central Abyssinia, visited Solomon in 1050 B.C. and had her son Menelik educated in Jerusalem. This was the supposed beginning of the Axumite kingdom, the capital of which, Axume, was a flourishing center of trade. Ptolemy Evergetes and his successors did much to open Abyssinia to the world, but most of the population of that day was nomadic. In the fourth century Byzantine influences began to be felt, and in 330 St. Athanasius of Alexandria consecrated Fromentius as Bishop of Ethiopia. He tutored the heir to the Abyssinian kingdom and began its gradual christianization. By the early part of the sixth century Abyssinia was trading with India and Byzantium and was so far recognized as a Christian country that the Emperor Justinian appealed to King Kaleb to protect the Christians in southwestern Arabia. Kaleb conquered Yemen in 525 and held it fifty years.

Eventually a Jewish princess, Judith, usurped the Axumite throne; the Abyssinians were expelled from Arabia, and a long period begins when as Gibbon says, "encompassed by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept for nearly a thousand years, forgetful of the world by whom they were forgotten." Throughout the middle ages, however, the legend of a great Christian kingdom hidden away in Africa persisted, and the search for Prester John became one of the world quests.

It was the expanding power of Abyssinia that led Rome to call in the Nubians from the western desert. The Nubians had formed a strong league of tribes, and as the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia declined they drove back the Abyssinians, who had already established themselves at Meroe.

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In the sixth century the Nubians were converted to Christianity by a Byzantine priest, and they immediately began to develop. A new capital, Dongola, replaced Nepata and Meroe, and by the twelfth century churches and brick dwellings had appeared. As the Mohammedan flood pressed up the Nile valley it was the Nubians that held it back for two centuries.

Farther south other wild tribes pushed out of the Sudan and began a similar development. Chief among these were the Fung, who fixed their capital at Senaar, at the junction of the White and Blue Nile. When the Mohammedan flood finally passed over Nubia, the Fung diverted it by declaring themselves Moslems. This left the Fung as the dominant power in the fifteenth century from the Three Cataracts to Fazogli and from the Red Sea at Suakin to the White Nile. Islam then swept on south in a great circle, skirted the Great Lakes, and then curled back to Somaliland, completely isolating Abyssinia.

Between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries the Egyptian Sudan became a congeries of Mohammedan kingdoms with Arab, mulatto, and Negro kings. Far to the west, near Lake Chad, arose in 1520 the sultanate of Baghirmi, which reached its highest power in the seventh century. This dynasty was overthrown by the Negroid Mabas, who established Wadai to the eastward about 1640. South of Wadai lay the heathen and cannibals of the Congo valley, against which Islam never prevailed. East of Wadai and nearer the Nile lay the kindred state of Darfur, a Nubian nation whose sultans reigned over two hundred years and which reached great prosperity in the early seventeenth century under Soliman Solon.

Before the Mohammedan power reached Abyssinia the Portuguese pioneers had entered the country from the east and begun to open the country again to European knowledge. Without doubt, in the centuries of silence, a civilization of some height had flourished in Abyssinia, but all authentic records were destroyed by fire in the tenth century. When the Portuguese came, the older Axumite kingdom had fallen and had been succeeded by a number of petty states.

The Sudanese kingdoms of the Sudan resisted the power of the Mameluke beys in Egypt, and later the power of the Turks until the nineteenth century, when the Sudan was made nominally a part of Egypt. Continuous upheaval, war, and conquest had by this time done their work, and little of ancient Ethiopian culture survived except the slave trade.

The entrance of England into Egypt, after the building of the

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Suez Canal, stirred up eventually revolt in the Sudan, for political, economic, and religious reasons. Led by a Sudanese Negro, Mohammed Ahmad, who claimed to be the Messiah (Mahdi), the Sudan arose in revolt in 1881, determined to resist a hated religion, foreign rule, and interference with their chief commerce, the trade in slaves. The Sudan was soon aflame, and the able mulatto general, Osman Digna, aided by revolt among the heathen Dinka, drove Egypt and England out of the Sudan for sixteen years. It was not until 1898 that England reëntered the Sudan and in petty revenge desecrated the bones of the brave, even if misguided, prophet.

Meantime this Mahdist revolt had delayed England's designs on Abyssinia, and the Italians, replacing her, attempted a protectorate. Menelik of Shoa, one of the smaller kingdoms of Abyssinia, was a shrewd man of predominantly Negro blood, and had been induced to make a treaty with the Italians after King John had been killed by the Mahdists. The exact terms of the treaty were disputed, but undoubtedly the Italians tried by this means to reduce Menelik to vassalage. Menelik stoutly resisted, and at the great battle of Adua, one of the decisive battles of the modern world, the Abyssinians on March 1, 1896, inflicted a crushing defeat on the Italians, killing four thousand of them and capturing two thousand prisoners. The empress, Taitou, a full-blooded Negress, led some of the charges. By this battle Abyssinia became independent.

Such in vague and general outline is the strange story of the valley of the Nile--of Egypt, the motherland of human culture and


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Footnotes
17:1 "αὐτός δὲ εἵκασα τῇδε καὶ ὅτε μελάγχροές εἰσι καὶ οὐλότριχες." Liber II, Cap. 104.

18:1 . Cf. Maciver and Thompson: Ancient Races of the Thebaid.

18:2 Journal of Race Development, I, 484.

19:1 Petrie: History of Egypt, I, 51, 237.

19:2 From West Africa to Palestine, p. 114.

20:1 Depending partly on whether the so-called Hyksos sphinxes belong to the period of the Hyksos kings or to an earlier period (cf. Petrie, I, 52-53, 237). That Negroids largely dominated in the early history of western Asia is proven by the monuments.

20:2 Petrie: History of Egypt, II, 337.

20:3 Chamberlain: Journal of Race Development, April, 1911.

20:4 Petrie: History of Egypt, II, 337.

21:1 Reisner: Archeological Survey of Nubia, I, 319.

22:1 Hoskins declares that the arch had its origin in Ethiopia.

23:1 Maciver and Wooley: Areika, p. 2.

23:2 Acts VIII, 27.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ It is a lost cause, Red. Dumb White Nerd and Dumber Arturd Kamp can argue for a white Egypt until they turn red and their hairs fall out but it cannot change the FACTS at hand!
 
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
 
Simple Girl,

The wife of the President of Senegal is a white woman. There are Lebanese who have been living in Senegal for many decades. There are whites who are born in Senegal. Suppose one of them advances far in Senegalese politics. Would that make the Senegalese white or non-African?

So don't you see the illogical absurdity of your claim: generalising from a single instance of some phenomenon.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Djehuti...facts? That is an odd word coming from someone who never uses historiographic methods of research.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
If the Ancient Egyptians were all black, than why are there mummies that look like this with European like hair and features? I could scan through a million photos of modern day black Africans and I bet I could never find any one that even comes close to looking like this picture of Ramses II.

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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Black Egyptians, so much silly stuff.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

Whats silly is You thinking you could teach anyone anything. I would not let a 2yearold learn from a quack like you.

For as long as you have been on these forums I have never seen ONE FACT come out of your post. Only one liners and lame pleading to fake authority.

You call others Racist, yet your racism is Blatant to anyone who is foolish enough to debate you.

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
not fake authority King, good scholarship. The reason you guys get yourselves into the situations is because you do haphazard work based on personal whims.
Some advice. When you start talking about black Greeks you lose all credibility. People think you are a goof ball when you say things like that. The problem with radicals King is that they always over reach, go too far.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

All I got to say to you is that you have people waiting on you to actually do something you are unfamilar with...That is post a FACT for the first time in your life.

Where in KM.T is the word Land?

If you can answer this, then you will gain my respect again.

Peace
 
Posted by Charlie Bass. (Member # 10328) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by arthurkemp:
[QB] What about limb-ratio claims by Negrocentrsists? Are these in any way good racial indicators?

Not really.



This is because they're too dependent on environment.

Ancient Egyptians didn't live in an environment that was tropical, so do the math you dumb chick, also look at the limb ratios of the whites and compare them to the ancient Egyptians.
 
Posted by Charlie Bass. (Member # 10328) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by SirInfamous:
Absolutely, much closer.

Perhaps you have it backwards

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Craniofacially, genetically, you name it.

Even the Ethiopians/Sudanese of East Africa are closer.

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And by you twisted logic please explain how did Chinese and Papua New Guineans genes seep into Ethiopia. It suffice that chart looks like a gradient of alleles that get less and less more frequent the further one moves from Ethiopia, some of it no doubt is due to back migration but no one would know from looking at that chart.
 
Posted by AryanEgypt (Member # 16469) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
quote:
Originally posted by arthurkemp:

What about limb-ratio claims by Negrocentrsists? Are these in any way good racial indicators?

Not really.

This is because they're too dependent on environment.

You dummy! Of course limb ratios are dependent on environment because they are evolutionary adaptations! And the long limb ratios of Egyptians have not only been described as "negroid" but "super negroid"! by Robins and others!

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^ And look which group comes closest to ancient Egyptians!! LOL

quote:
For example, high-altitude and low-altitude Andeans evolved different limb proportions in response to their different environments(Weinstein 2005), even though they are essentially the same people.
altitude has nothing to do with it-- it is latitude!
quote:
Originally posted by SirInfamous:

Arthur Kemp, good data, I'm impressed. But all this shows is that Egyptians were and are Caucasoids.

It does nothing to prove that ancient Egypt was a "Nordic desert empire" as you maintain in your ridiculous book (if you are even the real Arthur Kemp).

Actually Kemp FAILS to prove the Egyptians were "caucasoid" anymore than they were 'Nordics'!

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^ According to Kemp all these black Pharaohs above are 'Nubians' from the 25th dynasty! And according to YOU 'Infamous' they are 'Mediterranean' cacasians! BOTH of you are insanely wrong! LMAO

Melanesians come closest.


And a description means little -- ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CLAIM "NEGROID" IS NOT ACCURATE

You claim "Negroid" means nothing - why?

Also, did they give a reason why they described it as such, since others have described it differently?
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ And here's what Melanesians look like, moron!

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^ As you can see they are BLACK people!

Racial designations like "negroid" and "caucasoid" don't exist because human populations vary in features too much. Even within members of the same population there is going to be variation. Your definition of "negroid" is merely a narrow or restricted view on black Africans which vary in features and do not all have broad noses, kinky hair etc!

Which is why YOU LOSE! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:

Djehuti...facts? That is an odd word coming from someone who never uses historiographic methods of research.

What does historiographic methods have anything to do with it??! All historical evidence shows the Egyptian populace to be indigenous to Africa and all historical descriptions by other peoples describe them as black. We have all this plus all the evidence from physical anthropological studies of their remains as well as artwork as I've posted above. You have NOTHING to refute any of this!
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Black Egyptians, so much silly stuff.
The Egyptians as Africans being black is no more silly as Greeks as Europeans being white! [Roll Eyes]

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Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

If the Ancient Egyptians were all black, than why are there mummies that look like this with European like hair and features? I could scan through a million photos of modern day black Africans and I bet I could never find any one that even comes close to looking like this picture of Ramses II.

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Features like narrow noses or thin lips are NOT European!

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Besides, the embalming chemicals used in mummification have been known to alter hair texture as well as color!
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

Hey lowlife when are you going to show the forum where Land is in KM.T?

You have not answered this question.

Also why is there a prophecy stating that a Nubian will unite Ancient Kemet?

Answer these questions and I may think about respecting you again.

No peace for you
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti:
[QB] ^ And I don't think Melanesians look like "Black people" if you ignore their skin.

Clearly - if you're speaking in genetic terms - they are the FURTHEST from Negroes.

Melanesians aren't Black, and you'd be an idiot to say so.

You first claim:
"Of course limb ratios are dependent on environment because they are evolutionary adaptations!"
So you agree with me - Thus it does not accurately indicate if they were Black or not

Then you say:
"And the long limb ratios of Egyptians have not only been described as "negroid" but "super negroid"! by Robins and others!"
Which is just you spouting random information since you have agreed it means nothing.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti:
[QB] ^ And I don't think Melanesians look like "Black people" if you ignore their skin.

Clearly - if you're speaking in genetic terms - they are the FURTHEST from Negroes.

Melanesians aren't Black, and you'd be an idiot to say so.

You first claim:
"Of course limb ratios are dependent on environment because they are evolutionary adaptations!"
So you agree with me - Thus it does not accurately indicate if they were Black or not

Then you say:
"And the long limb ratios of Egyptians have not only been described as "negroid" but "super negroid"! by Robins and others!"
Which is just you spouting random information since you have agreed it means nothing.

I agree with you on this
What I can't understand is that he appeals to a term such as super negroid as it might describe the Egyptians, and then says that the term negroid is meaningless. [Roll Eyes]
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

If the Ancient Egyptians were all black, than why are there mummies that look like this with European like hair and features? I could scan through a million photos of modern day black Africans and I bet I could never find any one that even comes close to looking like this picture of Ramses II.

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Besides, the embalming chemicals used in mummification have been known to alter hair texture as well as color!

I found this article on the hair of Ramses II.
http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=210
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
that has been a common ploy here for a long time. they say there is no such thing as race and then talk about nothing but race. this takruri even talks about a black army taking the middle east. these people can't feed themselves and this guy wants to take on the world. just nutty.
 
Posted by DULL-RAB debunkedd (Member # 16646) on :
 
Indeed- it still holds....

diagram 3- dental A- aryo-boy loses

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Black Americans, Black Africans or dark skinned tropial peoples resemble/physically closer to modern and ancient Egyptians than whites. Whether ancient or modern, the pattern is the same. - aryo-boy loses

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Data from C. Loring Brace 1993 debunked - aryo-boy loses

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Brace 2005 - early Euros looked like africans - aryo-boy loses

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timeline of the Nile Valley- Africa - aryo-boy loses

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Posted by DULL-RAB debunkedd (Member # 16646) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Bishop:
quote:
Originally posted by SirInfamous:
Bishop, I'm very aware people 15,000 years ago didn't resemble people now. Europeans 15,000 years ago would look nothing like they do now.

But this is also true for Africans as well, just look...modern "Negroid" Africans are closer to modern Greeks/Anatolians than they are to "Archaic AFricans".

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I think that study is bias.
Of course, and "Nordic Egypt" interpretations have already been debunked...

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another diagram - same result- 'white Egypt' debunked...

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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
that has been a common ploy here for a long time. they say there is no such thing as race and then talk about nothing but race. this takruri even talks about a black army taking the middle east. these people can't feed themselves and this guy wants to take on the world. just nutty.

According to the experts on this site, there is no such thing as a caucasian or negro, but there is a super negro body plan lurking around somewhere. Now I'm not an expert, but wouldn't the idea of there being a super negro almost insuredly imply that there must be a common negro about the planet somewhere? How can there be super negroes without the more common negro?
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
It makes me think there might be some super caucasians out there somewhere even though the more common caucasian doesn't actually exist.
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
djenuti forget your monuments that look black forget hereotdus descrbing the egyptians as black, or any other historian said, and just focus on one fact.

"The origin of the proto-U6 lineage was the Near East. Around 30,000 years ago it spread to North Africa"

That fact predates all the rest of all the arguments.

30,000 years ago Caucasoids are known to have spread to North Africa.

Now, the Archaic or Early Dynastic Period of Egypt begins around 3100 BC.

Anyone here capable of doing the math?

Caucasoids were in the area for 26,900 years, before any North African civilization.

Game over.

The most any of these afrocentrics can ever hope to prove is that Negroes existed in parts of North Africa, at any given time, as well as these Caucasoids, which would make these civilizations multiracial, multicultural, and not black.

No one disputes that Negroes existed in North Africa, at various points in history, so really the only argument left is when did the Negro enter the area, in any significant numbers.

Science tells us they entered, in significant numbers, after the majority of North African achievements*, but if someone can prove differently, then I'd be willing to hear that evidence, for historical reasons (although it's totally irrelevant to White Nationalism), and then, if someone can provide that evidence, then these afrocentrics can begin to argue that these civilizations were mixed race.

But calling them Negro civilizations?

No, that argument is completely debunked by any serious historian, and scientist, and the simple DNA evidence above, that predates all of the rest of the junk the afrocentrics use.


* It should be noted that most afrocentric evidence inadvertently also backs up this fact, because if the Negro was also there 30,000 years ago, then these would have been mixed societies, with no sign of pure Negroes, the fact they can find evidence of Negroes tens of thousands of years later proves they entered later, and hadn't been mixing for 30,000 years.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Much of what you're bringing up has been discussed in this board many times already. There is no evidence to suggest U6 originated anywhere other than Africa where it is prevalent.


quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:

Clearly - if you're speaking in genetic terms - they are the FURTHEST from Negroes.

Who is? Melanesians? If by "Negro", you mean African then of course, Melanesians are the most genetically distant! But Egyptians ARE Africans, you fool! And it comes to show just how silly racial terms like "negro" are when Melanesians in many craniofacial studies are described as "negro" as well!

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Melanesians aren't Black, and you'd be an idiot to say so.
You're saying these people below are not black??!

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LMAO It's obvious who the idiot is between the two of us and it isn't ME. [Big Grin]

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You first claim:
"Of course limb ratios are dependent on environment because they are evolutionary adaptations!"
So you agree with me - Thus it does not accurately indicate if they were Black or not

I NEVER agree with your idiotic claims! The Egyptians like all Africans have limb ratios that are tropically adapted! But black skin is also a tropical adaptation too, moron!! How can a population indigenous to the tropics have one adaptation but not another??!

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Then you say:
"And the long limb ratios of Egyptians have not only been described as "negroid" but "super negroid"! by Robins and others!"
Which is just you spouting random information since you have agreed it means nothing.

Incorrect! Read the above! LOL You are so stupid it's amazing how you could write books let alone have your own cult following. But you know what they say-- the stupid lead the stupider!
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

According to the experts on this site, there is no such thing as a caucasian or negro, but there is a super negro body plan lurking around somewhere. Now I'm not an expert, but wouldn't the idea of there being a super negro almost insuredly imply that there must be a common negro about the planet somewhere? How can there be super negroes without the more common negro?

"Negro" is merely a racial label applied to tropically adapted features. In this case we are speaking of limb proportions. The Egyptians and many other populations in northeast Africa have limb proportions that are even more so elongated or tropically adapted then say typical West Africans. Thus their bodies are described as "super-negro" though the term super-tropical would be more accurate. Racial labels like "negro" as well as "caucasian" are flawed in that they convey narrow stereotype ideas. For example, whites once assigned facial features to the "negro" classification such as broad noses and broad faces. Not all black Africans have such features but have narrow faces and long narrow noses which have been stereotyped as "caucasian". So how can people have "super-negroid" skeletons, black skin (like "negroids") but have "caucasian" features?? Thus that one the reason why there's no such thing as 'race'!
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
One has to wonder why they care what race any ancient people belonged to? ?????
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
The origin of the proto-U6 lineage was the Near East. Plain and simple.
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
^ source

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=270091
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
quote:
Who is? Melanesians? If by "Negro", you mean African then of course, Melanesians are the most genetically distant! But Egyptians ARE Africans, you fool! And it comes to show just how silly racial terms like "negro" are when Melanesians in many craniofacial studies are described as "negro" as well!
You can't determine race solely by one characteristic.
You should know that, it's common sense.

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You're saying these people below are not black??!
LMAO It's obvious who the idiot is between the two of us and it isn't ME

The only "Black" part of Melanesians is their skin.
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I NEVER agree with your idiotic claims! The Egyptians like all Africans have limb ratios that are tropically adapted! But black skin is also a tropical adaptation too, moron!! How can a population indigenous to the tropics have one adaptation but not another??!
I don't think their skin color or limb ratios have anything to do with who they are.


Are YOU NE African?
Or are you WEST AFRICAN?

If you're west African - why do you group yourself with NE Africans? Why not be proud of West Africa specifically and leave other regions your forefathers had nothing to do with alone?

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Incorrect! Read the above! LOL

"Negro" is merely a racial label applied to tropically adapted features. In this case we are speaking of limb proportions. The Egyptians and many other populations in northeast Africa have limb proportions that are even more so elongated or tropically adapted then say typical West Africans. Thus their bodies are described as "super-negro" though the term super-tropical would be more accurate. Racial labels like "negro" as well as "caucasian" are flawed in that they convey narrow stereotype ideas. For example, whites once assigned facial features to the "negro" classification such as broad noses and broad faces. Not all black Africans have such features but have narrow faces and long narrow noses which have been stereotyped as "caucasian". So how can people have "super-negroid" skeletons, black skin (like "negroids") but have "caucasian" features??

Negro is a label applied to the Negroid race of specific parts of Africa.

Limb proportions are tropical adaptations and are unrelated to race.

It is not disputed they were in a tropical climate.

We're speaking of if they're Black or not


Also, they didn't have Negroid skeletons - a "Super-Negroid body plan" is SELECTIVE QUOTING and you yourself said super- tropical would be accurate. So location is not race, you have ignored yourself.

Black skin? I don't know, but they depicted themselves as lighter -- nor does skin mean anything but tropical adaption.
 
Posted by White Nord (Member # 14093) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
[QB] WhiteNord

[QUOTE]Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture

Christopher Ehret
Professor of History, African Studies Chair
University of California at Los Angeles

Ancient Egyptian civilization was, in ways and to an extent usually not recognized, fundamentally African. The evidence of both language and culture reveals these African roots.

The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt.

“AfroAsiatic” Do you ever question the terminology? Of course not, you’re not that bright. Afro because its in North Africa and Asiatic because that is where it originated.

“The most probable origin of the proto-U6 lineage was the Near East. Around 30,000 years ago it spread to North Africa where it represents a signature of regional continuity… Attested presence of Caucasian people in northern Africa goes up to Paleolithic times… Linguistic research suggests that the Afroasiatic phylum of languages could have originated and extended with these Caucasians, either from the Near East or Eastern Africa and that posterior developments of the Capsian Neolithic in the Maghrib might be related to the origin and dispersal of proto-Berber speaking people into the area … Haplogroup U splits from R…The expansion of Caucasians in Africa has been correlated with the spread and diversification of Afroasiatic languages …Two autochthonous derivatives of these clades (U6b1 and U6c1) indicate the arrival of North African settlers to the Canarian Archipelago in prehistoric times, most probably due to the Saharan desiccation. The absence of these Canarian lineages nowadays in Africa suggests important demographic movements in the western area of this Continent." What remains enigmatic of the indubitable North African prehistoric colonization of the Archipelago is that it was carried out by people whose U6 lineages mainly belonged to the U6b subclade that has only been spotted in very low frequencies in the modern African populations of Morocco, Algeria, Senegal and Nigeria. Moreover, the U6b and U6c insular haplotypes belong to the autochthonous U6b1 and U6c1 branches differing by substitutions 16163 and 16129, respectively, from all their African counterparts. As the most probable arrival of the first prehistoric Canarian settlers was around 2,500 ya, it is highly improbable that these mutations occurred on the islands. Therefore, we expected to find these Canarian lineages in some place of Africa. However, after extensive sampling they have still not been detected. It is possible that they are present somewhere in low frequencies but, in any case, this phylogeographic distribution suggests that Northwest Africa suffered important demic displacements in the past… Two autochthonous U6 lineages (U6b1 and U6c1), present today in the islands, attest the survival of those aboriginal North Africans until nowadays. The fact that these Canarian lineages have not been detected in Africa and that, in contrast to the ubiquitous U6a and U6a1, the U6b and U6c lineages are scarcely spotted in present African populations, may be clues of past important demographic movements in this western area." (“Mitochondrial DNA transit between West Asia and North Africa inferred from U6 phylogeography” Nicole Maca-Meyer, Ana M González, José Pestano, Carlos Flores, José M Larruga, Vicente M Cabrera)

Also

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Concerning those capravoids...Lactose intolerant negroids have no use for herding cattle:

“We found that the frequency of the –13910T allele predicts the frequency of lactose tolerance in several Eurasian and North African Berber populations but not in most sub-Saharan African populations. Our analyses suggest that contemporary Berber populations possess the genetic signature of a past migration of pastoralists from the Middle East and that they share a dairying origin with Europeans and Asians, but not with sub-Saharan Africans… the main feature of the genetic landscape in northern Africa is an eastwest pattern of variation pointing to the differentiation between the Berber and Arab population groups of the northwest and the populations of Libya and Egypt. Moreover, Libya and Egypt show the smallest genetic distances with the European populations , including the Iberian Peninsula… By contrast, the genetic contribution of subSaharan Africa appears to be small. … The peopling of northern Africa appears to be conditioned by the barriers imposed to the north by the Mediterranean Sea and to the south by the Sahara Desert, which constrains human movement to an east-west direction. The harsh landscape, in which mountainous areas are surrounded by arid extensions, favors a dispersed, fragmented pattern of of human settlement… Demic diffusion of Neolithic populations from the Fertile Crescent is thought to have homogenized the genetic composition of the European populations (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1993, 1994), and it created a major southeast to northwest gradient (Sokal et al. 1991)… population replacement during the Neolithic from the Levant could explain the genetic similarity between Libya, Egypt, and the European populations.” (Population history of North Africa: Evidence from classical genetic markers” Human Biology; Bosch, E; Calafell, F; Perez-Lezaun, Et al))

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The people who bear the greatest resemblence to the ancient Egyptians, at present, are the Nubians; and next are the Abyssinians;
page 530

Well Gee wasn't the oversampling of the Abyssinians the main reason that Ethiopians were "mistakenly" labeled 40% caucasian?

Edward Lane
Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians

quote:
The period when sub-Saharan Africa was most influential in Egypt was a time when neither Egypt, as we understand it culturally, nor the Sahara, as we understand it geographically, existed. Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472

Yet amazingly you retards can't prove what it is that the South contributed to the North!
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
With regards to the whole North African issue, as mentioned above, it has been completely resolved. For example the UN (which is not a White Nationalist organization), commissioned one of the largest historical investigations in history, involving the research, and input of literally hundreds of historians, of all races, and thousands of pages of research, and concluded Egypt was not black in origin,

However I think even more important than that one, albeit not as big, and not as comprehensive, the African Union Commission, which represents 53 African states, which is virtually every African nation (including Egypt), spent millions of dollars on their own investigation, and also reached a similar verdict.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
With regards to the whole North African issue, as mentioned above, it has been completely resolved. For example the UN (which is not a White Nationalist organization), commissioned one of the largest historical investigations in history, involving the research, and input of literally hundreds of historians, of all races, and thousands of pages of research, and concluded Egypt was not black in origin,

However I think even more important than that one, albeit not as big, and not as comprehensive, the African Union Commission, which represents 53 African states, which is virtually every African nation (including Egypt), spent millions of dollars on their own investigation, and also reached a similar verdict.

Didn't Zahi Hawass suggest that the Egyptians were not black? If anyone would know it should be him. Especially since he has access to the DNA laboratory that does the testing on the mummies. Of course I'm sure over time a substantial part of the Egyptian population may have became black. Especially over a 3,000 year period. Much like the west today is becoming more mixed .
 
Posted by JMT (Member # 12050) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:
With regards to the whole North African issue, as mentioned above, it has been completely resolved. For example the UN (which is not a White Nationalist organization), commissioned one of the largest historical investigations in history, involving the research, and input of literally hundreds of historians, of all races, and thousands of pages of research, and concluded Egypt was not black in origin,

However I think even more important than that one, albeit not as big, and not as comprehensive, the African Union Commission, which represents 53 African states, which is virtually every African nation (including Egypt), spent millions of dollars on their own investigation, and also reached a similar verdict.

Didn't Zahi Hawass suggest that the Egyptians were not black? If anyone would know it should be him. Especially since he has access to the DNA laboratory that does the testing on the mummies. Of course I'm sure over time a substantial part of the Egyptian population may have became black. Especially over a 3,000 year period. Much like the west today is becoming more mixed .
This has been answered a million and one times on this forum. I suggest you do some damn research, simple-minded girl.

Where did this nutty broad come from?
 
Posted by JMT (Member # 12050) on :
 

 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

Whats wrong with you?

Hawassss is not someone that knows anything except lying to apease the Euros who visit Egypt.

How about you actually take the time to read threads that speak about this instead of saying stupidness? You act more dumb then you think.

Where did you come from anyways? From Stormfront?

Read this then educate yourself:

Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and
immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues

A-M Mekota1, M Vermehren2

Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13

"Materials and methods
In 1997, the German Institute for Archaeology headed an excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. At this time, three types of tissues were sampled from different mummies: meniscus (fibrocartilage), skin, and placenta. Archaeological findings suggest that the mummies dated from the New Kingdom (approximately
1550_/1080 BC)..... The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."

Whats with so many dumb people with stupid posts coming from.

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
King, Why would you care what race the egyptians were? How does that have anything to do wiyh you?
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Simple Girl

Whats wrong with you?

Hawassss is not someone that knows anything except lying to apease the Euros who visit Egypt.

How about you actually take the time to read threads that speak about this instead of saying stupidness? You act more dumb then you think.
Whats with so many dumb people with stupid posts coming from.

Peace

What the hell are you talking about? I'm just telling it like it is. The man said the Egyptians weren't black. Why the hell would he lie? If he's lying it will catch up with him sooner or later and I hope it does. There's nothing stupid about what I said but there's plenty stupidness in your remarks towards me.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

I believe in TRUTH. When I first came to this forum, I use to think Egypt was more related to Europe and the Middle East. It was a shock to find out that Egypt was really A African Civilization. Hence why people like Rasol and a few others would call me a troll for the questions I asked. I decided that the best way to learn the TRUTH from them was to just read the Board and to verify if what they were saying is true(Like the Unesco Conference with Diop and Obenga) I have come a long way in this forum and I am happy to see that my earlier bias about Egypt has been put to rest. I also use to think when You was Horemheb had the same views as me, except one difference was that you were purposely stirring the pot, not because you really cared about AE, but because you had a hatred for Blacks(Africans). This is why I have elevated my self from past bias and am proud to say I am a truthseeker. I would attack stupid people who tried to say Greeks were not europeans just like YOU say Egypt was not African. To me it's just dumb, stupid, and blind people who make these arguements.

I praise God everyday that I was never ignorant about Africa and came to this forum Humble and willing to learn.

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

You truly are simple. You fail to understand that there is Egyptologist like Ahmad Selah who refuted Hawassss ideas that Egypt was not African. If you were smart you would read the old threads instead of showing everyone just how simple you are. It's people like you who will never take over egyptsearch. This forum has had trolls and lowlifes before and the main posters will continue to post and chase you racists away.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
King, I tried to look up ahmad selah and found nothing. Perhaps you could suppy us with some data about this mysterious man.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Good on you for asking questions, and not just making stupid comments.


Ahmed Saleh, the director of Abu Simbel monuments. Saleh had spoken to Egypt Today last month, explaining why he had opposed Dr. Zahi Hawass’ idea of moving King Tut’s mummy to Cairo. Hawass has since carried out a CT scan on the mummy of the boy king, creating a stir because the mummy was not handled properly. In fact, the operation was so terrible that the director of the committee of doctors supervising it, Dr. Saleh Bedeir, simply walked out.

Egypt Today (magazine)
Feb 2005 Milestones

Read and Learn TAP.

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
For Patriot and that simple girl who does not have a clue.:

Ahmed Saleh, the director of SCA’s Abu Simbel
antiquities department watched with the rest
of the world as Hawass made his discoveries in
Bahareya on December 13th, 2004. “That was a
real joke. How can a scientist hold an axe and
just hack at a tomb on air? All scientists know
that a lot of processes should precede the
opening of a tomb. If you just hack away at it
you lose important historical evidence. I am sad
that this is what Egyptology has come to,” Saleh says.

With a masters degree in biomedical and forensic
studies in Egyptology from Manchester, Saleh is
one of the first Egyptians to specialize in the field.
Over the years, Saleh has initiated a number of
media campaigns, not afraid to question Hawass’
decisions and ideas. His last but one skirmish
with Hawass took place over the remains of the
Atlanta mummy, which came back from the United
States about a year ago. At the time, Hawass had
announced that the mummy belonged to King Ramses I,
and was preparing a royal welcome for the returning
king. “I sent him my official opinion. This could not
have been the mummy of Ramses I, because it
had been lost in ancient times. He just ignored
me, so I wrote to Akhbar al-Adab,” Saleh remembers.
The result, he says, was two days’ deduction from
his salary.

Nowadays, Saleh is awaiting his new penalty. It
is because of the stir he started that the mummy
of King Tut didn’t come to the Egyptian Museum.
“When journalists called to ask my opinion I said
the mummy should not be moved. The SCA had
no clear plan of how it was going to move the mummy,
which is in an already dilapidated state. In the past,
the mummy was treated roughly and unscientifically,
and any more handling may lead to more damage,”
Saleh says.

. . . .

In 1925, a year after its discovery, a team of
professors including Howard Carter tried to
examine the mummy. On finding it stuck to the
sarcophagus, they put it out in the sun to melt
the materials keeping it together. They later
used hot knifes to pry the golden mask off the
face, the golden bracelets off the arms and toes.
As a result, the head was separated from the
body, the pelvis from the midriff and so were
the arms, hands, legs and feet.

. . . .

Saleh points out that the government paid thousands
of dollars to provide him with a degree in
mummification that no one has asked him to use
so far,
...
Ahmed Youssef, Egypt’s most well-known expert on
mummies, who is called upon all over England to
help in the preservation of human remains. “Why
not call on our internationally famed expert, have
him look at the mummy and tell us where to go from
there?”

Saleh fears that any handling of information by
foreigners may lead to a twisting of history. He
refers to the findings of Scott Woodward, an
American microbiologist, who tried to find
resemblance between Egyptian kings and prophets
from the Talmud. “They are trying to say that our
Egyptian history belongs to them,” Saleh accuses.
Hawass is quick to refute this idea. “There is no
Jewish conspiracy, and we will not be carrying out
DNA tests.


Drop the Mummy, and Nobody Gets Hurt
Recent controversy over moving King Tut puts
Egyptologists in the spotlight
By Manal el-Jesri
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
More about Ahmed Saleh:

Within Egypt, Hawass has been brawling lately with critics who question the methodology of the CT scan of Tut's mummy, and the forensic re-creation of his face. Hawass curbed the authority and docked the pay of one persistent foe, Ahmed Saleh, an archeological inspector for the Supreme Council who complained, among other things, that the procedures used in the facial re-creation made Tut look Caucasian, disrespecting the nation's African roots.

Hawass insists he is not angry, vindictive or power mad; firm enforcement of the rules is essential to prevent chaos, he says, given the hundreds of ongoing archeological projects in Egypt and the continued threat of antiquities theft.

"Yes, it's inflammatory," Willeke Wendrich, a UCLA professor of Egyptian archeology, says of Hawass' willingness to attack perceived rule breakers in the press and ban them from excavating. "Maybe cooperation would be better served if he formulated things slightly differently. But it's counterbalancing what has been going on too long, a colonialist attitude that hasn't disappeared even now. I think the way he acts is partly his personality, but it's partly a reaction to a very arrogant treatment of Egyptians and Egyptian officials."

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jun/20/entertainment/et-hawass20

Link may not work

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
well, in fairness you seem to be wanting to use the work of a scholar to prove points you want to make but not when the conclusion may not agree with you.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

Don't play you stupid scholar games with me. You never used any scholar to back up your stupid nonsense about AE.

I really though You wanted to learn something, but I't seems that I was being too hopefull.

You will always be a Deaf, Dumb, and Blind fool.

Hawass is all you have, and he is not respected by real Egyptologist because of his stupid views.

Wake up. I really gave you more credit then you deserve. It was a waste of my time to post these sources to a RedNecked racist from Texas who would never know what a FACT is. Wakeup TAP, more and more people are posting about Egypt being African. The gates are open and more and more truth is coming out because of TRUTHSEEKERS.

no peace for you
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
well, in fairness you seem to be wanting to use the work of a scholar to prove points you want to make but not when the conclusion may not agree with you.

The sure sign of the racist he accuses others of being.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Not at all . I posted two noted Yale scholars that refuted your Kemet, black people nonsense. You ignored those and posted none of your own.

You are not seeking the truth King, you are trying to build s case, there is a huge difference.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

Why can't you get this through your head. KM.T has NO WORD for LAND in IT. IF this is wrong, then post where land is in KM.T. Simple, you have never posted any facts all you do is tow the company line even when many people show you that the word for land is TA, Ta Seti, Ta Meri Ta Kem(Black Land), now "professor"(you wish bahhahahahah) show us the letter for land in KM.T. If you don't have no clue then stop posting to me because no one who speaks to you think you can teach a dog to sit. Your by far the worst racist on this forum, atleast the others try to post studies(Outdated and Refuted I add). You and your bum friend Simple just post one liners and think you can fool people with your lies.

I showed you a egytologist who does not tow the company line and for that he gets suspended and docked pay by your butt boy Hawass. You make me laugh at how stupid and lame your arguements are.
I will say this though I prefer to speak to you then someone as foolish as your friend Simple. She needs to stop living in psychosis.

No peace for you
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Hawass is a butt boy because he disagrees with you.

You keep asking the wrong question. You have obviously spent zero time in an academic setting.
Read very carefully. Your posts are not scholarly because you lack portfolio. You have to post scholars who DO have portfolio to prove your point. I have done so, you have not.

You are just trying to build a case. It is disgusting.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

Keep my name out your Mouth. People like you are why some people suffer brain damage trying to school you on FACTS you don't understand, thats why you are so chummy with the three racist. Your not looking to learn, If you were you would of read what Ahmed Saleh says about your boy toy Hawass. Shake off your bias and be humble and maybe you might learn something.

Peace
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Simple Girl

Keep my name out your Mouth. People like you are why some people suffer brain damage trying to school you on FACTS you don't understand, thats why you are so chummy with the three racist. Your not looking to learn, If you were you would of read what Ahmed Saleh says about your boy toy Hawass. Shake off your bias and be humble and maybe you might learn something.

Peace

And what name would that be other than the name of racist? Surely I haven't mentioned you by any other name than that.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

You really do service to your name. Was not this post Directed towards me, or were you just speaking in general?

What the hell are you talking about? I'm just telling it like it is. The man said the Egyptians weren't black. Why the hell would he lie? If he's lying it will catch up with him sooner or later and I hope it does. There's nothing stupid about what I said but there's plenty stupidness in your remarks towards me

You must feel better pal ing around with racists then learning truth. You have more then one person already tired of your dumb posts.

Read Ahmed Selah and actually learn something.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
so according to King everyone who thinks Egyptians were not black is a liar????
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

What dumb stuff are you talking about now? Anyone who reasearch and studies AE and comes to the conclusion that they were non-Black is of course lying. All the evidence that has been posted by White scholars mostly speaking about AE have admitted the truth.

People like you are a lost cause Tap, more and more people are coming out saying AE was African I posted Germans Claiming AE was African and you have yet to respond to any of it.

Repost just for Tap:

Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and
immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues

A-M Mekota1, M Vermehren2

Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13

"Materials and methods
In 1997, the German Institute for Archaeology headed an excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. At this time, three types of tissues were sampled from different mummies: meniscus (fibrocartilage), skin, and placenta. Archaeological findings suggest that the mummies dated from the New Kingdom (approximately
1550_/1080 BC)..... The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."

Can you Refute what these Germans Found Tap, Use you grade 1 teaching skills to refute what is said.

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
There you go again King. You use scholars who agree with you and insult those who do not as liars. Just a quick run around the net shows us that your position is that of radical afrocentrics.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

You are the lamest racist I have ever seen on Egyptsearch. What Scholar did YOU post that I disagree with?

The only radical is YOU and your eurocentric dogma.Are all these studies from Afrocentrics? I can post over 30 studies that claim AE is African and a matter of fact I Will:

Recent studies find the ancient Egyptians had a tropical body plan like sub-Saharan 'black' Africans and were not cold-adapted like European type populations. Tropical body plans also indicate darker-skin.


QUOTE:
"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the "super-Negroid" body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.


a 2008 Study puts the ancient Egyptians closer to US Blacks than whites:

Quotes:

"Intralimb (crural and brachial) indices are significantly higher in ancient Egyptians than in American Whites (except crural index among females), i.e., Egyptians have relatively longer distal segments (Table 4). Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks... Many of those who have studied ancient Egyptians have commented on their characteristically ''tropical'' or ''African'' body plan (Warren, 1897; Masali, 1972; Robins, 1983; Robins and Shute, 1983, 1984, 1986; Zakrzewski, 2003). Egyptians also fall within the range of modern African populations (Ruff and Walker, 1993), but close to the upper limit of modern Europeans as well, at least for the crural index (brachial indices are definitely more ''African'').. In terms of femoral and tibial length to total skeletal height proportions, we found that ancient Egyptians are significantly different from US Blacks, although still closer to Blacks than to Whites.


Comparisons of linear body proportions of Old Kingdom and non-Old Kingdom period individuals, and workers and high officials in our sample found no statistically significant differences among them. Zakrzewski (2003) also found little evidence for differences in linear body proportions of Egyptians over a wider temporal range. In general, recent studies of skeletal variation among ancient Egyptians support scenarios of biological continuity through time. Irish (2006) analyzed quantitative and qualitative dental traits of 996 Egyptians from Neolithic through Roman periods, reporting the presence of a few outliers but concluding that the dental samples appear to be largely homogeneous and that the affinities observed indicate overall biological uniformity and continuity from Predynastic through Dynastic and Postdynastic periods.

Zakrzewski (2007) provided a comprehensive summary of previous Egyptian craniometric studies and examined Egyptian crania from six time periods. She found that the earlier samples were relatively more homogeneous in comparison to the later groups. However, overall results indicated genetic continuity over the Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, albeit with a high level of genetic diversity within the population, suggesting an indigenous process of state formation. She also concluded that while the biological patterning of the Egyptian population varied across time, no consistent temporal or spatial trends are apparent. Thus, the stature estimation formulae developed here may be broadly applicable to all ancient Egyptian populations.."
("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55


Older limb studies find the same- Blacks and closer to the Egyptians than whites:

"In this regard it is interesting to note that limb proportions of Predynastic Naqada people in Upper Egypt are reported to be "Super-Negroid," meaning that the distal segments are elongated in the fashion of tropical Africans.....skin color intensification and distal limb elongation are apparent wherever people have been long-term residents of the tropics." (C.L. Brace, 1993. Clines and clusters..")


"An attempt has been made to estimate male and female Egyptian stature from long bone length using Trotter & Gleser negro stature formulae, previous work by the authors having shown that these rather than white formulae give more consistent results with male dynastic material... When consistency has been achieved in this way, predynastic proportions are founded to be such that distal segments of the limbs are even longer in relation to the proximal segments than they are in modern negroes. Such proportions are termed "super-negroid"...

Robins (1983) and Robins & Shute (1983) have shown that more consistent results are obtained from ancient Egyptian male skeletons if Trotter & Gleser formulae for negro are used, rather than those for whites which have always been applied in the past. .. their physical proportions were more like modern negroes than those of modern whites, with limbs that were relatively long compared with the trunk, and distal segments that were long compared with the proximal segments. If ancient Egyptian males had what may be termed negroid proportions, it seems reasonable that females did likewise."
(Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986. Predynastic Egyptian stature and physical proportions. Hum Evol 1:313-324. Ruff CB. 1994.)


The ancient Badarians were quite representative of ancient Egyptians as a whole and showed clear links with tropical Africans to the south. They have been sometimes excluded in studies of the ancient Egyptian population, which shows continuity in its history, not mass influxes of foreigners until the late periods.

Quotes:
"As a result of their facial prognathism, the Badarian sample has been described as forming a morphological cluster with Nubian, Tigrean, and other southern (or \Negroid") groups (Morant, 1935, 1937; Mukherjee et al., 1955; Nutter, 1958, Strouhal, 1971; Angel, 1972; Keita, 1990). Cranial nonmetric trait studies have found this group to be similar to other Egyptians, including much later material (Berry and Berry, 1967, 1972), but also to be significantly different from LPD material (Berry et al., 1967). Similarly, the study of dental nonmetric traits has suggested that the Badarian population is at the centroid of Egyptian dental samples (Irish, 2006), thereby suggesting similarity and hence continuity across Egyptian time periods. From the central location of the Badarian samples in Figure 2, the current study finds the Badarian to be relatively morphologically close to the centroid of all the Egyptian samples. The Badarian have been shown to exhibit
greatest morphological similarity with the temporally successive EPD (Table 5). Finally, the biological distinctiveness
of the Badarian from other Egyptian samples has also been demonstrated (Tables 6 and 7).

These results suggest that the EDyn do form a distinct morphological pattern. Their overlap with other Egyptian samples (in PC space, Fig. 2) suggests that although their morphology is distinctive, the pattern does overlap with the other time periods. These results therefore do not support the Petrie concept of a \Dynastic race" (Petrie, 1939; Derry, 1956). Instead, the results suggest that the Egyptian state was not the product of mass movement of populations into the Egyptian Nile region, but rather that it was the result of primarily indigenous development combined with prolonged small-scale migration, potentially from trade, military, or other contacts.

This evidence suggests that the process of state formation itself may have been mainly an indigenous process, but that it may have occurred in association with in-migration to the Abydos region of the Nile Valley. This potential in-migration may have occurred particularly during the EDyn and OK. A possible explanation is that the Egyptian state formed through increasing control of trade and raw materials, or due to military actions, potentially associated with the use of the Nile Valley as a corridor for prolonged small scale movements through the desert environment.
(Sonia R. Zakrzewski. (2007). Population Continuity or Population Change: Formation of the Ancient Egyptian State. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 132:501-509)


Ancient Egyptians most related to other Africans and are part of a Nilotic continuity rather than something Mediterranean or Middle Eastern

"Certainly there was some foreign admixture [in Egypt], but basically a homogeneous African population had lived in the Nile Valley from ancient to modern times... [the] Badarian people, who developed the earliest Predynastic Egyptian culture, already exhibited the mix of North African and Sub-Saharan physical traits that have typified Egyptians ever since (Hassan 1985; Yurco 1989; Trigger 1978; Keita 1990.. et al.,)... The peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and much of East African Ethiopia and Somalia are now generally regarded as a Nilotic continuity, with widely ranging physical features (complexions light to dark, various hair and craniofacial types) but with powerful common cultural traits, including cattle pastoralist traditions.." (Frank Yurco, "An Egyptological Review," 1996 -in Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, Black Athena Revisited, 1996, The University of North Carolina Press, p. 62-100)
African peoples are the most diverse in the world whether analyzed by DNA or skeletal or cranial methods. Attempts to deny this are rooted in racism and error. African people, particularly SUB-SAHARAN Africans, vary the most in how they look, more so than any other population in the world.

"Estimates of genetic diversity in major geographic regions are frequently made by pooling all individuals into regional aggregates. This method can potentially bias results if there are differences in population substructure within regions, since increased variation among local populations could inflate regional diversity. A preferred method of estimating regional diversity is to compute the mean diversity within local populations. Both methods are applied to a global sample of craniometric data consisting of 57 measurements taken on 1734 crania from 18 local populations in six geographic regions: sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, East Asia, Australasia, Polynesia, and the Americas. Each region is represented by three local populations.

Both methods for estimating regional diversity show sub-Saharan Africa to have the highest levels of phenotypic variation, consistent with many genetic studies."
(Relethford, John "Global Analysis of Regional Differences in Craniometric Diversity and Population Substructure". Human Biology - Volume 73, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 629-636)

"The living peoples of the African continent are diverse in facial characteristics, stature, skin color, hair form, genetics, and other characteristics. No one set of characteristics is more African than another. Variability is also found in "sub-Saharan" Africa, to which the word "Africa" is sometimes erroneously restricted. There is a problem with definitions. Sometimes Africa is defined using cultural factors, like language, that exclude developments that clearly arose in Africa. For example, sometimes even the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea) is excluded because of geography and language and the fact that some of its peoples have narrow noses and faces.

However, the Horn is at the same latitude as Nigeria, and its languages are African. The latitude of 15 degree passes through Timbuktu, surely in "sub-Saharan Africa," as well as Khartoum in Sudan; both are north of the Horn. Another false idea is that supra-Saharan and Saharan Africa were peopled after the emergence of "Europeans" or Near Easterners by populations coming from outside Africa. Hence, the ancient Egyptians in some writings have been de-Africanized. These ideas, which limit the definition of Africa and Africans, are rooted in racism and earlier, erroneous "scientific" approaches." (S. Keita, "The Diversity of Indigenous Africans," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Clenko, Editor (1996), pp. 104-105. [10])


Modern DNA studies find even though some African peoples look different, they are genetically related through the PN2 transition clade of the Y-chromosone. Thus light-skinned African Libyans and dark-skinned Zulus are all genetically related Africans ,even though they don't look exactly the same.

"But the Y-chromosome clade defined by the PN2 transition (PN2/M35, PN2/M2) shatters the boundaries of phenotypically defined races and true breeding populations across a great geographical expanse. African peoples with a range of skin colors, hair forms and physiognomies have substantial percentages of males whose Y chromosomes form closely related clades with each other, but not with others who are phenotypically similar. The individuals in the morphologically or geographically defined 'races' are not characterized by 'private' distinct lineages restricted to each of them." (S O Y Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)


"Recall that the Horn-Nile Valley crania show, as a group, the largest overlap with other regions. A review of the recent literature indicates that there are male lineage ties between African peoples who have been traditionally labeled as being ''racially'' different, with ''racially'' implying an ontologically deep divide. The PN2 transition, a Y chromosome marker, defines a lineage (within the YAPþ derived haplogroup E or III) that emerged in Africa probably before the last glacial maximum, but after the migration of modern humans from Africa (see Semino et al., 2004). This mutation forms a clade that has two daughter subclades (defined by the biallelic markers M35/215 (or 215/M35) and M2) that unites numerous phenotypically variant African populations from the supra-Saharan, Saharan, and sub-Saharan regions.."
(S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679-689, 2004.)
keita2004neanalysis.htm

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages.. Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world." (Tishkoff SA, Williams SM., Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2002 Aug (8):611-21.)

DNA of some modern Egyptians found a genetic ancestral heritage to East Africa:
"The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity of 58 individuals from Upper Egypt, more than half (34 individuals) from Gurna, whose population has an ancient cultural history, were studied by sequencing the control-region and screening diagnostic RFLP markers. This sedentary population presented similarities to the Ethiopian population by the L1 and L2 macrohaplogroup frequency (20.6%), by the West Eurasian component (defined by haplogroups H to K and T to X) and particularly by a high frequency (17.6%) of haplogroup M1. We statistically and phylogenetically analysed and compared the Gurna population with other Egyptian, Near East and sub-Saharan Africa populations; AMOVA and Minimum Spanning Network analysis showed that the Gurna population was not isolated from neighbouring populations. Our results suggest that the Gurna population has conserved the trace of an ancestral genetic structure from an ancestral East African population, characterized by a high M1 haplogroup frequency. The current structure of the Egyptian population may be the result of further influence of neighbouring populations on this ancestral population."
(Stevanovitch A, Gilles A, Bouzaid E, et al. (2004) Mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity in a sedentary population from Egypt.Ann Hum Genet. 68(Pt 1):23-39.)

Tishkoff et al:

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages (see online link to Ethnologue). Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world(TABLE 1).However,most studies report only a few markers in divergent African populations, which makes it difficult to draw general conclusions about the levels and patterns of genetic diversity in these populations (FIG. 1). Because genetic studies have been biased towards more economically developed African countries that have key research or medical centres, populations from more underdeveloped or politically unstable regions of Africa remain undersampled (FIG. 1). Historically, human population genetic studies have relied on one or two African populations as being representative of African diversity, but recent studies show extensive genetic variation among even geographically close African populations, which indicates that there is not a single 'representative' African population."
-- Tishkoff NATURE REVIEWS | GENETICS VOLUME 3 | AUGUST 2002


"Genetic studies that attempt to recover the biological history of the species have generally found that there is a split between their restricted African samples and "the rest of the world." These approaches conceptualize human population history as a series of bifurcations with each node being relatively uniform. The "Africans" usually used are either the short statured Aka or Mbuti, Khoisan speakers, or West African stereotype s, in keeping with a socially, not scientifically constructed concept of African. Studies using individuals as the unit of analysis evince a different pattern. A select subset of Africans called the "group of 49" forms a unit versus the rest of humankind. However the latter individuals ("rest of humankind") also includes non-East African sub-Saharans. Hence there is no "racial" split. As has been stated, the idea that human variation can be described as being structured by subspecies(races) that are treated as lineages is fundamentally false. In actuality, also, although averages are used, the gene studies usually give us histories that are not necessarily the same as population histories."
Writing African History Chapter 4, Physical Anthropology and African History, Shomarka Keita University of Rochester Press p.134

Continent wide African DNA linkages
"The most extensive pan-African haplotype (16189 16192 16223 16278 16294 16309 16390) is in the L2a1 haplogroup. This sequence is observed in West Africa among the Malinke, Wolof, and others; in North Africa among the Maure, Hausa, Fulbe, and others; in Central Africa among the Bamileke, Fali, and others; in South Africa among the Khoisan family including the Khwe and Bantu speakers; and in East Africa among the Kikuyu. Closely related variants are observed among the Tuareg in North and West Africa and among the East African Dinka and Somali."
(-- Bert Ely , Jamie Lee Wilson , Fatimah Jackson and Bruce A Jackson. (2006). African-American mitochondrial DNAs often match mtDNAs found in multiple African ethnic groups. BMC Biology 2006, 4:34)

"It is of interest that the M35 and M2 lineages are united by a mutation - the PN2 transition. This PN2 defined clade originated in East Africa, where various populations have a notable frequency of its underived state. This would suggest that an ancient population in East Africa, or more correctly its males, form the basis of the ancestors of all African upper Paleolithic populations - and their subsequent descendants in the present day."
(--Bengtson, John D. (ed.), In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. 2008. John Benjamins Publishing: pp. 3-16)


Egyptian Y-chromosome haplotypes show preponderance is with African clusters not Europe or the Near East


Other DNA quotes from S.O.Y. Keita
See: http://www.geocities.com/keitadnaquotes.htm


Recent DNA studies of the Sudan show genetic unity and linkage between the Sudanic, Horn, Egyptian, Nubian and other Nilotic peoples, confirming earlier skeletal/cranial studies and historical data. (Yurco (1989, 1996), Keita (1993,2004, 2005) Lovell (1999), Zakrewski (2003, 2007) et. al). Of note is that DNA data shows that some peoples linked to one of the oldest Egyptian populations, the original Copts, have a significant frequency of the B-M60 marker, indicating early colonization of Egypt by Nilotics in the state formation period.

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"Haplogroup E-M78, however, is more widely distributed and is thought to have an origin in eastern African. More recently, this haplogroup has been carefully dissected and was found to depict several well-established subclades with defined geographical clustering (Cruciani et al., 2006, 2007). Although this haplogroup is common to most Sudanese populations, it has exceptionally high frequency among populations like those of western Sudan (particularly Darfur) and the Beja in eastern Sudan... Although the PC plot places the Beja and Amhara from Ethiopia in one sub-cluster based on shared frequencies of the haplogroup J1, the distribution of M78 subclades (Table 2) indicates that the Beja are perhaps related as well to the Oromo on the basis of the considerable frequencies of E-V32 among Oromo in comparison to Amhara (Cruciani et al., 2007)...

These findings affirm the historical contact between Ethiopia and eastern Sudan (1998), and the fact that these populations speak languages of the Afroasiatic family tree reinforces the strong correlation between linguistic and genetic diversity (Cavalli-Sforza, 1997)."

"Genetic continuum of the Nubians with their kin in southern Egypt is indicated by comparable frequencies of E-V12 the predominant M78 subclade among southern Egyptians."

"The Copt samples displayed a most interesting Y-profile, enough (as much as that of Gaalien in Sudan) to suggest that they actually represent a living record of the peopling of Egypt. The significant frequency of B-M60 in this group might be a relic of a history of colonization of southern Egypt probably by Nilotics in the early state formation, something that conforms both to recorded history and to Egyptian mythology."
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(Hisham Y. Hassan 1, Peter A. Underhill 2, Luca L. Cavalli-Sforza 2, Muntaser E. Ibrahim 1. (2008). Y-chromosome variation among Sudanese: Restricted gene flow, concordance with language, geography, and history. Am J Phys Anthropology, 2008.)


Older research notes the physical makeup of the original Copts, now confirmed by recent DNA data above:
"In Libya, which is mostly desert and oasis, there is a visible Negroid element in the sedentary populations, and at the same is true of the Fellahin of Egypt, whether Copt or Muslim. Osteological studies have shown that the Negroid element was stronger in predynastic times than at present, reflecting an early movement northward along the banks of the Nile, which were then heavily forested." (Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. "Populations, Human")


Haplogroup E3A and E3B represent more than 70% of the Y-chromosones on the African continent, with varying proportions found in different parts of the continent. In some African populations for example, E3B exceeds 80%. Migrations out of Africa, are responsible for the spread of E3b to Europe. Non-Africans thus acquired a sub-set f African genes through this migration.


"In Europe, the overall frequency pattern of haplogroup E-M78 does not support the hypothesis of a uniform spread of people from a single parental Near Eastern population... The Y chromosome specific biallelic marker DYS271 defines the most common haplogroup (E3a) currently found in sub-Saharan Africa. A sister clade, E3b (E-M215), is rare in sub-Saharan Africa, but very common in northern and eastern Africa. On the whole, these two clades represent more than 70% of the Y chromosomes of the African continent. A third clade belonging to E3 (E3c or E-M329) has been recently reported to be present only in eastern Africa, at low frequencies.. The new topology of the E3 haplogroup is suggestive of a relatively recent eastern African origin for the majority of the chromosomes presently found in sub-Saharan Africa."

"In conclusion, we detected the signatures of several distinct processes of migration and/or recurrent gene flow associated with the dispersal of haplogroup E3b lineages. Early events involved the dispersal of E-M78d chromosomes from eastern Africa into and out of Africa, as well as the introduction of the E-M34 subclade into Africa from the Near East. Later events involved short-range migrations within Africa (E-M78? and E-V6) and from northern Africa into Europe (E-M81 and E-M78ß), as well as an important range expansion from the Balkans to western and southern-central Europe (E-M78a). This latter expansion was the main contributor to the present distribution of E3b chromosomes in Europe."

(Cruciani, F, et. al. (2004) Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa, Am J Hum Genet. 74(5): 1014-1022.)


Somalis link much more heavily with African populations such as those in Kenya and Ethiopia than Middle Eastern or European ones according to DNA evidence. Eurasian genes only accounted for about 15% of the mix among Somalis, typically associated with recent Arab influence. On such key common DNA markers as E3b1, Europeans only weighed in at 5%, and Middle Easterners at approximately 6%. The overwhelming link of Somalis- over 85% of the total is with Africans. Kenya and Ethiopia are located in "sub-Saharan" Africa.

"The high frequency (77.6%) of haplogroup E3b1 was characteristic of male Somalis. The frequency of E3b1 was significantly lower in Ethiopian Oromos (35.9%), Ethiopian Amharas (22.9%), Egyptians (20.0%), Sudanese (17.5%), Kenyans (15.1%),10 Iraqis (6.3%), Northern Africans (6.1%), Southern Europeans (0.5-5.1%) and sub-Saharan populations." (Sanchez et al.,(2005) High frequencies of Y chromosome lineages characterized by E3b1, DYS19-11, DYS392-12 in Somali males, Eu J of Hum Genet (2005) 13, 856-866)

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Simplistic "race percentage" models are dubious in Africa which has the highest genetic diversity in the world. That diversity proceeded from deeper sub-Saharan Africa, to East and N.E. Africa, then to the rest of the globe. All other populations, including Europeans and "Middle easterners" carry this diversity which was built into Africa to begin with. Africans thus don't need any "race mix" to look different. Their diversity is built-in and supplied the whole globe. Any returnees or "backflow" to Africa looked like Africans, including Europeans. (Brace 2005, Hanihara 1996, Holliday 2003).

" These studies suggest a recent and primary subdivision between African and non-African populations, high levels of divergence among African populations, and a recent shared common ancestry of non-African populations, from a population originating in Africa. The intermediate position, between African and non-African populations, that the Ethiopian Jews and Somalis occupy in the PCA plot also has been observed in other genetic studies (Ritte et al. 1993; Passarino et al. 1998) and could be due either to shared common ancestry or to recent gene flow. The fact that the Ethiopians and Somalis have a subset of the sub-Saharan African haplotype diversity and that the non-African populations have a subset of the diversity present in Ethiopians and Somalis makes simple-admixture models less likely; rather, these observations support the hypothesis proposed by other nuclear-genetic studies (Tishkoff et al. 1996a, 1998a, 1998b; Kidd et al. 1998) that populations in northeastern Africa may have diverged from those in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa early in the history of modern African populations and that a subset of this northeastern-African population migrated out of Africa and populated the rest of the globe. These conclusions are supported by recent mtDNA analysis (Quintana-Murci et al. 1999)."
[Tishkoff et al. (2000) Short Tandem-Repeat Polymorphism/Alu Haplotype Variation at the PLAT Locus: Implications for Modern Human Origins. Am J Hum Genet; 67:901-925]


Data on Ethiopian peoples like the Oromo are underreported even though they make up the largest group percentage wise in the Ethiopian population, (50%) and are often pooled with others, hiding and obscuring their overall contribution to the Ethiopian gene pool.

"This difference, not revealed in the study by Passarino et al. (1998), in which the Oromo were underrepresented, might reflect distinct population histories."
(--Semino, et al. (2002). Ethiopians and Khoisan Share the Deepest Clades of the Human Y..")

"These data, together with those reported elsewhere (Ritte et al. 1993a, 1993b; Hammer et al. 2000) suggest that the Ethiopian Jews acquired their religion without substantial genetic admixture from Middle Eastern peoples and that they can be considered an ethnic group with essentially a continental African genetic composition." (Cruciani, et. al Am J Hum Genet. 2002 May; 70(5): 1197-1214. "A Back Migration from Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa Is Supported by High-Resolution Analysis of Human Y-Chromosome Haplotypes)


Afrocentric critic Mary Leftokwitz says Egypt was peopled by persons from sub-Saharan Africa:

"Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North. See Bruce G. Trigger, "The Rise of Civilization in Egypt," Cambridge History of Africa (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982), vol I, pp 489-90; S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54.
(Mary Lefkotitz (1997). Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. Basic Books. pg 242) [/QB][/QUOTE]


In Black Athena Revisited, Lefkowitz finds similarity between Egyptians and Sudanics and recommends the work of conservative anthropologist Nancy Lovell for more research on the subject.

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"not surprisingly, the Egyptian skulls were not very distance from the Jebel Moya [a Neolithic site in the southern Sudan] skulls, but were much more distance from all others, including those from West Africa. Such a study suggests a closer genetic affinity between peoples in Egypt and the northern Sudan, which were close geographically and are known to have had considerable cultural contact throughout prehistory and pharaonic history... Clearly more analyses of the physical remains of ancient Egyptians need to be done using current techniques, such as those of Nancy Lovell at the University of Alberta is using in her work.."


Lefkotitz cites Keita 1993 in Not Out of Africa. Here is Keita on the Jebel Moya studies:

"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Jebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." [/img]
S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


Here is the work of the anthropologist so strongly recommended by Lefkowitz, Nancy Lovell:


"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

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"must be placed in the context of hypotheses informed by archaeological, linguistic, geographic and other data. In such contexts, the physical anthropological evidence indicates that early Nile Valley populations can be identified as part of an African lineage, but exhibiting local variation. This variation represents the short and long term effects of evolutionary forces, such as gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection, influenced by culture and geography." ("Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999). pp 328-332)


The same Nancy Lovell recommended by Lefkowitz studied dental traits among some high status persons of the key Egyptian Naqada group and found that they resembled the peoples of Nubia.

T. Prowse, and N. Lovell "Concordance of cranial and dental morphological traits and evidence for endogamy in ancient Egypt"
American journal of physical anthropology. 1996, vol. 101, no2, pp. 237-246 (2 p.1/4)


A biological affinities study based on frequencies of cranial nonmetric traits in skeletal samples from three cemeteries at Predynastic Naqada, Egypt, confirms the results of a recent nonmetric dental morphological analysis. Both cranial and dental traits analyses indicate that the individuals buried in a cemetery characterized archaeologically as high status are significantly different from individuals buried in two other, apparently non-elite cemeteries and that the non-elite samples are not significantly different from each other. A comparison with neighboring Nile Valley skeletal samples suggests that the high status cemetery represents an endogamous ruling or elite segment of the local population at Naqada, which is more closely related to populations in northern Nubia than to neighboring populations in southern Egypt.


Lefkowitz warns against Eurocentric "racial" analysis as to the Egyptians and Nubians.

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"The Nubian tribute-bearers are painted in two skin tones, black and dark brown. These tones do not necessarily represent actual skin tones in real life but may serve to distinguish each tribute-bearer from the next in a row in which the figures overlap. Alternatively, the brown-skinned people may be of Nubian origin, and the black-skinned ones may be farther south 9Trigger 1978, 33). The shading of skin tones in Egyptian tomb paintings, which varies considerably, may not be a certain criterion for distinguishing race. Specific symbols of ethnic identity can also vary. Identifying race in Egyptian representational art, again, is difficult to do- probably because race (as opposed to ethnic affiliation, that is, Egyptians versus all non-Egyptians) was not a criterion for differentiation used by the ancient Egyptians...


Northern Egypt shows more physical variation than the south, but not necessarily as part of any significant 'race' mix, but local, built-in variation. They were closer to southerners than any other peoples. In comparisons with "Middle Eastern" populations of the same ancient period, the Egyptians link more closely with other Africans than the Middle Easterners. Africans vary in how they look because they have the highest built-in molecular diversity to begin with.

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"..sample populations available from northern Egypt from before the 1st Dynasty (Merimda, Maadi and Wadi Digla) turn out to be significantly different from sample populations from early Palestine and Byblos, suggesting a lack of common ancestors over a long time. If there was a south-north cline variation along the Nile valley it did not, from this limited evidence, continue smoothly on into southern Palestine. The limb-length proportions of males from the Egyptian sites group them with Africans rather than with Europeans." (Barry Kemp, "Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation. (2005) Routledge. p. 52-60)


"Individuals from different geographical regions frequently plotted near each other, revealing aspects of variation at the level of individuals that is obscured by concentrating on the most distinctive facial traits once used to construct ''types.''The high level of African interindividual variation in craniometric pattern is reminiscent of the great level of molecular diversity found in Africa." (S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679-689, 2004.)

Quote on northern Egypt analysis- the Qarunian (Faiyum) remains (c. 7000 BC)
"The body was that of a forty-year old woman with a height of about 1.6 meters, who was of a more modern racial type than the classic 'Mechtoid' of the Fakhurian culture (see pp. 65-6), being generally more gracile, having large teeth and thick jaws bearing some resemblance to the modern 'negroid' type." (Beatrix Midant-Reynes, Ian Shaw (2000). The Prehistory of Egypt. Wiley-Blackwell. pg. 82)


Modern studies show diversity in how people look is heavily based on distance from sub-Saharan Africa, not merely climate. In genetically diverse Africa, broad-nosed people live on the cool or cold mountain slopes of East Africa or the hot, dry Sahara, and narrow-nosed peoples like many Fulani like in the wet tropics of West Africa. Yellowish-skinned San tribes live in the hot zones of Southern Africa.

"The relative importance of ancient demography and climate in determining worldwide patterns of human within-population phenotypic diversity is still open to debate. Several morphometric traits have been argued to be under selection by climatic factors, but it is unclear whether climate affects the global decline in morphological diversity with increasing geographical distance from sub-Saharan Africa. Using a large database of male and female skull measurements, we apply an explicit framework to quantify the relative role of climate and distance from Africa. We show that distance from sub-Saharan Africa is the sole determinant of human within-population phenotypic diversity, while climate plays no role. By selecting the most informative set of traits, it was possible to explain over half of the worldwide variation in phenotypic diversity. These results mirror those previously obtained for genetic markers and show that 'bones and molecules' are in perfect agreement for humans." (Distance from Africa, not climate, explains within-population phenotypic diversity in humans. (2008) by: Lia Betti, François Balloux, William Amos, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Andrea Manica, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 2008/12/02)


Analysis of skeletal and cranial remains reveals that the ancient Egyptians of the early Dynastic and pre-Dynastic phases, link closer to nearby Saharan, Sudanic and East African populations than Mediterranean and Middle Eastern peoples. Greeks, Romans, Hyskos, Arabs and others were to appear later in Egyptian history. Craniometric studies generally place ancient Upper Egyptian populations closer to the range of tropical Africans in the Nile Valley and East Africa than to Mediterraneans, or Middle Easterners.

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S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Kebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." (Keita 1993)

"When the unlikely relationships [Indian matches] and eliminated, the Egyptian series are more similar overall to other African series than to European or Near Eastern (Byzantine or Palestinian) series." (Keita 1993)

"Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant."(Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa: Their Interaction. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472 )

"Analysis of crania is the traditional approach to assessing ancient population origins, relationships, and diversity. In studies based on anatomical traits and measurements of crania, similarities have been found between Nile Valley crania from 30,000, 20,000 and 12,000 years ago and various African remains from more recent times (see Thoma 1984; Brauer and Rimbach 1990; Angel and Kelley 1986; Keita 1993). Studies of crania from southern predynastic Egypt, from the formative period (4000-3100 B.C.), show them usually to be more similar to the crania of ancient Nubians, Kushites, Saharans, or modern groups from the Horn of Africa than to those of dynastic northern Egyptians or ancient or modern southern Europeans."
(S. O. Y and A.J. Boyce, "The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians", in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 20-33)


"There is no archaeological, linguistic, or historical data which indicate a European or Asiatic invasion of, or migration to, the Nile Valley during First Dynasty times. Previous concepts about the origin of the First Dynasty Egyptians as being somehow external to the Nile Valley or less native are not supported by archaeology... In summary, the Abydos First Dynasty royal tomb contents reveal a notable craniometric heterogeneity. Southerners predominate. (Kieta, S. (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)"

"The predominant craniometric pattern in the Abydos royal tombs is 'southern' (tropical African variant), and this is consistent with what would be expected based on the literature and other results (Keita, 1990). This pattern is seen in both group and unknown analyses... Archaeology and history seem to provide the most parsimonious explanation for the variation in the royal tombs at Abydos.. Tomb design suggests the presence of northerners in the south in late Nakada times (Hoffman, 1988) when the unification probably took place. Delta names are attached to some of the tombs at Abydos (Gardiner, 1961; Yurco, 1990, personal communication), thus perhaps supporting Petrie's (1939) and Gardiner's contention that north-south marriages were undertaken to legitimize the hegemony of the south. The courtiers of northern elites would have accompanied them.

Given all of the above, it is probably not possible to view the Abydos royal tomb sample as representative of the general southern Upper Egyptian population of the time. Southern elites and/or their descendants eventually came to be buried in the north (Hoffman, 1988). Hence early Second Dynasty kings and Djoser (Dynasty 111) (Hayes, 1953) and his descendants are not buried in Abydos. Petrie (1939) states that the Third Dynasty, buried in the north, was of Sudanese origin, but southern Egypt is equally likely. This perhaps explains Harris and Weeks' (1973) suggested findings of southern morphologies in some Old Kingdom Giza remains, also verified in portraiture (Drake, 1987). Further study would be required to ascertain trends in the general population of both regions. The strong Sudanese affinity noted in the unknown analyses may reflect the Nubian interactions with upper Egypt in predynastic times prior to Egyptian unification (Williams, 1980,1986)..." (S. Keita (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)


"When the Elephantine results were added to a broader pooling of the physical characteristics drawn from a wide geographic region which includes Africa, the Mediterranean and the Near East quite strong affinities emerge between Elephantine and populations from Nubia, supporting a strong south-north cline. (Barry Kemp. (2006) Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. p. 54)


Afrocentric critic C. Loring Brace's 2005 study groups ancient Egyptian populations like the Naqada closer to Nubians and Somalis than European, Mediterranean or Middle Eastern populations. Brace's study shows that the closest European linking with Africans in Egypt or Nubia are Middle Stone Age Portugese and Neolithics, OLDER populations more closely resembling AFRICANS than modern Europeans. Early Neolithic populations, like the Nautifians, in what is now Israel, show sub-Saharan 'negroid' affinities. (Brace, et al. The questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European craniofacial form, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 3; 103(1): p. 242-247.)


"The Niger-Congo speakers, Congo, Dahomey and Haya, cluster closely with each other and a bit less closely with the Nubian sample, both the recent and the Bronze Age Nubians, and more remotely with the Naqada Bronze Age sample of Egypt, the modern Somalis, and the Arabic-speaking Fellaheen (farmers) of Israel. When those samples are separated and run in a single analysis as in Fig. 1, there clearly is a tie between them that is diluted the farther one gets from sub-Saharan Africa" (Brace, 2005)

"The surprise is that the Neolithic peoples of Europe and their Bronze Age successors are not closely related to the modern inhabitants, although the prehistoric/modern ties are somewhat more apparent in southern Europe. It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa... Interestingly enough, however, the small Natufian sample falls between the Niger-Congo group and the other samples used. Fig. 2 shows the plot produced by the first two canonical variates, but the same thing happens when canonical variates 1 and 3 (not shown here) are used. This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic), .. When canonical variates are plotted, neither sample ties in with Cro-Magnon as was once suggested. The data treated here support the idea that the Neolithic moved out of the Near East into the circum-Mediterranean areas and Europe by a process of demic diffusion but that subsequently the in situ residents of those areas, derived from the Late Pleistocene inhabitants, absorbed both the agricultural life way and the people who had brought it." (Brace, 2005)


Both skeletal/cranial and DNA studies by other authors confirm that some Neolithics did not derive from the Near East. They most likely resembled African populations. Hence comparisons using older European Neolithics versus Africans are comparisons with older prehistoric Europeans who looked more like Africans, than modern 'white' Europeans, as shown by Brace (2005), and Hanihara (1996) also, who states "Early West Asians looked like Africans."

"The absence of mtDNA haplogroup J in the ancient Portuguese Neolithic sample suggests that this population was not derived directly from Near Eastern farmers. The Mesolithic and Neolithic groups show genetic discontinuity implying colonisation at the Neolithic transition in Portugal." (CHANDLER, H.; SYKES, B.; ZILHÃO, J. (2005) - Using ancient DNA to examine genetic continuity at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Portugal, in ARIAS, P.; ONTAÑÓN, R.; GARCÍA-MONCÓ, C. (eds.) - «Actas del III Congreso del Neolítico en la Península Ibérica», Santander, Monografías del Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria 1, p. 781-786.)

"Early Europeans still resembled modern tropical peoples - some resemble modern Australian and Africans, more than modern Europeans.. Nor does the picture get any clearer when we move on to the Cro-Magnons, the presumed ancestors of modern Europeans. Some were more like present-day Australians or Africans, judged by objective anatomical observations." (Christopher Stringer, Robin McKie (1998). African Exodus. Macmillan, p. 162)


Early Europeans, as recently as 6,000-9000 years ago, looked somewhat like Africans in terms of retained 'tropical' characteristics. Cold adaptation was to bring about several physical changes over time from the initial Out of Africa migrations to Europe. Retained traces of 'tropical' characteristics, indicate a "large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans." (Holliday and Churchill 2003).

"Body proportions covary with climate, apparently as the result of climatic selection. Ontogenetic research and migrant studies have demonstrated that body proportions are largely genetically controlled and are under low selective rates; thus studies of body form can provide evidence for evolutionarily short-term dispersals and/or gene flow. Replacement predicts that the earliest modern Europeans will possess "tropical" body proportions (assuming Africa is the center of origin), while Regional Continuity permits only minor shifts in body shape, due to climatic change and/or improved cultural buffering. .. results refute the hypothesis of local continuity in Europe, and are consistent with an interpretation of elevated gene flow (and population dispersal?) from Africa, followed by subsequent climatic adaptation to colder conditions." (Holliday, Trenton (1997) Body proportions in Late Pleistocene Europe and modern human origins. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 423-447)


".. while the Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans have significantly higher (i.e., tropically-adapted) brachial and crural indices than do recent Europeans, they also have shorter (i.e., cold-adapted) limbs. The somewhat paradoxical retention of "tropical" indices in the context of more "cold-adapted" limb length is best explained as evidence for Replacement in the European Late Pleistocene, followed by gradual cold adaptation in glacial Europe." (Holliday, Trenton (1999) Brachial and crural indices of European Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans. Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 36, Issue 5, May 1999, Pages 549-566)


"Stature, body mass, and body proportions are evaluated for the Cheddar Man (Gough's Cave 1) skeleton. Like many of his Mesolithic contemporaries, Gough's Cave 1 evinces relatively short estimated stature (ca. 166.2 cm [5' 5']) and low body mass (ca. 66 kg [146 lbs]). In body shape, he is similar to recent Europeans for most proportional indices. He differs, however, from most recent Europeans in his high crural index and tibial length/trunk height indices. Thus, while Gough's Cave 1 is characterized by a total morphological pattern considered 'cold-adapted', these latter two traits may be interpreted as evidence of a large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans." (TRENTON W. HOLLIDAY a1 and STEVEN E. CHURCHILL. (2003). Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of body size and shape, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology, 58:37-44 Cambridge University Press)


More data showing early Europeans were tropically adapted types like Africans
"Body proportions are under strong climatic selection and evince remarkable stability within regional lineages. As such, they offer a viable and robust alternative to cranio-facial data in assessing hypothesised continuity and replacement with the transition to agro-pastoralism in central Europe. Humero-clavicular, brachial and crural indices in a large sample (n=75) of Linienbandkeramik (LBK), Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age specimens from the middle Elbe-Saale-Werra valley (MESV) were compared with Eurasian and African terminal Pleistocene, European Mesolithic and geographically disparate recent human specimens. Mesolithic Europeans display considerable variation in humero-clavicular and brachial indices yet none approach the extreme "hyper-polar" morphology of LBK humans from the MESV. In contrast, Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age peoples display elongated brachial and crural indices reminiscent of terminal Pleistocene and "tropically adapted" recent humans. These marked morphological changes likely reflect exogenous immigration during the terminal Fourth millennium cal BC. Population expansion and diffusion is a function of increased mobility and settlement dispersal concomitant with significant technological and subsistence changes in later Neolithic societies during the late fourth millennium cal BCE."
-- Gallagher et al. "Population continuity, demic diffusion and Neolithic origins in central-southern Germany: the evidence from body proportions." Homo. 2009;60(2):95-126. Epub 2009 Mar 4.


Early West Asians looked like Africans. Thus any ancient returnees or "backflow" from West Asia back to Africa is by people who look like Africans to begin with. Brace 2005 shows this as to Europeans. Hanihara 1996, demonstrates this below as to West Asians (i.e. 'Middle easterners'). Also see above.

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"Distance analysis and factor analysis, based on Q-mode correlation coefficients, were applied to 23 craniofacial measurements in 1,802 recent and prehistoric crania from major geographical areas of the Old World. The major findings are as follows: 1) Australians show closer similarities to African populations than to Melanesians. 2) Recent Europeans align with East Asians, and early West Asians resemble Africans. 3) The Asian population complex with regional difference between northern and southern members is manifest. 4) Clinal variations of craniofacial features can be detected in the Afro-European region on the one hand, and Australasian and East Asian region on the other hand. 5) The craniofacial variations of major geographical groups are not necessarily consistent with their geographical distribution pattern. This may be a sign that the evolutionary divergence in craniofacial shape among recent populations of different geographical areas is of a highly limited degree. Taking all of these into account, a single origin for anatomically modern humans is the most parsimonious interpretation of the craniofacial variations presented in this study."
(Hanihara T. Comparison of craniofacial features of major human groups. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1996 Mar;99(3):389-412.)


Older studies often show misclassification or exclusion of Nile Valley remains deemed 'negroid'. Although clearly of the "African" type, such remains were frequently relabeled "Mediterranean."

"Analyses of Egyptian crania are numerous. Vercoutter (1978) notes that ancient Egyptian crania have frequently all been lumped (implicitly or explicitly) as Mediterranean, although Negroid remains are recorded in substantial numbers by many workers... "Nutter (1958), using the Penrose statistic, demonstrated that Nagada I and Badari crania, both regarded as Negroid, were almost identical and that these were most similar to the Negroid Nubian series from Kerma studied by Collett (1933). [Collett, not accepting variability, excluded "clear negro" crania found in the Kerma series from her analysis, as did Morant (1925), implying that they were foreign..." (S. Keita (1990) Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 83:35-48)


Different features among Africans, particularly EAST AFRICANS, like narrow noses are not due to different "race" mixes but are part of the built-in physical diversity and variation of African peoples. Narrow noses appear in the oldest African populations for example, in Kenya's Gamble Cave complex. East Africans like Somalians or Kenyans do not need any outside race "mix" or migration to make them look the way they do.

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".. all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in a number of body proportions.. There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to the populations of Europe and western Asia.. In skin colour, the Tutsi are darker than the Hutu, in the reverse direction to that leading to the caucasoids. Lip thickness provides a similar case: on an average the lips of the Tutsi are thicker than those of the Hutu." [Jean Hiernaux, The People of Africa (1975), pgs 42-43, 62-63)

"In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the whole world range is covered in the sub-continent. Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the average nose widths covers 92 per cent of the world range: only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record. Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage....."
- Jean Hiernaux, "The People of Africa" 1975 p.53, 54

"Prehistoric human crania from Bromhead's Site, Willey's Kopje, Makalia Burial Site, Nakuru, and other localities in the Eastern Rift Valley of Kenya are reassessed using measurements and a multivariate statistical approach. Materials available for comparison include series of Bushman and Hottentot crania. South and East African Negroes, and Egyptians. Up to 34 cranial measurements taken on these series are utilized to construct three multiple discriminant frameworks, each of which can assign modern individuals to a correct group with considerable accuracy. When the prehistoric crania are classified with the help of these discriminants, results indicate that several of the skulls are best grouped with modern Negroes. This is especially clear in the case of individuals from Bromhead's Site, Willey's Kopje, and Nakuru, and the evidence hardly suggests post-Pleistocene domination of the Rift and surrounding territory by "Mediterranean" Caucasoids, as has been claimed. Recent linguistic and archaeological findings are also reviewed, and these seem to support application of the term Nilotic Negro to the early Rift populations." (Rightmire GP. New studies of post-Pleistocene human skeletal remains from the Rift Valley, Kenya. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1975 May;42(3):351-69. )

"....inhabitants of East Africa right on the equator have appreciably longer, narrower, and higher noses than people in the Congo at the same latitude. A former generation of anthropologists used to explain this paradox by invoking an invasion by an itinerant "white" population from the Mediterranean area, although this solution raised more problems than it solved since the East Africans in question include some of the blackest people in the world with characteristically wooly hair and a body build unique among the world's populations for its extreme linearity and height.... The relatively long noses of East Africa become explicable then when one realizes that much of the area is extremely dry for parts of the year." (C. Loring Brace, "Nonracial Approach Towards Human Diversity," cited in The Concept of Race, Edited by Ashley Montagu, The Free Press, 1980, pp. 135-136, 138)

"The .... excavations at Gogoshiis Qabe (Somalia) uncovered eleven virtually complete and articulated primary burials...Closest morphological affinities are with early Holocene skeletons from Lake Turkana, Kenya...and Lake Besaka, Ethiopia.."
(S. Brandt, (1986) The Upper Pleistocene and early Holocene prehistory of the Horn of Africa. Journal African Archaeological Review. Volume 4, Number 1, Pages 41-82 )

"The role of tall, linearly built populations in eastern Africa's prehistory has always been debated. Traditionally, they are viewed as late migrants into the area. But as there is better palaeoanthropological and linguistic documentation for the earlier presence of these populations than for any other group in eastern Africa, it is far more likely that they are indigenous eastern Africans. ... prehistoric linear populations show resemblances to both Upper Pleistocene eastern African fossils and present-day, non-Bantu-speaking groups in eastern Africa, with minor differences stemming from changes in overall robusticity of the dentition and skeleton. This suggests a longstanding tradition of linear populations in eastern Africa, contributing to the indigenous development of cultural and biological diversity from the Pleistocene up to the present."
(L . A . SCHEPARTZ, "Who were the later Pleistocene eastern Africans?" The African Archaeological Review, 6 (1988), pp. 57- 72)


Recent study shows ancient Egyptians physically more like tropically adapted Black Americans than White Americans, confirming older studies that show today's Egyptians in general are closer to US blacks than Northern Europeans, and Southern Europeans as well.


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"We also compare Egyptian body proportions to those of modern American Blacks and Whites... Long bone stature regression equations were then derived for each sex. Our results confirm that, although ancient Egyptians are closer in body proportion to modern American Blacks than they are to American Whites, proportions in Blacks and Egyptians are not identical... Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks. ..brachial indices are definitely more 'African'... There is no evidence for significant variation in proportions among temporal or social groupings; thus, the new formulae may be broadly applicable to ancient Egyptian remains." ("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55


Africa is the most genetically diverse region in the world with the original man being from East Africa according to conservative scholars:

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages.. Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world." (Tishkoff SA, Williams SM., Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2002 Aug (8):611-21.)

" In other words, all non-Africans carry M168. Of course, Africans carrying the M168 mutation today are the descendants of the African subpopulation from which the migrants originated.... Thus, the Australian/Eurasian Adam (the ancestor of all non-Africans) was an East African Man." (Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis, Wiley-Blackwell: 2006, pg 108)


The Natufians, early inhabitants of the Sinai - Israel- Palestine area, and reputed pioneers of several Neolithic agricultural and technological developments, appear to have had "Negroid" affinities. Important Natufian sites include Mt. Carmel, Jericho and several others.


"Against this background of disease, movement and pedomorphic reduction of body size one can identify Negroid (Ethiopic or Bushmanoid?) traits of nose and prognathism appearing in Natufian latest hunters (McCown, 1939) and in Anatolian and Macedonian first farmers, probably from Nubia via the unknown predecesors of the Badarians and Tasians....". (Biological Relations of Egyptians and Eastern Mediterranean Populations during pre-Dynastic and Dynastic Times. J. Lawrence Angel. Journal of Human Evolutiom. 1972:1, 1, Pg 307)

"The Mushabians moved into Sinai from the Nile Delta, bringing North African lithic chipping tecniques."
("Pleistocene connections between Africa and Southwest Asia: an archaeological perspective. O. Bar-Yosef. African Archaeological Review. 5 (1987) Pg 29)

"It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa... Interestingly enough, however, the small Natufian sample falls between the Niger-Congo group and the other samples used... This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic.." (C.L Brace, et. al. 2005. The Questionable contribution of the Neolithic...)


Early inhabitants of the general Natufian Israel area show limb proportions suited to tropical peoples- similar to sub-Saharan's homeland

"However, the real revelation came when Erik [Trinkhaus] inserted his data on the Cro-Magnons of Europe and the Skhul-Qafzeh skeletons from Israel into the equations. In this case, he got a figure of 85 percent for the shinbone-thighbone ratio. Not only were they unlike the Neanderthals, but these people actually fell at the other extreme in their readings on the limb thermometer. The predicted average temperature of origin for folk with an 85% shin-thigh fraction, indicating much longer extremities relative to trunk length - was about 20 degrees higher than the Neanderthals', suggesting a subtropical- if not tropical- homeland!" (African Exodus By Christopher Stringer, Robin McKie, McMillan: pg 79-83)


The 1993 'Clines and Clusters' study by C.L. Brace, et. al. has been used to minmize or downplay the realtionship between Egypt and its African neighbors. For example it:

--Created an "African" or "sub-Saharan" group, but excluded the Maghreb (including parts of the Sahara and Sahel), the Sudan and the Horn area (Ethiopia and Somalia) even though these latter two are BELOW the Sahara, and thus "sub-Saharan".

--Excluded the Badari, and Naqada I and II, key Egyptian groups, thus obscuring the Sudanic/Saharan character of numerous early samples, noted in several earlier analyses.
Ignored the formative range of the Saharans on Egypt, from the megaliths and cattle cults of the Nabta Playa to early mummification practices was ignored. T

--Excluded the Nubian population of the Badari and early Naqada period, including the rich remains of the well documented Qustul culture, near the present Sudanese-Egyptian border, again obscuring the close relationship between the two peoples.

--Created a vague "Bronze Age" grouping of Nubians, and a "modern" group of medieval samples, an era long after the dynasties and when Nubia had experienced more gene flow of that and the later Arab incursions, beginning in the 700s. Sampling thus ignored the early Badari/Naqada Nubians, jumped the 25th Dynasty era, and shifted to the medieval era in the age range of the Arab conquests.
Used Somalian samples that were modern, and thus within the range of recent gene flow (such as the Arab era), particularly on the coast.

--The result was a "comparison" finding that the ancient Egyptians had no relationship "at all" to other "sub-Saharan" peoples and were relatively distant from the Nubians and Somalians. peoples. This finding has been undermined by the subsequent research of several scholars, including limb proportion studies.

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"However, Brace et al. (1993) find that a series of upper Egyptian/Nubian epipalaeolithic crania affiliate by cluster analysis with groups they designate "sub-Saharan African" or just simply "African" (from which they incorrectly exclude the Maghreb, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa), whereas post-Badarian southern predynastic and a late dynastic northern series (called "E" or Gizeh) cluster together, and secondarily with Europeans. In the primary cluster with the Egyptian groups are also remains representing populations from the ancient Sudan and recent Somalia. Brace et al. (1993) seemingly interpret these results as indicating a population relationship from Scandinavia to the Horn of Africa, although the mechanism for this is not clearly stated; they also state that the Egyptians had no relationship with sub-Saharan Africans, a group that they nearly treat (incorrectly) as monolithic, although sometimes seemingly including Somalia, which directly undermines aspects of their claims. Sub-Saharan Africa does not define/delimit authentic Africanity." (S.O.Y. Keita. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data". Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)


Brace carefully excluded the Badari- a key native pre-dynastic group that led into the dynasties, and suggested possible European immigration to ancient Egypt. Keita put this to the test and found that the excluded group matched up more closely with Africans than Europeans.

"An examination of the distance hierarchies reveals the Badarian series to be more similar to the Teita in both analyses and always more similar to all of the African series than to the Norse and Berg groups (see Tables 3A & 3B and Figure 2). Essentially equal similarity is found with the Zalavar and Dogon series in the 11-variable analysis and with these and the Bushman in the one using 15 variables. The Badarian series clusters with the tropical African groups no matter which algorithm is employed (see Figures 3 and 4).. In none of them did the Badarian sample affiliate with the European series."(S.O.Y. Keita. Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)

More on the biased and skewed 'true negro' model

"Another example of the use of a socially constructed typological paradigm is in studies of the Nile Valley populations in which the concept of a biological African is restricted to those with a particular craniometric pattern (called in the past the 'True Negro' though no 'True White' was ever defined). Early Nubians, Egyptians, and even Somalians are viewed essentially as non-Africans, when in fact numerous lines of evidence and an evolutionary model make them a part of African biocultural/biogeographical history. The diversity of 'authentic' Africans is a reality. This diversity prevents biogeographical/biohistorical Africans from clustering into a single unit, no matter the kind of data." (The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence, S. O. Y. Keita, Rick A. Kittles, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 99, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 534-544)

"..presents all tropical Africans with narrower noses and faces as being related to or descended from external, ultimately non-African peoples. However, narrow-faced, narrow-nosed populations have long been resident in Saharo-tropical Africa... and their origin need not be sought elsewhere. These traits are also indigenous. The variability in tropical Africa is expectedly naturally high. Given their longstanding presence, narrow noses and faces cannot be deemed `non-African."(S.O.Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993), page 134 )

"Another example of the use of a socially constructed typological paradigm is in studies of the Nile Valley populations in which the concept of a biological African is restricted to those with a particular craniometric pattern (called in the past the 'True African' though no 'True White' was ever defined). Early Nubians, Egyptians, and even Somalians are viewed essentially as non-Africans, when in fact numerous lines of evidence and an evolutionary model make them a part of African biocultural/biogeographical history. The diversity of 'authentic' Africans is a reality. This diversity prevents biogeographical/biohistorical Africans from clustering into a single unit, no matter the kind of data."
---Keita and Kittles. "The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence." American Anthropologist 99, no. 3 (September 1997): 534-544

Hair and the 'true negro'
"Strouhal (1971) microscopically examined some hair which had been preserved on a Badrarian skull. The analysis was interpreted as suggesting a stereotypical tropical African-European hybrid (mulatto). However this hair is grossly no different from that of Fulani, some Kanuri, or Somali and does not require a gene flow explanation any more than curly hair in Greece necessarily does. Extremely "wooly" hair is not the only kind native to tropical Africa.." (S. O. Y. Keita. (1993). "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54)


Sampling bias and the true negro. In some Nile Valley research sampling bias persists such as drawing samples from the far north of Egypt, boscuring the region's genetic complexity. The stereotypical "true negro" type is still used to artifically separate related peoples and obscure a fuller, more accurate picture of African genetic diversity. Sampling bias appears both in DNA studies (noted by Keita) and in cranial studies (noted by Egyptologist Barry Kemp).

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Keita on DNA studies drawing samples from the far north, an area with more foreign settlement and gene flow

"However, in some of the studies, only individuals from northern Egypt are sampled, and this could theoretically give a false impression of Egyptian variability (contrast Lucotte and Mercier 2003a with Manni et al. 2002), because this region has received more foreign settlers (and is nearer the Near East). Possible sample bias should be integrated into the discussion of results." (S.O.Y. Keita, A.J. Boyce, "Interpreting Geographical Patterns of Y Chromosome Variation1," History in Africa 32 (2005) 221-246 )

Egyptologist Barry Kemp on the worldwide CRANID database that used northern samples near the Mediterranean as "representative" of the ancient Egyptians, and classifying them in a "European" direction, while excluding key historic sites further south..

"If, on the other hand, CRANID had used one of the Elephantine populations of the same period, the geographic association would be much more with the African groups to the south. It is dangerous to take one set of skeletons and use them to characterize the population of the whole of Egypt." (Barry Kemp, Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation, Routledge: 2005, p. 55)


Modern anthropology shows that the ancient Egyptians are well within the range of tropical Africa, contradicting older research in the 1990s that sought to deny any relationship. The anthropologist below, Nancy Lovell was recommended by Mary lefkowitz in Black Athena Revisted.


"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)


One of the oldest remains from Upper Egypt, shows strong sub-Saharan affinities, and early northern Egypt also shows sub-Saharan affinities through cultural traits- the 'Nubian complex' of technology and production.

"The morphometric affinities of the 33,000 year old skeleton from Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt are examined using multivariate statistical procedures.. The results indicate a strong association between some of the sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age (MSA) specimens, and the Nazlet Khater mandible. Furthermore, the results suggest that variability between African populations during the Neolithic and Protohistoric periods was more pronounced than the range of variability observed among recent African and Levantine populations." (PINHASI Ron, SEMAL Patrick (2000). The position of the Nazlet Khater specimen among prehistoric and modern African and Levantine populations. Journal of human evolution. 2000, vol. 39, no3, pp. 269-288 )

"..Middle Paleolithic and the transition to the Upper Paleolithic in the Lower Nile Valley are described... the Middle Paleolithic or, more appropriately, Middle Stone Age of this region starts with the arrival of new populations from sub-Saharan Africa, as evidenced by the nature of the Early to Middle Stone Age transition in stratified sites. Throughout the late Middle Pleistocene technological change occurs leading to the establishment of the Nubian Complex by the onset of the Upper Pleistocene." (Van Peer, Philip. Did middle stone age moderns of sub-Saharan African descent trigger an upper paleolithic revolution in the lower nile valley? Anthropologie. vol. 42, no3, pp. 215-225)


Dental studies provide evidence that the ancient Egyptian population maintained a high degree of continuity into the early, mid and late Dynastic periods. A key ancient group, the Badari, found to link to tropical African metrics, was excluded by such studies as Brace (1993) but dental research shows they link well with later pre and Dynastic populations. J. Irish's 2006 dental study examined the ancient Badarian people excluded by Brace and found that they were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like." His dental results show that:

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"Despite the difference, Gebel Ramlah [the Western Desert- Saharan region] is closest to predynastic and early dynastic samples from Abydos, Hierakonpolis, and Badari.."

the Badarians were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like"

"A comparison of Badari to the Naqada and Hierakonpolis samples .. contradicts the idea of a foreign origin for the Naqada (Petrie, 1939; Baumgartel, 1970)"

Evidence in favor of continuity is also demonstrated by comparison of individual samples. "Naqada and especially Hierakonpolis share close affinities with First-Second Dynasty Abydos.. These findings do not support the concept of a foreign dynastic ''race''"

"Thus, despite increasing foreign influence after the Second Intermediate Period, not only did Egyptian culture remain intact (Lloyd, 2000a), but the people themselves, as represented by the dental samples, appear biologically constant as well."

(Joel D. Irish (2006). Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Dental Affinities Among Neolithic Through Postdynastic Peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.)


Africans have the highest dental diversity
"Previous research by the first author revealed that, relative to other modern peoples, sub-Saharan Africans exhibit the highest frequencies of ancestral (or plesiomorphic) dental traits... The fact that sub-Saharan Africans express these apparently plesiomorphic characters, along with additional information on their affinity to other modern populations, evident intra-population heterogeneity, and a world-wide dental cline emanating from the sub-continent, provides further evidence that is consistent with an African origin model." (Irish JD, Guatelli-Steinberg D.(2003) Ancient teeth and modern human origins: an expanded comparison of African Plio-Pleistocene and recent world dental samples. Hum Evol. 2003 Aug;45(2):113-44. )


Ancient Egyptian civilization was indigenous with continuity among its peoples, not an influx of Middle Easterners, Europeans or other outsiders like Arabs until relatively late in history

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"Some have argued that various early Egyptians like the Badarians probably migrated northward from Nubia, while others see a wide-ranging movement of peoples across the breadth of the Sahara before the onset of desiccation. Whatever may be the origins of any particular people or civilization, however, it seems reasonably certain that the predynastic communities of the Nile valley were essentially indigenous in culture, drawing little inspiration from sources outside the continent during the several centuries directly preceding the onset of historical times..." (Robert July, Pre-Colonial Africa, 1975, p. 60-61)


"overall population continuity over the Predynastic and early Dynastic, and high levels of genetic heterogeneity, thereby suggesting that state formation occurred as a mainly indigenous process."
(Zakrzewski, S.R. (2007). "Population continuity or population change: Formation of the ancient Egyptian state". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132 (4): 501-509)

"the peoples of the steppes and grasslands to the immediate south of Egypt domesticated cattle, as early as 9000 to 8000 B.C. They included peoples from the Afroasiastic linguistic group and the second major African language family, Nilo-Saharan (Wendorf, Schild, Close 1984; Wendorf, et al. 1982). Thus the earliest domestic cattle may have come to Egypt from these southern neighbors, circa 6000 B.C., and not from the Middle East.[148] Pottery, another significant advance in material cultural may also have followed this pattern, initiatied "as early as 9000 B.C. by the Nilo-Saharans and Afrasians who lived to the south of Egypt. Soon thereafter, pots spread to Egyptian sites, almost 2,000 years before the first pottery was made in the Middle East."
(Christopher Ehret, "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 25-27)


X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies show some to be linked physically to Nubian types, and some documented royal officials are clearly "Negroid' like Pepi-seneb, an eminent scribe c. 2745 BC. Some royal New Kingdom mummies also show melanin frequencies consistent with Negroid origin.


"In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults."
(An X-ray atlas of the royal mummies. Edited by J.E. Harris and E.F. Wente. (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980.) Review: Michael R. Zimmerman, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 56, Issue 2 , (1981) Pages 207 - 208)

"While the Upper Nile Egyptians show phenotypic features that occur in higher frequencies in the Sudan and southward into East Africa (namely, facial prognathism, chamaerrhiny, and paedomorphic cranial architecture with specific modifications of the nasal aperature), these so-called Negroid features are not universal in the region of Thebes, Karnak, and Luxor."
(Kennedy, Kenneth A.R., T. Plummer, J. Chinment, "Identification of the Eminent Dead: Pepi, A Scribe of Egypt," In Katherine J. Reichs (ed.), Forensic Osteology, 1986.)


German Institute for Archaeology -excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. In several of the noble specimens:
"The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."
(Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues", Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13)


Nubians were ethnically the closest people to the Egyptians. Conflict between the two were typical clashes between kingdoms without the simplistic "racial" models drawn by some 20th century writers.
Quote 1:
"The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)

- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Quote 2:

"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region.4 As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."

- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


Ancient Egyptian religion closer to the religion of African regions than to Mesopotamia, Europe or the Middle East

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Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508
"A large number of gods go back to prehistoric times. The images of a cow and star goddess (Hathor), the falcon (Horus), and the human-shaped figures of the fertility god (Min) can be traced back to that period. Some rites, such as the "running of the Apil-bull," the "hoeing of the ground," and other fertility and hunting rites (e.g., the hippopotamus hunt) presumably date from early times.. Connections with the religions in southwest Asia cannot be traced with certainty."
"It is doubtful whether Osiris can be regarded as equal to Tammuz or Adonis, or whether Hathor is related to the "Great Mother." There are closer relations with northeast African religions. The numerous animal cults (especially bovine cults and panther gods) and details of ritual dresses (animal tails, masks, grass aprons, etc) probably are of African origin. The kinship in particular shows some African elements, such as the king as the head ritualist (i.e., medicine man), the limitations and renewal of the reign (jubilees, regicide), and the position of the king's mother (a matriarchal element). Some of them can be found among the Ethiopians in Napata and Meroe, others among the Prenilotic tribes (Shilluk)."
(Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508)


Egyptian dynastic civilization based from the 'darker' south (Upper Egypt) not the north (Lower Egypt)

QUOTE(s):
"While not attempting to underestimate the contribution that Deltaic political and religious institutions made to those of a united Egypt, many Egyptologists now discount the idea that a united prehistoric kingdom of Lower Egypt ever existed."


"While communities such as Ma'adi appear to have played an important role in entrepots through which goods and ideas form south-west Asia filtered into the Nile Valley in later prehistoric times, the main cultural and political tradition that gave rise to the cultural pattern of Early Dynastic Egypt is to be found not in the north but in the south.":
The Cambridge History of Africa: Volume 1, From the Earliest Times to c. 500 BC, (Cambridge University Press: 1982), Edited by J. Desmond Clark pp. 500-509

"..the early cultures of Merimde, the Fayum, Badari Naqada I and II are essentially African and early African social customs and religious beliefs were the root and foundation of the ancient Egyptian way of life." (Source: Shaw, Thurston (1976) Changes in African Archaeology in the Last Forty Years in African Studies since 1945. p. 156-68. London.)


Egyptian state founded from the south, and indigenous in character. Egyptians dominated Palestine in some eras.

"What is truly unique about this state is the integration of rule over an extensive geographic region, in contrast to other contemporaneous Near Easter polities in Nubia, Mesopotamia, Palestine and the Levant. Present evidence suggests that the state which emerged by the First Dynasty had its roots in the Nagada culture of Upper Egypt, where grave types, pottery and artifacts demonstrate an evolution of form from the Predynastic to the First Dynasty, This cannot be demonstrated for the material culture of Lower Egypt, which was eventually displaced by that which originated in Upper Egypt. Hierarchical society with much social and economic differentiation, as symbolized in the Nagada II cemeteries of Upper Egypt, does not seem to have been present, then, in Lower Egypt, a fact which supports an Upper Egyptian origin for the unified state. Thus archaeological evidence cannot support earlier theories that the founders of Egyptian civilization were an invading Dynastic race from the east.."

"Egyptian contact in the 4th millennium B.C. with SW Asia is undeniable, but the effect of this contact on state formation is Egypt is less clear... The unified state which emerged in Egypt in the 3rd millenium B.C. however, was unlike the polities in Mesopotamia, the Levant, northern Syria, or Early Bronze Age Palestine- in sociopolitical organization, material culture, and belief system. There was undoubtedly heightened commercial contact with SW Asia in the 4th millennium B.C., but the Early Dynastic state which emerged in Egypt is unique and religious in character."
(Bard, Kathryn A. 1994 The Egyptian Predynastic: A Review of the Evidence. Journal of Field Archaeology 21(3):265-288.)

"From Petrie onwards, it was regularly suggested that despite the evidence of Predynastic cultures, Egyptian civilization of the 1st Dynasty appeared suddenly and must therefore have been introduced by an invading foreign 'race'. Since the 1970s however, excavations at Abydos and Hierakonpolis have clearly demonstrated the indigenous, Upper Egyptian roots of early civilization in Egypt.

Contact between northern Egypt and Palestine was overland, as evidence in northern Sinai demonstrates.. Israeli archealogists suggest that this evidence represents a commercial network established and controlled by the Egyptians as early as EBA Ia, and that this network was a major factor in the rise of the urban settlements found later in Palestine EBA II. Naomi Porat's technological study of ceramics from EBA sites in southern Palestine clearly demonstrates that in EBA Ib strata many of the pottery vessels used for food preparation were probably manufactured by Egyptian potters using Egyptian technology but local Palestinian clays. In EBA Ib strata there are also many storage jars made from Nile silt and marl wares, which must have been imported from Egypt. Not only did the Egyptians establish camps and way stations in northern Sinai, but the ceramic evidence also suggests that they established a highly organized network of settlements in southern Palestine where an Egyptian population was in residence."
(Ian Shaw ed. (2003) The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt By Ian Shaw. Oxford University Press, page 40-63)


Much older scholarship shows cultural similarities between ancient Egypt and the rest of Africa, contradicting claims of Middle Eastern inspiration.

--Specific central African tool designs found at the well known Naqada, Badari and Fayum archaeological sites in Egypt (de Heinzelin 1962, Arkell and Ucko, 1956 et al). Shaw (1976) states that "the early cultures of Merimde, the Fayum, Badari Naqada I and II are essentially African and early African social customs and religious beliefs were the root and foundation of the ancient Egyptian way of life."
Pottery evidence first seen in the Saharan Highlands then spreading to the Nile Valley (Flight 1973).
Art motifs of Saharan rock paintings showing similarities to those in pharaonic art. A number of scholars suggest that these earlier artistic styles influenced later pharaonic art via Saharans leaving drier areas and moving into the Nile Valley taking their art styles with them (Mori 1964, Blanc 1964, et al)

--Earlier pioneering mummification outside Egypt. The oldest mummy in Africa is of a black Saharan child (Donadoni 1964, Blanc 1964) Frankfort (1956) suggests that it is thus possible to understand the pharaonic worldview by reference to the religious beliefs of these earlier African precursors. Attempts to suggest the root of such practices are due to Caucasoid civilizers from elsewhere are thus contradicted by the data on the ground.

--Several cultural practices of Egypt show strong similarities to an African totemic clan base. Childe (1969, 1978), Aldred (1978) and Strouhal (1971) demonstrate linkages with several African practices such as divine kingship and the king as divine rainmaker.

--Physical similarities of the early Nile valley populations with that of tropical Africans. Such connections are demonstrated in the work of numerous scholars such as Thompson and Randall Mclver 1905, Falkenburger 1947, and Strouhal 1971. The distance diagrams of Mukherjee, Rao and Trevor (1955) place the ancient Badarians genetically near 'black' tribes such as the Ashanti and the Taita. See also the "Issues of lumping under Mediterranean clusters" section above for similar older analyses.

--Serological (blood) evidence of genetic linkages. Paoli 1972 for example found a significant resemblance between ABO frequencies of dynastic Egyptians and the black northern Haratin who are held to be the probable descendants of the original Saharans (Hiernaux, 1975).

--Language similarities which include several hundred roots ascribable to African elements (UNESCO 1974)

--Ancient Egyptian origin stories ascribing origins of the gods and their ancestors to African locations to the south and west of Egypt (Davidson 1959)

--Advanced state building and political unity in Nubia, including writing, administrative apparatus and insignia some 300 years before dynastic Egypt, and the long demonstrated interchange between Nubia and Egypt (Williams 1980)

--Newer studies (Wendorf 2001, Wilkinson 1999, et al.) confirm these older analyses. Excavations from Nabta Playa, located about 100km west of Abu Simbel for example, suggest that the Neolithic inhabitants of the region were migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, based on cultural similarities and social complexity which is thought to be reflective of Egypt's Old Kingdom

--Other scholars (Wilkinson 1999) present similar material and cultural evidence- including similarities between predynastic Egypt and traditional African cattle-culture, typical of Southern Sudanese and East African pastoralists of today, and various cultural and artistic data such as iconography on rock art found in both Egypt and in the Sudan.


Assorted demic diffusion theories holding a mass influx of Europeans or Middle Easterners to Africa bringing cattle and agriculture to the natives is not supported by credible evidence. Indigenous development is most likely.

"Furthermore, the archaeology of northern Africa DOES NOT SUPPORT demic diffusion of farming from the Near East. The evidence presented by Wetterstrom indicates that early African farmers in the Fayum initially INCORPORATED Near Eastern domesticates INTO an INDIGENOUS foraging strategy, and only OVER TIME developed a dependence on horticulture. This is inconsistent with in-migrating farming settlers, who would have brought a more ABRUPT change in subsistence strategy. "The same archaeological pattern occurs west of Egypt, where domestic animals and, later, grains were GRADUALLY adopted after 8000 yr B.P. into the established pre-agricultural Capsian culture, present across the northern Sahara since 10,000 yr B.P. From this continuity, it has been argued that the pre-food-production Capsian peoples spoke languages ancestral to the Berber and/or Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, placing the proto-Afroasiatic period distinctly before 10,000 yr B.P."

Source: The Origins of Afroasiatic
Christopher Ehret, S. O. Y. Keita, Paul Newman;, and Peter Bellwood
Science 3 December 2004: Vol. 306. no. 5702, p. 1680


When claims of European or 'Mediterranean' migrant influx to ancient Egypt before the Hyskos/Greek/Roman era are analyzed research data conclusively debunks them.
Quote from "Early Nile Valley Farmers From El-Badari"


Male Badarian crania were analyzed using the generalized distance of Mahalanobis in a comparative analysis with other African and European series from the Howells?s database. The study was carried out to examine the affinities of the Badarians to evaluate, in preliminary fashion, a demic diffusion hypothesis that postulates that horticulture and the Afroasiatic language family were brought ultimately from southern Europe. (The assumption was made that the southern Europeans would be more similar to the central and northern Europeans than to any indigenous African populations.) The Badarians show a greater affinity to indigenous Africans while not being identical. This suggests that the Badarians were more affiliated with local and an indigenous African population than with Europeans.
(S.O.Y. Keita. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data". Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)


The Sahara and the Sudan seem to have provided a major source for the genesis of Egyptian civilization contributing many of its unique elements.

QUOTE(s):
"a critical factor in the rise of social complexity and the subsequent emergence of the Egyptian state in Upper Egypt (Hoffman 1979; Hassan 1988). If so, Egypt owes a major debt to those early pastoral groups in the Sahara; they may have provided Egypt with many of those features that still distinguish it from its neighbors to the east."
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 17, 97-123 (1998), "Nabta Playa and Its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory," Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild.

"Over the last two decades, numerous contemporary (Khartoum Neolithic) sites and cemeteries have been excavated in the Central Sudan.. The most striking point to emerge is the overall similarity of early neolithic developments inhabitation, exchange, material culture and mortuary customs in the Khartoum region to those underway at the same time in the Egyptian Nile Valley, far to the north." (Wengrow, David (2003) "Landscapes of Knowledge, Idioms of Power: The African Foundations of Ancient Egyptian Civilization Reconsidered," in Ancient Egypt in Africa, David O'Connor and Andrew Reid, eds. Ancient Egypt in Africa. London: University College London Press, 2003, pp. 119-137)


"Sub-Saharan" genetic elements found as far afield as the Turkish and Greek regions

F. X. Ricaut, M. Waelkens. (2008). Cranial Discrete Traits in a Byzantine Population and Eastern Mediterranean Population Movements Human Biology - Volume 80, Number 5, October 2008, pp. 535-564

"A late Pleistocene-early Holocene northward migration (from Africa to the Levant and to Anatolia) of these populations has been hypothesized from skeletal data (Angel 1972, 1973; Brace 2005) and from archaeological data, as indicated by the probable Nile Valley origin of the "Mesolithic" (epi-Paleolithic) Mushabi culture found in the Levant (Bar Yosef 1987). This migration finds some support in the presence in Mediterranean populations (Sicily, Greece, southern Turkey, etc.; Patrinos et al.; Schiliro et al. 1990) of the Benin sickle cell haplotype. This haplotype originated in West Africa and is probably associated with the spread of malaria to southern Europe through an eastern Mediterranean route (Salares et al. 2004) following the expansion of both human and mosquito populations brought about by the advent of the Neolithic transition (Hume et al 2003; Joy et al. 2003; Rich et al 1998). This northward migration of northeastern African populations carrying sub-Saharan biological elements is concordant with the morphological homogeneity of the Natufian populations (Bocquentin 2003), which present morphological affinity with sub-Saharan populations (Angel 1972; Brace et al. 2005). In addition, the Neolithic revolution was assumed to arise in the late Pleistocene Natufians and subsequently spread into Anatolia and Europe (Bar-Yosef 2002), and the first Anatolian farmers, Neolithic to Bronze Age Mediterraneans and to some degree other Neolithic-Bronze Age Europeans, show morphological affinities with the Natufians (and indirectly with sub-Saharan populations; Angel 1972; Brace et al 2005), in concordance with a process of demic diffusion accompanying the extension of the Neolithic revolution (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1994)."

"Following the numerous interactions among eastern Mediterranean and Levantine populations and regions, caused by the introduction of agriculture from the Levant into Anatolia and southeastern Europe, there was, beginning in the Bronze Age, a period of increasing interactions in the eastern Mediterranean, mainly during the Greek, Roman, and Islamic periods. These interactions resulted in the development of trading networks, military campaigns, and settler colonization. Major changes took place during this period, which may have accentuated or diluted the sub-Saharan components of earlier Anatolian populations. The second option seems more likely, because even though the population from Sagalassos territory was interacting with northeastern African and Levantine populations [trade relationships with Egypt (Arndt et al. 2003), involvement of thousands of mercenaries from Pisidia (Sagalassos region) in the war around 300 B.C. between the Ptolemaic kingdom (centered in Egypt) and the Seleucid kingdom (Syria/Mesopotamia/Anatolia), etc.], the major cultural and population interactions involving the Anatolian populations since the Bronze Age occurred with the Mediterranean populations form southeastern Europe, as suggested from historical and genetic data."

""In this context it is likely that Bronze Age events may have facilitated the southward diffusion of populations carrying northern and central European biological elements and may have contributed to some degree of admixture between northern and central Europeans and Anatolians, and on a larger scale, between northeastern Mediterraneans and Anatolians. Even if we do not know which populations were involved, historical and archaeological data suggest, for instance, the 2nd millennium B.C. Minoan and later Mycenaean occupation of Anatolian coast, the arrival in Anatolia in the early 1st millennium B.C. of the Phrygians coming from Thrace, and later the arrival of settlers from Macedonia in Pisidia and in the Sagalassos territory (under Seleucid rule). The coming of the Dorians from Northern Greece and central Europe (the Dorians are claimed to be one of the main groups at the origin of the ancient Greeks) may have also brought northern and central European biological elements into southern populations. Indeed, the Dorians may have migrated southward to the Peloponnese, across the southern Aegean and Create, and later reached Asia Minor."


Ancient Egyptian language is part of the Afrasian or Afroasiatic group which has its origins in Africa, and together with other archaeological evidence firmly makes it an African culture. Acording to mainstream research:

QUOTE(s):

"Ancient Egyptian civilization was, in ways and to an extent usually not recognized, fundamentally African. The evidence of both language and culture reveals these African roots. The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt. The ancient Egyptian language belonged to the Afrasian family (also called Afroasiatic or, formerly, Hamito-Semitic). The speakers of the earliest Afrasian languages, according to recent studies, were a set of peoples whose lands between 15,000 and 13,000 B.C. stretched from Nubia in the west to far northern Somalia in the east. They supported themselves by gathering wild grains. The first elements of Egyptian culture were laid down two thousand years later, between 12,000 and 10,000 B.C., when some of these Afrasian communities expanded northward into Egypt, bringing with them a language directly ancestral to ancient Egyptian. They also introduced to Egypt the idea of using wild grains as food." (Christopher Ehret (1996) "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture." In Egypt in Africa Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press)


"Ancient Egypt belongs to a language group known as 'Afroasiatic' (formerly called Hamito-Semitic) and its closest relatives are other north-east African languages from Somalia to Chad. Egypt's cultural features, both material and ideological and particularly in the earliest phases, show clear connections with that same broad area. In sum, ancient Egypt was an African culture, developed by African peoples, who had wide ranging contacts in north Africa and western Asia." (Morkot, Robert (2005) The Egyptians: An Introduction. Routledge. p. 10)

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ANCIENT EGYPTIANS AND HAIR
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Mummification practices and dyeing of hair
Hair studies of mummies note that color is often influenced by environmental factors at burial sites. Brothwell and Spearman (ref in Fletcher's works-1963) point out that reddish-brown ancient color hair is usually the result of partial oxidation of the melanin pigment. Other causes of hair color "blonding" involve bleaching, caused by the alkaline in the mummification process. Color also varies due to the Egyptian practice of dyeing hair with henna. Other samples show individuals lightening the hair using vegetable colorants. Thus variations in hair color among mummies do not necessarily suggest the presence of blond or red-haired Europeans or Near Easterners flitting about Egypt before being mummified, but the influence of environmental factors.
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Egyptian practice of putting locks of hair in mummy wrappings.

Racial analysis is also made problematic by the Egyptian practice of burying hair, in many "votive or funerary deposits buried separately from the body, a practice found from Predynastic to Roman times despite its frequent omission from excavation reports." (Fletcher 2002) In examining hair samples Fletcher (2004) notes that care is needed to determine what is natural scalp hair, versus hair from a wig, versus hair extensions to natural locks. Tracking the exact source of hair is also critical since the Egyptians were known to have placed locks of hair from different sources among mummy wrappings. (The Search for Nefertiti, By Joann Fletcher, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 93-94, 96; Joann Fletcher, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HAIR AND WIGS, THE OSTRACON THE JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2; SUMMER 2002)
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Hair for wigs often obtained through trade not mass waves of "Caucasoid" migrants.

The use of wigs made of varying hair also complicates attempts at 'racial' analysis. Fletcher (2002) shows that many Egyptian wigs have been found with what is defined as straighter 'cynotrichous' hair. This however is hardly a marker of massive European or Near Eastern presence or admixture. Fletcher notes that the Egyptians often eschewed their own personal hair, shaving carefully and using wigs widely. The hair for these wigs was often obtained through trade. Indeed, "hair itself being a valuable commodity ranked alongside gold and incense in account lists from the town of Kahun." Egyptian trading links with other regions is well known, and a prized commodity like straighter 'cynotrichous' hair could have been easily obtained via the Sahara, Levant, the Maghreb, Mediterranean contacts, or even the hair of Asiatic war captives or casulaties from Egypt's numerous conflicts.
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Red-headed Ramses- routine for genetic variability in Africa not "whiteness"

Rameses came along comparatively late in Egyptian history, when outsiders toEgypt like the Hyskos were increasing in the region. Detailed microscopic analysis during the 1980s (Balout 1985) identified some of the hair of Egyptian Pharoah Rameses II as being a yellowish-red. Such a finding should not be surprising given the wide range of physical variability in Africa, the most genetically diverse region on earth, out of which flowed other population groups. Indeed, blondism and various other hair shades are not unknown in East Africa or Nubia, particularly in children, nor are such hair color variants uncommon in dark-haired or dark skinned populations like the Australians. (Hrdy 1978) Given the range of genetic variability in Africa, a red-haired Rameses is hardly unusual. Rameses' reign, in the 19th Dynasty, came over 1,500 years after the Egyptian state had been established, and after the Hyskos interlude. Such latecomers to Egypt, like the Hyskos, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs etc would add their own genetic strands to the nation's mix. Whatever the blend of genes that occurred with Rameses, his hair offers little supposed "proof" of a "white" or "Nordic" Egypt. If anything, X-rays of the royal mummies by mainstream scientists show that the Egyptians pharoahs and other royals had several uncomfortable 'Negroid' leanings. (http://www.geocities.com/nilevalleypeoples/xraymummies1.htm)
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Red hair can be readily produced by dark-skinned populations- just check out Australia and pheomelanin

The finding of Rameses "red" hair also deserves further scrutiny. The analysis found evidence of dyeing to make the hair yellowish-red, but some elements were untouched by the dye. These elements of yellowish-red hair in Balout's study, were established on the basis of the presence of pheomelanin, a red-brown polymeric pigment in the skin and hair of humans. However, pheomelanin can also be found in persons with dark brown or even black hair as well, which gives it a reddish hue. Most natural melanins contain sulfur, which is typically associated with pheomelanin. In scientific tests of melanin, black hair contained as much as 5% sulfur, 3% lower than the 8.8% found in Irish red hair, but exceeding the 2.3% found in Scandinavian blond hair. (Jolles, et al. 1996) Thus the yellowish-red hair discovered on Rameses is well within the range of human variation for dark haired people, whatever the exact gene combination that led to the condition.

As noted above, such variation began with ancient African populations. Most red hair is found in northern and western Europe, especially in the British Isles, and even then it appears in minor frequencies in Europe- some 4% of the population. It is unlikely such populations had any major contact or influence in the ancient Nile Valley. The analysis on Rameses also did not show classic "European" red hair but hair of a light red to yellowish tinge. Black haired or dark-skinned populations are quite capable of producing such yellowish-red color variants on their own, as can be seen in today's east and northeast Africa (see child's photo above). Nor is such color variation unusual to Africa. Native dark-skinned populations in Australia, routinely produce people witn blond or reddis hair. .

The analysis also found Rames' hair to be cymotrich or wavy, again a characteristic quite within the range of overall African or Nile valley physical and genetic diversity. A "pure" Nordic type of straight hair was thus not established for Rameses. Hence the notion of white Europeans or red-headed Caucasoids from other areas flowing into ancient Egypt to add hair variation.

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REFERENCES

Joann Fletcher, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HAIR AND WIGS, THE OSTRACON THE JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2; SUMMER 2002

The Search for Nefertiti, By Joann Fletcher, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 93-94, 96

Brothwell. D., and R. Spearman 1963 The hair of earlier peoples. In: Science in Archaeology. D. Brothwell and E. Higgs, eds. Thames and Hudeon, London, p. 427-436

Daniel Hrdy 1978- Analysis of Hair Samples of Mummies from Semna South, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (1978) 49: 277-262)

Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 83:35-48 (1990


Hair Styles and History, by Cyril Aldred, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 15, No. 6 (Feb., 1957), pp. 141-147)

L. Balout, C. Roubet and C. Desroches-Noblecourt, and was titled La Momie de Ramsès II: Contribution Scientifique à l'Égyptologie (1985).

Formation and Structure of Human Hair: Biology and Structure, By Pierre Jollès, Helmut Zahn, H. Höcker, Birkhäuser, 1996, pp. 200-225


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NUBIA AND EGYPT

Close relationships between Nubians and Egyptians in various eras, contradicting "racial war" claims


"The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)

- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Integration of Nubian and egyptian elites in some eras


"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region.4 As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."
- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


using the same methods of those who see "racial wars" between Nubians and Egyptians, one can also see "racial" wars against "white" west Asians who were often conquered or put to tribute by the ancient Egyptians. applying a consistency using the same methods:


RAMESES II. SLAYING THE ASIATICS BEFORE RA, THE TUTELARY DEITY OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABÛ-SIMBEL..


THE DISCOURSE OF AMEN-RA,
LORD OF THRONES.

Thou hast struck off the heads of the Asiatics, and their children cannot escape from thee. Every land illuminated by thy diadem is encircled by thy might; and in all the zone of the heavens there is not a rebel to rise up against thee. The enemy bring in their tribute on their backs, prostrating themselves before thee, their limbs trembling and their hearts burned up within them."

Campaign against "white" Mittani in parts of Lebanon:

"He is a king valiant ... Naharin which its lord had deserted out of fear ... I hacked up its towns and villages and I set fire to them ... I carried off their inhabitants ... also their herds of cattle ... I felled all their plantations and their fruit trees ...I had many vessels ... built on the mountains of God's Land in the neighborhood of the Lady of Byblos ... then on that mountain of Naharin, my Majesty erected my stela, carved out of the mountain on the western side of the Euphrates.."


Conquest against and tribute from "white" Palestine:

"Tribute of the princes of Retenu, who came to do obeisance ... to the souls of his majesty... Now every harbor at which his majesty arrived was supplied with loaves and with assorted loaves, with oil, incense, wine, f[ruit] ---- abundant were they beyond everything ...


Tribute from 'white' Lebanon:

The chieftains, lord of Lebanon, construct the royal ships in order that people may sail south in them to bring all the marvels of the "Garden" to the palace. LPH. ... The chieftains of Retjenu (Retenu) who drag the flagpoles by means of oxen to the shore, it is they who come with their dues to the place where his majesty is, to the Residence in ...... bearing all the fine products brought as marvels of the south and being taxed for tribute annually as (with) all bondsmen of his Majesty."


Operations against more 'white' 'Troglodytes':


"Then my Majesty made them take their oaths of allegiance as follows: never again shall we do anything evil against Menkheperre (another name for Thutmose III), may he live forever ...
Then my Majesty had them set free on the road to their cities*). They went off on donkeys for I had seized their chariotry. I captured their inhabitants for Egypt and their property likewise." [W. Helck transl. by B. Cummings (1982), `Urkunden der 18. Dynastie', `Egyptian Historical Records of the Later 18th Dynasty']

"His majesty proceeded northward, to overthrow the Asiatics (Mntyw-Stt). His majesty arrived at a district, Sekmem (Skmm) was its name. His majesty led the good way in proceeding to the palace of `Life, Prosperity, and Health (L.P.H.,' when Sekmen had fallen, together with Retenu (Rtnw) the wretched, while I was acting as rearguard." [Breasted, `Records', Vol. I, Sec. 680]
Time of Seti the Great - Presentation of Syrian Prisoners and Precious Vessels to Amon

"Smiting the Troglodytes, beating down the Asiatics (Mn·t·yw), making his boundary as far as the `Horns of the Earth', as far as the marshes of Naharin (N-h-r-n)." [Ibid., Vol. III, Sec. 118;]

"Slaying of the Asiatic Troglodytes (Ynw-Mn·t·yw [Menate, Manasseh]), all inaccessible countries, all lands, the Fenkhu of the marshes of Asia, the Great Bend of the sea (w'd-wr)."


Booty seized from "white" Caananites:

".... 340 living prisoners; 83 hands; 2,401 mares; 191 foals; 6 stallions; ... young ...; a chariot, wrought with gold, (its) pole of gold, belonging to the chief of `M-k-ty' (as the land around Jerusalem was called); .... 892 chariots of his wretched army; total, 924 (chariots); a beautiful suit of bronze armor, belonging to the chief of Jerusalem; .... 200 suits of armor, belonging to his wretched army; 502 bows; 7 poles of (mry) wood, wrought with silver, belonging to the tent of that foe. Behold, the army of his majesty took ...., 297 ...., 1,929 large cattle, 2,000 small cattle, 20500 white small cattle." [JBRE, `Records', Vol. II, Sec. 435; See also the following sections.]


Tribute from "white" Assur/Assyria
"The tribute of the chief of Assur (Ys-sw-r): genuine lapis lazuli, a large block, making 20 deben, 9 kidet; genuine lapis lazuli, 2 blocks; total, 3; and pieces, [making] 30 deben; total, 50 deben and 9 kidet; fine lapis lazuli from Babylon (Bb-r); vessels of Assur of hrrt- stone in colors, ---- very many." "Tribute of the chief of Assur: horses ---. A ---- of skin of the M-h-w as the [protection] of a chariot, of the finest of --- wood; 190(+x) wagons --- --- wood, nhb wood, 343 pieces, carob wood, 50 pieces; nby and k'nk wood, 206 pieces; olive oil, ------.." [BREASTED, Vol. II, Sec. 446, 449]


"Whites" put to slave labor in Egypt.

from Project Guttenberg full text of:
A HISTORY OF EGYPT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PERSIAN CONQUEST
BY JAMES HENRY BREASTED,
II, 760-1, 773. 2 II, 761.

Inscription
"the Asiatics of all countries came with bowed head, doing obeisance to the fame of his majesty."


book text:

"Thutmose's war-galleys moored in the harbour of the town; but at this time not merely the iceaUh of Asia was unloaded from the ships; the Asiatics themselves, bound one to another in long lines, were led down the gang planks to begin a life of slave- labour for the Pharaoh (Fig. 119). They wore long matted beards, an abomination to the Egyptians ; their hair hung in heavy black masses upon their shoulders, and they were clad in gaily coloured woolen stuffs, such as the Egyptian, spotless in his white linen robe, would never put on his body.

Their arms were pinioned behind them at the elbows or crossed over their heads and lashed together ; or, again, their hands were thrust through odd pointed ovals of wood, which served as hand-cuffs. The women carried their children slung in a fold of the mantle over their shoulders. With their strange speech and uncouth postures the poor wretches were the subject of jibe and merriment on the part of the multitude ; while the artists of the time could never forbear caricaturing them. Many of them found their way into the houses of the Pharaoh's favourites, and his generals were liberally rewarded with gifts of such slaves; but the larger number were immediately employed on the temple estates, the Pharaoh's domains, or in the construction of his great monuments and buildings.

Now read learn, tap

Peace
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
TheAmericanPatriot
People like you are a lost cause Tap, more and more people are coming out saying AE was African
Peace

Well duh. For your information AE is located on the African continent, therefore we can conclude that Ancient Egyptians were African regardless of race. In case you are braindead on the issue, anyone born in Africa is African regardless of race.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

You are really a simpleton. You were agreeing with the Racists and now you claim Egypt is African? Do you even know that Patriot claims Egypt is Near Eastern? Your stupidness knows no Bounds I guess thats why you can't refute this:

Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and
immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues

A-M Mekota1, M Vermehren2

Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13

"Materials and methods
In 1997, the German Institute for Archaeology headed an excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. At this time, three types of tissues were sampled from different mummies: meniscus (fibrocartilage), skin, and placenta. Archaeological findings suggest that the mummies dated from the New Kingdom (approximately
1550_/1080 BC)..... The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."

do you even understand what these germans are talking about, or is it flying over your head?
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

Why are you responding to what I said to Patriot?

I guess you feel stronger in Numbers. Typical racist scumbags.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Simple Girl

You are really a simpleton. You were agreeing with the Racists and now you claim Egypt is African? Do you even know that Patriot claims Egypt is Near Eastern? Your stupidness knows no Bounds I guess thats why you can't refute this:

Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and
immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues

A-M Mekota1, M Vermehren2

Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13

"Materials and methods
In 1997, the German Institute for Archaeology headed an excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. At this time, three types of tissues were sampled from different mummies: meniscus (fibrocartilage), skin, and placenta. Archaeological findings suggest that the mummies dated from the New Kingdom (approximately
1550_/1080 BC)..... The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."

do you even understand what these germans are talking about, or is it flying over your head?

You frown upon so
-called Eurocentrists when they are opposed to your views but, readily agree with anything that Europeans say when it supports your racist agenda. BTW I don't believe for one minute you are white so don't even think that I'm that stupid to believe you are.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

Simpleton I could careless what you think of me. Also how am I a racist please post where I said I support race, or attacked someones race. All your trying to do is get the last word in and I refuse to let someone as clueless as you get it. You have made a fool of yourself time and time again on this forum with your dumb and assinine comments.

What you fail to understand is that TRUTH is on MY side while LIES and Foolishness is on your side, you show this with your refusal to read about Ahmed Saleh.

Tell me again how I am somehow not White, thats the funniest thing I have heard in awhile. I also have some posters thinking I am a Coptic Egyptian. What Ethnicity I belong to is not important, whats important is the FACTS I have posted that counters your Simple promotion of Hawass:

Within Egypt, Hawass has been brawling lately with critics who question the methodology of the CT scan of Tut's mummy, and the forensic re-creation of his face. Hawass curbed the authority and docked the pay of one persistent foe, Ahmed Saleh, an archeological inspector for the Supreme Council who complained, among other things, that the procedures used in the facial re-creation made Tut look Caucasian, disrespecting the nation's African roots.

Now like I told you before Read and Learn Simpleton.

no peace for you
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
This is the only Pharaoh to conclusively be tested and proven as to what his racial identity was. To adamently deny this shows your own biasness and racism.

http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=210
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
King, You guys on this board have been wrong on just about everything. Now, if I spent two or three days researching the race of the ancient egyptians I have to think that since you are clearly wrong about everything else you would be wrong about that as well.

It all happens because you guys simply refuse to use proper histriographic methods. You refuse because you fear that some nitch in this insane mindset might be placed in doubt in your minds.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

I stopped reading after they claimed Ramses to be a Berber. You really think a biased site like this would admit the truth. Your more stupid then I thought

Read this:

X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980).

Courtesy of James Harris and Edward Wente:

In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults.

Now these white guys did studies on the ROYAL mummies of Ramses and his father Seti etc. Now how about you use a source that is not biased to claim a pharoah of egypt to be a Berber. Thats just sad. You really have a low selfesteem too bad. [Frown]

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

The one who is wrong more then anyone on this forum is YOU. Your stupid statements don't have a grain of truth in it.

Also I gave you over 30 studies from White Scientist claiming Egypt was African. What do you have? Oh Yeah you have Hawass and his opinion bahahahahahahahahah

I give Simple Girl credit for trying to use a study, something you fail to do. You could learn something from Her.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
where are your sources that show the arguments, the other points of view??? All you are doing is grab a line here and a line there to build a case.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

You want a source? What would someone who is as clueless as you do with a source? Your by far the dumbest poster on this forum.

But just out of curiosity I will give you a source, Read it then Explain to us what you have read:

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/9845/mummies.htm

I hope you know how to go about searching for whatever can help you and your racist self

Peace
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
You guys have an answer for everything. Even when well preserved mummies look nothing like your typical black African. My self esteem isn't low especially considering the achievements of my people. You really must be delusional to even think a thing.

The precursors to civilization belong along or near the Black Sea. Areas just north of what was once thought to be the first civilizations along the Fertile Crescent in what is now known as Syria/Iraq.

It is only a matter of time before it will be proven that the ideas for civilization were first introduced into Egypt from these areas.

The evidence for what may actually be the first written language in the world are from those areas.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/vinca.htm
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Just typical afrocentric back peddling. You know full well that Ramses II was not black. There is no substitute for good scholarship and thus far I have not seen it.
 
Posted by ChairmanBA (Member # 16744) on :
 
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Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

Ma'am we have an answer for everything because the "TRUTH" is on our side. You said ramses was the only mummy that was investigated. I proved that wrong by showing you what James Harris and Edward Wente did in there study. Little girl Simple I am sorry that you had to find out this way that you were wrong, but you really asked for it. Your low selfesteem which makes you cling to any nosense written by Racists, is known by everyone who debates you. Your so easy to read it's not even funny, It's kind of sad.

Civilization started on the Nile valley, More and more experts are finding evidence of Saharan Africans and sudanese african creating and Building ancient Kemet. In the regions called Nubia they find evidence of civilizations that predate Egypt.

Sorry to say but you will never find a scientist claiming that the KM.T was taught by people around the Black Sea, thats so stupid I would laugh, but then I remember you are just a Simple Girl so.......... [Frown]

Peace
 
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Looks like Simple Girl is refuted again.

Take it easy on her. She suffers from low selfesteem and I think would have a psychosis reaction if told she is wrong.

Sad Girl [Frown]

Peace
 
Posted by ChairmanBA (Member # 16744) on :
 
From a blog by a guy named Sundiati reguarding Ramesss
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Hair form is also a physical attribute that has been traditionally connected to "race". Given the obscurity of research on the issue, many Africanist scholars have been intimidated by the prospects of confronting what many Eurocentric scholars deemed to be "Caucasian-type" hair, still attached to the skulls of mummified remains, including the infamous case of the "red-haired" Ramses II. For those familiar with the mummification process, as well as the populations index means for hair cross sections, won't find difficulty in explaining these seeming peculiarities. It is actually quite simple to understand. Firstly, to suggest that such hair attached to any decomposed body has lasting biological inference is misleading. According to Rogers (1987), "two years years was found to be the maximum duration of Caucasian hair buried underground", while as early as 1877, Dr. Pruner-Bey concluded that hair alone is insufficient in determining "race". This is equally apparent of Egyptian mummies considering the embalming materials used in mummification. When hair is exposed over prolonged periods under unfavorable conditions, with the increased effect of chemicals used that lead to bond breakage and oxidation, hair generally becomes straightened and discolored. Brothwell and Spearman found evidence of cortex kertain oxidation within ancient Egyptian hair, attributing such effects to the mumification process. Also notable is that population means of cross-sections, indicative of 'straight, wavy, to whoolly hair. sub-Saharan (this obviously excludes supra-Saharan populations) African populations are found to average out to around 60 µm, aboriginal Australians/Tasmanians from 64-68 µm, while Europeans had an average of 71. Strouhal, in analyzing pre-dynastic remains at El-Badari, Egypt, found an average ranging from around 35-65 µm. Strouhal also reported a predominance in hair color that generally varied from dark brown to Black for the whole of dynastic Egyptians. Other studies found similar variation that seems to consistently hover around the area of 60-66 µm. Indeed, this is well removed from the range of European hair form, while the color and indices do not exclude African and Australians/Tasmanian populations of noted tropical adaptation. Once the unlikely scenario of Australians/Tasmanian contribution to the Egyptian gene pool is ruled out, and indigenous African diversity is appreciated (Northern and Southern), the African context of ancient Egyptian hair form is apparent. Indeed, Keita directly addresses this issue, citing that early hair as was described by Strouhal, was drastically no different from that of the Fulani, Kanuri, and Somali populations of East, West, and Central Africa. Individuals have also been the point of contention concerning this particular area of inference. For example, in direct response to Diop's assertions, it was suggested by the French Egyptologist Lionel Balout, that Ramses II was a "red headed, wavy-haired Leucoderm", as was gathered by microscopic analysis of the hair shaft and the presence of Phaeomelanin (red color). On closer inspection however, the red color in the hair was manifestly weak, and can actually be described as auburn. This is a condition seen visibly in contemporary populations of the Sudan (including the Beja). Equally telling is the little known fact that the active MC1R gene responsible for red hair actually originates in and is widely visible though out Africa. In addition, actual studies have found evidence of similar manifestation in modern Southern Sudanese who have shown cases of Blondism, generally at an early age. All of these populations are of indigenous African derivation. One of Balout's biggest mistakes was also publishing the results of the trichometric measurements that found Ramses II's hair averaged at around 60-70 (a median which is 65) µm; completely within the range of indigenous African diversity, non-indicative of any European or "Leucoderm" ancestry. This, not mentioning Harris and Weeks' X-Ray analysis of Ramses' cranio-facial structure, again showing him as an individual to fit well within the range of African variation. Though his obscure origins are still a matter of debate, given certain peculiarities surrounding his parentage among other things, the biological data alone doesn't seem to support Eurocentric claims that Ramses II was definitely of European or Asiatic extraction.



 
Posted by ChairmanBA (Member # 16744) on :
 
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Originally posted by KING:
Looks like Simple Girl is refuted again.

Take it easy on her. She suffers from low selfesteem and I think would have a psychosis reaction if told she is wrong.

Sad Girl [Frown]

Peace

Of course. Anyone who even remotely suggests Egypt was a none-black civilization will be refuted and humiliated by me. I am currently working on a rebuttal to Arthur Kemp (Owner of white-history.com) and Maltida’s anthropology blog. So far my rebuttal to Arthur Kemp is about fifty pages. When it’s complete I will post it on my website blackawakening.org.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

There goes simpletons views on eyeball witness.

Only fools look at mummies and claim they can know the race of the Mummies.

Like the source says, Caucasian hair lasts TWO years in people buried. We also know that the chemicals that the mummies were embalmed with usually straightens hair.

Do you see now Simple why most of the other Veterans just ignore your foolishness? They dispise people like you because you are not hear to learn, your only hear to promote your Eurocentric indoctrination. Free your mind from Hate and actually understand how lucky you are to get the attention you are getting.

Most of the other veterans would of ignored you and laughed you out of the Forum. Don't let yourself end up like Patriot who would not know a source even if it hit him upside his head.

He asked me for a source then all but forgot to read it and find the info for himself. Tap is one of the saddest posters on this forum. Don't let yourself end up like him.

Peace
 
Posted by ChairmanBA (Member # 16744) on :
 
Simple Girl what do you think about this

http://www.geocities.com/nilevalleypeoples/

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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
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This has been proven to be Nubian even by the Egyptians themselves so don't even go there. BTW why hasn't the hair on this mummy straightened itself and been made to look European by the so-called embalming process? Feel stupid yet or do you need to further humiliate yourselves?
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
ChairmanBA

Welcome to the Board. I hope you are able to teach many more things. Great link.

Peace
 
Posted by ChairmanBA (Member # 16744) on :
 
There is no evidence that mummy was Nubian. Your eurocentric "scholars" claim she was nubian because they believe the Egyptians weren't black without any evidence. Varying from corpse to corpse stronger salts were used and longer and greater care were taking into the process of mummification. Which is why the Egyptian mummies vary in texture and color.

Understood?
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ChairmanBA:
Simple Girl what do you think about this

http://www.geocities.com/nilevalleypeoples/

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What exactly should I think about said website? What do you want me to say about a website that cators to specifically afrocentric views?
 
Posted by ChairmanBA (Member # 16744) on :
 
How can you just dismiss that kind of anthropological evidence? What evidence must I present to convince you the ancient Egyptians were black? You are correct. The ancient Egyptians being black is a belief that is commonly held by “Afrocentrics” but if I present other evidence that supports black Egypt are you going to dismiss it because of that trivial reason alone?
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

What did I say. I swore I said "USUALLY" just like when in the Old kingdom times Egyptians painted women in light color to show femininity.

In new Kingdom women were portrayed in Dark skin color to show Equality with the Pharoah Look at this pic of King Tut and his wife:

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You are truly a sad sack poster. Ask any scientist how long Caucasian hair lasts after death. They can explain better about how the hair is lost in "Caucasians"

Someday I pray you get the help you need. Hanging around here will only deepen your psychosis. Simple Girl, Sad Girl [Frown]

Peace
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Simple Girl

What did I say. I swore I said "USUALLY" just like when in the Old kingdom times Egyptians painted women in light color to show femininity.

In new Kingdom women were portrayed in Dark skin color to show Equality with the Pharoah Look at this pic of King Tut and his wife:

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You are truly a sad sack poster. Ask any scientist how long Caucasian hair lasts after death. They can explain better about how the hair is lost in "Caucasians"

Someday I pray you get the help you need. Hanging around here will only deepen your psychosis. Simple Girl, Sad Girl [Frown]

Peace

If I actually thought you were telling the truth I would agree with you. AE was what it was and nothing can change that. I'm not here to force my opinion regardless of what AE was. I'm merely voicing my opinion on what I believe AE was.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
ChairmanBA

Simple Girl carries her name well. She is very Simple. Even if you post facts from white scholars she will also dismiss it and cling to the lies she has been taught.

She can't help herself, she has a kinship to the mummies of the Kings and Queens of KM.T that she thinks they were anything but African. When you finally show her unrefuted FACTS, she will then claim that the Black Sea was the older and better civilization. Deep down she knows this is a lie, but she has to make herself feel better. So she will attack and claim Egypt when it suits her ideas.

She will probably say those pics of TUT and his WIFE were forgery since we see Tut in natural dark brown skin tone unlike Natgeos gay looking pic of Tut.

Sad girl she really is.

Peace
 
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Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

You have a lot of potential, you should not surround yourself with racists. You have proven to me that you have a brain and you actually take the time to post studies and try and debate others.

I respect you thats why I took the time to answer your questions. You could be a TRUTHSEEKER like the people on this forum. Don't end up like Patriot. Continue to learn, and know that you have to be open to all truth not just those that makes you feel better about yourself. Trust me I was not always the free speaker I am now on this forum. I had to humble myself and study up on what was spoken words by the Leaders of these forums.

Peace
 
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I think the ancient Egyptians resemble black africans more than white americans.

And i can equally post many pictures of AE's that look nothing like black Africans and typically like Europeans. Your cherry picked photos will do nothing to convince me or others with an inkling of intelligence that AE didn't have some influence beyond the boundries of the sub-Saharan.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Simple Girl

You have a lot of potential, you should not surround yourself with racists. You have proven to me that you have a brain and you actually take the time to post studies and try and debate others.

I respect you thats why I took the time to answer your questions. You could be a TRUTHSEEKER like the people on this forum. Don't end up like Patriot. Continue to learn, and know that you have to be open to all truth not just those that makes you feel better about yourself. Trust me I was not always the free speaker I am now on this forum. I had to humble myself and study up on what was spoken words by the Leaders of these forums.

Peace

Believe me when I say that I believe what I say. I'm not here to try and force a lie upon you or anyone else.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
For everyone to understand Egypt was a diverse African Civilization. People from the Sahara and East Africa, came together to build one of the Greatest Civi in the world. Read this people:

The period when sub-Saharan Africa was most influential in Egypt was a time when neither Egypt, as we understand it culturally, nor the Sahara, as we understand it geographically, existed. Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472

The links to other Africans is blatant and is the plain TRUTH.

We also have Prophecys by the Egyptians that show links to Nubians yet we find no prophecy linking them to the Middle East:

Then a king will come from the South,
Ameny, the just)fied, by name,
Son of a woman of Ta-Seti, child of Upper Egypt.
He will take the white crown,
He will wear the red crown;
He will join the Two Mighty Ones,
http://ib205.tripod.com/prophecy_neferti.html

As we can see from this prophecy of Neferti The egyptians held the south in HIGH regard. They never wrote any poems praising The Asiatics.

Peace
 
Posted by BrandonP (Member # 3735) on :
 
Welcome to Egyptsearch, ChairmanBA.
 
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I think the ancient Egyptians resemble black africans more than white americans.

And i can equally post many pictures of AE's that look nothing like black Africans and typically like Europeans. Your cherry picked photos will do nothing to convince me or others with an inkling of intelligence that AE didn't have some influence beyond the boundries of the sub-Saharan.
OK, if this is cherry picking then please show us some images of a WHITE LOOKING Amenhotep III. I doubt you will find many. And if you did, what does it mean?

And, more importantly, how can it be cherry picking when there are tombs FULL of such imagery from front to back and top to bottom JUST LIKE THAT? Show me a tomb FULL of white looking Egyptians from front to back and top to bottom.
The only cherry picking is of images that are white looking because MOST Egyptian art portrays men as medium to dark reddish brown and woman as yellow or pale brown. That is consistent from the old kingdom to the Late period even including the Roman period. Therefore, the implication that the Egyptians portrayed themselves PRIMARILY as white looking people is false.

Yes, Egyptian art is generalized. You cannot expect an individual portrait from a tomb to be accurate for any specific set of features. However, while it may not be accurate for any specific individual, the portrayals are GENERALLY reflective of the features found in the Egyptian population as a whole. So the fact that the men and even women at some point were painted brown means that they must generally have come in that complexion. It does not tell you exactly what shade of brown, but generally it is intended to represent the Egyptian population overall as generally medium to dark brown. Medium brown is nowhere near being white. Medium brown is something like the complexion of Nelson Mandela. Medium brown is not as dark as a Southern Sudanese, some of whom are literally jet black. In fact, many northern Sudanese are medium brown, along with many populations across Africa, most of whom are not as dark as Southern Sudanese either.

But again, if the image of Amenhotep III is but one of MANY from his tomb and there are hundreds of such in that tomb, how is that cherry picking? There are no white looking images of Amenhotep III in that tomb. Likewise the images of Amenhotep III from temples are THE SAME. Therefore, no matter how you try and spin it, Amenhotep III must have looked similar to this in life and most certainly was not white looking.
The same can also be said for his wife Queen Tiye.

A modern Egyptian with medium to dark brown skin:
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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Ole Doug M, posts modern pictures to try to make a point about ancient people. It is less than worthless for historical purposes.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Welcome aboard Chairman BA,I hope you could post over here sometimes http://thenile.phpbb-host.com/phpbb/ftopic2356.php
Well I disagree with ma brother from another mother King,for if after a reasonable amount of time when you go out search for info.and present lt to Simple minds only to get what i can only imagined to be blank steers behind a moniter, I can only say just present your case and leave it at that, don't waste your time on any one or four simple minds.others are out there are getting what you produced.
 
Posted by Doug M (Member # 7650) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
Ole Doug M, posts modern pictures to try to make a point about ancient people. It is less than worthless for historical purposes.

The picture of Amenhotep III is not a modern portrait Mr. Patriot. No matter how much whining and crying you do you cannot change images like these into somehow being portraits of golden brown/white people. They are not. Get over it.

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All of these images represent whole tombs painted the same way. And yes, this modern Egyptian man is closest physically to the people and features portrayed in these paintings:

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And another point of observation: most African Americans are lighter than the people depicted in Ancient Egyptian art, and their complexions more yellowish/beige brown than red/dark brown.

I know you don't like it but tough. Until you provide some evidence that supports whatever nonsense you believe either ancient or modern, I shall continue to view you as simply a whining idiot.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
I never said they were white people doug, i and everyone else do say they are Noth african caucasians. Their complexion was light brown, closer to white than black.
Showing pictures of Sudanese who have migrated up the river into egypt since ancient times is not historical evidence.
 
Posted by Doug M (Member # 7650) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
I never said they were white people doug, i and everyone else do say they are Noth african caucasians. Their complexion was light brown, closer to white than black.
Showing pictures of Sudanese who have migrated up the river into egypt since ancient times is not historical evidence.

I know what you meant. The point is that the EVIDENCE does not support it. And yes these ancient portraits are part of the EVIDENCE. So again, you are simply talking nonsense with no basis in fact or reality. The ancient Egyptians never portrayed themselves as closer to whites and NEVER identified themselves as being closer to white in any sense: culturally, physically, morally or socially. So you are simply wrong.

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The picture of Amenhotep III is not a modern portrait Mr. Patriot. No matter how much whining and crying you do you cannot change images like these into somehow being portraits of golden brown/white people. They are not. Get over it.

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And another point of observation: most African Americans are lighter than the people depicted in Ancient Egyptian art, and their complexions more yellowish/beige brown than red/dark brown.

I know you don't like it but tough. Until you provide some evidence that supports whatever nonsense you believe either ancient or modern, I shall continue to view you as simply a whining idiot.


 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
I am never wrong doug. If you don't believe that just ask my ex wife.
 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
You got jokes boy
 
Posted by White Nord (Member # 14093) on :
 
Dunking fallacious Negrocentric claims from Negrocentric web site!


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'''MODERN SKELETAL STUDIES PLACE EGYTIANS CLOSER TO AFRICAN GROUPS'''

"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-Negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.

SKEWED RESULTS - the so-called “Negroid body plan” is not Egyptian but mixed Nubian:

“The ancient Egyptians have been described as having a “Negroid” body plan (Robins, 1983). Variations in the proximal to distal segments of each limb were therefore examined. Of the ratios considered, only maximum humerus length to maximum ulna length (XLH/XLU) showed statistically significant change through time. This change was a relative decrease in the length of the humerus as compared with the ulna, suggesting the development of an increasingly African body plan with time. This may also be the result of Nubian mercenaries being included in the sample from Gebelein [/u]…The earliest evidence of Nubians living in Egypt comes during the OK. Throughout the MK, the pharaonic frontier lay on the Second Cataract (in present-day Sudan); during this period, movements northwards from Nubia are especially likely. Together with the known presence of Nubian mercenaries in Gebelein (Fischer, 1961), the MK sample may represent a Nubian rather than Egyptian population. (Variation in Ancient Egyptian Stature and Body Proportions Sonia R. Zakrzewski 2003)

So here we have the truth at last. The so called “negroid body plan” is not Egyptian after all, but Nubian which is MIXED. Of course it is expected that lumping non-Egyptian Nubians in with Egyptians is going to skew the results. I am not surprised that you would completely edit out this powerful little fact. Notice there is a DIFFERENCE between Nubian and Egyptian and Nubians arrive during the OK, this means they werent presently there before!

"..sample populations available from northern Egypt from before the 1st Dynasty (Merimda, Maadi and Wadi Digla) turn out to be significantly different from sample populations from early Palestine and Byblos, suggesting a lack of common ancestors over a long time. If there was a south-north cline variation along the Nile valley it did not, from this limited evidence, continue smoothly on into southern Palestine. The limb-length proportions of males from the Egyptian sites group them with Africans rather than with Europeans." (Barry Kemp, "Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation. (2005) Routledge. p. 52-60)

None of this Negrocentric **** says it groups them with negroids or even sub-Saharans. Kemp got his info from the study “Predynastic Egyptian Stature And Physical Proportions” ( Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986 Human Evolution) in which it explicitly states: “This does not mean that the ancient Egyptians were negroes; indeed, in their art they clearly distinguished between their own facial features and skin colour and those of people from further south.”

Whites & Egyptians have mass-reduced teeth while negroids have large teeth:

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Qualitative and quantitative methods are employed to describe and compare up to 36 dental morphological variants in 15 Neolithic through Roman-period Egyptian samples. Trait frequencies are determined, and phenetic affinities are calculated using the mean measure of divergence and Mahalanobis D2 statistics for discrete traits; the most important traits in generating this intersample variation are identified with correspondence analysis. Assuming that the samples are representative of the populations from which they derive, and that phenetic similarity provides an estimate of genetic relatedness, these affinities are suggestive of overall population continuity. That is, other than a few outliers exhibiting extreme frequencies of nine influential traits, the dental samples appear to be largely homogenous and can be characterized as having morphologically simple, mass-reduced teeth . These findings are contrasted with those resulting from previous skeletal and other studies, and are used to appraise the viability of five Egyptian peopling scenarios. Specifically, affinities among the 15 time-successive samples suggest that: 1) there may be a connection between Neolithic and subsequent predynastic Egyptians, 2) predynastic Badarian and Naqada peoples may be closely related, 3) the dynastic period is likely an indigenous continuation of the Naqada culture, 4) there is support for overall biological uniformity through the dynastic period, and 5) this uniformity may continue into postdynastic times.” (“Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples” J.D. Irish Copyright 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.)

the observation that teeth of American blacks are larger than those of American whites.” (“Tissue contributions to sex and race: Differences in tooth crown size of deciduous molars” Edward F. Harris, Joseph D. Hicks, Betsy D. Barcroft College of Dentistry, University of Tennessee 2001)

The largest teeth are found among Australians, followed by Melanesians, Micronesians, sub-Saharan Africans , and Native Americans. Philippine Negritos, Jomon/Ainu, and Western Eurasians have small teeth ,” (“Metric dental variation of major human populations” Tsunehiko Hanihara, Hajime Ishida Department of Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, Saga Medical School)

“Neolithic through Roman-period Egyptian samples were demonstrated to have “simple, mass-reduced teeth” (“Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples” J.D. Irish)

American negroids have large teeth compared to those of American whites.

There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians , exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas. " (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

This is not surprising that SOUTHERN EGYPTIANS who were mixed NUBIANS have southern affinities. Nor does it lump northern Egyptians in with southern ones. They were careful not to.

Even in comparisons to American Blacks, the ancient Egyptians are found closer to said Blacks that American Whites or Europeans

We also compare Egyptian body proportions to those of modern American Blacks and Whites... Long bone stature regression equations were then derived for each sex. Our results confirm that, although ancient Egyptians are closer in body proportion to modern American Blacks than they are to American Whites, proportions in Blacks and Egyptians are not identical ... Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks. ..brachial indices are definitely more ‘African’... There is no evidence for significant variation in proportions among temporal or social groupings; thus, the new formulae may be broadly applicable to ancient Egyptian remains." ("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55 [/QB][/QUOTE]
 
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“An attempt has been made to estimate male and female Egyptian stature from long bone length using TROTTER & GLESER negro stature formulae, previous work by the authors having shown that these rather than white formulae give more consistent results with male dynastic material. Evidence is presented that the tibia length should include the spine in the later (1958) formulae and should exclude it in the earlier (1952) formulae. It is also shown that better results are obtained if the constants in the stature formulae are modified so as to conform more exactly with the basic data published by TROTTER & GLESER. When consistency has been achieved in this way, predynastic proportions are founded to be such that distal segments of the limbs are even longer in relation to the proximal segments than they are in modern negroes. Such proportions are termed <<super-negroid>>… On the subject of estimating living stature from skeletal remains, BROTHWELL (1981 p. 101) mentions that the equations which the archaeologist is generally advised to use are those of TROTTER & GLESER (1952, 1958) based on the long bone lengths of modern North American subjects; he adds, however, that modern formulae may not be appropriate to earlier populations', and no physical anthropologist is fully content with the statistics so far produced. Where living height cannot be measured directly, it is clear that the credibility of estimates must depend upon criteria such as plausibility and consistency. In the case of Egyptian mummies, for instance, the estimate may be plausible if the deviation from the measured mummy length can be explained in terms of observable deformities such as collapse of the cervical spine, curvature of the thoracic spine, or foot-droop. The estimate is consistent if individual long bones give similar results, and this will depend upon the skeleton ancient times having limb and trunk proportions similar to those of the subjects on which the modern formulae were based. ROBINS (1983) and ROBINS & SHUTE (1983) have shown that more consistent results are obtained for ancient Egyptian male skeletons if TROTTER & GLESER formulae for negro subjects are used, rather than those for whites which have always been applied in the past. This does not mean that the ancient Egyptians were negroes; indeed, in their art they clearly distinguished between their own facial features and skin colour and those of people from further south. It does, however, suggest that their physical proportions were more like those of modern negroes than those of modern whites, with limbs that were relatively long compared with the trunk, and distal limb segments that were long compared with the proximal segments.”(“Predynastic Egyptian Stature And Physical Proportions” Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986 Hum Evol 1:313–324. Ruff CB. 1994)

'''CONTINUITY OF THE NILE VALLEY PEOPLES'''

"Certainly there was some foreign admixture [in Egypt], but basically a homogeneous African population had lived in the Nile Valley from ancient to modern times... [the] Badarian people, who developed the earliest Predynastic Egyptian culture, already exhibited the mix of North African and Sub-Saharan physical traits that have typified Egyptians ever since (Hassan 1985; Yurco 1989; Trigger 1978; Keita 1990.. et al.,)... The peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and much of East African Ethiopia and Somalia are now generally regarded as a Nilotic continuity, with widely ranging physical features (complexions light to dark, various hair and craniofacial types) but with powerful common cultural traits, including cattle pastoralist traditions.." (Frank Yurco, "An Egyptological Review," 1996 -in Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, Black Athena Revisited, 1996, The University of North Carolina Press, p. 62-100)

It doesn’t state who is “foreign” but admits that there was a MIX while labeling it “homogeneous “ LOL. And we know those “variations” are due to Caucasian gene flow that is why they are able to determine “NORTHERN” and southern mtdnas:

“Previous genetic studies of Egyptian, Nubian, and Sudanese populations allowed for distinguishing between two mtDNA types : the so called “southern” (Sub-Saharan) and “northern” (Eurasian) (for details see: Chen et al. 1995; Krings et al. 1999). To obtain the frequencies of these mtDNA types, amplification of the HVRI region and three RFLP markers was conducted. The authors succeeded in analysing RFLP markers in 34 samples and HVRI sequences in 18 of the samples. Both populations, ancient and contemporary, fit the north-south clinal distribution of “southern” and “northern” mtDNA types (Graver et al. 2001). However, significant differences were found between these populations.

“As for mtDNA (Krings et al., [1999]), the present study on the Y-chromosome haplotype shows that there are northern and southern Y-haplotypes in Egypt…proportions of northern and southern mtDNA differed significantly between Egypt, Nubia, and the Southern Sudan.” (“Brief Communication: Y-Chromosome Haplotypes in Egypt G. Lucotte* and G. Mercier International Institute of Anthropology)

North African populations are considered genetically closer to Eurasians than to sub-Saharans.” (“Female gene pools of Berber and Arab neighboring communities in central Tunisia: microstructure of mtDNA variation in North Africa Human Biology2005”) [/QB][/QUOTE]
 
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'''DNA ANALYSIS OF DEEP ROOTED HAPLOGROUP "E" CLADES LINKS NUMEROUS PEOPLES TOGETHER ACROSS THE CONTINENT'''


"Recall that the Horn–Nile Valley crania show, as a group, the largest overlap with other regions. A review of the recent literature indicates that there are male lineage ties between African peoples who have been traditionally labeled as being ‘‘racially’’ different, with ‘‘racially’’ implying an ontologically deep divide. The PN2 transition, a Y chromosome marker, defines a lineage (within the YAPþ derived haplogroup E or III) that emerged in Africa probably before the last glacial maximum, but after the migration of modern humans from Africa (see Semino et al., 2004). This mutation forms a clade that has two daughter subclades (defined by the biallelic markers M35/215 (or 215/M35) and M2) that unites numerous phenotypically variant African populations from the supra-Saharan, Saharan, and sub-Saharan regions.."
(S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679–689, 2004.)

"The Copt samples displayed a most interesting Y-profile, enough (as much as that of Gaalien in Sudan) to suggest that they actually represent a living record of the peopling of Egypt. The significant frequency of B-M60 in this group might be a relic of a history of colonization of southern Egypt probably by Nilotics in the early state formation, something that conforms both to recorded history and to Egyptian mythology."
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(Hisham Y. Hassan 1, Peter A. Underhill 2, Luca L. Cavalli-Sforza 2, Muntaser E. Ibrahim 1. (2008). Y-chromosome variation among Sudanese: Restricted gene flow, concordance with language, geography, and history. Am J Phys Anthropology, 2008.)

In the same study, although Keita didn’t like to, he did admit gene flow from “various areas, especially southwest Asia.” HENCE:

“The overall results are generally consistent with findings of high African diversity, which in the main can now be considered to be primarily of indigenous African biohistorical origin, without denying some immigration with gene flow from various areas, especially southwest Asia.”… “Some Horn populations assimilated south-west Asians, and even adopted their languages, which likely began as lingua francas. Certain Ethiopian groups evince substantial frequencies of ‘‘Near Eastern’’ genes (Y chro mosome J group lineages), likely due to the assimilation of migrants after the first millennium BC (Munro-Hay, 1991),”

Keita even has the courage to admit SW Asia is indigenous. lol How can you Afronuts accept this. Also the term “indigenous North Africa” applies to European mtdna:

“We show that the main indigenous North African cluster is a sister group to the most ancient cluster of European mtDNAs , from which it diverged »50,000 years ago.” (“The Emerging Tree of West Eurasian mtDNAs: A Synthesis of Control-Region Sequences and RFLPs” Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

There no Disputing this!

Based on an increased frequency of HpaI 3592 (+) haplotypes in the contemporary Dakhlehian population, the authors suggested that, since Roman times, gene flow from the Sub-Saharan region has affected gene frequencies of individuals from the oasis.” (“Research on ancient DNA in the Near East” Mateusz Baca, Martyna Molak 2008)

Dahkleh is in SW Egypt! Yet no negroids there until “Roman times.” This firmly suggest that negroids in Egypt are higher NOW than was prior to Roman times. So much for negroids being termed “indigenous North Africans.”

'''MODERN CRANIAL AND FORENSIC STUDIES PLACE THE ANCIENTS CLOSER TO OTHER AFRICAN POPULATIONS THAN MIDDLE EASTERNERS AND OTHERS'''


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S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


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"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Kebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." (Keita 1993)

Keita is disingenuous, Lachish was a scene of a major battle where Egyptians, Libyans, Nubians, Assyrians fought - so naturally, you’re gooing to find crania of several types HENCE:


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“The archaeological site of Tell-Duweir is located 20 miles south of Jerusalem. Its horizons span the Bronze through Iron ages. The site was excavated and crania recovered between 1933 and 1936 by the Wellcome Marston Archaeological Research Expedition to the Near East (Risdon, 1939) The site is associated with the biblical city of Lachish; Sennacherib sacked and burned Lachish in approximately 700 B.C. (Level IV-I11), and archaeology tends to support this date. Lachish at that time was part of the Judean Kingdom. Shishak, the Libyan pharaoh of the Twenty-second Egyptian Dynasty, attacked and perhaps left a garrison of his men. (1000-900 B.C. Level V) some of Shishak's army, which included Libyans and Nubians, may have settled in the district (Tufnell, 1953). Level IV is to be distinguished from Level I11 because Level IV has northeast African objects. (900-700 B.C. Level IV-I11) Egyptian, Nubian and Assyrian armies clashed in this area during the Judean Kingdom epoch (Gold, 1962; Yurco, 1980). Risdon’s work (1939) concludes that the Lachish series represents Upper Egyptians, who were residents in Lower Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and who immigrated to Lachish during that time (between 1567 and 1320B.C.), remaining endogamous. Keith (1940) stating on morphological grounds that the people of Lachish, in the main, are Europeanoid of the “Mediterranean type,” as opposed to the Egyptians who are African of the “Hamitic type,” except in the delta. [Note: Hamitic is not negroid, refer to: (“Population of Nubia up to the 16th Century BC” Anthropological Review; 62:57-66 Pudlo, 1999)]

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"When the unlikely relationships [Indian matches] and eliminated, the Egyptian series are more similar overall to other African series than to European or Near Eastern (Byzantine or Palestinian) series." (Keita 1993)

"Analysis of crania is the traditional approach to assessing ancient population origins, relationships, and diversity. In studies based on anatomical traits and measurements of crania, similarities have been found between Nile Valley crania from 30,000, 20,000 and 12,000 years ago and various African remains from more recent times (see Thoma 1984; Brauer and Rimbach 1990; Angel and Kelley 1986; Keita 1993). Studies of crania from southern predynastic Egypt, from the formative period (4000-3100 B.C.), show them usually to be more similar to the crania of ancient Nubians, Ku****es, Saharans, or modern groups from the Horn of Africa than to those of dynastic northern Egyptians or ancient or modern southern Europeans."
(S. O. Y and A.J. Boyce, "The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians", in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 20-33)

Because “Southern predynastic Egypt” has less Caucasian admixture as it is further from the main body of Egypt, is it not? Nevermind the present negroid population of Ethiopia is 40% Caucasian - which shows the strong presence of ancient whites in the area to leave behind that large amount to last into present day. The Egyptians expanded their boarders several times along the cataracts each time advancing further into more negroid territory.

“As for mtDNA (Krings et al., [1999]), the present study on the Y-chromosome haplotype shows that there are northern and southern Y-haplotypes in Egypt…proportions of northern and southern mtDNA differed significantly between Egypt, Nubia, and the Southern Sudan.” (“Brief Communication: Y-Chromosome Haplotypes in Egypt G. Lucotte* and G. Mercier International Institute of Anthropology)

"It is interesting to relate this peculiar north/south differentiation, a pattern of genetic variation deriving from the two uniparentally inherited genetic systems (mtDNA and Y chromosome), to specific historic events. Since the beginning of Egyptian history (3200-3100 B.C.), the legendary king Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt. Migration from north to south may coincide with the Pharaonic colonization of Nubia, which occurred initially during the Middle Kingdom (12th Dynasty, 1991-1785 B.C.), and more permanently during the New Kingdom, from the reign of Thotmosis III (1490-1437 B.C.). The main migration from south to north may coincide with the 25th Dynasty (730-655 B.C.), when kings from Napata (in Nubia) conquered Egypt." (Lucotte et al. 2003)

“The Predynastic of Upper Egypt and the Late Dynastic of Lower Egypt are more closely related to each other than to any other population. As a whole, they show ties with the European Neolithic, North Africa, modern Europe, and, more remotely, India, but not at all with sub-Saharan Africa, eastern Asia, Oceania, or the New World.” (“Clines and Clusters Versus “Race:” A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile” C Loring Brace 1993)


CONTINUE AFROCENTRIC ASS BEATING!
 
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The predominant craniometric pattern in the Abydos royal tombs is 'southern' (tropical African variant), and this is consistent with what would be expected based on the literature and other results (Keita, 1990).
S. Keita (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)

The Badarian series clusters with the tropical African groups no matter which algorithm is employed (see Figures 3 and 4).. In none of them did the Badarian sample affiliate with the European series."(S.O.Y. Keita. Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)

“found little similarity between Predynastic samples, and even found that 1st Dynasty material from Abydos and El Amrah failed to cluster, and that the Royal Tombs material was morphologically distinct from all other EDyn period samples (Batrawi, 1946; Billy, 1975, 1977). Rosing (1990) also analyzed a large series of Upper Egyptian crania, and found greater morphological separation between Predynastic and historic Egyptian than between Predynastic Egyptian and Nubian groups. In summary, most early craniometric studies concluded that there were two population groups inhabiting Egypt throughout the Predynastic period, and that the northern group (the Lower Egyptian type) replaced the more Negroid southern type during the Dynastic period. (Population Continuity or Population Change: Formation of the Ancient Egyptian State Sonia R. Zakrzewski)

Keita didn’t use southern European crania in his study or even North African crania - since after all that is who he claimed to be comparing the Badarians against. Instead what he used was 109 Hungarian, 55 Norse (Norway) 41 Bushmen, 47 Dogon, 33 Teita (Kenya), 55 Zulu 25 Badarian. His error was the assumption that southern Europeans were similar to northern Europeans and using Nordic European crania instead. If Keita would have studied the Badarians MASS-REDUCED TEETH the outcome would have been vastly different. SEE J.D. IRISH

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'''DENTAL STUDIES ON THE BADARI- THE FOUNDATIONAL CULTURAL GROUP FIND THEM QUITE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ANCIENTS'''

"[the Badarians] are a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like.."

Certainly not if they were “REPLACED” as indicated by Zakrzewski

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"A comparison of Badari to the Naqada and Hierakonpolis samples .. contradicts the idea of a foreign origin for the Naqada (Petrie, 1939; Baumgartel, 1970)"

(Joel D. Irish (2006). Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Dental Affinities Among Neolithic Through Postdynastic Peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.)

That is, other than a few outliers exhibiting extreme frequencies of nine influential traits, the dental samples appear to be largely homogenous and can be characterized as having morphologically simple, mass-reduced teeth. These findings are contrasted with those resulting from previous skeletal and other studies, and are used to appraise the viability of five Egyptian peopling scenarios. Specifically, affinities among the 15 time-successive samples suggest that: 1) there may be a connection between Neolithic and subsequent predynastic Egyptians, 2) predynastic Badarian and Naqada peoples may be closely related, 3) the dynastic period is likely an indigenous continuation of the Naqada culture, 4) there is support for overall biological uniformity through the dynastic period, and 5) this uniformity may continue into postdynastic times.” (“Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples” J.D. Irish Copyright 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.)

In other words they weren’t large toothed negroids.

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'''ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGIOUS PRACTICES ARE CLOSER TO THOSE OF NORTHEAST AFRICA THAN THE MIDDLE EAST ACCORDING TO MAINSTREAM SCHOLARSHIP'''

"A large number of gods go back to prehistoric times. The images of a cow and star goddess (Hathor), the falcon (Horus), and the human-shaped figures of the fertility god (Min) can be traced back to that period. Some rites, such as the "running of the Apil-bull," the "hoeing of the ground," and other fertility and hunting rites (e.g., the hippopotamus hunt) presumably date from early times.. Connections with the religions in southwest Asia cannot be traced with certainty."

"It is doubtful whether Osiris can be regarded as equal to Tammuz or Adonis, or whether Hathor is related to the "Great Mother." There are closer relations with northeast African religions. The numerous animal cults (especially bovine cults and panther gods) and details of ritual dresses (animal tails, masks, grass aprons, etc) probably are of African origin. The kinship in particular shows some African elements, such as the king as the head ritualist (i.e., medicine man), the limitations and renewal of the reign (jubilees, regicide), and the position of the king's mother (a matriarchal element). Some of them can be found among the Ethiopians in Napata and Meroe, others among the Prenilotic tribes (Shilluk)."
(Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508)

Of course they would be closet to N.E. Africa considering Egypt is in N.E. Africa, DUH! But this doesn’t prove Egyptians were negroids, but does prove Egyptians had heavy religious influence on their mixed neighbors to the south. Just because there are cars in S.A. it doesn’t mean the car was invented there. [/QB]
 
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'''ANCIENT EGYPT WAS UNIFIED AND CONSOLIDATED BY HEGEMONS FROM THE SOUTH, FROM THE AREA OF THE SAHARA AND NUBIA, NOT THE NORTH, THE MEDITERRANEAN, OR THE MIDDLE EAST'''

"While communities such as Ma'adi appear to have played an important role in entrepots through which goods and ideas form south-west Asia filtered into the Nile Valley in later prehistoric times, the main cultural and political tradition that gave rise to the cultural pattern of Early Dynastic Egypt is to be found not in the north but in the south.":
The Cambridge History of Africa: Volume 1, From the Earliest Times to c. 500 BC, (Cambridge University Press: 1982), Edited by J. Desmond Clark pp. 500-509

More poor editing by Clark. Yet the tard can't even prove what it is that the South contributed to the North!

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'''EGYPT IN THE AFRICAN CULTURAL CONTEXT OF THE SAHARA AND THE SUDAN'''

"Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant."(Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa: Their Interaction. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472 )


LOL lot of errors. Sudan is not “South” of the desert it is East, it is also right next door (below) Egypt who influenced it. Modern Sudan touches “upper Egypt” so no surprise there and ancient Egypt once included parts of Sudan. There is no evidence of Sudan influencing Egypt until the 25th illegitimate dynasty.


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"the peoples of the steppes and grasslands to the immediate south of Egypt domesticated cattle, as early as 9000 to 8000 B.C. They included peoples from the Afroasiastic linguistic group and the second major African language family, Nilo-Saharan (Wendorf, Schild, Close 1984; Wendorf, et al. 1982). Thus the earliest domestic cattle may have come to Egypt from these southern neighbors, circa 6000 B.C., and not from the Middle East.[148] Pottery, another significant advance in material cultural may also have followed this pattern, initiatied "as early as 9000 B.C. by the Nilo-Saharans and Afrasians who lived to the south of Egypt. Soon thereafter, pots spread to Egyptian sites, almost 2,000 years before the first pottery was made in the Middle East."

MAY HAVE implies that they DON’T KNOW. The studies below are not full of “maybes” :

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“Around 8100 years ago sheep and goats occur for the first time at Nabta, introduced from Southwest Asia, where domestic caprovids had been known for over 2000 years.” (“Nabta Playa and its role in Northeastern African Prehistory" Journal of Anthropological Archaeology)

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"Cranial analysis of slightly later populations nearby have shown the population to have been intermediate to ancient Eurasians and East Africans.” (Ancient Archaeology Magazine)

No sub-Saharans were around!

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(Christopher Ehret, "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 25-27)
Only in as much that Egypt is located in Africa, but it was not negroid, similarly that S.A. is located in Africa but it was not created by negroids.

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Concerning those capravoids...Lactose intolerant negroids have no use for herding cattle:

“We found that the frequency of the –13910T allele predicts the frequency of lactose tolerance in several Eurasian and North African Berber populations but not in most sub-Saharan African populations. Our analyses suggest that contemporary Berber populations possess the genetic signature of a past migration of pastoralists from the Middle East and that they share a dairying origin with Europeans and Asians, but not with sub-Saharan Africans… the main feature of the genetic landscape in northern Africa is an eastwest pattern of variation pointing to the differentiation between the Berber and Arab population groups of the northwest and the populations of Libya and Egypt. Moreover, Libya and Egypt show the smallest genetic distances with the European populations , including the Iberian Peninsula… By contrast, the genetic contribution of subSaharan Africa appears to be small. … The peopling of northern Africa appears to be conditioned by the barriers imposed to the north by the Mediterranean Sea and to the south by the Sahara Desert, which constrains human movement to an east-west direction. The harsh landscape, in which mountainous areas are surrounded by arid extensions, favors a dispersed, fragmented pattern of of human settlement… Demic diffusion of Neolithic populations from the Fertile Crescent is thought to have homogenized the genetic composition of the European populations (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1993, 1994), and it created a major southeast to northwest gradient (Sokal et al. 1991)… population replacement during the Neolithic from the Levant could explain the genetic similarity between Libya, Egypt, and the European populations.” (Population history of North Africa: Evidence from classical genetic markers” Human Biology; Bosch, E; Calafell, F; Perez-Lezaun, Et al))

This Afrocentric, black child confidence Bullshit has gone far enough and I intend to destroy any Afrocentric sorry ass argument that try to stand in my way!

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'''MODERN SCHOLARSHIP PLACES ANCIENT EGYPT FIRMLY IN ITS AFRICAN CONTEXT'''

"Ancient Egyptian civilization was, in ways and to an extent usually not recognized, fundamentally African. The evidence of both language and culture reveals these African roots. The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt. The ancient Egyptian language belonged to the Afrasian family (also called Afroasiatic or, formerly, Hamito-Semitic). The speakers of the earliest Afrasian languages, according to recent studies, were a set of peoples whose lands between 15,000 and 13,000 B.C. stretched from Nubia in the west to far northern Somalia in the east. They supported themselves by gathering wild grains. The first elements of Egyptian culture were laid down two thousand years later, between 12,000 and 10,000 B.C., when some of these Afrasian communities expanded northward into Egypt, bringing with them a language directly ancestral to ancient Egyptian. They also introduced to Egypt the idea of using wild grains as food." (Christopher Ehret (1996) "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture." In Egypt in Africa Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press)


"Ancient Egypt belongs to a language group known as 'Afroasiatic' (formerly called Hamito-Semitic) and its closest relatives are other north-east African languages from Somalia to Chad. Egypt's cultural features, both material and ideological and particularly in the earliest phases, show clear connections with that same broad area. In sum, ancient Egypt was an African culture, developed by African peoples, who had wide ranging contacts in north Africa and western Asia." (Morkot, Robert (2005) The Egyptians: An Introduction. Routledge. p. 10)

“AfroAsiatic” Do you ever question the terminology? Of course not, you’re not that bright. Afro because its in North Africa and Asiatic because that is where it originated.

“The most probable origin of the proto-U6 lineage was the Near East. Around 30,000 years ago it spread to North Africa where it represents a signature of regional continuity… Attested presence of Caucasian people in northern Africa goes up to Paleolithic times… Linguistic research suggests that the Afroasiatic phylum of languages could have originated and extended with these Caucasians, either from the Near East or Eastern Africa and that posterior developments of the Capsian Neolithic in the Maghrib might be related to the origin and dispersal of proto-Berber speaking people into the area … Haplogroup U splits from R…The expansion of Caucasians in Africa has been correlated with the spread and diversification of Afroasiatic languages …Two autochthonous derivatives of these clades (U6b1 and U6c1) indicate the arrival of North African settlers to the Canarian Archipelago in prehistoric times, most probably due to the Saharan desiccation. The absence of these Canarian lineages nowadays in Africa suggests important demographic movements in the western area of this Continent." What remains enigmatic of the indubitable North African prehistoric colonization of the Archipelago is that it was carried out by people whose U6 lineages mainly belonged to the U6b subclade that has only been spotted in very low frequencies in the modern African populations of Morocco, Algeria, Senegal and Nigeria. Moreover, the U6b and U6c insular haplotypes belong to the autochthonous U6b1 and U6c1 branches differing by substitutions 16163 and 16129, respectively, from all their African counterparts. As the most probable arrival of the first prehistoric Canarian settlers was around 2,500 ya, it is highly improbable that these mutations occurred on the islands. Therefore, we expected to find these Canarian lineages in some place of Africa. However, after extensive sampling they have still not been detected. It is possible that they are present somewhere in low frequencies but, in any case, this phylogeographic distribution suggests that Northwest Africa suffered important demic displacements in the past… Two autochthonous U6 lineages (U6b1 and U6c1), present today in the islands, attest the survival of those aboriginal North Africans until nowadays. The fact that these Canarian lineages have not been detected in Africa and that, in contrast to the ubiquitous U6a and U6a1, the U6b and U6c lineages are scarcely spotted in present African populations, may be clues of past important demographic movements in this western area." (“Mitochondrial DNA transit between West Asia and North Africa inferred from U6 phylogeography” Nicole Maca-Meyer, Ana M González, José Pestano, Carlos Flores, José M Larruga, Vicente M Cabrera)
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Nord, Based on examination of mummies upper egypt is only 5% negroid, lower egypt 1 %. Most of those are nubians who worked for the egyptians. There were fewer blacks in egypt than there are Japanese Americans.
 
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”The apportionment of individuals (the average per-individual proportion of ancestry) from each of the eight populations into the four structure-defined clusters broadly corresponds to four geographical areas: Western Eurasia, Sub-Saharan Africa, China and New Guinea. Notably, 62% of the Ethiopians fall in the first cluster, which encompasses the majority of the Jews, Norwegians and Armenians, indicating that placement of these individuals in a ‘Black’ cluster would be an inaccurate reflection of the genetic structure. Only 24% of the Ethiopians are placed in the cluster with the Bantu and most of the Afro-Caribbeans....” (J.F. Wilson et al. Nature Genetics 29:265-269, 2001)

“In summary, the information available on individual groups in Ethiopia and North Africa is fairly limited but sufficient to show that they are all separate from sub-Saharan Africans and that North Africans and East Africans (Ethiopian and neighbors) are also clearly separate.” (Cavalli-Sforza et al., HGHG, page 174)


“The present composition of the Ethiopian population is the result of a complex and extensive intermixing of different peoples of North African, Near and Middle Eastern, and south-Saharan origin. The two main groups inhabiting the country are the Amhara, descended from Arabian conquerors, and the Oromo, the most important group among the Cu****ic people. ... The genetic distance analysis showed the separation between African and non-African populations, with the Amhara and Oromo located in an intermediate position.” (De Stefano et al., Ann Hum Biology 2002

“On the basis of historical, linguistic, and genetic data, it has been suggested that the Ethiopian population has been strongly affected by Caucasoid migrations since Neolithic times. On the basis of autosomal polymorphic loci, it has been estimated that 60% of the Ethiopian gene pool has an African origin, whereas ~40% is of Caucasoid derivation .... Our Ethiopian sample also lacks the sY81-G allele, which was associated with 86% and 69% of Senegalese and mixed-African YAP+ chromosomes, respectively. This suggests that male-mediated gene flow from Niger-Congo speakers to the Ethiopian population was probably very limited ... Caucasoid gene flow into the Ethiopian gene pool occurred predominantly through males. Conversely, the Niger-Congo contribution to the Ethiopian population occurred mainly through females.” (Passarino et al., Am J Hum Genet, 1998)

“The occurrence of E*5 212 and E*5 204 alleles in two populations of the Mediterranean basin (Turkey and Italy) but not in West Africans can be explained by taking into account that the Ethiopian gene pool was estimated to be 40% of Caucasoid derivation (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1994). In addition, more recent phylogenetic analysis based on classical protein polymorphism (Tartaglia et al. 1996) and Y-chromosome sequence variation (Underhill et al. 2000) showed that Ethiopians appear to be distinct from Africans and more closely associated with populations of the Mediterranean basin.” (Scacchi et al., Hum Biol, 2003)

“When the nonadaptive aspects of craniofacial configuration are the basis for assessment, the Somalis cluster with Europeans before showing a tie with the people of West Africa or the Congo Basin.” (Brace et al., Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 1993)

“Somali, as a representative East African population, seem to have experienced a detectable amount of Caucasoid maternal influence.” (Comas et al., Eur J Hum Genet, 1999)


“The most distinct separation is between African and non-African populations. The northeastern-African—that is, the Ethiopian and Somali—populations are located centrally between sub-Saharan African and non-African populations.”(S. A. Tishkoff et al., Am. J. Hum. Genet., 67:901-925, 2000)

“Ethiopia: between Sub-Saharan Africa and Western Eurasia.” (Lovell et al., Annals of Human Genetics 2005 69,275–287)

“The data suggest that the male Somali population is a branch of the East African population -- closely related to the Oromos in Ethiopia and North Kenya -- with predominant E3b1 cluster gamma lineages that were introduced into the Somali population 4000-5000 years ago, and that the Somali male population has approximately 15% Y chromosomes from Eurasia and approximately 5% from sub-Saharan Africa. (“East Africans are more related to Eurasians than to other African populations” Sanchez et al. 2005)

They cant all be wrong, Tards

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LMFAO God how this famous plastered image of modern Nubians shoot Aforcentrics in their foot

You can just see that "Northern" vs "Southern" differentiation! And to deny this fact is to be dishonest. Yes, the modern inhabitants of Sudan (Nubia) still exhibit the heavy yet ancient Caucasian influence in their genes... and to a lesser extent Somalia, just like the studies show and the pictures indicate.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Why are you posting the same nonsense when it has been DEBUNKED several times?!! [Eek!]

We've already explained to you that there is no such thing as "caucasoid" or "caucasian" since such features such as narrow faces or long narrow noses do NOT correlate with genetic lineages! I showed you a passage describing how skulls as far south as Tanzania were once mistaken for "cauasoid" because of their features!

The "40%" Eurasian lineages in Ethiopians you keep repeating were found in Abyssinians who do NOT represent all Ethiopians. And the relation that Egyptians have to Ethiopians is due to AFRICAN lineages moron, NOT Eurasian lineages!

Also, the only reason why Hg E lineages are found in the Mediterranean basin including Europe is becausse of migrations FROM Africa where it originated meaning that EUROPEANS ARE AFRICAN MIXED!!

Lastly the only reason why East Africans are more related to Eurasians than other Africans are is because Eurasians DESCEND from a subset of East Africans, dummy!

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Again, the Egyptians relation to Ethiopians and all other Africans including West Africans is because of AFRICAN lineages like E

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And lastly Eurasian does NOT mean "caucasoid"

Eurasian child
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Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
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Originally posted by White Nord:

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LMFAO God how this famous plastered image of modern Nubians shoot Aforcentrics in their foot

You can just see that "Northern" vs "Southern" differentiation! And to deny this fact is to be dishonest. Yes, the modern inhabitants of Sudan (Nubia) still exhibit the heavy yet ancient Caucasian influence in their genes... and to a lesser extent Somalia, just like the studies show and the pictures indicate.

Stop trying to claim my people, you buffoon. NO "nords" have ever been even remotely close to Egypt.

-A "Caucasian" is one from the Caucasus-when did "Caucasians" from those mountains migrate to the Nile?

-Provide evidence from credible historians that postulate a European origin for the ancient Egyptians, specifically a Caucasus origin.

-When did the ancient Egyptians ever speak an Indo-European language?

-Afro-asiatic originates in either eastern Sudan or somewhere else in the region.

-Egyptologist now believe that ancient Egypt was indigenous-it was NOT a product of the "nords"
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
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Originally posted by Dirk8:
Sudaniya, before you try to steal Ancient Egypt's History, you should learn more about your Pathetic Sudanese People. Learn why your country is called THE LAND OF THE BLACKS and why people like you a TOTALLY FAKE!

I'm a legitimate daughter of the Nile; I cannot steal the legacy of those whom I'm related to.

The ancient Egyptians never called my country "land of the blacks",those who do NOT belong to the Nile- Arab Egyptians who consitute a mere 20% of the current Egyptian population were the ones who called Sudan "land of the blacks"

Learn why my country was referred to as, Ta-Khent-land of the beginning, why we are the closest population to the ancient Egyptians. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
Remember these pictures:

http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=001532;p=1
 
Posted by White Nord (Member # 14093) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
^ Why are you posting the same nonsense when it has been DEBUNKED several times?!! [Eek!]

We've already explained to you that there is no such thing as "caucasoid" or "caucasian" since such features such as narrow faces or long narrow noses do NOT correlate with genetic lineages! I showed you a passage describing how skulls as far south as Tanzania were once mistaken for "cauasoid" because of their features!

The "40%" Eurasian lineages in Ethiopians you keep repeating were found in Abyssinians who do NOT represent all Ethiopians. And the relation that Egyptians have to Ethiopians is due to AFRICAN lineages moron, NOT Eurasian lineages!

Also, the only reason why Hg E lineages are found in the Mediterranean basin including Europe is becausse of migrations FROM Africa where it originated meaning that EUROPEANS ARE AFRICAN MIXED!!

Lastly the only reason why East Africans are more related to Eurasians than other Africans are is because Eurasians DESCEND from a subset of East Africans, dummy!

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Again, the Egyptians relation to Ethiopians and all other Africans including West Africans is because of AFRICAN lineages like E

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And lastly Eurasian does NOT mean "caucasoid"

Eurasian child
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lol Gee yeah way to nitpick what could actually refute! You can't address half the **** in my post retard!It's also funny how your punkass can repost those studies in dirks thread, while not even attempting to address my post which refutes most if not all of those study interpretations DUMBASS!
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
^ Why are you posting the same nonsense when it has been DEBUNKED several times?!! [Eek!]

We've already explained to you that there is no such thing as "caucasoid" or "caucasian" since such features such as narrow faces or long narrow noses do NOT correlate with genetic lineages! I showed you a passage describing how skulls as far south as Tanzania were once mistaken for "cauasoid" because of their features!

The "40%" Eurasian lineages in Ethiopians you keep repeating were found in Abyssinians who do NOT represent all Ethiopians. And the relation that Egyptians have to Ethiopians is due to AFRICAN lineages moron, NOT Eurasian lineages!

Also, the only reason why Hg E lineages are found in the Mediterranean basin including Europe is becausse of migrations FROM Africa where it originated meaning that EUROPEANS ARE AFRICAN MIXED!!

Lastly the only reason why East Africans are more related to Eurasians than other Africans are is because Eurasians DESCEND from a subset of East Africans, dummy!

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Again, the Egyptians relation to Ethiopians and all other Africans including West Africans is because of AFRICAN lineages like E

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And lastly Eurasian does NOT mean "caucasoid"

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The racial determination of an individual is based on the preponderance of ancestry, which is determined by the relative statistical frequencies of mtDNA and Y-chromosomal haplogroups, not phenotypical traits; this technique is known as STRUCTURE-mediated k-means Bayesian clustering analysis. The terms "Caucasoid" and "Negroid" are valid taxonomic constructs in so much as they cluster around those gene frequencies which statistically correlate with the average population-specific genotypes of either the Caucasoid or Negroid ethno-racial type.


You're saying that Caucasoid doesn't exist, but Negroid does, especially when it comes to your beloved Egyptians? You are a moron.


The ancient Egyptians may be indigenous Africans, but being an indigenous African does not make one Negroid. And besides, according to the most recent evidence, as provided by the study of Chandrasekar et al. (2007), it has been established conclusively that Y-DNA haplogroup DE is of Asiatic, and not African origin, the result of a back-migration of Y-DNA from Asia to Africa. Hence, the presence of population-specific versions of haplogroup E within either Caucasoid or Negroid races need not be any indication of previous intermixture between the two.


I thought Egyptians were Negroids according to you? Now they're related more to Eurasians than other Africans? You seem confused.


You seem to forgetthat haplogroup E, a subclade of haplogroup DE, exists in two forms which racially differentiate both North African and sub-Saharan populations from each other: E1b1a, the Negroid variant, is found only in Africoid Negroes, whereas E1b1b, the Caucasoid variant, is found in Arabs, Berbers and people of mixed racial ancestry, such as Ethiopians and Somalis.


Hence, given the fact that Haplogroup DE is of Asiatic origin, and that E1b1a is found only in Negroids and E1b1b is found only in Caucasoids or individuals of mixed Caucasoid/Negroid ancestry, without any significant overlap between the frequency of E1b1a or E1b1b in either population, it should be obvious that Egyptians are more related to other North African Caucasoids than Negroids.


Robin and Shute have already explained in both their 1983 and 1986 studies, the use of the term super-negroid in regard to Egyptian skeletal morphology does not mean that the Egyptians were Negroid; in fact, according to the same study the Egyptians are actually Caucasoid, not Negroid. The 1993 study of Paabo and Di Rienzo found a small minority of aDNA lineages from sub-Saharan Africa, but the vast majority of lineages that were actually found were obviously Caucasoid in origin. In regards to the 2004 Kivisild study, both southern Egyptians and Ethiopians would share some mtDNA lineages in common because Ethiopians are partially Caucasoid in origin. Unfortunately for you, the relatively high frequencies of the M1 haplotype detected by Kivisild are Western Asiatic, and not sub-Saharan African, in origin. This finding indicates that the presence of the mtDNA haplogroup M1 amongst Ethiopians is due exclusively to Caucasoid admixture.


Nubians are partially to mostly Caucasoid in origin. However, a few isolated remains at a single location at the southern end of the country is hardly typical of the ethno-racial composition of the Egyptian population as a whole. DNA analysis which determines racial affiliation, not phenotype.


The latest research reveals that haplogroup E is Asiatic in origin, not African, and that there are two forms of E that are both non-overlapping and population-specific, with E1b1a being found only in Negroids and E1b1b being found only in Caucasoids.


Racial affiliation is not determined on the basis of phenotype, but upon population-specific mtDNA and Y-DNA gene frequencies.

And nigger, are you still quoting from Keita's out-dated and ideologically motivated 1990 study? This was refuted by Brace in the 1993 study Clines and clusters versus Race: a test in ancient Egypt and the case of a death on the Nile. Let's see what he has to say on the subject:
The Predynastic of Upper Egypt and the Late Dynastic of Lower Egypt are more closely related to each other than to any other population. As a whole, they show ties with the European Neolithic, North Africa, modern Europe, and, more remotely, India, but not at all with sub-Saharan Africa, eastern Asia, Oceania, or the New World.
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
, all of the most recent research conducted by modern geneticists reveals that the Egyptian gene pool clusters much more closely with other Mediterranean Caucasoids, than with any group of Negroids. Here, let's look at the major studies:

Cavalli-Sforza et al. (1994) compared populations from throughout the world using extensive genetic data. The North African populations grouped with West Eurasian (European, Middle East) populations rather than sub-Saharan Africans.

Di Rienzo et al. (1994) studied the relationship of three samples (taken from Egyptians, Sardinians, and sub-Saharan Africans), using mitochondrial DNA and simple sequence repeats. In terms of genetic distance, the Egyptian sample was closer to the Sardinian sample than to the sub-Saharan African
sample.

Hammer et al. (1997) used seven different methods to compute population trees of world populations, using Y-chromosome data. All seven methods grouped the Egyptians with the non-African populations rather than with the sub-Saharan Africans. Egyptians' genetic profile resembles that of South Europeans more than the other regional groups in the study.

Poloni et al. (1997). Egyptians and a few other African populations (Tunisians, Algerians, and even Ethiopians) showed a stronger Y-chromosome similarity to non-African Mediterraneans than to the remainder of Africans mostly from south of the Sahara.

Bosch et al. (1997), using classical genetic markers, calculated Egyptians to be genetically very close to Mediterranean Asians and Europeans.


First, race is determined by DNA, not phenotype.

Second, peoples like the Nubians and the Ethiopians bear some genetic similarity to native Egyptians because of substantial Caucasoid intermixture.

Third, studies such as those of E Bosch et al. (1997) clearly demonstrate that Egyptians are more related to Mediterranean Caucasoids, than Negroids.

Fourth, in none of the studies produced by S.O.Y. Keita does he ever state that the Egyptians are Negroid in racial origin.

Fifth, the presence of slight traces of Negroid admixture in certain segments of a given population does not make that population Negroid.
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
bump[ I just owned Djenuti I have to keep this on top.
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
Looks like I ran that Djenuti nut off.

WHITE EGYPT ACCEPT NO SUBSITUTE...........
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ You own NOTHING but your stupidity.

There is no such thing as "caucasoid" or "negroid" and the reasons why are explained HERE! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
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Originally posted by White Nerd:

lol Gee yeah way to nitpick what could actually refute! You can't address half the **** in my post retard! It's also funny how your punkass can repost those studies in dirks thread, while not even attempting to address my post which refutes most if not all of those study interpretations DUMBASS!

LOL It is YOU who is the dumbass! You fail to realize that not half but *ALL* of what you post has been DEBUNKED here YEARS ago! That's one of the main reasons why I don't even bother to address every point you make! Another reason is that I'm busy with more important things in my life. But if you want to, you can bring up one lousy point at a time and I can tear you up slowly. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by White Nord (Member # 14093) on :
 
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Originally posted by Djehuti:
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Originally posted by White Nerd:

lol Gee yeah way to nitpick what could actually refute! You can't address half the **** in my post retard! It's also funny how your punkass can repost those studies in dirks thread, while not even attempting to address my post which refutes most if not all of those study interpretations DUMBASS!

LOL It is YOU who is the dumbass! You fail to realize that not half but *ALL* of what you post has been DEBUNKED here YEARS ago! That's one of the main reasons why I don't even bother to address every point you make! Another reason is that I'm busy with more important things in my life. But if you want to, you can bring up one lousy point at a time and I can tear you up slowly. [Big Grin]
Once again a shitload of....hotair. Kemp isn't it so damn funny how dumb these retards look constantly claiming to have debunked something in the past. While not being able to produce any of that **** today! For years these Afro-nuts have been claiming to have debunked everything that doesn't correlate with their theory of a black Egypt (even 2008 and 09 studies). It's just ridiculous to say the least they look stupid ( which isn't a problem to me) and I'm just to the point where they just need to put up or shut up!
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
^ You own NOTHING but your stupidity.

There is no such thing as "caucasoid" or "negroid" and the reasons why are explained HERE! [Big Grin]

all of the most recent research conducted by modern geneticists reveals that the Egyptian gene pool clusters much more closely with other Mediterranean Caucasoids, than with any group of Negroids. Here, let's look at the major studies:

Cavalli-Sforza et al. (1994) compared populations from throughout the world using extensive genetic data. The North African populations grouped with West Eurasian (European, Middle East) populations rather than sub-Saharan Africans.

Di Rienzo et al. (1994) studied the relationship of three samples (taken from Egyptians, Sardinians, and sub-Saharan Africans), using mitochondrial DNA and simple sequence repeats. In terms of genetic distance, the Egyptian sample was closer to the Sardinian sample than to the sub-Saharan African
sample.

Hammer et al. (1997) used seven different methods to compute population trees of world populations, using Y-chromosome data. All seven methods grouped the Egyptians with the non-African populations rather than with the sub-Saharan Africans. Egyptians' genetic profile resembles that of South Europeans more than the other regional groups in the study.

Poloni et al. (1997). Egyptians and a few other African populations (Tunisians, Algerians, and even Ethiopians) showed a stronger Y-chromosome similarity to non-African Mediterraneans than to the remainder of Africans mostly from south of the Sahara.

Bosch et al. (1997), using classical genetic markers, calculated Egyptians to be genetically very close to Mediterranean Asians and Europeans.
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
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Egyptians do share a common genetic lineage with the Mediterranean basin but that paternal genetic lineage is PN2 derived Hg E which is indigenous to and shared by *ALL* Africans!! Essentially it's prevalence in Mediterranean Europe and overall one-third of Europeans means that EUROPEANS ARE MIXED WITH AFRICANS!!
You moronic nigger animal, how many times do I have to explain that E is of primarily Asiatic origin and that there exists both a Negroid-specific and a Caucasoid-specific variant of the E haplogroup?


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And then on the maternal lineage the Egyptians share U6 with most other North Africans. U6 likely originated in Africa because its diversity and frequency are greatest in Africa with only minimal presence in the so-called 'Near East'! The only reason why it's called 'Eurasian' is because it bears a strong similarity to other lineages in Eurasia that are labeled 'U'. But the same is said for M1 which is prevalent in East Africa and nowhere else yet bears a resemblance to M* derived lineages in Eurasia. The problem is that Eurasian lineages ultimately originated in Africa which is why similarities occur! It is not conclusive that U6 originated in Asia but if so, it only occurred during the paleolithic not too long after the ancestors of Eurasians left Africa! Which is why Eurasian does NOT mean non-black or even 'cacazoid'!
Wrong again, nigger. U is descended from the R haplogroup, which is West Asian-specific and is only found in high frequencies outside of Africa, especially amongst the Romani of Eastern Europe. Because R is only found in West Asia and U split off from R over 55, 000 years ago, it should be obvious that U is of Asiatic origin and only exists in North Africa due to the phenomenon of human reverse-migration.

Moreover, according to the latest research, conducted by Rajkumar et al. in 2005, M is of exclusively Asiatic origin. The authors of the study write:


This study describes five new basal mutations and recognizes two new lineages, M30 and M31 that substantially contribute to the present understanding of macrohaplogroup M. These two newly erected lineages include the previously independent lineages M18 and M6 as sub-lineages within them, respectively, suggesting that most mt DNA genomes might arise as limited offshoots of M trunk. Furthermore, this study supports the non existence of lineages such as M3 and M4 that are solely defined on the basis of fast mutating control region motifs and hence, establishes the importance of coding region markers for an accurate understanding of the phylogeny. The deep roots of M phylogeny clearly establish the antiquity of Indian lineages, especially M2, as compared to Ethiopian M1 lineage and hence, support an Asian origin of M macrohaplogroup .


Other reasons for why the subclade M1 in particular is not an indicator of sub-Saharan ancestry include the fact that there is much greater M diversity in Asia than Africa and that all of the basal branches of M are found only in Eurasia and nowhere else, meaning that M is of Western Asian origin. In conclusion, if U6 or M1 are present amongst sub-Saharan Negroid populations, it is because of Caucasoid intermixture.


the latest research of Rosenberg et al. (2002, 2005) clearly demonstrates that when enough multi-allelic markers (SNPs) are used, the Structure-mediated k-means Bayesian clustering analysis will produce 5 distinct gene clusters that correspond with measures of self-described biogeographical ancestry: these include the Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Australoid, and Amerindian racial groups. Therefore, you're "race-does-not-exist" argument is ridiculous, at best. And again nigger, racial affiliation is determined on the basis of underlying genetic structure, not craniometry or any other measures of human physical dimensions
 
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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M:
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This is like posting a picture of Obama out of over 40 presidents and claiming that the United States was founded by black Africans. T
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M:
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This is like posting a picture of Obama out of over 40 presidents and claiming that the United States was founded by black Africans.

Can you relate to us how old Egypt was after 18 dynasties? I mean compare that to the age of the United States. When the United States is as old as Egypt was up until 18 dynasties, how many black or mixed presidents do you suppose it will have had?

You have simply proven nothing. I won't even consider that a nice try.
 
Posted by Doug M (Member # 7650) on :
 
Please do not feed the trolls.

Of course we all know these racists are coming here to pretend to "battle" someone over racial supremacy and pretend to show off by throwing racial slurs, insults and other signs of low intelligence. Stop feeding them. They aren't here for truth or anything approaching it.

Simply put, there was no European world until 500 years ago. All ancient civilizations originate OUTSIDE of Europe. Therefore they can perpetuate all the fantasy fables they want. They are simply unreal. If you ask them to go find the ancient roots of civilization in Northern or Western Europe, they will find none. Since they cannot showcase any Western European ruins of civilization going back 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, they must seek to try and dominate the discussion and ideas about the origins of civilizations thousands of miles from Europe that their ancestors had no part in. It is this nonsensical farce that they call history, which allows them to wallow in their own self pity for having to kill, claw, rape, pillage and murder their way to the top. Unable to hide their savagery and brutality, which is the sign of the true animal, they cover it up with a veneer of racist supremacy, which is nothing but more excrement on top of an already festering heap of waste.

It is not worth your time to argue with such clowns.

No fool in their right minds would follow fools into the folly of insanity expecting to find nuggets of wisdom.

White Europeans were ignorant of most history only up until 500 years ago, when they DISCOVERED there was world outside of Europe. Something humans had "discovered" tens of thousands of years ago. Yet these recent arrivals want to pretend to be more superior than their own history allows. They did not even "discover" Egypt, something that was many thousands of years old and EVERYONE ELSE knew about until 300 years ago, which formed the fertile essence for the birth of their nation. A nation born of the black magic and alchemy of national race consciousness and destruction of the black seed. They have no mysteries, no secrets, no treasures other than that of the black god they run away from, hiding the history, artifacts and truth in order to maintain a lie.

They are false prophets, liars, deceivers and the snake of deception. Do not argue with them, they have nothing to share and are not worth the effort.

If they were so superior, not only would the first evidence of civilization be IN Europe, but also the first evidence of the human species itself. But it is not. Europe is a cold barren wasteland of historical emptiness, devoid of any signs of early life or civilization they can cling to. Therefore they have no choice but to attack the womb and claim to be before the mother and father, which is biologically impossible. It is a sign of insanity and instability which ultimately dooms all who come in touch with it.

You must not argue with them because they have nothing sane to say that will ever amount to anything.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Doug, you sound silly calling people trolls. You never ever present peer reviwed evidence from mainstream scholars to back up any of your points. Just more and more Dougisms.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doug M:
Please do not feed the trolls.
It is not worth your time to argue with such clowns.
White Europeans were ignorant of most history only up until 500 years ago, when they DISCOVERED there was world outside of Europe. Something humans had "discovered" tens of thousands of years ago.

This is only the tip of the iceberg. More and more evidence is being discovered daily as to where the true beginnings of civilization occured.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0116802/settelments.htm
 
Posted by Doug M (Member # 7650) on :
 
Well Mr. Patriot I would like to see some of your "peer reviewed" historical references. Most of what you cling to is 'popular history' which is about as peer reviewed as a newspaper. Peer reviewed is a reference to scholarly and scientific literature which is literally read by scientists and scholars. It does not refer to the common history books and other texts often found in book stores and libraries for the general public. Calling that 'peer reviewed' as if it represents true scientific and scholarly work is nonsense. Bookstores do not 'peer review' books. Books are a business and all kinds of books on historical topics are written representing all sorts of views on history and culture. Therefore, when you ACTUALLY provide a TRUE 'peer reviewed' article, you will make sense, but you currently are not, because like everything else, you don't know what you are talking about.

"Peer review" refers to actual scientific work published to a scientific or scholarly journal to be reviewed by a board of scientific and scholarly peers in a certain field. Most books are not peer reviewed. Egyptology is not "science" and most books written on Egypt are general books written for lay people, most of which are full of NON SCHOLARLY opinions and views. These books are no more scientific than watching Zahi Hawass on Discovery and History channel. They are NOT scientific articles, they are purely general popular literature and knowledge for lay people.

Egyptology is not a science. Egyptology is an umbrella term that encompasses things like archaeology and languages, along with ACTUAL scientific fields like biology, anthropology and genetics. And the study of Egypt by Europeans is the BASIS of the development of these associated "scientific" fields. Yet ALL of them were originally based on trying to prove SCIENTIFICALLY that Egypt was a "white nation" when it was not as a form of "race science".

In fact the origins of Egyptology lay in the THEFT of Egyptian artifacts from Egypt, with an attitude that they BELONGED to Europe and not the Egyptians themselves. Many of these "explorers" were nothing but treasure seekers, looking to enhance the prestige and greatness of their COLONIAL cultures by showing off their stolen loot. They reveled in looking DOWN on actual Egyptians even as they stole the artifacts of the Egyptian's ancestors. Most of their writings and observations were through a lens of race and racial superiority for Europe, even though these Europeans had NO ancestry from Egypt. Such is the basis of the "popular history" or "popular science" of Egypt in America and Europe, which is nothing more than the grisly process of unwrapping and destroying the ancient corpse of African people for the delight and fascination of the European public. Such is the extent of PEER REVIEW in European understanding of ancient Egypt.

Peer review means reviewed by a scientific or scholarly peer, not read or looked at by American Patriot. You calling any book you like "peer reviewed" is like calling a cracker jack prize the academy award. It has no merit.

And now for your reading pleasure are the writings of EUROPEANS on the actions of their own:

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In his Rape of the Nile, Brian Fagan presented a popular survey showing how Europeans and later Americans descended upon Egypt as soldiers, tourists, and scholars to loot the country's ancient heritage with no concern for the aspirations of the Egyptians themselves. Fred Bratton's A History of Egyptian Archaeology traced the development of modern Egyptology with no reference to Egyptian scholars. Reid (history, Georgia State Univ.), the author of several books on the Middle East, here offers a scholarly assessment of the reaction of the Egyptian intelligentsia to the plundering and control of the nation's antiquities and the role these activities played in the growth of Egyptian nationalism. As Reid shows, the Europeans established museums for Pharaonic artifacts but paid little or no attention to the Coptic and Islamic architectural and artistic legacy. The Egyptians took it upon themselves to found museums and institutions to preserve and study these treasures. Reid documents the tensions between the Egyptians and the Europeans who administered Egyptian institutions in a lively narrative with full references and an extensive bibliography. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries. Edward K. Werner, St. Lucie Cty. Lib. Syst., Ft. Pierce, FL
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From: http://www.amazon.com/Whose-Pharaohs-Archaeology-Egyptian-National/dp/0520240693/ref=pd_sim_b_1

In fact, it was the politics surrounding the discovery of King Tut's tomb, wherein those Europeans involved treated the discovery as THEIRS and not the rightful history of the people of Egypt, that helped give birth to Egyptian nationalism. But of course, this is the sort of "peer review" that Mr Patriot calls science.

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Furthermore, this was a difficult time in Egypt. There was a serious and growing movement for an independent Egyptian state, even though it would take another three decades to achieve. For those involved in the movement, known as Nationalists, the Times agreement provided a big Artical from a competing newspaper of the timesstick with which to beat not only the British "colonialists", but foreigners in general. It would eventually result in the Tut expedition's undoing, at least for a while.

After the official "discovery" of the tomb on February 16, 1923, and the revelation that the boy king laid undisturbed within his tomb, there was a growing pressure to make the find public. There was also the legal question of the treasure's division. If the tomb was classified as "intact", the Egyptian Government would, under the terms of the concession, be entitled to deny the excavators' claims to any share of the objects that were recovered.

Indeed, the issue of how best to deal with the discovery created difficulties between Carter and Carnarvon which ultimately resulted in a falling out between the two men. On February 23rd, 1923, Carter went so far as to demand that Carnarvon never enter his house again. Yet, that did not prevent the cloud of doom that fell over the expedition camp following Lord Carnarvon's death some months later. Lord Carnarvon had not only been their sponsor, but an influential one as well.

From: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tutpolitics.htm

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The Egyptian Government is seeking to reclaim a trove of more than 300 artifacts found in the ancestral home of the British nobleman who financed the excavation of the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922.

The dispute developed after Lord Carnarvon, grandson of the original collector, revealed on Monday that the ancient objects had been hidden away for more than 60 years in a sealed cupboard at Highclere Castle.

Lord Carnarvon said the relics, found last fall, were the least valuable remnants of a now priceless collection that his grandfather's estate sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1926 for $145,000. Finds and 'Archeological Junk'

A British Museum offical, Harry James, said the Highclere cache contained a few objects with unique historical and artistic value along with ''archeological junk'' found by Lord Carnarvon and his excavator, Howard Carter, in the years leading up to their spectacular discovery of the Tutankhamun treasures in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor between 1907 and 1911.

From: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/10/arts/egyptians-claim-lost-king-tut-treasures.html

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Conflicted Antiquities is superb, the definitive work on the place of ancient Egypt in the imaginations and politics of Europe and Egypt. Elliott Colla presents translations and analyses of Arabic literature not previously available, and he brings together for the first time European and modern Egyptian appropriations of and discourses on ancient Egypt. The range of materials that he analyzes is astounding and rich; the footnotes alone are worth the price of the book." -- Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt "Written in an engaging, thoughtful, and provocative style, Conflicted Antiquities provides a unique perspective on the 'consumption' of ancient Egypt. What makes it distinctive is Elliott Colla's focus on Egyptian readings of the ancient past, an area which has been greatly neglected. Colla has much that is fresh and new to contribute, especially since the resources on which he draws are not widely known nor easy to get hold of."-- Stephanie Moser, author of Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum "The history of the archaeology of ancient Egypt is fairly straightforward, one might think, but, as this excellent thought-provoking book reveals it is far more complex than that...This book shows that the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy was as important and as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for Europeans. It is a fascinating and enlightening story." Robert B. Partridge, Ancient Egypt. The History, People and Culture of the Nile Valley, Vol. 9, Issue 49, August/September 2008

Product Description
Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology--the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy--was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for Europeans. The values and practices introduced by the new science of archaeology played a key role in the formation of a new colonial regime in Egypt. This fact was not lost on Egyptian nationalists, who challenged colonial archaeologists with the claim that they were the direct heirs of the Pharaohs, and therefore the rightful owners and administrators of ancient Egypt's material remains. As this dispute developed, nationalists invented the political and expressive culture of "Pharaonism"--Egypt's response to Europe's Egyptomania. In the process, a significant body of modern, Pharaonist poetry, sculpture, architecture, and film was created by artists and authors who looked to the ancient past for inspiration.

Colla draws on medieval and modern Arabic poetry, novels, and travel accounts; British and French travel writing; the history of archaeology; and the history of European and Egyptian museums and exhibits. The struggle over the ownership of Pharaonic Egypt did not simply pit Egyptian nationalists against European colonial administrators. Egyptian elites found arguments about the appreciation and preservation of ancient objects useful for exerting new forms of control over rural populations and for mobilizing new political parties. Finally, just as the political and expressive culture of Pharaonism proved critical to the formation of new concepts of nationalist identity, it also fueled Islamist opposition to the Egyptian state.

From: http://www.amazon.com/Conflicted-Antiquities-Egyptology-Egyptomania-Modernity/dp/0822339927

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Review
"Now that Scott Trafton has taught us the meaning of Egyptomania, we'll all be seeing its register everywhere and feeling astonished that we weren't noticing it before." Dana D. Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men "A magnificent piece of scholarship, Egypt Land does justice to the complexity of the work of nation- and race-making as such work moved circularly along axes of racialized science, ideology, Biblical and political authority, songs, and images, producing social and material effects. In short, the imagining of ancient Egypt was a weapon among an array of agents that both made and resisted, as Scott Trafton puts it, the 'iconography of empire.'"--Wahneema Lubiano, editor of The House That Race Built "Now that Scott Trafton has taught us the meaning of Egyptomania, we'll all be seeing its register everywhere and feeling astonished that we weren't noticing it before."--Dana D. Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men "Egypt Land is an exceptional interdisciplinary study of the centrality of Egyptomania to considerations of race and nation in nineteenth-century America."--Robert S. Levine, author of Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity

Product Description
Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century America. Scott Trafton argues that the American mania for Egypt was directly related to anxieties over race and race-based slavery. He shows how the fascination with ancient Egypt among both black and white Americans was manifest in a range of often contradictory ways. Both groups likened the power of the United States to that of the ancient Egyptian empire, yet both also identified with ancient Egypt’s victims. As the land which represented the origins of races and nations, the power and folly of empires, despots holding people in bondage, and the exodus of the saved from the land of slavery, ancient Egypt was a uniquely useful trope for representing America’s own conflicts and anxious aspirations.

Drawing on literary and cultural studies, art and architectural history, political history, religious history, and the histories of archaeology and ethnology, Trafton illuminates anxieties related to race in different manifestations of nineteenth-century American Egyptomania, including the development of American Egyptology, the rise of racialized science, the narrative and literary tradition of the imperialist adventure tale, the cultural politics of the architectural Egyptian Revival, and the dynamics of African American Ethiopianism. He demonstrates how debates over what the United States was and what it could become returned again and again to ancient Egypt. From visions of Cleopatra to the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, from the works of Pauline Hopkins to the construction of the Washington Monument, from the measuring of slaves’ skulls to the singing of slave spirituals—claims about and representations of ancient Egypt served as linchpins for discussions about nineteenth-century American racial and national identity.

http://www.amazon.com/Egypt-Land-Nineteenth-Century-Egyptomania-Americanists/dp/0822333627

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Crania Americana; or, A Comparitive View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed An Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species
Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1839

Often thought of as the father of American scientific racism, Samuel George Morton casts a long shadow across American Egyptomania. A Philadelphia physician long recognized as an important figure in the history of American science, Morton was perhaps most famous during his lifetime for his collection of crania: hundreds and hundreds of human skulls collected from all over the world, sent to him for measurement and cataloguing, and classified by him according to racial type. Students of the human body had long recognized the wide variety of shapes found in human heads all across the world, but Morton took it upon himself to collect as many as possible, divide them up, and classify them according to race; the problem was that no one had ever done anything quite like this on such a large scale, and so it fell to Morton himself to practically invent the very racial categories he was to be using for classification. Using careful but deeply problematic measurements, Morton decided at what point in the variety of human skulls Caucasians stopped being Caucasians, and Negroes began being Negroes. Morton was thus a crucial figure not just in the history of American race science, but in the history of the very notion of race itself.

Interestingly, much of Mortons collection of crania came from people long dead. With the rise of archaeology, Morton had access to a much larger set of skulls from across large expanses of time and this meant that skulls from ancient Egyptians figured prominently in his collection. This also meant that Morton was on the frontlines of current debates about what would later be called evolution: whether certain groups of people changed in general physical type over great lengths of time, or whether ancient humans were physically the same as modern humans. Morton himself was fully aware of the stakes of this debate: if ancient crania were the same as modern crania, and, given the racial categories Morton was constructing, if ancient negro crania were the same as modern negro crania, then that meant that racial differences between humans were a permanent and everlasting aspect of human life and, for some, that meant that negroes had always been and would always be inferior to whites.

To make matters worse, Morton was also associated with the two most openly racist figures in the history of American Egyptology, Josiah Clark Nott and George Robins Gliddon. Nott and Gliddon were transfixed by Mortons research, and used it as the basis for their landmark 1854 Types of Mankind, which was both openly dedicated to Morton (Morton having died just prior to the publication of the Types), and openly dedicated to the proposition that negro types were inherently inferior to Caucasian types. Together with Nott and Gliddon, then, Morton is thought of as one of the three founders of what was (and still is) known as the American School of Ethnology, infamous for its combination of early Egyptology and proslavery politics.

This selection is one of Mortons two major works: Crania Americana, published in 1839. (Mortons other work, not coincidentally, was Crania Aegyptiaca, and was a study of ancient Egyptian skulls.) As its subtitle indicates, however, it is not just a study of American (by which Morton meant Native American and Central and South American) crania; included as the main front section is a general essay on the varieties of the human species, which today stands as Mortons major statement on racial difference. (Not uninterestingly for a study of American Egyptomania, it opens with a long discussion of the Nilotic family, and offers some special discussions On the Supposed Affinity between the Egyptians and Negroes.) It is an often-cited but rarely read text, foundational to the study of American race science.

From: http://chnm.gmu.edu/egyptomania/sources.php?function=detail&articleid=4
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kemp:

You moronic nigger animal, how many times do I have to explain that E is of primarily Asiatic origin and that there exists both a Negroid-specific and a Caucasoid-specific variant of the E haplogroup?

First of all, I'm not even black and even if I was, there is NOTHING a sub-moronic mentally challenged buffoon could say to 'insult' me!

You do realize that haplogroup E is the most common paternal lineage in Africa and is carried by even the most stereotypical "negroids"!! Are you saying that you so-called "negroid" Africans are Eurasian as well??!

Again all of this was discussed before!


quote:
Wrong again, nigger. U is descended from the R haplogroup, which is West Asian-specific and is only found in high frequencies outside of Africa, especially amongst the Romani of Eastern Europe. Because R is only found in West Asia and U split off from R over 55, 000 years ago, it should be obvious that U is of Asiatic origin and only exists in North Africa due to the phenomenon of human reverse-migration.
Haplogroup U6 is different from other haplogroups with the label of 'U', you fool! The reason why the letter U is used is due to similarities to other U lineages which are Eurasian but the same is said for M1 which is common in East Africa but virtually absent in Asia where M* derived lineages are common. So too U6 is miniscule outside of Africa! Why are there similarities? Because both Eurasian U and M are derived from AFRICAN ancestors during the paleolithic!

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Moreover, according to the latest research, conducted by Rajkumar et al. in 2005, M is of exclusively Asiatic origin. The authors of the study write:


This study describes five new basal mutations and recognizes two new lineages, M30 and M31 that substantially contribute to the present understanding of macrohaplogroup M. These two newly erected lineages include the previously independent lineages M18 and M6 as sub-lineages within them, respectively, suggesting that most mt DNA genomes might arise as limited offshoots of M trunk. Furthermore, this study supports the non existence of lineages such as M3 and M4 that are solely defined on the basis of fast mutating control region motifs and hence, establishes the importance of coding region markers for an accurate understanding of the phylogeny. The deep roots of M phylogeny clearly establish the antiquity of Indian lineages, especially M2, as compared to Ethiopian M1 lineage and hence, support an Asian origin of M macrohaplogroup .


Other reasons for why the subclade M1 in particular is not an indicator of sub-Saharan ancestry include the fact that there is much greater M diversity in Asia than Africa and that all of the basal branches of M are found only in Eurasia and nowhere else, meaning that M is of Western Asian origin. In conclusion, if U6 or M1 are present amongst sub-Saharan Negroid populations, it is because of Caucasoid intermixture.

Again M* is Asian but M1 is African! The similarities are the result of parallel mutation due to COMMON ORIGINS! Why?? Because EURASIANS DESCEND FROM AFRICANS, you dummy!! This has been discussed in several threads in the past!

Do you know that paleolithic Eurasians especially those that just left Africa were still black??

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the latest research of Rosenberg et al. (2002, 2005) clearly demonstrates that when enough multi-allelic markers (SNPs) are used, the Structure-mediated k-means Bayesian clustering analysis will produce 5 distinct gene clusters that correspond with measures of self-described biogeographical ancestry: these include the Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Australoid, and Amerindian racial groups. Therefore, you're "race-does-not-exist" argument is ridiculous, at best. And again nigger, racial affiliation is determined on the basis of underlying genetic structure, not craniometry or any other measures of human physical dimensions
If genetic markers correlate to phenotype (race) then why do so many Europeans carry E but are still 'white' and not black idiot??!
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

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This is like posting a picture of Obama out of over 40 presidents and claiming that the United States was founded by black Africans.

Can you relate to us how old Egypt was after 18 dynasties? I mean compare that to the age of the United States. When the United States is as old as Egypt was up until 18 dynasties, how many black or mixed presidents do you suppose it will have had?

You have simply proven nothing. I won't even consider that a nice try.

^ This has got to be one of the stupidest responses! LOL This is like posting a picture of a white ruler of Germany and saying this is not proof that Germans are white cuz of one picture! LMAO [Big Grin]

You cannot escape the FACT that the U.S. is a predominantly white country established by European settlers no more than you can escape that Egypt is an AFRICAN country and its people were indigenous and so BLACK! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Doug, you would not know a peer reviewed study if it ran over you on the street. You never heard of the term pop history until you heard me use it in another thread.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

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This is like posting a picture of Obama out of over 40 presidents and claiming that the United States was founded by black Africans.

Can you relate to us how old Egypt was after 18 dynasties? I mean compare that to the age of the United States. When the United States is as old as Egypt was up until 18 dynasties, how many black or mixed presidents do you suppose it will have had?

You have simply proven nothing. I won't even consider that a nice try.

^ This has got to be one of the stupidest responses! LOL This is like posting a picture of a white ruler of Germany and saying this is not proof that Germans are white cuz of one picture! LMAO [Big Grin]

If we had pictures and the mummified remains of black Germans, then the one picture of a white German might cast some shadow of doubt over whether all Germans were white.

Maybe you are the one with the stupidest response?
 
Posted by Doug M (Member # 7650) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
Doug, you would not know a peer reviewed study if it ran over you on the street. You never heard of the term pop history until you heard me use it in another thread.

Thanks for agreeing with me on the extent of what you know about history.
 
Posted by Doug M (Member # 7650) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

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This is like posting a picture of Obama out of over 40 presidents and claiming that the United States was founded by black Africans.

Can you relate to us how old Egypt was after 18 dynasties? I mean compare that to the age of the United States. When the United States is as old as Egypt was up until 18 dynasties, how many black or mixed presidents do you suppose it will have had?

You have simply proven nothing. I won't even consider that a nice try.

^ This has got to be one of the stupidest responses! LOL This is like posting a picture of a white ruler of Germany and saying this is not proof that Germans are white cuz of one picture! LMAO [Big Grin]

If we had pictures and the mummified remains of black Germans, then the one picture of a white German might cast some shadow of doubt over whether all Germans were white.

Maybe you are the one with the stupidest response?

Well Simple Girl it is simple.

Show me the REMAINS of a white king of a civilized nation in the area now called Germany or Britain in 1800 BC or any time period before that. Show me their writing, their sculpture and their high arts. Show me their many kings and queens going back thousands of years.

I will wait patiently.
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
all of the most recent research conducted by modern geneticists reveals that the Egyptian gene pool clusters much more closely with other Mediterranean Caucasoids, than with any group of Negroids. Here, let's look at the major studies:

Cavalli-Sforza et al. (1994) compared populations from throughout the world using extensive genetic data. The North African populations grouped with West Eurasian (European, Middle East) populations rather than sub-Saharan Africans.

Di Rienzo et al. (1994) studied the relationship of three samples (taken from Egyptians, Sardinians, and sub-Saharan Africans), using mitochondrial DNA and simple sequence repeats. In terms of genetic distance, the Egyptian sample was closer to the Sardinian sample than to the sub-Saharan African
sample.

Hammer et al. (1997) used seven different methods to compute population trees of world populations, using Y-chromosome data. All seven methods grouped the Egyptians with the non-African populations rather than with the sub-Saharan Africans. Egyptians' genetic profile resembles that of South Europeans more than the other regional groups in the study.

Poloni et al. (1997). Egyptians and a few other African populations (Tunisians, Algerians, and even Ethiopians) showed a stronger Y-chromosome similarity to non-African Mediterraneans than to the remainder of Africans mostly from south of the Sahara.

Bosch et al. (1997), using classical genetic markers, calculated Egyptians to be genetically very close to Mediterranean Asians and Europeans.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Doug M:

[/qb]

Well Simple Girl it is simple.

Show me the REMAINS of a white king of a civilized nation in the area now called Germany or Britain in 1800 BC or any time period before that. Show me their writing, their sculpture and their high arts. Show me their many kings and queens going back thousands of years.

I will wait patiently. [/QB][/QUOTE]


Oh, I see what you are driving at. The ancient Germans were a black people thingy. [Roll Eyes]

I don't think even they practiced mummification so maybe you're right in that they were black.

Perhaps you would be just as interested in me showing you the mummified remains of the white kings and queens of Egypt? There were many you know?
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

If we had pictures and the mummified remains of black Germans, then the one picture of a white German might cast some shadow of doubt over whether all Germans were white.

Maybe you are the one with the stupidest response?

Nope it is still YOU! There are no mummified remains of black Germans just as there are NO mummified remains of white Egyptians! So your response is still DUMB!
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
BAhahahahahahahahahahh

hahahaahahahhahahahah

Really where do you see mummified remains of white egyptians? [Eek!] [Confused]

This has to be up there with Patriot and his "North African Caucasoids". Simple you really need to Change your views girl. [Big Grin]

Peace
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
The beginning of the end for White Nerd.
quote:
Originally posted by dumb White Nerd:

Dunking fallacious Negrocentric claims from Negrocentric web site!

'MODERN SKELETAL STUDIES PLACE EGYTIANS CLOSER TO AFRICAN GROUPS'''

"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-Negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.


SKEWED RESULTS - the so-called “Negroid body plan” is not Egyptian but mixed Nubian:

“The ancient Egyptians have been described as having a “Negroid” body plan (Robins, 1983). Variations in the proximal to distal segments of each limb were therefore examined. Of the ratios considered, only maximum humerus length to maximum ulna length (XLH/XLU) showed statistically significant change through time. This change was a relative decrease in the length of the humerus as compared with the ulna, suggesting the development of an increasingly African body plan with time. This may also be the result of Nubian mercenaries being included in the sample from Gebelein [/u]…The earliest evidence of Nubians living in Egypt comes during the OK. Throughout the MK, the pharaonic frontier lay on the Second Cataract (in present-day Sudan); during this period, movements northwards from Nubia are especially likely. Together with the known presence of Nubian mercenaries in Gebelein (Fischer, 1961), the MK sample may represent a Nubian rather than Egyptian population. (Variation in Ancient Egyptian Stature and Body Proportions Sonia R. Zakrzewski 2003)

So here we have the truth at last. The so called “negroid body plan” is not Egyptian after all, but Nubian which is MIXED. Of course it is expected that lumping non-Egyptian Nubians in with Egyptians is going to skew the results. I am not surprised that you would completely edit out this powerful little fact. Notice there is a DIFFERENCE between Nubian and Egyptian and Nubians arrive during the OK, this means they werent presently there before!

Question: what is the exact difference between an Egyptian and a Nubian??! You realize that Nubia is directly adjacent to Egypt in the south so why is that Nubians are black but Egyptians are not?? This is like saying there is a racial difference between the ancient Greeks and the Thracians directly to their north! Is it not possible that BOTH popuations are directly related to each other?!

Also, Robins' and Shute's studies were based on Egyptian remains going from pre-dynastic (before there was an Egypt) times all the way through dynastic times! If you speak of "Nubian" influence in the skeletons then you have no choice but to admit to Nubian influence in the overall culture of Egypt since its very beginnings, fool! LOL

And lastly, the skeletal proportions were described as "super-negroid" and not just 'negroid' which means extra tropical adaptation. If the Egyptians really were of 'cacazoid' or colder adapted ancestry then why the hell are their skeletal proportions even more tropically adapted than say West African populations who only have "negroid" builds and not super-negroid builds??!! LMAO

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"..sample populations available from northern Egypt from before the 1st Dynasty (Merimda, Maadi and Wadi Digla) turn out to be significantly different from sample populations from early Palestine and Byblos, suggesting a lack of common ancestors over a long time. If there was a south-north cline variation along the Nile valley it did not, from this limited evidence, continue smoothly on into southern Palestine. The limb-length proportions of males from the Egyptian sites group them with Africans rather than with Europeans." (Barry Kemp, "Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation. (2005) Routledge. p. 52-60)[/b]

None of this Negrocentric **** says it groups them with negroids or even sub-Saharans. Kemp got his info from the study “Predynastic Egyptian Stature And Physical Proportions” ( Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986 Human Evolution) in which it explicitly states: “This does not mean that the ancient Egyptians were negroes; indeed, in their art they clearly distinguished between their own facial features and skin colour and those of people from further south.”

LMAOH Of course Kemp did not mention anything about "negroids" because such racial classifications do not exist!! Notice he didn't say anything about "cacazoids" either, nitwit!! As far as distinguishing themselves from people farther south. Again this does not say they distinguished themselves as non-black you idiot! It simply meant they acknowledged certain differences in appearance which is consistent with native African diversity!!
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
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Whites & Egyptians have mass-reduced teeth while negroids have large teeth:

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Qualitative and quantitative methods are employed to describe and compare up to 36 dental morphological variants in 15 Neolithic through Roman-period Egyptian samples. Trait frequencies are determined, and phenetic affinities are calculated using the mean measure of divergence and Mahalanobis D2 statistics for discrete traits; the most important traits in generating this intersample variation are identified with correspondence analysis. Assuming that the samples are representative of the populations from which they derive, and that phenetic similarity provides an estimate of genetic relatedness, these affinities are suggestive of overall population continuity. That is, other than a few outliers exhibiting extreme frequencies of nine influential traits, the dental samples appear to be largely homogenous and can be characterized as having morphologically simple, mass-reduced teeth . These findings are contrasted with those resulting from previous skeletal and other studies, and are used to appraise the viability of five Egyptian peopling scenarios. Specifically, affinities among the 15 time-successive samples suggest that: 1) there may be a connection between Neolithic and subsequent predynastic Egyptians, 2) predynastic Badarian and Naqada peoples may be closely related, 3) the dynastic period is likely an indigenous continuation of the Naqada culture, 4) there is support for overall biological uniformity through the dynastic period, and 5) this uniformity may continue into postdynastic times.” (“Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples” J.D. Irish Copyright 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.)

the observation that teeth of American blacks are larger than those of American whites.” (“Tissue contributions to sex and race: Differences in tooth crown size of deciduous molars” Edward F. Harris, Joseph D. Hicks, Betsy D. Barcroft College of Dentistry, University of Tennessee 2001)

The largest teeth are found among Australians, followed by Melanesians, Micronesians, sub-Saharan Africans , and Native Americans. Philippine Negritos, Jomon/Ainu, and Western Eurasians have small teeth ,” (“Metric dental variation of major human populations” Tsunehiko Hanihara, Hajime Ishida Department of Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, Saga Medical School)

“Neolithic through Roman-period Egyptian samples were demonstrated to have “simple, mass-reduced teeth” (“Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples” J.D. Irish)

American negroids have large teeth compared to those of American whites.

Again no such thing as racial groups like "caucasoid" or "negroid" and as for tooth size, this was discussed before!

Origins of dental crowding and malocclusions: an anthropological perspective.

Rose JC, Roblee RD.

Compend Contin Educ Dent. 2009 Jun;30(5):292-300.

The study of ancient Egyptian skeletons from Amarna, Egypt reveals extensive tooth wear but very little dental crowding, unlike in modern Americans. In the early 20th century, Percy Raymond Begg focused his research on extreme tooth wear coincident with traditional diets to justify teeth removal during orthodontic treatment. Anthropologists studying skeletons that were excavated along the Nile Valley in Egypt and the Sudan have demonstrated reductions in tooth size and changes in the face, including decreased robustness associated with the development of agriculture, but without any increase in the frequency of dental crowding and malocclusion. For thousands of years, facial and dental reduction stayed in step, more or less. These analyses suggest it was not the reduction in tooth wear that increased crowding and malocclusion, but rather the tremendous reduction in the forces of mastication, which produced this extreme tooth wear and the subsequent reduced jaw involvement. Thus, as modern food preparation techniques spread throughout the world during the 19th century, so did dental crowding. This research provides support for the development of orthodontic therapies that increase jaw dimensions rather than the use of tooth removal to relieve crowding.

^ Thus, reduction in tooth size is evolutionary and occurs in many populations including those in Sub-Saharan Africa and has NOTHING to do with Cacasoids which again don't exist!

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There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians , exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas. " (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

This is not surprising that SOUTHERN EGYPTIANS who were mixed NUBIANS have southern affinities. Nor does it lump northern Egyptians in with southern ones. They were careful not to.

Even in comparisons to American Blacks, the ancient Egyptians are found closer to said Blacks that American Whites or Europeans

We also compare Egyptian body proportions to those of modern American Blacks and Whites... Long bone stature regression equations were then derived for each sex. Our results confirm that, although ancient Egyptians are closer in body proportion to modern American Blacks than they are to American Whites, proportions in Blacks and Egyptians are not identical ... Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks. ..brachial indices are definitely more ‘African’... There is no evidence for significant variation in proportions among temporal or social groupings; thus, the new formulae may be broadly applicable to ancient Egyptian remains." ("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55

Again it has nothing to do with admixture with Nubians but EVERYTHING to do with the Egyptians being indigenous Africans like the Nubians! And the Barry Kemp study on Northern Egyptians DEBUNK your claims as they too have extra-tropical builds!!
 
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“An attempt has been made to estimate male and female Egyptian stature from long bone length using TROTTER & GLESER negro stature formulae, previous work by the authors having shown that these rather than white formulae give more consistent results with male dynastic material. Evidence is presented that the tibia length should include the spine in the later (1958) formulae and should exclude it in the earlier (1952) formulae. It is also shown that better results are obtained if the constants in the stature formulae are modified so as to conform more exactly with the basic data published by TROTTER & GLESER. When consistency has been achieved in this way, predynastic proportions are founded to be such that distal segments of the limbs are even longer in relation to the proximal segments than they are in modern negroes. Such proportions are termed <<super-negroid>>… On the subject of estimating living stature from skeletal remains, BROTHWELL (1981 p. 101) mentions that the equations which the archaeologist is generally advised to use are those of TROTTER & GLESER (1952, 1958) based on the long bone lengths of modern North American subjects; he adds, however, that modern formulae may not be appropriate to earlier populations', and no physical anthropologist is fully content with the statistics so far produced. Where living height cannot be measured directly, it is clear that the credibility of estimates must depend upon criteria such as plausibility and consistency. In the case of Egyptian mummies, for instance, the estimate may be plausible if the deviation from the measured mummy length can be explained in terms of observable deformities such as collapse of the cervical spine, curvature of the thoracic spine, or foot-droop. The estimate is consistent if individual long bones give similar results, and this will depend upon the skeleton ancient times having limb and trunk proportions similar to those of the subjects on which the modern formulae were based. ROBINS (1983) and ROBINS & SHUTE (1983) have shown that more consistent results are obtained for ancient Egyptian male skeletons if TROTTER & GLESER formulae for negro subjects are used, rather than those for whites which have always been applied in the past. This does not mean that the ancient Egyptians were negroes; indeed, in their art they clearly distinguished between their own facial features and skin colour and those of people from further south. It does, however, suggest that their physical proportions were more like those of modern negroes than those of modern whites, with limbs that were relatively long compared with the trunk, and distal limb segments that were long compared with the proximal segments.”(“Predynastic Egyptian Stature And Physical Proportions” Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986 Hum Evol 1:313–324. Ruff CB. 1994)


Again that depends on what one means by "negro"! You see "negro" like "caucasian" are specious terms which is why they are scientifically invalid. If by "negro" you mean stereotypical 'black sambo' then not only would the Egyptians not be "negro" but over a third of black Africans including those in Sub-Sahara! That's because black Africans vary in features and don't conform to one type of set of features!

The hypocrisy is seen that the so-called "caucasian" race can vary into various sub-races or types from 'Nordic' to 'Mediterranean' but you NEVER hear of such sub-types or variation occuring among Africans even Sub-Saharans even though the populations range an area much greater in size than Europe! You never hear about "mongoloid" or other Asian groups having such variation but only cacazoids! This double standard is the reason why such racial classifications don't exist!

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'''CONTINUITY OF THE NILE VALLEY PEOPLES'''

"Certainly there was some foreign admixture [in Egypt], but basically a homogeneous African population had lived in the Nile Valley from ancient to modern times... [the] Badarian people, who developed the earliest Predynastic Egyptian culture, already exhibited the mix of North African and Sub-Saharan physical traits that have typified Egyptians ever since (Hassan 1985; Yurco 1989; Trigger 1978; Keita 1990.. et al.,)... The peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and much of East African Ethiopia and Somalia are now generally regarded as a Nilotic continuity, with widely ranging physical features (complexions light to dark, various hair and craniofacial types) but with powerful common cultural traits, including cattle pastoralist traditions.." (Frank Yurco, "An Egyptological Review," 1996 -in Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, Black Athena Revisited, 1996, The University of North Carolina Press, p. 62-100)

It doesn’t state who is “foreign” but admits that there was a MIX while labeling it “homogeneous “ LOL. And we know those “variations” are due to Caucasian gene flow that is why they are able to determine “NORTHERN” and southern mtdnas:

WRONG! It is because such variation is due to INDIGENOUS DIVERSITY!

The late Nakada series preceding the formation of Dynastic Egypt was closest to the Nubian series at Kerma. Starting with the first dynasty, a trend toward hybridization of southern and northern types began, but with occasional anomalies. For example, the Third Dynasty and the Old Kingdom Giza remains are primarily of "Southern" affinity (Keita, 1992, 1993).

Again, the northern coastal types are indigenous African variants according to the available evidence. That they were not exactly the same as the modern coastal inhabitants could be explained by migration that occured after the breakdown of local sovereignty following invasions from West Asia and Europe. Most important was the Muslim period that brought some 2 million immigrants, mostly from the Levant, Anatolia and the Aegean. In fact, in modern Cairo today, a substantial portion of the population are Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Turks, etc., of fairly recent arrival into the region.

According to Keita (1990) and Livingstone (1967), the Haratin are among the major descendants of the original Saharans. Close similarity in ABO serology between modern Haratin populations and those of ancient Egyptians. These Haratin are considered to be "Negroid" in physical type (Livingstone, 1967). Other serological tests have shown close affinity of certain Berber-speaking groups with tropical Africans in the high rates of cDe, P and V, and low Fy^a antigens(Keita 1990, Mourant et al., 1976, Chamla, 1980). They also group close with West Africans in the high incidence of HbC, HbS and the sickle cell condition (Livingstone, 1967).

However, in terms of phenotype and culture, the Southern Egyptians and Nubians are most closely related to Nile River peoples in the Sudan and to other peoples in adjacent regions. These peoples are, in turn, a blending of the same Saharan type with the type found in the Badari and early Nakada cultures that would fit into the so called "authentic African" typology. However, Keita (1993) rightly rejects such an idea of the authentic African, and similar terms like "Forest Negro," "True Negro," etc. He notes that the rejection of relationship between types not both meeting the "True Negro" standard, would be as invalid as rejecting relationships between Europeans who were non-Nordic, or for that matter, who were not of a type resembling W.C. Fields or Jimmy Durante. Indeed, the suggestion by Brace et al., of genetic relationships between Nordics, Somalis and Asian Indians, based primarily on nasal factors is the height of bad anthropology, and this work belongs to the 1990's rather than the beginning of the 20th century.

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“Previous genetic studies of Egyptian, Nubian, and Sudanese populations allowed for distinguishing between two mtDNA types : the so called “southern” (Sub-Saharan) and “northern” (Eurasian) (for details see: Chen et al. 1995; Krings et al. 1999). To obtain the frequencies of these mtDNA types, amplification of the HVRI region and three RFLP markers was conducted. The authors succeeded in analysing RFLP markers in 34 samples and HVRI sequences in 18 of the samples. Both populations, ancient and contemporary, fit the north-south clinal distribution of “southern” and “northern” mtDNA types (Graver et al. 2001). However, significant differences were found between these populations.

“As for mtDNA (Krings et al., [1999]), the present study on the Y-chromosome haplotype shows that there are northern and southern Y-haplotypes in Egypt…proportions of northern and southern mtDNA differed significantly between Egypt, Nubia, and the Southern Sudan.” (“Brief Communication: Y-Chromosome Haplotypes in Egypt G. Lucotte* and G. Mercier International Institute of Anthropology)

North African populations are considered genetically closer to Eurasians than to sub-Saharans.” (“Female gene pools of Berber and Arab neighboring communities in central Tunisia: microstructure of mtDNA variation in North Africa Human Biology2005”)

In terms of Y-chromosomal lineages the Egyptians are continuous with other Africans all the way to Sub-Sahara with mainly PN2 lineages. In terms of mitochondrial lineage, they share M1 with East Africans and U6 with North Africans which due to similarities with Eurasian maternal lineages labeled 'U' is also called Eurasian even though it is African!!
 
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In the same study, although Keita didn’t like to, he did admit gene flow from “various areas, especially southwest Asia.” HENCE:

“The overall results are generally consistent with findings of high African diversity, which in the main can now be considered to be primarily of indigenous African biohistorical origin, without denying some immigration with gene flow from various areas, especially southwest Asia.”… “Some Horn populations assimilated south-west Asians, and even adopted their languages, which likely began as lingua francas. Certain Ethiopian groups evince substantial frequencies of ‘‘Near Eastern’’ genes (Y chro mosome J group lineages), likely due to the assimilation of migrants after the first millennium BC (Munro-Hay, 1991),”

Moron, of course Keita accounts the presence of Soutwest Asian lineages but it STILL remains that these lineages are still MINIMAL and of no consequence unlike the SIGNIFICANT presence of African E lineages in Southwest Asia as well as in Europe!!

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Keita even has the courage to admit SW Asia is indigenous. lol How can you Afronuts accept this. Also the term “indigenous North Africa” applies to European mtdna:

“We show that the main indigenous North African cluster is a sister group to the most ancient cluster of European mtDNAs , from which it diverged »50,000 years ago.” (“The Emerging Tree of West Eurasian mtDNAs: A Synthesis of Control-Region Sequences and RFLPs” Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

There no Disputing this!

Based on an increased frequency of HpaI 3592 (+) haplotypes in the contemporary Dakhlehian population, the authors suggested that, since Roman times, gene flow from the Sub-Saharan region has affected gene frequencies of individuals from the oasis.” (“Research on ancient DNA in the Near East” Mateusz Baca, Martyna Molak 2008)

Dahkleh is in SW Egypt! Yet no negroids there until “Roman times.” This firmly suggest that negroids in Egypt are higher NOW than was prior to Roman times. So much for negroids being termed “indigenous North Africans.”

Again mt lineage U6 is NOT European but African since it's frequency and diversity is confined to Africa and NOT Europe! U6 is different from the other U lineages found in Europe the same way M1 in Africa is different from the other lineages designated 'M' in India!! Both African M1 and U6 share similarities to Eurasian lineages that arose in the paleolithic due to parallel mutations from a common origin and that origin is in Africa!
 
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all of the most recent research conducted by modern geneticists reveals that the Egyptian gene pool clusters much more closely with other Mediterranean Caucasoids, than with any group of Negroids. Here, let's look at the major studies:

Cavalli-Sforza et al. (1994) compared populations from throughout the world using extensive genetic data. The North African populations grouped with West Eurasian (European, Middle East) populations rather than sub-Saharan Africans.

Di Rienzo et al. (1994) studied the relationship of three samples (taken from Egyptians, Sardinians, and sub-Saharan Africans), using mitochondrial DNA and simple sequence repeats. In terms of genetic distance, the Egyptian sample was closer to the Sardinian sample than to the sub-Saharan African
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Hammer et al. (1997) used seven different methods to compute population trees of world populations, using Y-chromosome data. All seven methods grouped the Egyptians with the non-African populations rather than with the sub-Saharan Africans. Egyptians' genetic profile resembles that of South Europeans more than the other regional groups in the study.

Poloni et al. (1997). Egyptians and a few other African populations (Tunisians, Algerians, and even Ethiopians) showed a stronger Y-chromosome similarity to non-African Mediterraneans than to the remainder of Africans mostly from south of the Sahara.

Bosch et al. (1997), using classical genetic markers, calculated Egyptians to be genetically very close to Mediterranean Asians and Europeans.
 
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^ There is no such thing as "cacasoid" let alone "Mediterranean" as it was explained HERE! Or does your degenerate mind not remember??

Also the Y-chromosomal lineage you speak of that ties 'Mediterreaneans' together is E1b1b which is AFRICAN in origin stupid!! Even East Africans carry it and West Africans carry the sibling lineage E1b1a! LMAO [Big Grin]
 
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Continuing with the demise of White Nerd...

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'''MODERN CRANIAL AND FORENSIC STUDIES PLACE THE ANCIENTS CLOSER TO OTHER AFRICAN POPULATIONS THAN MIDDLE EASTERNERS AND OTHERS'''


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S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


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"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Kebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." (Keita 1993)

Keita is disingenuous, Lachish was a scene of a major battle where Egyptians, Libyans, Nubians, Assyrians fought - so naturally, you’re gooing to find crania of several types HENCE:


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“The archaeological site of Tell-Duweir is located 20 miles south of Jerusalem. Its horizons span the Bronze through Iron ages. The site was excavated and crania recovered between 1933 and 1936 by the Wellcome Marston Archaeological Research Expedition to the Near East (Risdon, 1939) The site is associated with the biblical city of Lachish; Sennacherib sacked and burned Lachish in approximately 700 B.C. (Level IV-I11), and archaeology tends to support this date. Lachish at that time was part of the Judean Kingdom. Shishak, the Libyan pharaoh of the Twenty-second Egyptian Dynasty, attacked and perhaps left a garrison of his men. (1000-900 B.C. Level V) some of Shishak's army, which included Libyans and Nubians, may have settled in the district (Tufnell, 1953). Level IV is to be distinguished from Level I11 because Level IV has northeast African objects. (900-700 B.C. Level IV-I11) Egyptian, Nubian and Assyrian armies clashed in this area during the Judean Kingdom epoch (Gold, 1962; Yurco, 1980). Risdon’s work (1939) concludes that the Lachish series represents Upper Egyptians, who were residents in Lower Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and who immigrated to Lachish during that time (between 1567 and 1320B.C.), remaining endogamous. Keith (1940) stating on morphological grounds that the people of Lachish, in the main, are Europeanoid of the “Mediterranean type,” as opposed to the Egyptians who are African of the “Hamitic type,” except in the delta. [Note: Hamitic is not negroid, refer to: (“Population of Nubia up to the 16th Century BC” Anthropological Review; 62:57-66 Pudlo, 1999)]

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^ You do realize that the Hamitic (black caucasoid) race was debunked decades ago, right?!! For the same reason that 'cacazoid' and 'negroid' themselves are debunked! Craniofacial features among human populations vary too much to restrict to one population or another let alone associate them with lineage! Which is why there is no such thing as 'race'! This was explained to your dumbass here!

Also, the Lachish series was explained several times before including here!
 
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"When the unlikely relationships [Indian matches] and eliminated, the Egyptian series are more similar overall to other African series than to European or Near Eastern (Byzantine or Palestinian) series." (Keita 1993)

"Analysis of crania is the traditional approach to assessing ancient population origins, relationships, and diversity. In studies based on anatomical traits and measurements of crania, similarities have been found between Nile Valley crania from 30,000, 20,000 and 12,000 years ago and various African remains from more recent times (see Thoma 1984; Brauer and Rimbach 1990; Angel and Kelley 1986; Keita 1993). Studies of crania from southern predynastic Egypt, from the formative period (4000-3100 B.C.), show them usually to be more similar to the crania of ancient Nubians, Ku****es, Saharans, or modern groups from the Horn of Africa than to those of dynastic northern Egyptians or ancient or modern southern Europeans."
(S. O. Y and A.J. Boyce, "The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians", in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 20-33)

Because “Southern predynastic Egypt” has less Caucasian admixture as it is further from the main body of Egypt, is it not? Nevermind the present negroid population of Ethiopia is 40% Caucasian - which shows the strong presence of ancient whites in the area to leave behind that large amount to last into present day. The Egyptians expanded their boarders several times along the cataracts each time advancing further into more negroid territory.
Sorry, moron but Egyptians civilization originated in predynastic southern Egypt! Also, there was no "cacasian" mixture at all, because ALL Egyptians had extra-tropical adaptations including NORTHERN Egyptians! And when will you stop citing that LIE about Ethiopians! It is Abyssinians who carry 40% Eurasian lineages NOT ALL Ethiopians and again Eurasian lineages does NOT mean 'cacazin'!!
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“As for mtDNA (Krings et al., [1999]), the present study on the Y-chromosome haplotype shows that there are northern and southern Y-haplotypes in Egypt…proportions of northern and southern mtDNA differed significantly between Egypt, Nubia, and the Southern Sudan.” (“Brief Communication: Y-Chromosome Haplotypes in Egypt G. Lucotte* and G. Mercier International Institute of Anthropology)

Such a pattern is not confined to the Nile Valley but to other areas of Africa as well as other regions of the world. Again, all this shows is indigenous genetic diversity and NOT foreign geneflow, moron!

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"It is interesting to relate this peculiar north/south differentiation, a pattern of genetic variation deriving from the two uniparentally inherited genetic systems (mtDNA and Y chromosome), to specific historic events. Since the beginning of Egyptian history (3200-3100 B.C.), the legendary king Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt. Migration from north to south may coincide with the Pharaonic colonization of Nubia, which occurred initially during the Middle Kingdom (12th Dynasty, 1991-1785 B.C.), and more permanently during the New Kingdom, from the reign of Thotmosis III (1490-1437 B.C.). The main migration from south to north may coincide with the 25th Dynasty (730-655 B.C.), when kings from Napata (in Nubia) conquered Egypt." (Lucotte et al. 2003)
Yes INTRA-AFRICAN gene flow!

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“The Predynastic of Upper Egypt and the Late Dynastic of Lower Egypt are more closely related to each other than to any other population. As a whole, they show ties with the European Neolithic, North Africa, modern Europe, and, more remotely, India, but not at all with sub-Saharan Africa, eastern Asia, Oceania, or the New World.” (“Clines and Clusters Versus “Race:” A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile” C Loring Brace 1993)
Of course, this is because Southwest Asia and Europe during the Neolithic recieved substantial migration from Northeast Africa but that does mean that there is no tie to Sub-Sahara!

Brace has made that clear in more recent studies of his, see HERE!

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^ Neolithic Europeans and Soutwest Asians possess affinities to not only North Africans but Sub-Saharans as well! Why?? Because there is NO division between the populations of North Africa and Sub-Sahara! Black Africans are indigenous to *ALL* of Africa and they migrated from North Africa to Mediterreanean Europe and Southwest Asia during Neolithic times!

SHOULD I CONTINUE WITH THE EUROCENTRIC BEATDOWN OR SHOULD I REST?? [Big Grin]
 
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What I don't understand is that people are still trying to claim Ethiopians as 40% Eurasian when the people who have high Hap J is the Amharas and the Tigre. The Majority of Ethopians(Oromos) have Hap J at 3%.

Anyone with sense would "know" this if they actually read the studies and not just cherry pick from what serves there stupid racist Arguements.

Also People seem to forget(On Purpose) that White skin developed in Europe only 6000 years ago:

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Now whitenord explain to us how these people were able to get to africa, and leave there imprint on a Black people. Also explain how the Tutsis and some west Africans have Narrow Features with out any "Kaka aisn" ancestry.

Peace
 
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^ Yes meanwhile, Europeans as a whole have 1/3 black African ancestry! LOL

King, these idiots NEVER listen and for obvious reasons...

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I think I'll rest from their beat down after all it's the holidays at least here in the U.S.

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So there's no such thing as White people, eh?

How comforting to know that what I've been fighting for all this time hasn't even existed!

I guess I can take it easy now!

Maybe I'll start fucking Blacks and Asians, since, you know, my genetic material isn't even there to preserve any way!

But, wait a second, so, Caucasoids don't even exist? And yet, Negroids obviously exist, especially when it comes to Egypt?

Why is it that your race has a proud history, and is deserving of freedom and preservation, and yet, my race doesn't even seem to exist?

What's up with that?
 
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^ There is no such thing as "cacasoid" let alone "Mediterranean" as it was explained HERE! Or does your degenerate mind not remember??

Also the Y-chromosomal lineage you speak of that ties 'Mediterreaneans' together is E1b1b which is AFRICAN in origin stupid!! Even East Africans carry it and West Africans carry the sibling lineage E1b1a! LMAO [Big Grin]

Can you read, chink? I've already explained over and over again that haplogroup E is further divided into two population-specific subclades, with E1b1a being found almost exclusively in Negroids and E1b1b being found almost exclusively in Caucasoids. According to the research of Hammer et al. (1997), which has been recently confirmed by Chandrasekar et al. (2007), haplogroup E is of Asiatic origin, especially given the fact that its parent clade DE emerged in Asia over 65, 000 years ago.

U6 is a subclade of macrohaplogroup U, whereas M1 is a subclade of macrohaplogroup M, and neither of these subclades are exclusive to Africa. U6 is also found in regions as diverse as the Iberian peninsula, Syria, the Canary Islands, and North Africa; M1 is also found in the Mediterranean and the Middle East and is only present within the Horn of Africa due to Caucasoid intermixture. As established by the research of Rajkumar et al. (2005), an African origin for M is almost impossible, especially given the fact that the highest frequencies of M are observed in Southern Asia, not Africa. And another thing, 'groid, M and U are quite dissimilar in overall structure; M is derived from L3 and U is derived from R, which again broke off from N, although both M and U became gradually differentiated from their parent clades somewhere in Asia. Furthermore, both have very different defining mutations as well.


Phenotype doesn't map onto genotype, which is why actual genetic inter-relatedness between human sub-species can only be determined by examining the combined statistical frequencies of those population-specific haplogroups that characterize the population genotype itself.


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These are obviously dark-skinned Mediterranean Caucasoids.
 
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Can you read, chink? I've already explained over and over again that haplogroup E is further divided into two population-specific subclades, with E1b1a being found almost exclusively in Negroids and E1b1b being found almost exclusively in Caucasoids. According to the research of Hammer et al. (1997), which has been recently confirmed by Chandrasekar et al. (2007), haplogroup E is of Asiatic origin, especially given the fact that its parent clade DE emerged in Asia over 65, 000 years ago.

As usual, you make no sense! How is it E1b1b is "caucasoid" when its sibling lineage E1b1a is "negroid"??! Both lineages first occurred in Africa!! Also, DE has recently been found to occur in much higher frequencies in Africa (Nigeria) than in Eurasia giving credence to and African origin! Unless you want to say that so-called "negroids" are really Eurasian now! LMAO

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U6 is a subclade of macrohaplogroup U, whereas M1 is a subclade of macrohaplogroup M, and neither of these subclades are exclusive to Africa. U6 is also found in regions as diverse as the Iberian peninsula, Syria, the Canary Islands, and North Africa; M1 is also found in the Mediterranean and the Middle East and is only present within the Horn of Africa due to Caucasoid intermixture. As established by the research of Rajkumar et al. (2005), an African origin for M is almost impossible, especially given the fact that the highest frequencies of M are observed in Southern Asia, not Africa. And another thing, 'groid, M and U are quite dissimilar in overall structure; M is derived from L3 and U is derived from R, which again broke off from N, although both M and U became gradually differentiated from their parent clades somewhere in Asia. Furthermore, both have very different defining mutations as well.
Moron, again M1 and U6 are DIFFERENT from the other Eurasian maternal lineages designated "M" and "U". The similarities are due to parallel mutaion. You see all Eurasians are merely a subset of Sub-Saharan Africans so of course any resemblance in SNP motif are not surprising. Also both M1 and U6 do NOT occur in high frequencies nor is there any diversity outside of Africa!!

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Phenotype doesn't map onto genotype, which is why actual genetic inter-relatedness between human sub-species can only be determined by examining the combined statistical frequencies of those population-specific haplogroups that characterize the population genotype itself.
No! Phenotype not correlating with genetic lineage is the reason why race does NOT exist in the first place, moron!!

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These are obviously dark-skinned Mediterranean Caucasoids.

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Yes, and I'm the Queen Victoria! It's obvious you are a lunatic whose insanity knows no bounds!!

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You need serious help, Arthur!
 
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Originally posted by Kemp:

So there's no such thing as White people, eh?

Of course there are white people but just no white RACE! Whites are merely Eurasians who happened to have a genetic mutation correlating with isolation in Ice Age Europe.

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How comforting to know that what I've been fighting for all this time hasn't even existed!

I guess I can take it easy now!

Apparently not.

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Maybe I'll start fucking Blacks and Asians, since, you know, my genetic material isn't even there to preserve any way!
Maybe you can't, since I doubt any black, Asian, or other female in the right mind would dare touch you save to beat your ass, let alone couple with you!

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But, wait a second, so, Caucasoids don't even exist? And yet, Negroids obviously exist, especially when it comes to Egypt?
Nope. No "negroids" either. There are blacks Africans and white Europeans who are indigenous to their own continents with blacks being the older and more diverse populace.

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Why is it that your race has a proud history, and is deserving of freedom and preservation, and yet, my race doesn't even seem to exist?

What's up with that?

Again I never claim any 'race'. Dummy!

You see that's how losers like you get any pride-- not in yourself but in some made up 'race'! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
Subhuman nigger animal. Ever heard of The Bell Curve?


E1b1b and E1b1a are subclades of E, with E1b1b having only been detected at high frequencies in Caucasoid populations and E1b1a having only been detected at high frequencies in sub-Saharan Negroid populations.


In a study conducted by Weale et al. (2003), only 5 out a of a total of 1247 Nigerian males examined were determined to possess haplogroup DE, but the result was discounted by the investigators as being not genealogically meaningful given its paraphyletic status within the field of cladistic analysis. However, in a study conducted by Shi et al. in 2008, DE was also observed amongst Tibetans. According to the research of Lan Hai (2008), given the fact that D is geographically restricted to Asia, having only been observed exclusively within Asian populations, and that haplogroup E is much younger than D, it is obvious that Asia is the original source of YAP+ DE.


only populations of Caucasoid and mixed Caucasoid-Negroid origin possess high frequencies of both M1 and U6, which is why these two subclades are geographically restricted to North Africa and the racially admixed Horn of Africa. M1 is not found in sub-Saharan Negroid populations, whereas high frequencies of U6 are found only within Caucasoid populations, where it reaches a maximum of 29% in Algerian Berbers. M1 has also been found at high frequencies in other Caucasoid populations, such as those of the Iberian peninsula and the Middle East. And besides, M1 is of Western Asian origin, given the fact that all of the most ancestral sublineages of macrohaplogroup M have only been detected in India, suggesting that the presence of M1 in Africa is due to Caucasoid back-migration from Western Asia. The same can also be said for U6, which is also of Asiatic origin, having split off from R in Western Asia over 55, 000 years ago, and is found in North Africa due to Caucasoid back-migration as well.

You haven't presented a single study which presents any evidence whatsoever that the Egyptians, whether ancient or modern, are Negroids. Why? Because there is virtually no study in existence that even remotely suggests that the Egyptians were Negroids. What little evidence exists, seems to suggest that there was a slight Negroid element in the population of southern Egypt, around the second cataract of the Nile river, just along the Nubian border. But unfortunately for you, the population of both Northern and Southern Egypt has been demonstrated by modern research to be overwhelmingly Mediterranean Caucasoid in origin.
 
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BTW Djenuti consider yourself DEBUNKED!
 
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Posted by Red,White, and Blue + Christian (Member # 10893) on :
 
Djehuti, Djehuti, Djehuti,

Priase the Lord!

Ramses/Rameses??? Isn't that the one pharoah Moses fought to free the Hebrews from Egypt.

This racist "Arthur Kemp" is not acting alone. There is institutional Racism.

I remember seeing the latest MOSES Movie and a Biblical cartoon on the Exodus. Both featured a chalk white ALBINO-ish Rameses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II


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Christopher Lee played Ramses without any Yul Brynner type suntan

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This what non-academics see!

Below is a 3-D image of Ramses
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Lastly, this is site I ran into a while ago. We must know what is out there....

http://www.burlingtonnews.net/redhairedmummiesegypt.html
 
Posted by Red,White, and Blue + Christian (Member # 10893) on :
 
Here is another interesting site:

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My Opinion
by Dr. Joel A. Freeman

http://www.freemaninstitute.com/RTGhistory.htm

Egypt has always been a place of fascination for the ancients outside the region of Egypt. For instance, two of the seven wonders of the World were situated in Egypt.

The Rosetta Stone was discovered during the Napoleonic Egyptian Campaign in 1799. In 1822 Jean Champollion was able to crack the code of hieroglyphics. Once the code of hieroglyphics had been cracked, it brought a renewed interest to that region of the world.

For the first time in thousands of years, utilizing the new-found skills of reading Egyptian hieroglyphics, people could corroborate certain historical events, people and places. The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and subsequent understanding of the esoteric hieroglyph language was the connection that brought everything to the forefront for "modern" people to wrestle with some realities.

European archaeologists, anthropologists and historians were in a catch-22 situation. On one hand they were seeing images of people with clear Afroid features as they traveled around Egypt.

On the other hand, there was the terrible history of the slave trade that had been going on for approximately 350 years prior. For Europeans to justify the economic drive of the slave trade, there had to be the denigration of people of African descent. (Also, let's not forget the complicity of African Kings in bringing their warring neighbors to the slave traders.) Since the slave trade had been going on for some 350 years, the negative view of Black people had permeated much of Europe, South and North America and the rest of the world.

There was a crisis of conscience, especially in the mid 1800s. How are the European archaeologists going to interpret what they are seeing and understanding, to an eager outside world? In my opinion, they blew a wonderful opportunity to share the truth. Instead most went to all sorts of ends to try to present Egyptians as though they were not of African descent. The book, Black Spark, White Fire (Richard Poe) addresses the ethnicity of the ancient Egyptians in a most ingenious manner.

The one-drop rule worked in the US -- one drop of black blood makes one black. Let's reverse the standards for archaeologists and anthropologists when viewing ancient history -- one drop of white blood makes you white, no matter how curly the hair or thick the lips.

All of this impacted the world -- brought on by a specific event. In my opinion, the re-discovery of the Rosetta Stone was the catalyst that brought about the series of events that ultimately reshaped the thinking of people around the world regarding the ethnicity of the ancient Egyptians.

See for yourself. The photos you are about to view in a few moments are not so much "Afro Centric" as they are "Truth Centric". See powerful visual images that reveal much more than words could ever communicate. Here's a quick example:




Mummy-case of
Djedmaatesankh, a musician from the temple of Amun-re at Thebes. Egyptian, Late Period, 850 BC.
CT-scan of Djedmaatesankh
X-ray of Djedmaatesankh showing profile of mummy inside cartonnage coffin.

Read the first chapter and overview of

Return To Glory: The Powerful Stirring of the Black Man

In many sectors there seems to be some controversy about the racial make-up of the Egyptian people, i.e. whether they were White or Black. This is a simplistic approach to a much more complicated set of circumstances since Egypt's strategic location brought people in from the south with Nubian and equatorial African influence and from the northern coast of Africa and the Middle East with Afro-Mediterranean and Semitic influences. The Biblical record places Egypt among the "Black" countries. Melanin dosage tests of mummified remains (controversial due to damage caused by the embalming process) seem to indicate a level of melanocytes consistent with a people of a semi tropical to temperate climate zone.

Egypt continues to dominate the focus of our African oriented studies. These studies have clearly demonstrated that not only were early Egypt's origins African, but that through the whole of Egypt's Dynastic Era (the age of the Pharaohs), and during all of her many periods of national splendor, men and women with black skin complexions, broad noses, full lips, and tightly curled hair, were dominant in both the general population and governing elite.

In the intense and unrelenting struggle to establish scientifically the African foundations of Egyptian civilization, the late Senegalese scholar Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop remains a most fierce and ardent champion. Dr. Diop (1923-1986) was without a doubt one of the world's leading Egyptologist and held the position of Director of the Radiocarbon Laboratory at the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa in Dakar, Senegal. In stating the importance of the work, Diop noted emphatically and early on that, "The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt."

The solid range of methodologies employed by Dr. Diop in the course of his extensive Afro-Egyptian labors included: examinations of the epidermis of the mummies of Egyptian kings for verification of their melanin content; precise osteological measurements and meticulous studies in the various relevant areas of anatomy and physical anthropology; careful examinations and comparisons of modern Upper Egyptian and West African blood-types; detailed Afro-Egyptian linguistic studies and the corroboration of distinct Afro-Egyptian cultural traits; documents of racial designations employed by the early Africans themselves; Biblical testimonies and references that address the ancient Egyptian's ethnicity, race and culture; and the writings of early Greek and Roman travelers and scholars describing the physical characteristics of the ancient Egyptians.

The original Egyptians were unmixed pure black folks. When they were at the pinnacle of their glory they were not a mixed group by any means. During the middle dynasties especially (and later) when people migrated to this great land there was some intermarrying. This is natural and doesn't need to be debated. It was even done within royalty lines at times to solidify alliances, which was a common practice between powers during that period of history. Chancellor Williams refers to this phenomenon in his book "The Destruction of Black Civilization." And frankly, he theorizes that this mixing was part of the reason for the fall of Black Civilization. Nevertheless, there was never so much of this that at any time the ancient Egyptians could ever be classified as other than a black people.

It's reasonable to say that Egypt was a gateway for the meeting and interchange of goods, ideas, and people; and that the Egyptians were themselves a unique expression of human strength, beauty, intelligence and diversification. Ancient Egypt was an African civilization. It is also interesting to note that the Biblical record states "Israel also came into Egypt...the land of Ham." (Psalm 105: 23).

Plus we need to be reminded that Egypt is in Africa (not the Middle East) and that all of the Pharaohs (up to and including the 25th Dynasty) would have been required to "sit at the back of a bus" in the 1940s in Montgomery Alabama. Let's allow the pictures to speak for themselves...Ready?

http://www.freemaninstitute.com/RTGpix.htm

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Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by white idiot:

Subhuman nigger animal. Ever heard of The Bell Curve?

Yes, and despite your ad-hominem racist slurs that study has been DEBUNKED years ago! As you are ALWAYS!

Have you ever read this book?

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I don't think so!

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E1b1b and E1b1a are subclades of E, with E1b1b having only been detected at high frequencies in Caucasoid populations and E1b1a having only been detected at high frequencies in sub-Saharan Negroid populations.
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You idiot! Of course E1b1b and E1b1a are subclades of E!! They are also sibling lineages which diverged from a common ancestor-- E1b1*-- which like all E haplogroups originated in Africa!! The entire E clade originated in Africa! How can one haplogroup be called "caucasoid" while it's sibling is "negroid" and they both originated in Africa??!! Do you even realize that E1b1b occurs most frequently in Africans even Sub-Saharans than in non-Africans??!

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^ Notice that the subgroup E-M78 that you associate with "caucasoid" peoples still has its greatest frequency and diversity in Africa where it originated! It's presence in Southwest Asians and Europeans accounts for only one thing-- THESE PEOPLE CARRY AFRICAN ADMIXTURE!! Which is why Europeans are considered 1/3 African!! LOL

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In a study conducted by Weale et al. (2003), only 5 out a of a total of 1247 Nigerian males examined were determined to possess haplogroup DE, but the result was discounted by the investigators as being not genealogically meaningful given its paraphyletic status within the field of cladistic analysis. However, in a study conducted by Shi et al. in 2008, DE was also observed amongst Tibetans. According to the research of Lan Hai (2008), given the fact that D is geographically restricted to Asia, having only been observed exclusively within Asian populations, and that haplogroup E is much younger than D, it is obvious that Asia is the original source of YAP+ DE.
LOL Sorry but YAP+ DE in Asians dates back to when their ancestors first left Africa!! The highest frequency of D occurs among Andamanese aboriginals of Southeast Asia!

Andamanese boy
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The fact that D occurs among people like the boy above in Asia as well as the fact that E occurs at its highest frequency and diversity in Africa where it originated, coupled with the fact that more DE carriers were found in Nigeria than in Tibet show that Africa is where it originated!!

All of this is supported by recent studies from geneticists!

"....haplogroup CF and DE molecular ancestors first evolved inside Africa and subsequently contributed as Y chromosome founders to pioneering migrations that successfully colonized Asia. While not proof, the DE and CF bifurcation (Figure 8d ) is consistent with independent colonization impulses possibly occurring in a short time interval." Underhill (2007)

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only populations of Caucasoid and mixed Caucasoid-Negroid origin possess high frequencies of both M1 and U6, which is why these two subclades are geographically restricted to North Africa and the racially admixed Horn of Africa. M1 is not found in sub-Saharan Negroid populations, whereas high frequencies of U6 are found only within Caucasoid populations, where it reaches a maximum of 29% in Algerian Berbers. M1 has also been found at high frequencies in other Caucasoid populations, such as those of the Iberian peninsula and the Middle East. And besides, M1 is of Western Asian origin, given the fact that all of the most ancestral sublineages of macrohaplogroup M have only been detected in India, suggesting that the presence of M1 in Africa is due to Caucasoid back-migration from Western Asia. The same can also be said for U6, which is also of Asiatic origin, having split off from R in Western Asia over 55, 000 years ago, and is found in North Africa due to Caucasoid back-migration as well.
Wrong again! M1 is most frequently found in Sub-Saharan East Africa, specifically the Horn of Africa-- from which the ancestors of Eurasians originated who carried M*. U6 is most frequently found in North Africa but any presence of it outside of Africa is negligible and definitely not diverse! The fact that it bears a resemblence to Eurasian lineages designated 'U' means the same thing-- EURASIANS DESCEND FROM A SUBSET OF AFRICANS!

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You haven't presented a single study which presents any evidence whatsoever that the Egyptians, whether ancient or modern, are Negroids. Why? Because there is virtually no study in existence that even remotely suggests that the Egyptians were Negroids. What little evidence exists, seems to suggest that there was a slight Negroid element in the population of southern Egypt, around the second cataract of the Nile river, just along the Nubian border. But unfortunately for you, the population of both Northern and Southern Egypt has been demonstrated by modern research to be overwhelmingly Mediterranean Caucasoid in origin.
On the contrary I have LOADS of evidence that the ancient Egyptians as indigenous Africans were black and tropically adapted like all other indigenous Africans like Sub-Saharans!

Here is just a SAMPLE!

German Institute for Archaeology -excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. In several of the noble specimens:
"The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."

(Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues", Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13)

"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the "super-Negroid" body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.

"..After studying all the data, particularly after analyzing the computerized ethcings, one can certainly see that the royal mummies displayed high frequencies of African traits shared with most Africans. Thus, the royal mummies display a strong southern affinity just like other ancient Egyptians of all classes studied by Cheikh Anta Diop, Larry Angel and Shomarqa Keita." James Harris and Edward Wente, X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980)

^ Gee, they had black skin, tropically adapted body plans, and African cranial traits! What can all of this mean other than the obvious! LOL

BTW there's more evidence on the first page of this thread! Obviously your moronic mind must have missed it.
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BTW Djenuti consider yourself DEBUNKED!
NOPE! YOU ARE LMAO [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Red,White, and Blue + Christian (Member # 10893) on :
 
Djehuti,

You have done better than many Afrfican Americans and I have seved many of your posts.

It's time I create my own website

Whatever I do it will be at

Anyone can email me. Ancient Egypt as a great empire is dead. Ironically, it is the Africans in the Americas who are on top. Karma!!!

We must be great in our own time.

I have to get out of here and practice continuosly the languages I hear all around me Spanish, Korean, Chinese etc.

Zai Jian pengyou.


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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
^Why are you using pictures of Obama? Is that suppose to prove that the beginnings of Egypt were started by Obamanoid-type people? Half white and half black?
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
quote:
Originally posted by white idiot:

Subhuman nigger animal. Ever heard of The Bell Curve?

Yes, and despite your ad-hominem racist slurs that study has been DEBUNKED years ago! As you are ALWAYS!

Have you ever read this book?

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I don't think so!

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E1b1b and E1b1a are subclades of E, with E1b1b having only been detected at high frequencies in Caucasoid populations and E1b1a having only been detected at high frequencies in sub-Saharan Negroid populations.
ROTFLMAO
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You idiot! Of course E1b1b and E1b1a are subclades of E!! They are also sibling lineages which diverged from a common ancestor-- E1b1*-- which like all E haplogroups originated in Africa!! The entire E clade originated in Africa! How can one haplogroup be called "caucasoid" while it's sibling is "negroid" and they both originated in Africa??!! Do you even realize that E1b1b occurs most frequently in Africans even Sub-Saharans than in non-Africans??!

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^ Notice that the subgroup E-M78 that you associate with "caucasoid" peoples still has its greatest frequency and diversity in Africa where it originated! It's presence in Southwest Asians and Europeans accounts for only one thing-- THESE PEOPLE CARRY AFRICAN ADMIXTURE!! Which is why Europeans are considered 1/3 African!! LOL

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In a study conducted by Weale et al. (2003), only 5 out a of a total of 1247 Nigerian males examined were determined to possess haplogroup DE, but the result was discounted by the investigators as being not genealogically meaningful given its paraphyletic status within the field of cladistic analysis. However, in a study conducted by Shi et al. in 2008, DE was also observed amongst Tibetans. According to the research of Lan Hai (2008), given the fact that D is geographically restricted to Asia, having only been observed exclusively within Asian populations, and that haplogroup E is much younger than D, it is obvious that Asia is the original source of YAP+ DE.
LOL Sorry but YAP+ DE in Asians dates back to when their ancestors first left Africa!! The highest frequency of D occurs among Andamanese aboriginals of Southeast Asia!

Andamanese boy
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The fact that D occurs among people like the boy above in Asia as well as the fact that E occurs at its highest frequency and diversity in Africa where it originated, coupled with the fact that more DE carriers were found in Nigeria than in Tibet show that Africa is where it originated!!

All of this is supported by recent studies from geneticists!

"....haplogroup CF and DE molecular ancestors first evolved inside Africa and subsequently contributed as Y chromosome founders to pioneering migrations that successfully colonized Asia. While not proof, the DE and CF bifurcation (Figure 8d ) is consistent with independent colonization impulses possibly occurring in a short time interval." Underhill (2007)

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only populations of Caucasoid and mixed Caucasoid-Negroid origin possess high frequencies of both M1 and U6, which is why these two subclades are geographically restricted to North Africa and the racially admixed Horn of Africa. M1 is not found in sub-Saharan Negroid populations, whereas high frequencies of U6 are found only within Caucasoid populations, where it reaches a maximum of 29% in Algerian Berbers. M1 has also been found at high frequencies in other Caucasoid populations, such as those of the Iberian peninsula and the Middle East. And besides, M1 is of Western Asian origin, given the fact that all of the most ancestral sublineages of macrohaplogroup M have only been detected in India, suggesting that the presence of M1 in Africa is due to Caucasoid back-migration from Western Asia. The same can also be said for U6, which is also of Asiatic origin, having split off from R in Western Asia over 55, 000 years ago, and is found in North Africa due to Caucasoid back-migration as well.
Wrong again! M1 is most frequently found in Sub-Saharan East Africa, specifically the Horn of Africa-- from which the ancestors of Eurasians originated who carried M*. U6 is most frequently found in North Africa but any presence of it outside of Africa is negligible and definitely not diverse! The fact that it bears a resemblence to Eurasian lineages designated 'U' means the same thing-- EURASIANS DESCEND FROM A SUBSET OF AFRICANS!

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You haven't presented a single study which presents any evidence whatsoever that the Egyptians, whether ancient or modern, are Negroids. Why? Because there is virtually no study in existence that even remotely suggests that the Egyptians were Negroids. What little evidence exists, seems to suggest that there was a slight Negroid element in the population of southern Egypt, around the second cataract of the Nile river, just along the Nubian border. But unfortunately for you, the population of both Northern and Southern Egypt has been demonstrated by modern research to be overwhelmingly Mediterranean Caucasoid in origin.
On the contrary I have LOADS of evidence that the ancient Egyptians as indigenous Africans were black and tropically adapted like all other indigenous Africans like Sub-Saharans!

Here is just a SAMPLE!

German Institute for Archaeology -excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. In several of the noble specimens:
"The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."

(Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues", Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13)

"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the "super-Negroid" body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.

"..After studying all the data, particularly after analyzing the computerized ethcings, one can certainly see that the royal mummies displayed high frequencies of African traits shared with most Africans. Thus, the royal mummies display a strong southern affinity just like other ancient Egyptians of all classes studied by Cheikh Anta Diop, Larry Angel and Shomarqa Keita." James Harris and Edward Wente, X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980)

^ Gee, they had black skin, tropically adapted body plans, and African cranial traits! What can all of this mean other than the obvious! LOL

BTW there's more evidence on the first page of this thread! Obviously your moronic mind must have missed it.
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BTW Djenuti consider yourself DEBUNKED!
NOPE! YOU ARE LMAO [Big Grin]

You are stupid, you nigger. The fact that E1b1b is specific only to the Caucasoid populations of North Africa and that E1b1a is only specific to the Negroid populations of sub-Saharan Africa demonstrates that Caucasoids exhibit a much higher level of genetic inter-relatedness amongst the various Mediterranean Caucasoid subpopulations of which it is comprised, than amongst Negroids. In other words, the high frequencies of E1b1b found amongst Mediterranean Caucasoids and the high frequencies of E1b1a found amongst sub-Saharan Negroids, as well as the fact that E1b1b is geographically restricted to North Africa and that E1b1a is geographically restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, clearly demonstrates that both North African Caucasoids and sub-Saharan Negroids are highly genetically differentiated from each other, which has ultimately produced a wide divergence between Caucasoid and Negroid phenotypes.

Secondly, according to the latest research of Chandrasekar et al. (2007) and the 2008 study of Lan Hai, haplogroup E is clearly of Asian, and not African origin. And finally, E1b1b is largely found amongst North African Caucasoids and the racially admixed populations of the Horn of Africa; the two subclades that represent the largest subpopulations of E1b1b are E1b1b1a and E1b1b1b. According to Cruciani et al. (2007), E1b1b1a is geographically restricted to north/northeastern Africa, Western Asia and Europe; E1b1b1b is largely geographically restricted to Mediterranean Europe and North Africa, where it reaches its highest frequencies amongst the Caucasoid Saharawish of the Maghreb. Bosch et al. (2001) report that 76% of all Y-DNA lineages within the Saharawish gene pool are represented by the E-M78 subclade. In contrast, the Negroid-specific E1b1a subclade is rarely observed amongst North African populations, but heavily concentrated amongst Negroids, meaning that both sub-Saharan Negroids and North African Caucasoids are genetically distinct populations. According to Luis et al. (2004):


The diverse NRY haplotypes observed in Egypt and Oman are, to a large extent, distinctive from those of sub-Saharan collections and establish a substantial base for comparisons with other regional populations. NRY markers typical of the current sub-Saharan Africa (E3a*-M2 and derivatives) [E1b1a] are represented by low frequencies in Egypt and Oman and, thus, may be a recent acquisition, at least in part, from the slave trade.


E1b1b1a (E-M78) is found only amongst the Caucasoids of North Africa, Western Asia, and Europe, as well as amongst the Caucasoid-Negroid populations of the Horn of Africa. It is geographically restricted to the Caucasoid populations of North and Northeastern Africa, and is not found in any of the Negroid populations of sub-Saharan Africa.


keep forgetting that Haplogroup E consists of two population-specific subclades, E1b1a which is found in Negroids, and E1b1b which is found in Caucasoids. Secondly, E (M40, M96) is much younger than the Mongoloid-specific D lineage (M174), with DE (YAP+) and M174 branching off from M168 chromosomes in Western Asia, with the E lineage having separated from YAP+ minus the M174 mutation during human reverse-migration from Asia to the Mediterranean basin. Underhill et al. (2007) admit that they have no substantial proof for an African origin of DE, besides mere speculation. However, according to the research of Chandrasekar et al. (2007), all of the available genetic evidence corroborates an Asian origin for YAP+, M174, and the E lineage with defining mutations M40 and M96. According to Chandrasekar et al. (2007):


All Y chromosomes that are not exclusively African have M168 mutation. The M168 lineage evolved into three distinct sub-clusters: One with the Alu insertion, YAP (DE haplogroup) and the other two lineages, C (RPS4Y/M216) and F* (M89/M213). Underhill et al. (2001) suggested that an African population with M168 mutation dispersed from the Horn of Africa via a coastal or interior route about 50 000–45 000 years ago (Walter et al. 2000) towards southern Asia, where the C lineage (RPS4Y/M216 mutations) probably originated. The YAP insertion probably occurred on an Asian Y chromosome as long ago as ~55 000 years (Hammer et al. 1998) based on the evidence of ancestral alleles for M40 and M96 on exclusively Asian M174 chromosomes (Altheide and Hammer 1997). The ancestral allele of M174 found exclusively in Africa, supports an African origin of YAP insertion (Underhill 2001) but the time of mutational events on the Asian YAP insertion chromosome (Hammer et al. 1998) gives antiquity to M174. Our findings of the presence of the YAP insertion in northeast Indian tribes and Andaman islanders with haplogroup D indicate that some of the M168 chromosomes have given rise to the YAP insertion and M174 mutation in south Asia. The presence of C*, YAP insertion and F* in India (Kivisild et al. 2003; Cordaux et al. 2004; Sengupta et al. 2006; Thangaraj et al. 2003) suggests that the Y chromosome is well differentiated into major lineages in south Asia. Then they moved towards southeast Asia and the Andaman Islands. Andamanese maternal links have been established through mtDNA M31 lineage with the eastern part of India in the Rajbansi of West Bengal (Palanichamy et al. 2006) and the Pauri Bhuiya of Orissa (our unpublished data). After reaching the southern part of East Asia descendants of the initial dispersal, led to a northward diaspora thus peopling across all of East Asia (Su et al. 1999). Some of the YAP insertion chromosomes without the M174 mutation reached the Mediterranean via Central Asia and gave rise to the E lineage with mutations at M40 and M96 (~31 000 years ago; Hammer et al. 1998). This E lineage back-migrated to Africa through the Levant as hypothesized by Hammer et al. (1997) and Altheide and Hammer (1997). It is also evident that haplotype E-M34 chromosomes were probably introduced into Ethiopia from the Near East (Cruciani et al. 2004). The hypothesis of a back migration from Asia to Africa is strongly supported by the current phylogeography of the Y-chromosome variation, because haplogroup K2 and paragroup R1b*, both belonging to the otherwise Asiatic macro haplogroup K, have only been observed at high frequencies in Africa (Cruciani et al. 2002; Luis et al. 2004). Thus the major sub-sets of Y lineages that arose from the M168 lineage do not trace to an African origin. Likewise the M, N and R haplogroups of mtDNA have no indication of an African origin. In the light of recent findings by Olivieri et al. (2006) the scenario of a back migration into Africa is supported by two features of mtDNA: M1 (with an estimated coalescence time of 38.6+/-7.1 ky) and U6 (with an estimated coalescence time of 45.1+/-6.9 ky), which are predominantly north African clades arose in southwestern Asia and differentiated into their major sub-clades while they were in the Mediterranean area and only later some sub-sets of M1a (with an estimated coalescence time of 28.8+/-4.9 ky), U6a2 (with an estimated coalescence time of 24.0+/-7.3 ky) and U6d (with an estimated coalescence time of 20.6+/-7.3 ky) diffused to East and North Africa through the Levant. Thus modern humans used a southern coastal route for their 'Out of Africa' exit, and the Levantine route from Asia to Africa for 'back migration'.


have already explained numerous times before, both M1 and U6 are largely geographically restricted to the Mediterranean Caucasoids of both North Africa and Europe, and to a lesser extent are found amongst the racially admixed populations residing within the Horn of Africa. As has been established by the research of Gonzalez et al. (2007), both M1 and U6 are of Western Asiatic origin:


The coalescence age of the African haplogroup M1 is younger than those for other M Asiatic clades. In contradiction to the hypothesis of an eastern Africa origin for modern human expansions out of Africa, the most ancestral M1 lineages have been found in Northwest Africa and in the Near East, instead of in East Africa. The M1 geographic distribution and the relative ages of its different subclades clearly correlate with those of haplogroup U6, for which an Eurasian ancestor has been demonstrated. ...


virtually no evidence which indicates that the Ancient Egyptians were ever nigger savages.


German Institute for Archaeology -excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. In several of the noble specimens:


You're an idiot. Several specimens of mummified soft tissue (2 or 3 samples, perhaps?) are not equivalent to the many hundreds of thousands of mummies that lie buried underneath Egyptian soil.


Zakrzewski (2003) borrows the super-Negroid body plan terminology from the research of Robins (1983) and Robins and Shute (1986). According to Robins and Shute (1986), the Egyptians were of Caucasoid race; they also asserted that having a "super-Negroid" or tropical body plan does not a Negro make:


ROBINS (1983) and ROBINS & SHUTE (1983) have shown that more consistent results are obtained for ancient Egyptian male skeletons if TROTTER & GLESER formulae for negro subjects are used, rather than those for whites which have always been applied in the past. This does not mean that the ancient Egyptians were negroes; indeed, in their art they clearly distinguished between their own facial features and skin colour and those of people from further south.


"..After studying all the data, particularly after analyzing the computerized ethcings, one can certainly see that the royal mummies displayed high frequencies of African traits shared with most Africans. Thus, the royal mummies display a strong southern affinity just like other ancient Egyptians of all classes studied by Cheikh Anta Diop, Larry Angel and Shomarqa Keita." James Harris and Edward Wente, X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980)

The only Africans employed in this study so as to demonstrate that the ancient Egyptians possessed a strong southern affinity with other Africans are the Nubians, the Harratins of southern Morocco, and the negrified Berbers of Ahaggar in southern Algeria, all Northern African populations characterized by substantial Caucasoid admixture.


One recent study conducted by Luis et al. (2004) clearly demonstrates that Egyptians are much more genetically similar to other North Africans and Western Asians, than to sub-Saharan Negroids.

Another Nigger lover chink debunked.....
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Sorry but you haven't debunked a thing in my post, and it's obvious by your racist slurring that you are frustrated by it! [Big Grin]

How is E1b1b "caucasoid" yet its brother E1b1a is "negroid"?? E1b1b by the way still occurs in higher frequencies in Africa and not just North Africa but Sub-Saharan east Africa as well!

First and foremost, why don't you define what "caucasoid" and "negroid" are??!

If these racial terms are truly valid you would be able to give a concise definition for each one..
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Just as I thought. Kemp is unable to define his racial classifications because he knows they are bogus and therefore his stupid white-ass is DUBUNKED!
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
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^ Sorry but you haven't debunked a thing in my post, and it's obvious by your racist slurring that you are frustrated by it!
Are you stupid or what, nigger? After completely demolishing every single one of your objections and providing a large body of evidence to the contrary, you still want to live in your delusional "we beez jipshuns" fantasy world?

You are dumb, nigger. I suggest you go back to sucking your nigger mammy's flabby teats.


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How is E1b1b "caucasoid" yet its brother E1b1a is "negroid"?? E1b1b by the way still occurs in higher frequencies in Africa and not just North Africa but Sub-Saharan east Africa as well!

Because E1b1b reaches its highest frequencies within Caucasoid populations and is geographically restricted to North Africa and the Mediterranean basin, whereas E1b1a is only found in Negroids and is geographically restricted to sub-Saharan Africa.


E1b1b is only very rarely found in east Africa, and that is only because of Caucasoid admixture. Think Arab Muslims and their harems of Negro female slaves.

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If these racial terms are truly valid you would be able to give a concise definition for each one..
Genetically distinct populations characterized by differential statistical variations in terms of relative gene frequencies.
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
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Originally posted by Djehuti:
^ Just as I thought. Kemp is unable to define his racial classifications because he knows they are bogus and therefore his stupid white-ass is DUBUNKED!

Oops, I forgot... There really were ancient Negroid Egyptians from outer space who used there special tricknology to build the pyramids. Here's an artifact from one of the most recent archeological finds confirming the existence of these Ancient Negroids.


 - "We beez jipshuns frum outa space."
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
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Originally posted by Kemp:

Are you stupid or what, nigger? After completely demolishing every single one of your objections and providing a large body of evidence to the contrary, you still want to live in your delusional "we beez jipshuns" fantasy world?

LMAO YOU are the dumb one, and a liar at that! You have not demolished a single thread of evidence I provided and the only "large body" you provided is B.S.!

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You are dumb, nigger. I suggest you go back to sucking your nigger mammy's flabby teats.
I'm not even black, but even if I was, as if anything written from a mentally degenerate low-intellect white bastard can insult me!! [Big Grin]


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Because E1b1b reaches its highest frequencies within Caucasoid populations and is geographically restricted to North Africa and the Mediterranean basin, whereas E1b1a is only found in Negroids and is geographically restricted to sub-Saharan Africa.
Wrong again, MORON! E1b1b has its highest frequency as well as diversity within Africa, where it originated!!

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^ Notice the frequency of E-M78 alone! And notice how the darkest spots are concentrated in Sudan and in the Horn! Sorry but the only reason it has any frequency in non-blacks including Europeans is because they have black African ancestry!!


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E1b1b is only very rarely found in east Africa, and that is only because of Caucasoid admixture. Think Arab Muslims and their harems of Negro female slaves.
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You dumb lying swine! E1b1b has its highest frequency in East Africa!! It's presence there predates any "Arabs" by tens of thousands of years! The only one spreading silly fantasies is YOU with that rubbish of Arab men and harems of black women being the ancestors of East Africans!!

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Genetically distinct populations characterized by differential statistical variations in terms of relative gene frequencies.
I take it that is your definition of 'race'. So what race would these people be below??

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By the way, I asked for a concise definition of "caucasoid" and "negroid". Not surprised your dumbass can't comprehend!
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Oops, I forgot... There really were ancient Negroid Egyptians from outer space who used there special tricknology to build the pyramids. Here's an artifact from one of the most recent archeological finds confirming the existence of these Ancient Negroids.

Why come from outerspace when they're right there in Africa! That IS where Egypt is, dummy!!

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And this be King Tut, WAP!!
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^ Wow, he's even darker then the image of the black man you imposed!

And here is Tut's grandmother and grandfather
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^ BTW, your PATHETIC LIE that they are "very dark mediterranean caucasoids" will only be bought by white morons even dumber than you!! LOL
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
Djenuti you stupid chink the Egyptians said they came from the land of punt which is in modern day Turkey!
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ You calling me stupid is like the dove calling the raven white! LOL

As for Punt being in Turkey, does this look like Turkey to you??!

 - The village of the Puntites was made up of simple, cone-shaped huts. It was built in the middle of a very rich (tropical) environment. From the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari.

Do these look like ancient Anatolians to you??

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Does this sound like Anatoila??

The products brought back to Egypt point to an African origin: giraffes, pygmies, baboons, myrrh, ... excluding south east Arabia, as has sometimes been suggested. Thus Punt must have been located somewhere along the African shores of the Red Sea, perhaps south Sudan or north Ethiopia.

A relief from the 4th Dynasty may show a Puntite with one of Khufu's sons. In the Palermo Stone from the 5th Dynasty, King Sahure (2491-2477), gives the earliest recorded contact between Egypt and Punt. A 5th dynasty document says that kings of each period sent ships to Punt for myrrh and other items. A pygmy was brought from Punt during Djedkare's time (5th Dynasty, 2414-2375). Pepi II (2278-2184) in the 6th Dynasty sent Harkhuf to Punt, and he brought back pygmies. During Pepi II, Pepinakht led an expedition to punish some Asiatics who had murdered Egyptians building a ship meant for Punt.

There were two kinds of dwarfs known in ancient Egypt, the African pygmies and the Egyptian dwarfs. The African pygmies had hereditary dwarfism. These pygmies originated in the equatorial forests of Central Africa. The Ancient Egyptians brought them to Egypt from their trade stations in Nubia. The first pygmy was brought from Punt in the time of King Asosi of the Fifth Dynasty. Another was brought by Herkhuf from the land of Iam in Upper Nubia for the child King Pepi the Second.

The role of the African pygmies was to perform a dance called "the dance for god" or to dance in the royal palace to rejoice the king's heart.


LOL You are one desperate WAP! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
I looked it up the land of Punt was in Arabia which was originally inhabited by whites. The brown skin is symboic here is evidence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ysDW5lX2w&feature=related
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Sorry but Youtube does not count for evidence, there's no such thing as ancient white Arabs, and Punt was NOT located there!

Arabia does not have giraffes, rhinos, monkeys, ebony, ivory, gold, and myrrh altogether! East Africa has that! They definitely did not have pygmies either you idiot!!

LOL It's a wonder how they allowed a twit like you to publish any books!
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Djehuti

Wow.

Thats all I can say.

Punt first in Turkey, then Arabia?

The racist just seem to come up with anything.

Now the color of Puntites was symbolic?

One thing that has to be repeated is that E1b1b is found in the Africans in Kenya and Tanzania and is Not any different then it's brother lineage:

In contrast, the E3b*-M35 lineages appear to be confined almost exclusively to the sub-Saharan populations, except for a very low incidence in Egypt (2.7%) and a somewhat larger frequency in Ethiopia (7%, as reported by Underhill et al. [2000]). The highest levels of E3b*-M35 are in Tanzania (37.2%), Kenya (13.8%), and the Khoisans (11% in !Kung and 31% in Khwe).

The Levant versus the Horn of Africa: Evidence for Bidirectional Corridors of Human Migrations
J. R. Luis,1,2,D. J. Rowold,1, M. Regueiro,2 B. Caeiro,2 C. Cinnioğlu,3 C. Roseman,3 P. A. Underhill,3 L. L. Cavalli-Sforza,3 and R. J. Herrera1

Keep on Schooling

Peace
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Of course E1b1b is at its highest frequency in Africa and not outside of it. Whatever presence of E1b1b outside of the African continent is only because of African admixture!

As far as schooling, it seems some people are just too damn stupid for school! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Kemp (Member # 16733) on :
 
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LMAO YOU are the dumb one, and a liar at that! You have not demolished a single thread of evidence I provided and the only "large body" you provided is B.S.!
Nigger, every single piece of evidence you presented in this thread is either a gross distortion of reality, an outright lie, or a complete and total misrepresentation of the available facts at hand. The only sources you ever cited were from niggercentric websites, which have absolutely no scientific credibility whatsoever; in contrast, I only quoted from scholarly, peer-reviewed literature on the subject. And unfortunately for you, the sum totality of the evidence cited so far demonstrates conclusively that the Egyptian people, both ancient and modern, are members of the Mediterranean Caucasoid sub-race.

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I'm not even black, but even if I was, as if anything written from a mentally degenerate low-intellect white bastard can insult me!!
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Will you stop chimping out, you small-brained 'groid primate. After all, this isn't a Kentucky Fried Chicken joint. If anything, you should be thankful that my people have provided an advanced technological civilization that allows you to gorge on your fried chicken and watermelon in peace.
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Wrong again, MORON! E1b1b has its highest frequency as well as diversity within Africa, where it originated!!


^ Notice the frequency of E-M78 alone! And notice how the darkest spots are concentrated in Sudan and in the Horn! Sorry but the only reason it has any frequency in non-blacks including Europeans is because they have black African ancestry!!


Nigger, if E-M78 is Negroid in origin, then why is it only found amongst Mediterranean Caucasoids and people of mixed Negroid-Caucasoid ancestry who reside within the Horn of Africa? You do realize that E-M78 is completely absent from the Negroid gene pool of sub-Saharan Africa? If E-M78 is Negroid in origin, shouldn't it reach its highest frequency and greatest diversity amongst the savage primitives of sub-Saharan Africa? However, this is not the case; E-M78 is nowhere to be found amongst the Negroid populations of sub-Saharan Africa, but is everywhere present amongst the Mediterranean Caucasoid and Negroid-Caucasoid populations of Northern Africa, conclusively demonstrating that E-M78 is Caucasoid in origin.

Moreover, according to the research of Cruciani et al. (2007), E-M78 ultimately finds its origins within the Caucasoid gene pool of Egypt and Libya, and not amongst the Negroid-Caucasoid peoples of East Africa. The subhaplogroup E-M78 reaches its highest level of frequency amongst North African Caucasoids, with somewhat lower frequencies found amongst Eastern African Negroid-Caucasoids (0.25 ± 0.03 and 0.22 ± 0.02, respectively). In addition, E-M78 reaches its highest level of diversity amongst the Caucasoids of Northeastern Africa (Egypt, Libya); in other words, all subhaplogroups of E-M78, including E-V12, E-V13, E-V22, E-V32, E-V65, as well as the rare paragroup E-M78*, are found in varying degrees of gene frequency throughout the length and breadth of North Africa; whereas, 80% of all the E-M78 found within the East African gene pool consists of the subhaplogroup E-V32. The paragroup E-M78*, as well as other subhaplogroups such as E-V12, E-V13, and E-V65 are virtually absent from the Negroid-Caucasoid populations of East Africa. And finally, according to a maximum parsimony phylogeny of E-M78, coalescent estimates demonstrate that the Caucasoid-specific E-V12 (15.2 ky) is much older than E-V32 (8.5 ky), which is 80% of the Negroid-Caucasoid gene pool; hence, E-V32 is a recent terminal branch of E-V12.

Cruciani et al. (2007) write:

In conclusion, the peripheral geographic distribution of the most derived subhaplogroups with respect to northeastern Africa [Egypt, Libya, in Table 1], as well as the results of quantitative analysis of UEP and microsatellite diversity are strongly suggestive of a northeastern rather than an eastern African [Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, in Table 1] origin of E-M78. Northeastern Africa thus seems to be the place from where E-M78 chromosomes started to disperse to other African regions and outside Africa.


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So what race would these people be below??
Those people are Australoids and genetically they have nothing in common with African Negroids.

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You dumb lying swine! E1b1b has its highest frequency in East Africa!! It's presence there predates any "Arabs" by tens of thousands of years! The only one spreading silly fantasies is YOU with that rubbish of Arab men and harems of black women being the ancestors of East Africans!!

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By the way, I asked for a concise definition of "caucasoid" and "negroid". Not surprised your dumbass can't comprehend!
I already did, but your primitive chimpanzee-like 'groid brain has difficulty comprehending the English language: Genetically distinct populations characterized by differential statistical variations in terms of relative gene frequencies.


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Why come from outerspace when they're right there in Africa! That IS where Egypt is, dummy!!
They all possesses a red skin and Mediterranean Caucasoid features, exactly the way the ancient Egyptians portrayed themselves in their artwork.

I don't see any big lips, wide noses, kinky hair, or prognathism here.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
That is a great point. It happens all the time on this board. they post a picture of an ancient Egyptian to prove they were black and the art work does not look black at all. If it has extreme caucasian features, as many do, they dismiss them as fake.

the idea of black ancient Egyptians is an idea that was simply DOA.
 
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That is a great point. It happens all the time on this board. they post a picture of an ancient Egyptian to prove they were black and the art work does not look black at all. If it has extreme caucasian features, as many do, they dismiss them as fake.

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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
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Djenuti you stupid chink the Egyptians said they came from the land of punt which is in modern day Turkey!

Kemp - The beautiful thing about ass-holes like you, is that in their ignorance they fall into traps that weren't even set for them. Does "nowhere to go, nowhere to hide" sound familiar to you? Turkey was a poor choice for your ignorant bullsh1t!

{I know that you have no way of knowing this: but Black "civilization proper" in Anatolia (Turkey) predates Egypt and everywhere else!}


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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
That is the point, not a one of those people look black.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
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Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
That is the point, not a one of those people look black.

He he, Okay AP, show me some pictures of White people that look as they do.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Every full liped arab yoo see walking down the street looks like those pictures. On some of that art work blacks would sneak into the museum and break off the caucasian noses on the statues to confuse the issue.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
maybe so, but she hardly looks black. Her red headed mummy even less so.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
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maybe so, but she hardly looks black. Her red headed mummy even less so.

You're a funny guy, Pat, you should really be a comedian.

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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot - I know that all of this scientific stuff must be very confusing for you, knowing of your very limited (non-existent) knowledge in this area. So just to show what a great guy I am, I am going to help you out, by helping you with comparisons.

In the period covered by the artifacts that I posted above, White Greeks had not yet settled in Anatolia. So there is no way to provide side-by-side comparison of how Blacks and Whites are depicted in sculpture.

But that problem is solved by the Achaemenian Empire of Persia (550 B.C.). In the ruins of the Persian palace of Apadana there are many reliefs of Black and White people. Even you should be able to figure this one out!


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White people sure wore some funny headgear - running from the Sun??
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
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Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
maybe so, but she hardly looks black. Her red headed mummy even less so.

AP - you are so stupid, you walk right into it.
Don't you know that Egyptians were Head-Shavers asshole??

Everyone, Men, Women, and Children, shaved their heads and wore WIGS - except some boy princes, who kept a side-lock.

So if that Mummy has RED hair, it can't be a REAL Egyptian Mummy - period!!

BTW - the same goes for that bogus Mummy of Ramses II.

White people sure do like to lie - what's up with that?
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Mike and scientific data? Jesus help us.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
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Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
Mike and scientific data? Jesus help us.

^^Cute, but it DOESN'T REFUTE ANYTHING!!!

See, how it works is that just as I REFUTE your asinine statements with EVIDENCE. You must try to refute my truthful and accurate statements with EVIDENCE - get it??
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot - Just to show you the proper conduct of a real Human being (Black people), as opposed to the Lying, stealing, misinforming nature of White people - must be because you-all were so recently civilized.

I am going to correct myself; above, I said that ALL Egyptians were head-shavers. While that is certainly true for the middle and upper classes without exception.

At the British Museum, I ran across this tomb painting from the Tomb of Nebamun. Notice the old White guy (He he) - on the left. (The other field hands are properly attired in WIGS).

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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
evidence? you put of pictures of near eastern egyptians and try to convince us they are black africans?
 
Posted by JayDot_Ptah (Member # 16569) on :
 
Forgive me for this but....


This cracker American Patriot is merely being incendiary w/ no merit to his baseless dissent.

Stupid cracker knows good and goddamn well that those pics display what we would ALL refer to as BLACK people.

Those other stupid, coward-assed honkies Dirtbag8 and Kemp are of the same ilk. F*ck these dumb devils and all who fratenize w/ such losers.

Good day now...
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
ooooh, Ptah is really steamsed. "Cracker" "dumb devils" Guess he told us huh.
 
Posted by JayDot_Ptah (Member # 16569) on :
 
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Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
ooooh, Ptah is really steamsed. "Cracker" "dumb devils" Guess he told us huh.

I don't get steamed, cracka:D

It's just that I can no longer sit by and allow you peckerwoods to spew idiocy w/ no verbal recourse - with your teenaged mentality. LOL.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
"idiocy" we have him on a roll now. I cannot wait to see what he comes up with next.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
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Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
evidence? you put of pictures of near eastern egyptians and try to convince us they are black africans?

AP, I know that you are having fun, and so am I: but lets try to keep it a little-bit-real, Near Eastern Egyptians???

Come-on asshole, you know Kemp will start spewing that Egypt is really in the Near East and not in Africa now.

And before you know it, all the White assholes will believe it, and soon their asswipe Negroes will pickup on it and start spreading it. On and on - so since the world already has enough assholes, why not leave that particular piece of stupidity alone.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

So from what you say, All the tons of pics Sudaniya posted are actually Arabs?

You really think this?

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Are you really that deep in selfhate?

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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
King - AP is a White guy; it wouldn't be self-hate, it is Black hate, brought about by Black envy. When you try to steal what another man has, it must be because you envy what he has.

But no matter, if he goes to Asia, all he will get is more of the same - Black People. More hate, more envy.


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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
yes we sneak around and steal from helpless black people Mike. i envy all the rich black people who live in my neighborhood. We never see any but we know they must be there.....somewhere.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

Stop being a Clown and Answer the Questions.

Are these Egyptians:

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Arabs and not African?

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
yeah King, but nothing about them looks black.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

Bahahahahahhahahhahah

Now I know your not being serious. Only a Blind man would say those pics are not of Africans.

Please tell us what about these pics I posted make them non African?

What does a African Look like?

You have painted yourself in a corner like that Kemp guy and have labeled clearly African people as being Non African.

REally who do you think your fooling? I know that you are not that Stupid, so I can only think you are trying to get a rise out of people(Won't work with me).

Open your eyes like this African:

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Now I will make it easier for you. This "ONE" pic, please show us how it's non African.

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Typical Cowardly Racist.

Makes a Dumb statement then refuses to defend his position.

Patriot you made comments that you need to clarify. Why have you ran with your tail between your legs "Professor"(NOT). You have shown the readers why the eurocentrics are fighting a losing war. Only they can see a African, and claim that it's a "Arab".

Peace
 
Posted by Serpent Wizdom (Member # 7652) on :
 
[/QUOTE]Of course I'm sure over time a substantial part of the Egyptian population may have became black. Especially over a 3,000 year period. Much like the west today is becoming more mixed . [/QB][/QUOTE]

did you actually think before you wrote this? from my understanding, the egypt of today has a very large proportion of white skinned and white skinned arabic people living there. so how did egypt "become" black(?) after being whatever you wish they were 3,000 years ago? [Confused]

sometimes i think we have posters confined in mental hospitals postin here.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Hawass has already noted that the same people living in Egypt today lived there in ancient times, "north african caucasians." King, the statue you posted was clearly a north african caucasian.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
I think the White boys have been thoroughly beaten-down and are now playing "pull the Tigers tail" for fun. Time for a new thread.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

If you really think that This Pic:


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Shows a picture of a Caucasian, Then there is really no help for you and I will be forced to ignore you like I ignore Dirk.

You really are an embarassment [Frown]

Seek Help, You Really need it.

Peace
 
Posted by Serpent Wizdom (Member # 7652) on :
 
kudos my friends of egyptsearch. you have done an outstanding job with the information both in written and pictoral form! now i have great reference material for the future...

i have learned that these people trying to debate you (if that is what you can call it) ALREADY KNOW ancient kemit was populated by Black African peoples and related to the Sudanese of the South.

their here to heckle us but it is great for your learning audiences, like myself. djehuti, you take the cake, love you and all the others who have been on the frontlines...

peace..
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Hawass has told you guys over and over that AE's were north african caucasians.
 
Posted by argyle104 (Member # 14634) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot wrote:
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but she hardly looks black
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Folks this says it all. According to this fool's logic Gail Deavers is also not black since she looks like Queen Tiye's immediate relative.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
argyle, we have the mummy. She is a light complected red head. Hawass tries to educate you guys but you simply refuse to learn.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
What is thought to be Tiye's mummy. Looks nothing black African about it.

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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
Queen Tiye's father and mother. Both have fine European-like hair and features. Nothing typically black African about them.

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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
have fine European-like hair and features

I hope you mean Fine as small.


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As I have said many times in many places - Egyptians were HEAD SHAVERS!!!

ANY MUMMY WITH HAIR IS A FAKE!!!
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
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Originally posted by KING:
TheAmericanPatriot

If you really think that This Pic:


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Shows a picture of a Caucasian, Then there is really no help for you and I will be forced to ignore you like I ignore Dirk.

You really are an embarassment [Frown]

Seek Help, You Really need it.

Peace

And I suppose you think this looks black African?

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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
How about this one? Known as the architect of the Great Pyramid.

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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:
have fine European-like hair and features

I hope you mean Fine as small.

You are living in a fantasy world if you think there were no European-like people in Egypt. How do you think Egypt became known as a civilization?
[Roll Eyes]
 
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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
simple girl - you are just Tooo simple. But I give you credit for being able to find just about EVERY bogus artifact there is.

BTW - The Ancient Egypt Site - is NOT considered a source of authentic material; and neither is Wiki - you might just as well get you material from Stormfront.

Now please do us all a favor, try LEARNING something ABOUT EGYPT, before attempting to tell us about Egypt.
 
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Hold on folks, we have another WACKO White female on board.
 
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These are some of the people that built Egypt. Plenty of European-like people in the Old Kingdom to go around Egypt.

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Another picture of Queen Tiye's mummy.

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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Simple girl - It's not nice to spam the board like that. But I'm sure that you are really a very nice girl - just a bit disturbed. So I am going to explain everything to you step-by-step.


First, this is Assyrian King Ashurbanipal (about 668 B.C.)
Now as you can see, he is a Black man. But many White people like yourself - disturbed. Don't like to know that the ancient civilizations were all Black people.

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Here is another Assyrian King - Sargon II

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So other White people, like the Staffordshire firm of W.T. Copeland & Sons in England, make fake, White looking statues - like below - for them to look at, and think, aren't White people great. Which of course they are - Great Liars!

They even give him a phony name "Sardanapalus", which other White people have often identified with the Assyrian king Aššurbanipal - that is why I used a photo of Aššurbanipal.



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Here is the page at the British Museum that will explain it further.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/t/two_assyrian-style_figures.aspx


So Simple girl, now that everything has been explained to you, don't you just feel so much better??

 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

Since you are really simple, I will make this short and sweet. These Africans, Would you consider them Black if you had there Mummy?

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Look at this African mans Face. If he was mummified, would you think he was Black?
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Look at this unmixed Africans Hair. If she was mummified, would you think she was Black?
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Also Read this about Europeans:

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEETING:
European Skin Turned Pale Only Recently, Gene Suggests
Ann Gibbons
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA--At the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting, held here from 28 to 31 March, a new report on the evolution of a gene for skin color suggested that Europeans acquired pale skin quite recently, perhaps only 6000 to 12,000 years ago.

Now knowing that White skin is only 6000+ years old. What do you make of those picks of east Africans with fine Features again?

I tried to keep it simple because I know FACTS are not something you are really interested in.

Peace
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Also Read this about Europeans:

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEETING:
European Skin Turned Pale Only Recently, Gene Suggests
Ann Gibbons
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA--At the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting, held here from 28 to 31 March, a new report on the evolution of a gene for skin color suggested that Europeans acquired pale skin quite recently, perhaps only 6000 to 12,000 years ago.

Now knowing that White skin is only 6000+ years old. What do you make of those picks of east Africans with fine Features again?

I tried to keep it simple because I know FACTS are not something you are really interested in.

Peace [/QB]

Sounds like they turned white before or just about in time for the dawning of civilization. [Wink]
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
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And what may I ask makes you think she or any of the rest of them are unmixed? Looks to me like she could very well be mixed.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

You crack me up. Europeans played no role in Ancient Kemet or Ancient Nubia. These Civilizations were African made and Produced. Africans from South Sudan, East Africa, and the Sahara came together to create Egypt.

I hope you realize that Eye Balling a statue will not get you anywhere because Africans are the most diverse people on Earth(As you can see from the Pics of the Africans I chose)

Moving on Can you refute these Facts Girl [Razz] :

Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture

Christopher Ehret
Professor of History, African Studies Chair
University of California at Los Angeles

Ancient Egyptian civilization was, in ways and to an extent usually not recognized, fundamentally African. The evidence of both language and culture reveals these African roots.

The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt.


Sir Alan Gardiner:
These were long-headed-dolicocephalic is the learned term-and below even medium stature, but Negroid features are often to be observed. Whatever may be said of the northerners, it is safe to describe the dwellers in Upper Egypt as of essentially African stock , a character always retained despite alien influences brought to bear on them from time to time." (pg. 392; Egypt of the Pharaohs 1966)


X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980).

Courtesy of James Harris and Edward Wente:

In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults.


The people who bear the greatest resemblence to the ancient Egyptians, at present, are the Nubians; and next are the Abyssinians;
page 530

Edward Lane
Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians

The period when sub-Saharan Africa was most influential in Egypt was a time when neither Egypt, as we understand it culturally, nor the Sahara, as we understand it geographically, existed. Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472

Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and
immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues

A-M Mekota1, M Vermehren2

Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13

"Materials and methods
In 1997, the German Institute for Archaeology headed an excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. At this time, three types of tissues were sampled from different mummies: meniscus (fibrocartilage), skin, and placenta. Archaeological findings suggest that the mummies dated from the New Kingdom (approximately
1550_/1080 BC)..... The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."

"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

The nature of the body plan was also investigated by comparing the intermembral, brachial, and crural indices for these samples with values obtained from the literature. No significant differences were found in either index through time for either sex. The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-Negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983). Sonia Zakrzewski (2003)

"On the Origin of the Egyptians. Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North." Mary Lefkowitz

This is just the tip of the IceBerg in Facts linking Egypt to other parts of Africa.

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

Allright Simple I will play your game. What is she mixed with? Where I got the pic from states these people as unmixed Africans, Can you post what these Africans are mixed with?

It's obvious to any laymen that your Eyeball witness has been refuted, so now you run and try and claim Africans with Wavy hair are Mixed when they have these features longer then Europeans were White.

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

Is this man also "Mixed":

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When Are you going to learn that Africans don't have to be "Mixed" to have said Features. When you realize that Africans are the most Diverse people on Earth, and all Ethnicites are derived from a small Sub set of Africans, only then can you move on to the path of Education.

Peace
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Simple Girl

Allright Simple I will play your game. What is she mixed with? Where I got the pic from states these people as unmixed Africans, Can you post what these Africans are mixed with?

It's obvious to any laymen that your Eyeball witness has been refuted, so now you run and try and claim Africans with Wavy hair are Mixed when they have these features longer then Europeans were White.

Peace

You're really quite amusing. I mean trying as hard as you do to relieve yourself of all that pent up guilt. Lying to yourself and everyone else just to be on the safe side so no one will accuse you of being a racist.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
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Simple Girl

Is this man also "Mixed":

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Peace

You tell me. Is he mixed? Whatever your answer, can you give me proof either way?
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

Amusing, Is you failing to refute "ANY" of my Posts and Instead resorting to attacking the poster instead of the Post. Maybe you thought you could of got me to attack you back, and then derail the thread. I don't play that. [Confused]

Nice try though;)

Peace
 
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Simple Girl

Tutsi live in Central Africa. Read This Simple:

Jean Hiernaux "The People of Africa" 1975

p.53, 54

"In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the "whole world range" is covered in the sub-continent.

Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the "average nose widths" covers "92 percent" of the world range:

"only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record." Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage....."

Maybe you may learn something.

Peace
 
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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Simple Girl

Tutsi live in Central Africa. Read This Simple:

Jean Hiernaux "The People of Africa" 1975

p.53, 54

"In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the "whole world range" is covered in the sub-continent.

Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the "average nose widths" covers "92 percent" of the world range:

"only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record." Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage....."

Maybe you may learn something.

Peace

Maybe you can show quite a few with naturally straight red or blond hair and blue eyes? How about some with green eyes and naturally auburn hair?
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

I take it that your just going to spam away....

So I will leave you with this.....

Open your eyes to the truth. Selective spamming of Statues will never trump Facts.

Peace
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
How about some with strawberry blonde hair and grey eyes?
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
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The above picture does NOT discountennace the phenotype in north-east Africa; we have people who look like this all over Sudan, southern Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti.
 
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Those Puntites look exactly like the ancient Egyptians; Punt was somewhere in the horn, Somalia most likely.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Simple girl - What's the matter with you? I told you several times that "REAL" Egyptians were Head Shavers, therefore ANY Mummy with hair on the head was a FAKE!!

Yet you kept posting pictures of Mummy's with a full head of hair. If you didn't believe me - though you really should have known this before you came here - all you had to do was Google it - it's not something that only I know.


Just to help you along, here is an excerpt from the rather bullsh1t website of Minnesota State University. (Typical White people - they try to bullsh1t about Egyptian hairstyles until the middle of the page when they finally admit the following - see below. Damn White people sure are Fuched-up).


Quote: In ancient Egypt, men and women used to shave their heads bald replacing their natural hair with wigs. Egyptian women did not walk around showing their bald heads, they always wore the wigs. Head shaving had a number of benefits. First, removing their hair made it much more comfortable in the hot Egyptian climate. Second, it was easy to maintain a high degree of cleanliness avoiding danger of lice infestation. In addition, people wore wigs when their natural hair was gone due to old age. However, even though the Egyptians shaved their heads, they did not think the bald look was preferable to having hair.

Priests were required to keep their entire bodies cleanly shaved. They shaved every third day because they needed to avoid the danger of lice or any other uncleanness to conduct rituals. This is the reason why priests are illustrated bald-headed with no eyebrows or lashes.


Egyptian Limestone Ostracon (Stone Flake with a Head-Shaving Scene)

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But I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume that you are not really all that dense. So is the problem one of "Semantics"?

Since 332 B.C. when Alexander the great entered Egypt, it has been ruled by White people. First by the Ptolemy Greeks - until about 50 B.C. (282 years).

Then by the Romans 50 B.C. to 639 A.D. (689 years)

Then by the Turks 639 A.D. to 2009 (1370 years)


So, are you confusing the artifacts of these White people with "REAL - BLACK - CIVILIZATION BUILDING - EGYPTIANS"???


BTW - Here is a Google search link for the head shaving thing - I don't want you to have to work too hard.


http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=egyptian+head+shaving&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=egyptian+head+shaving&aqi=&fp=KxYPMM6r3XA
 
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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
King, "selective spamming of statues" please.
You guys have been doing that for years on this board and the funny thing is the vast majority of the statues these guys use to back up their silly notion of black egyptians do not even look like black people.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
AP - give it a break, don't you think that it's time we approached these things from a more scholarly direction. If there is a particular statue that you are interested in, the ancestors of that individual can often be traced - as well as the provenance of the statue itself. There is no reason for the mindless nonsense that has been going on on this board.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
When I ask for histographic reports Mike people get upset. I am simply joining in with the rest of you. You cannot have it both ways.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
If we only use artifacts from the BM, Louvre, Met. or some other such source, then the provenance and particulars are part of the fact sheet. That might be the way to go.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Good scholarship from top art historians is also a good thing.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^I'll go for that.

And I will start things off. There was some questions about the wife of Amenhotep III, queen Tiy or Tiye. So lets begin there.

Time period about 1349 B.C.

Background - There is no documented evidence of Whites entering Africa until the Dorian Greek (White Greeks) invasion of Cyrene, Libya in about 570 B.C. This was during the reign of king Wahibre.

Tiy was not of royal blood, she was the daughter of Yuya and his wife Tuya who also owned vast holdings in the Delta. Yuya was a powerful military leader. Their tomb numbered KV46 in the Valley of the Kings is well known.

Amenhotep IIIs and Tiys probable oldest son was Tuthmosis, who was a semi-priest, but died early, leaving the future heretic king, Amenhotep IV, otherwise known as Akhenaten, as the crown prince.


Tiys Husband.

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Head of Queen Tiye from Medinet el-Gurob (Part of the Ägyptisches Museum collection in Berlin)
The head was changed in antiquity. The double plumes were addded later, and may reflect a change in status of the Queen;

{Mike111 comment - We are all very well aware, that White people are very fond of changing the noses of ancient Blacks - such as on this bust. Therefore many images of Queen Tiy are included for comparison.}

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Fragmentary funerary mask of Queen Tiye Part of the Ägyptisches Museum collection in Berlin.

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Statue of Queen Tiye from the Louvre N 2312, E 25493
A green steatite statue of Queen Tiye. Originally part of a group sttaue, but only the Queen's figure was preserved. The arm of (presumably) the King is visible to her right.


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Queen Tiye from the tomb of Userhat (Brussels)


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Tiys Son.

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Tiys Granddaughter.


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AP - If you can find evidence of White, in this Black family, please point it out and back it up.
 
Posted by astenb (Member # 14524) on :
 
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Originally posted by Kemp:
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LMAO YOU are the dumb one, and a liar at that! You have not demolished a single thread of evidence I provided and the only "large body" you provided is B.S.!
Nigger, every single piece of evidence you presented in this thread is either a gross distortion of reality, an outright lie, or a complete and total misrepresentation of the available facts at hand. The only sources you ever cited were from niggercentric websites, which have absolutely no scientific credibility whatsoever; in contrast, I only quoted from scholarly, peer-reviewed literature on the subject. And unfortunately for you, the sum totality of the evidence cited so far demonstrates conclusively that the Egyptian people, both ancient and modern, are members of the Mediterranean Caucasoid sub-race.

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I'm not even black, but even if I was, as if anything written from a mentally degenerate low-intellect white bastard can insult me!!
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Will you stop chimping out, you small-brained 'groid primate. After all, this isn't a Kentucky Fried Chicken joint. If anything, you should be thankful that my people have provided an advanced technological civilization that allows you to gorge on your fried chicken and watermelon in peace.
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Wrong again, MORON! E1b1b has its highest frequency as well as diversity within Africa, where it originated!!


^ Notice the frequency of E-M78 alone! And notice how the darkest spots are concentrated in Sudan and in the Horn! Sorry but the only reason it has any frequency in non-blacks including Europeans is because they have black African ancestry!!


Nigger, if E-M78 is Negroid in origin, then why is it only found amongst Mediterranean Caucasoids and people of mixed Negroid-Caucasoid ancestry who reside within the Horn of Africa? You do realize that E-M78 is completely absent from the Negroid gene pool of sub-Saharan Africa? If E-M78 is Negroid in origin, shouldn't it reach its highest frequency and greatest diversity amongst the savage primitives of sub-Saharan Africa? However, this is not the case; E-M78 is nowhere to be found amongst the Negroid populations of sub-Saharan Africa, but is everywhere present amongst the Mediterranean Caucasoid and Negroid-Caucasoid populations of Northern Africa, conclusively demonstrating that E-M78 is Caucasoid in origin.

Moreover, according to the research of Cruciani et al. (2007), E-M78 ultimately finds its origins within the Caucasoid gene pool of Egypt and Libya, and not amongst the Negroid-Caucasoid peoples of East Africa. The subhaplogroup E-M78 reaches its highest level of frequency amongst North African Caucasoids, with somewhat lower frequencies found amongst Eastern African Negroid-Caucasoids (0.25 ± 0.03 and 0.22 ± 0.02, respectively). In addition, E-M78 reaches its highest level of diversity amongst the Caucasoids of Northeastern Africa (Egypt, Libya); in other words, all subhaplogroups of E-M78, including E-V12, E-V13, E-V22, E-V32, E-V65, as well as the rare paragroup E-M78*, are found in varying degrees of gene frequency throughout the length and breadth of North Africa; whereas, 80% of all the E-M78 found within the East African gene pool consists of the subhaplogroup E-V32. The paragroup E-M78*, as well as other subhaplogroups such as E-V12, E-V13, and E-V65 are virtually absent from the Negroid-Caucasoid populations of East Africa. And finally, according to a maximum parsimony phylogeny of E-M78, coalescent estimates demonstrate that the Caucasoid-specific E-V12 (15.2 ky) is much older than E-V32 (8.5 ky), which is 80% of the Negroid-Caucasoid gene pool; hence, E-V32 is a recent terminal branch of E-V12.

Cruciani et al. (2007) write:

In conclusion, the peripheral geographic distribution of the most derived subhaplogroups with respect to northeastern Africa [Egypt, Libya, in Table 1], as well as the results of quantitative analysis of UEP and microsatellite diversity are strongly suggestive of a northeastern rather than an eastern African [Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, in Table 1] origin of E-M78. Northeastern Africa thus seems to be the place from where E-M78 chromosomes started to disperse to other African regions and outside Africa.


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So what race would these people be below??
Those people are Australoids and genetically they have nothing in common with African Negroids.

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You dumb lying swine! E1b1b has its highest frequency in East Africa!! It's presence there predates any "Arabs" by tens of thousands of years! The only one spreading silly fantasies is YOU with that rubbish of Arab men and harems of black women being the ancestors of East Africans!!

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By the way, I asked for a concise definition of "caucasoid" and "negroid". Not surprised your dumbass can't comprehend!
I already did, but your primitive chimpanzee-like 'groid brain has difficulty comprehending the English language: Genetically distinct populations characterized by differential statistical variations in terms of relative gene frequencies.


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Why come from outerspace when they're right there in Africa! That IS where Egypt is, dummy!!
They all possesses a red skin and Mediterranean Caucasoid features, exactly the way the ancient Egyptians portrayed themselves in their artwork.

I don't see any big lips, wide noses, kinky hair, or prognathism here.

How did M78* get into North East Africa?

Apparently you DO recognize the fact that M78 V32 is only a subset of V12 that migrated back to the Horn of Africa. Good observation.

Since that is the case why cant you get it through your thick skull that M78* :
- is ONLY a SUB mutation of Sub Saharan E-M35.
- And E-M35 is only a SUB mutation of Sub Saharan E-M215
- And E-M215, only a Subclade of P2, and E-M215 has 2 brother subclades E-M2 and E-M329.
-P2?, oh yeah it has a sub Saharan brother mutation E-M75.

Listen up asswipe. Everytime you open your mouth and speak about genetics and Egypt your are only speaking of an African reality you are just too dim to see: Sub Saharan Migrants to Egypt carrying M35* You are not talking about Mediterranian genes, You are not talking about Middle Eastern Genes. Your are not talking about Genetic markers from Turkey or Mars........These are AFRICAN GENES, you DO realize that right?

Why are your pointing at African genetic markers and diversity to show how un-African Egyptians are? The "Mediterranean" is a Sea. Humans dont live in the sea we live on land(I dont know where you live). Those 'Mediterranean Caucasoids' are just some more brown skin Africans with African genes.
The Levant versus the Horn of Africa: Evidence for Bidirectional Corridors of Human Migrations


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Nearly all of the Y chromosomes in the sub-Saharan collections belong to groups A, B, and E. Furthermore, the vast majority of these individuals (92.2%) are members of group E , the only group observed in all nine populations
The AFRICAN reality of Haplogroup E

quote:
In Egypt, the order of the polymorphic groups is slightly different: E (39.5%) , J (32.0%), G (8.8%), K2 (8.2%), and R (7.5%)
Modern Egyptians STILL have a primary African Background.


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Egyptian M35 lineages are considerably larger than those of Oman.
Because EGYPT was settled primarily by Africans and Oman was not.


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A more recent dispersal out of Africa , represented by the E3b-M35 chromosomes, expanded northward during the Mesolithic (Underhill et al. 2001b). The East African origin of this lineage is supported by the much larger variance of the E3b-M35 males in Egypt versus Oman (0.5 versus 0.14; table 3).
From the Study: M35* expanded northward INTO Egypt. M78 is ONLY a Sub-Clade of M35*. It expanded from where? Sub Saharan East Africa, its point of origin, see above!

quote:
"M35 chromosomes are seen in the Oman, North African, and East African populations, as well as in the South African Khoisans (Underhill et al. 2000; Cruciani et al. 2002; present study)
Are Khoisan and other groups in South Eastern Africa "Meditcauks" because they too are E-M35+?

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In contrast, the E3b*-M35 lineages appear to be confined almost exclusively to the sub-Saharan populations , except for a very low incidence in Egypt (2.7%) and a somewhat larger frequency in Ethiopia.
More "Medit-cauks" in Sub Saharan Africa? LOL-GTFO

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The present-day Egyptian E3b-M35 distribution most likely results from a juxtaposition of various demic episodes. Since the E3b*-M35 lineages appear to be confined mostly to the sub-Saharan populations, it is conceivable that the initial migrations toward North Africa from the south primarily involved derivative E3b-M35 lineages . These include E3b1-M78, a haplogroup especially common in Ethiopia."
"Initial Migrations" means the first people there, FURTHERMORE - We don't have to "Conceive", M78* MUST come from M35* Anything else is like a chicken being produced with no egg.
But as you pointed out M78 has an origin in Egypt. That is still the African reality for you, Whether it be M78 individuals from East Africa or M35* individuals from East Africa, You still have Sub Saharans "Represented by the E3b-M35 chromosomes" which "Expanded northward during the Mesolithic" populating Egypt. The only way you can get around such African reality is to attempt to white wash East Africans. Or attempt to White wash Africans Genetic Markers. Or to attempt to call Haplogroup E "Asian" but we know how that ends:

Paul Atreides: They tried and failed?
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: They tried and died.
-Dune.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
astenb

Don't waste your time trying to educate a racist like Kemp. He really believes that AE were Nords.

There is a reason why no one takes his posts seriously because it has already been refuted.

Let the lowlife think that people ignoring him is a victory for racists. I am close to ignoring Patriot like others ignore Kemp.

Good post though.

Peace
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Simple girl, and she is a simple girl; posted this picture above, as an example of Caucasian Egyptians. As I have said many times - White people LIE - there are probably just as many fake artifacts as there are "REAL" ones out there, including in Museums. Please note the fact sheet for this obvious fake.


Quote from the Louvre fact sheet!!

The Seated Scribe
Almost everyone has seen this image of the Seated Scribe. Located on the upper floor of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, this is the most famous of unknown figures.

We know nothing about the person portrayed: neither his name, nor title, nor even the exact period during which he lived. Nevertheless, this statue never fails to impress visitors discovering it for the first time. {Can anyone guess why that might be??}. Whitie sure likes to see Whitie take the place of Blacks, if it requires a "little-White-Lie", (in this case - a Big-White-Lie) so what.


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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
The Seated Scribe
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, c. 2620-2500 B.C.

Just so the slow people like AP understand. White people are claiming that this pristine and un-repaired statue is 4,500 years old!!

That must mean that White people statues are protected by God or something, because everyone else's statues of that age, are a mess and require extensive repair.

He he, just kidding, sometimes I just like to have some fun with White lies and bullsh1t.

 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
More explanation for the slow ones.

This is what the "REAL" statues (made of the same material) of the "REAL" Black people of Egypt, looked like after 4,500 years.


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Here is what a "REAL" Egyptian of the time looked like. (The bust is made of stone, but it is till damaged). And of course, White people broke off the Black nose.


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Like I keep saying - WHITE PEOPLE LIE - a lot!!!

 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
White prople do not claim anything Mike. they do not even think of these issues, that is something you guys are preoccupied with. That is why negroids knocked the caucasian nose off of Djedefre's face so they could claim he was black. Newsflash, nobody cares about these issues but you guys.
 
Posted by JayDot_Ptah (Member # 16569) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
White prople do not claim anything Mike. they do not even think of these issues, that is something you guys are preoccupied with. That is why negroids knocked the caucasian nose off of Djedefre's face so they could claim he was black. Newsflash, nobody cares about these issues but you guys.

[Roll Eyes] Whatever...

Stop lying, cracker. If you weren't thinking of "these issues", you wouldn't deluge this forum w/ assinine posts.

Please understand that it is not Black people that are fixated on the pigmentation of OUR ancestors. It is you dissenting devils who make it a salient issue.

Good day now...
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
White people do not even like each other very much, much less feel concern for anyone else. They are not fixated on your pigmentation. Deep down even the most liberal white person sincerely believes you are inferior. If more than a token number of you move into a neighborhood everyone starts moving.

That is the real world.
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
All studies show that the modern Egyptians are the same as the ancients were. The modern ones even have more black DNA than the ancients had. All mummies also show Caucasian maternal ancestry. They actually appear to have more Eurasian mtDNA than the modern ones. Modern Egyptians also show much more African (not black) Y chromosome than some black African tribes. You claim the modern ones are Arabs, which is genetically impossible. Only 1/10 of all the art/mummies shows a black/dark person, which is more or less correct.

There were a few dynasties when the black ruled over Egypt, somewhere between the 16th and 20th, and later the 25th. Albeit, there were always more or less some blacks in ancient Upper Egypt.

The predynastic people from Lower Egypt were not black. Only the Upper Egyptian predynastic skulls are negroid and don't look nothing like dynastic skulls from Upper Egypt or predyanstic skulls from Lower Egypt.

The original Ancient Egyptians weren't black, they weren't white either. Eurocentrists and Afrocentrists should stop being silly.
 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
Finally speaking some truth! But I heard on the news recently(in fact I see it first hand in the outskirts of Philly) that the fasting growing group of Americans are "bi-racial", ie "mixed race". Very perplexing. Racist country but their women are fccking other men.
Looks like the Butler and the Rican(KIK) will have a lot of company.

Enjoyed a few back in the day. Very nice!!! like all women.

Looks like re-colonization of Southern Europe all over again.. . .but . . .reversed.


quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
. . . Deep down even the most liberal white person sincerely believes you are inferior. If more than a token number of you move into a neighborhood everyone starts moving. .. . . .

That is the real world.


 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Belphegor - We just had some ignorant Turks who didn't know their history, go through here a few weeks ago. What say we all save some time by you reading the old posts.

BTW - You DO know that you are a Turk, don't you?

 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
dp.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
they do not like each other all that much xyyyman.
mixed race stats grow fast because they started at such a small number. Much of that is white guys marrying pretty mexican girls in the southwest.
 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
double post
 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
Out here it is black men hooking up with mostly big fat white women. Don't get it though. Why the fat ones.

The Africans(not as many AA) are really into it.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Yeah, many black guys will pass up a totally beautiful black woman and hook up with the ugliest fat white woman they can find.
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:
Belphegor - We just had some ignorant Turks who didn't know their history, go through here a few weeks ago. What say we all save some time by you reading the old posts.

BTW - You DO know that you are a Turk, don't you?

Actually, I'm a white European, and everything I said is backed up with studies and actual findings. The only possible way the modern Egyptians are Arabs is whether the ancient Arabic invaders were all female warriors, since there is not more than 10% of Arabic male ancestry in modern Egyptians today.

So, were all the Arab invaders female?
 
Posted by Whatbox (Member # 10819) on :
 
 - Of all the AE in pics posted by "Simple Girl" the dude on the right is the only ancient sculpture i could look at and register "white dude" / "white guy" and that's controversial, especially considering how many East Africans look like him.

She'll probably sees white people in any sculpture one posts..

Anyway scroll left.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Belphegor - just remember that I tried to give you a dignified way out. Now if you will please provide links to the studies that you speak of, I will commence the ass-kicking.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Man After all the FACTS I gave Simple girl, she continues to believe a lie. Even going so far as saying she believes the same things as Kemp.

Just shows what kind of sad, low selfesteem people we have on these forums.

Only a Sad shameless person would continue to think that Europeans were a part of Ancient Egypt when Europeans as we know them, were not the same as modern Euros.

I gave simple a study done by White scientist that showed Europeans only became pale 6000+ years ago, yet she still tries to cling to a lie.

How pathetic does your life have to be to claim a African Civilization as Part of some Euro fantasy. Oh well you can't help everyone. [Frown]

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
You do not offer facts King. That a white scientist offered a theory does not make that a FACT written in stone. Did you even BOTHER to check to see if anyone had other views???

the problem on the forum is Y O U.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Blephegor,you don't know how the so-called Northern Kemites really look like.you have to go by more than just skulls,compare their entire body to population closest to them would make more sense.There is such a thing called tropical body plans,that was designed for folks who evolved in a tropical envirionment.Think of some folks that lived in the horn of Africa,and as you said folks of a different skull shape resides in southern Kemet,but guess what? it was in the South of Kemet that the majority population lived.Outsiders did roll in from time to time but the population remaind stable and majority African for most of it's history.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Branda, You have no data to support that. How man "rolled in" when did they "roll in" etc North Africans are caucasians. Dr Hawass has been trying to educate you guys on that fact for decades. It seems that everyone knows that but you. You cannot use Sudanese who migrated up the river over the centuries and try to pass them off as Egyptians.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Man After all the FACTS I gave Simple girl, she continues to believe a lie. Even going so far as saying she believes the same things as Kemp.

Just shows what kind of sad, low selfesteem people we have on these forums.

Only a Sad shameless person would continue to think that Europeans were a part of Ancient Egypt when Europeans as we know them, were not the same as modern Euros.

I gave simple a study done by White scientist that showed Europeans only became pale 6000+ years ago, yet she still tries to cling to a lie.

How pathetic does your life have to be to claim a African Civilization as Part of some Euro fantasy. Oh well you can't help everyone. [Frown]

Peace

It is you that continues to believe a lie. I never said they were European people, only European-like in appearance. They were more than likely from a Sumerian origin originally. You continue on with your biasness and predjudice even when confronted with the obvious. You're right when you say that you can't help some people. One of those persons seems to be yourself.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
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Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

Don't post "ANY" message directed towards me until you prove that this statue:

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Is a pic of A Caucasoid and not an African.

You think a fool like Hawass trumps real scientists just shows what kind of a Hack "professor" you really are.
Hawass even has other Egyptians like Ahmed Saleh against his stupid ignorance to the African nature of Egypt

You better keep your posts directed at someone else until you step to the plate and discribe to the forum how that Pic shows a Caucasian and not an African.

No peace for you.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
An actual plaster mold of a real persons face from the 6th Dynasty of Egypt. Doesn't look a bit black African to me.

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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
well King, Hawass is smarter than you, we know that much. You keep posting pictures of north african caucasians and try to pass them off as negroid and do not put in a single word from an art historian about the work.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

I know your a simple person but this is just crazy. I gave you studies on Ancient Egyptians and you have posted statues. What is anyone suppose to take from that. How does Statues of Africans trump Studies done on Ancient Egyptians:

Read these study and tell me what you get from it:

X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980).

Courtesy of James Harris and Edward Wente:

In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults.


Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and
immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues

A-M Mekota1, M Vermehren2

Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13

"Materials and methods
In 1997, the German Institute for Archaeology headed an excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. At this time, three types of tissues were sampled from different mummies: meniscus (fibrocartilage), skin, and placenta. Archaeological findings suggest that the mummies dated from the New Kingdom (approximately
1550_/1080 BC)..... The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."


The nature of the body plan was also investigated by comparing the intermembral, brachial, and crural indices for these samples with values obtained from the literature. No significant differences were found in either index through time for either sex. The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-Negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983). Sonia Zakrzewski (2003)

"On the Origin of the Egyptians. Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North." Mary Lefkowitz

Now Simple what do you have to counter these studies? All you are going by is your foolish Eyeball witness and you have no facts on your side. Learn to read, Like I said this is just the tip of the facts I can post proving that Egypt was African.

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

And what does a Black African look like?

You have "NO" FACTS on your side and yet you keep posting statues as if that trumps scholarship.

So please tell the forum what a Black African Looks like.

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Rahotep and Norfret are PERFECT examples of realistic art and show what ancient Egyptians looked like. he is believed to be either the son of Huni or snefru.

King, You are being dishonest again. Lefkowitz later retracted that view.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

You as the Jamaicans say is a "TRUE FOSSY". You keep claiming that pic shows a caucasoid and you have not told anyone how this is a pic of a Caucasoid and not an African.

What makes that pic a Caucasoid? Just answer the question. Stop stalling and be a "Bwoy" can't call you a man because a man would of already told us why this is a pic of a Caucasoid.

As for Hawass, His own collegues think he is a Hack, thats why they call him out on his ignorant senseless rants.

No Peace for You
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Simple Girl

I know your a simple person but this is just crazy. I gave you studies on Ancient Egyptians and you have posted statues. What is anyone suppose to take from that. How does Statues of Africans trump Studies done on Ancient Egyptians:

Read these study and tell me what you get from it:

X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980).

Courtesy of James Harris and Edward Wente:

In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults.

Pretty late in Egyptian history wouldn't you say?


Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and
immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues

A-M Mekota1, M Vermehren2

Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13

"Materials and methods
In 1997, the German Institute for Archaeology headed an excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. At this time, three types of tissues were sampled from different mummies: meniscus (fibrocartilage), skin, and placenta. Archaeological findings suggest that the mummies dated from the New Kingdom (approximately
1550_/1080 BC)..... The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."

Also fairly late in Egytian history. Nonetheless, can you give me the specific mummies in which these tests were performed? I'll be waiting.

The nature of the body plan was also investigated by comparing the intermembral, brachial, and crural indices for these samples with values obtained from the literature. No significant differences were found in either index through time for either sex. The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-Negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983). Sonia Zakrzewski (2003)

"On the Origin of the Egyptians. Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North." Mary Lefkowitz


This is her way of bowing out without being deemed as bias. She acknowledges that all of mankind came from Africa. Is this supposed to prove a point?



 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

Of all the statues that you could of picked, what a surprise you pick the one that is deemed as a Fraud just like the Nefertiti Bust.

You have got to be the most clueless racist on this forum. Your the only person foolish enough to claim this statue:

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As Caucasoid. Explain to the forum how it is a pic of an Caucasoid and not an African.

No peace for you
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
TheAmericanPatriot

Of all the statues that you could of picked, what a surprise you pick the one that is deemed as a Fraud just like the Nefertiti Bust.

You have got to be the most clueless racist on this forum. Your the only person foolish enough to claim this statue:

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As Caucasoid. Explain to the forum how it is a pic of an Caucasoid and not an African.

No peace for you

This sounds funny coming from someone that excludes any statue that I post as being Caucasian-like in appearance, but yet trump this as very African-like. You are a very racist individual. You should really try to seek help for all your hate towards white people.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Sure King, You dupes attack everything that disagrees with your crazy racist views. Rahotep is still widely accepted and the ONLY valid argument is who's son he happened to be.
Nefertiti bust is not a fake, you get more silly by the day.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

Just stick to what you know, Which is absolutely nothing about Ancient Egypt.

First do you even know that the study on the mummies was done during the "RAMSES" era. Why would they be looking at these pharaohs if not to see how African they Still Were. Ramses and the mummies you posted are what they directly study, get a clue Girl. Not that I think you will read the study but just to humour you Here it is : http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/9845/mummies.htm
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
What does this statue look like to you? Does it look more typical of a European, or more typical of a black African?
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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Lefkowitz on race 2005

The ancients were not naive in their understanding and knowledge of phenotypic differences, in Mary Lefkowitz's Not out of Africa, the author points out that the ancient Greeks made a distinction between the Egyptians and northern Indians, and the Ethiopians and southern Indians, for though the two dyads are composed of populations of aproximately the same skin coloration (at least from a Hellenic vantage point), the Greeks noted that there were differences on other axes (wooly hair, generally facial features). This is the sort of insight that frankly often escapes the modern American discourse, and went to Lefkowitz's point that Afrocentric conflation of "people of color" (Egyptians, Carthaginians, etc.) with "black" is ludicrous in the ancient context.

She makes a fool out of you king.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
@ A.P Hyksos,Assyrians,Persians,Greeks,Romans,Arab,Turks,French,British,and these are just invasions notting of migrant sheep herders who water their live-stock on the banks of the lower Nile delta or folks on trade missions,mercenaries and slaves.

Simple Girl the Sumerians can't help you as the kemites never spoke a language relating to Sumerian or anything culturally similar plus do you know what the sumerians called themselves?
let me save you the time they called themselves SAG GIGGA....The Black Headed People.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Lefkowitz on race 2005

The ancients were not naive in their understanding and knowledge of phenotypic differences, in Mary Lefkowitz's Not out of Africa, the author points out that the ancient Greeks made a distinction between the Egyptians and northern Indians, and the Ethiopians and southern Indians, for though the two dyads are composed of populations of aproximately the same skin coloration (at least from a Hellenic vantage point), the Greeks noted that there were differences on other axes (wooly hair, generally facial features). This is the sort of insight that frankly often escapes the modern American discourse, and went to Lefkowitz's point that Afrocentric conflation of "people of color" (Egyptians, Carthaginians, etc.) with "black" is ludicrous in the ancient context.

She makes a fool out of you king.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
Simple Girl

Just stick to what you know, Which is absolutely nothing about Ancient Egypt.

First do you even know that the study on the mummies was done during the "RAMSES" era. Why would they be looking at these pharaohs if not to see how African they Still Were. Ramses and the mummies you posted are what they directly study, get a clue Girl. Not that I think you will read the study but just to humour you Here it is : http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/9845/mummies.htm

You give me a link to an obviously afrocentric website, and expect me to take that as evidence? Come on, you can do better than that can't you?
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

I "SHOWED" you "AFRICANS" with the same exact Faces of ALL the Statues you posted. How am I being racist to whites? Please show me a post of mine being racist towards anyone.

I gave you studies discussing the FACT that in africa there is people with Narrow Features that is not because of mixture, but because of adaption. Read and Learn Girl:

Jean Hiernaux "The People of Africa" 1975

p.53, 54

"In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the "whole world range" is covered in the sub-continent.

Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the "average nose widths" covers "92 percent" of the world range:

"only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record." Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage....."

All you have shown is Statues with Features that can be found in East, West, and Southern africa. Eyeballin a statue will never trump the FACTS posted by these Scientists. Get a Clue Girl.

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Brada, she is talking about how stupid and absurd people are who want to link AEs to black africans.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

You really do your name justice. Bahahahahahhaah

Open your eyes. The people who did the study are "WHITE". Just because it is found on a website that you deem Afrocentric does not dimish the Study. If you actually knew how to read you would know this study is VALID by ALL PEOPLE and has never been refuted by "ANYONE".

So go back and read the study, then tell us what you have learned.

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

The only fool is YOU. She went back on her word because all of the pressure that was put on her. Why do you think that the Race of Ancient Egyptians is such a hot topic? She was right the first time she said about Ancient Egypt, and was pressured to post a rebuttal to her own words. Hate is a serious thing and the pressure she was under for being the vanguard for a "Pure" Greece forced her to change her views about Egypt.

Nice try.

You still have not shown us why the statue I posted is a caucasoid and not an African. Hurry up and tell the forum.

No peace for you.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
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Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot


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Show the Forum how this Pic, Is a pick of a Caucasoid and not an African.

No Peace for you.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Baloney. You always make up some ulterior motive when someone disagrees with your stupid views. One a moron believes Egyptians were black africans. The fact that very few of you have any clue of how to do historical research is consistent with your crazy conclusions. Lefkowitz and hawass have PHD's in their field, all you have King is your pecker in your hand.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

You are the saddest racist on this forum. [Frown]

You never post facts, then when asked to substantiate your worthless views you turn tale and run.

It's really quite simple, Show the forum how that Pic is a Pic of an Caucasoid and not an African.

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If it's as simple and Obvious as you say, then you should be able to show us what a Caucasoid looks like.

No peace for you.
 
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I like the Afro and the braided hair. Queen Tiye looks like an intimidating old African women.

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The military seemed poorly armed.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
King, You need to back up and come to grips with how little you know. You are not qualified to argue with me. When I see some basic effort on your part to learn how to do research we'll talk. I want to see art hitorians views attached to these pieces of art. problem is that takes work on your part and you refuse to learn how to do it.
 
Posted by ChairmanofBA (Member # 16757) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
King, You need to back up and come to grips with how little you know. You are not qualified to argue with me. When I see some basic effort on your part to learn how to do research we'll talk. I want to see art hitorians views attached to these pieces of art. problem is that takes work on your part and you refuse to learn how to do it.

Art objects are not generally used by biological anthropologists. They are suspect as data and their interpretation highly dependent on stereotyped thinking. However, because art has often been used to comment on the physiognomies of ancient Egyptians, a few remarks are in order. A review of literature and the sculpture indicates characteristics that also can be found in the Horn of (East) Africa (see, e.g., Petrie 1939; Drake 1987; Keita 1993). Old and Middle Kingdom statuary shows a range of characteristics; many, if not most, individuals depicted in the art have variations on the narrow-nosed, narrow-faced morphology also seen in various East Africans. This East African anatomy, once seen as being the result of a mixture of different "races," is better understood as being part of the range of indigenous African variation.


The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians
Professor S.O.Y. Keita
Department of Biological Anthropology
Oxford University

Professor A. J. Boyce
University Reader in Human Population
Oxford University

You recieved what you wanted now concede.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
@ AP Also from DA Greeks
Danaus:
And look, the seamen-all too plain their race-
Their dark limbs gleam from out their snow-white garb;

IN the Dionysiaca,There is referance to armed conflicts between Blacks in Egypt Minor and foreigners:

In the morning,the god went forth to war,driving before him the violence of the black men,that he may free the neck of the Lydians and those who dwelt in Phyrgia and Ascaina from the yolk of cruel tyranny....Now Bacchos made ready his army against the hostile troops...Nor did swarthy Celaineus fail to see the womanish warriors...{and}the heads of many men in that black-skinned crowd were brought down by the womanish Thyrsus.

Herodotus:

That,at least is how I should the obvious impossiblity of a dove using the language of men.As to the bird being black,they merely signify by this that the woman was an Egyptian.

There are alot more from the Romans I could get it if you want.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Out of one side of your mouth you decry the use of art in anthropology and then turn right around and use it. Then you use Keita who is almost the only scholar out there of any note who supports your silly views.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Branda you have no clue of what you are talking about. The fact that you are trying to quote herodotus shows that.

what I need from you is an eplanation of that quote from a classical scholar, not from you.
 
Posted by ChairmanofBA (Member # 16757) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
Out of one side of your mouth you decry the use of art in anthropology and then turn right around and use it. Then you use Keita who is almost the only scholar out there of any note who supports your silly views.

Nope. The scholars who traveled into Egypt support my position as well.


"Those who are extremely black are cowards, like for instance, the Egyptians and
Ethiopians. But those who are excessively white are also cowards as we can
see from the example of women, the complexion of courage is between the
two." (?) (Aristotle, _Physiognomy_, 6)


"Why are the Ethiopians and Egyptians bandy-legged? Is it because
of that the body of itself creates, because of disturbance by heat, like
loss of wood when they become dry? The condition of their hair supports
this theory; for it is curlier than that of other nations..." (Aristotle,
_Problemata_ 909, 7)


So AmericanPatriots what gives you more validity of scholars who went into Egypt?
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Classical schoars need to be quoted and they disagree with you...I just posted one. You are not going to find one who will back up your points.
 
Posted by ChairmanofBA (Member # 16757) on :
 
Are you mentally retarded? Please tell me how this information from a classical scholar isn’t self explanatory. I just posted two quotes of Aristotle that you can’t refute. Aristotle said they had extremely black skin and you have no way around that.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
I hope everyone sees how Crazy is this American Patriot.

He gets FACTS, then he calls them nonsense. So I wonder what is his remark to all these facts:

Recent studies find the ancient Egyptians had a tropical body plan like sub-Saharan 'black' Africans and were not cold-adapted like European type populations. Tropical body plans also indicate darker-skin.


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"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the "super-Negroid" body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.


a 2008 Study puts the ancient Egyptians closer to US Blacks than whites:

Quotes:

"Intralimb (crural and brachial) indices are significantly higher in ancient Egyptians than in American Whites (except crural index among females), i.e., Egyptians have relatively longer distal segments (Table 4). Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks... Many of those who have studied ancient Egyptians have commented on their characteristically ''tropical'' or ''African'' body plan (Warren, 1897; Masali, 1972; Robins, 1983; Robins and Shute, 1983, 1984, 1986; Zakrzewski, 2003). Egyptians also fall within the range of modern African populations (Ruff and Walker, 1993), but close to the upper limit of modern Europeans as well, at least for the crural index (brachial indices are definitely more ''African'').. In terms of femoral and tibial length to total skeletal height proportions, we found that ancient Egyptians are significantly different from US Blacks, although still closer to Blacks than to Whites.


Comparisons of linear body proportions of Old Kingdom and non-Old Kingdom period individuals, and workers and high officials in our sample found no statistically significant differences among them. Zakrzewski (2003) also found little evidence for differences in linear body proportions of Egyptians over a wider temporal range. In general, recent studies of skeletal variation among ancient Egyptians support scenarios of biological continuity through time. Irish (2006) analyzed quantitative and qualitative dental traits of 996 Egyptians from Neolithic through Roman periods, reporting the presence of a few outliers but concluding that the dental samples appear to be largely homogeneous and that the affinities observed indicate overall biological uniformity and continuity from Predynastic through Dynastic and Postdynastic periods.

Zakrzewski (2007) provided a comprehensive summary of previous Egyptian craniometric studies and examined Egyptian crania from six time periods. She found that the earlier samples were relatively more homogeneous in comparison to the later groups. However, overall results indicated genetic continuity over the Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, albeit with a high level of genetic diversity within the population, suggesting an indigenous process of state formation. She also concluded that while the biological patterning of the Egyptian population varied across time, no consistent temporal or spatial trends are apparent. Thus, the stature estimation formulae developed here may be broadly applicable to all ancient Egyptian populations.."
("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55


Older limb studies find the same- Blacks and closer to the Egyptians than whites:

"In this regard it is interesting to note that limb proportions of Predynastic Naqada people in Upper Egypt are reported to be "Super-Negroid," meaning that the distal segments are elongated in the fashion of tropical Africans.....skin color intensification and distal limb elongation are apparent wherever people have been long-term residents of the tropics." (C.L. Brace, 1993. Clines and clusters..")


"An attempt has been made to estimate male and female Egyptian stature from long bone length using Trotter & Gleser negro stature formulae, previous work by the authors having shown that these rather than white formulae give more consistent results with male dynastic material... When consistency has been achieved in this way, predynastic proportions are founded to be such that distal segments of the limbs are even longer in relation to the proximal segments than they are in modern negroes. Such proportions are termed "super-negroid"...

Robins (1983) and Robins & Shute (1983) have shown that more consistent results are obtained from ancient Egyptian male skeletons if Trotter & Gleser formulae for negro are used, rather than those for whites which have always been applied in the past. .. their physical proportions were more like modern negroes than those of modern whites, with limbs that were relatively long compared with the trunk, and distal segments that were long compared with the proximal segments. If ancient Egyptian males had what may be termed negroid proportions, it seems reasonable that females did likewise."
(Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986. Predynastic Egyptian stature and physical proportions. Hum Evol 1:313-324. Ruff CB. 1994.)


The ancient Badarians were quite representative of ancient Egyptians as a whole and showed clear links with tropical Africans to the south. They have been sometimes excluded in studies of the ancient Egyptian population, which shows continuity in its history, not mass influxes of foreigners until the late periods.

Quotes:
"As a result of their facial prognathism, the Badarian sample has been described as forming a morphological cluster with Nubian, Tigrean, and other southern (or \Negroid") groups (Morant, 1935, 1937; Mukherjee et al., 1955; Nutter, 1958, Strouhal, 1971; Angel, 1972; Keita, 1990). Cranial nonmetric trait studies have found this group to be similar to other Egyptians, including much later material (Berry and Berry, 1967, 1972), but also to be significantly different from LPD material (Berry et al., 1967). Similarly, the study of dental nonmetric traits has suggested that the Badarian population is at the centroid of Egyptian dental samples (Irish, 2006), thereby suggesting similarity and hence continuity across Egyptian time periods. From the central location of the Badarian samples in Figure 2, the current study finds the Badarian to be relatively morphologically close to the centroid of all the Egyptian samples. The Badarian have been shown to exhibit
greatest morphological similarity with the temporally successive EPD (Table 5). Finally, the biological distinctiveness
of the Badarian from other Egyptian samples has also been demonstrated (Tables 6 and 7).

These results suggest that the EDyn do form a distinct morphological pattern. Their overlap with other Egyptian samples (in PC space, Fig. 2) suggests that although their morphology is distinctive, the pattern does overlap with the other time periods. These results therefore do not support the Petrie concept of a \Dynastic race" (Petrie, 1939; Derry, 1956). Instead, the results suggest that the Egyptian state was not the product of mass movement of populations into the Egyptian Nile region, but rather that it was the result of primarily indigenous development combined with prolonged small-scale migration, potentially from trade, military, or other contacts.

This evidence suggests that the process of state formation itself may have been mainly an indigenous process, but that it may have occurred in association with in-migration to the Abydos region of the Nile Valley. This potential in-migration may have occurred particularly during the EDyn and OK. A possible explanation is that the Egyptian state formed through increasing control of trade and raw materials, or due to military actions, potentially associated with the use of the Nile Valley as a corridor for prolonged small scale movements through the desert environment.
(Sonia R. Zakrzewski. (2007). Population Continuity or Population Change: Formation of the Ancient Egyptian State. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 132:501-509)


Ancient Egyptians most related to other Africans and are part of a Nilotic continuity rather than something Mediterranean or Middle Eastern

"Certainly there was some foreign admixture [in Egypt], but basically a homogeneous African population had lived in the Nile Valley from ancient to modern times... [the] Badarian people, who developed the earliest Predynastic Egyptian culture, already exhibited the mix of North African and Sub-Saharan physical traits that have typified Egyptians ever since (Hassan 1985; Yurco 1989; Trigger 1978; Keita 1990.. et al.,)... The peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and much of East African Ethiopia and Somalia are now generally regarded as a Nilotic continuity, with widely ranging physical features (complexions light to dark, various hair and craniofacial types) but with powerful common cultural traits, including cattle pastoralist traditions.." (Frank Yurco, "An Egyptological Review," 1996 -in Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, Black Athena Revisited, 1996, The University of North Carolina Press, p. 62-100)
African peoples are the most diverse in the world whether analyzed by DNA or skeletal or cranial methods. Attempts to deny this are rooted in racism and error. African people, particularly SUB-SAHARAN Africans, vary the most in how they look, more so than any other population in the world.

"Estimates of genetic diversity in major geographic regions are frequently made by pooling all individuals into regional aggregates. This method can potentially bias results if there are differences in population substructure within regions, since increased variation among local populations could inflate regional diversity. A preferred method of estimating regional diversity is to compute the mean diversity within local populations. Both methods are applied to a global sample of craniometric data consisting of 57 measurements taken on 1734 crania from 18 local populations in six geographic regions: sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, East Asia, Australasia, Polynesia, and the Americas. Each region is represented by three local populations.

Both methods for estimating regional diversity show sub-Saharan Africa to have the highest levels of phenotypic variation, consistent with many genetic studies."
(Relethford, John "Global Analysis of Regional Differences in Craniometric Diversity and Population Substructure". Human Biology - Volume 73, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 629-636)

"The living peoples of the African continent are diverse in facial characteristics, stature, skin color, hair form, genetics, and other characteristics. No one set of characteristics is more African than another. Variability is also found in "sub-Saharan" Africa, to which the word "Africa" is sometimes erroneously restricted. There is a problem with definitions. Sometimes Africa is defined using cultural factors, like language, that exclude developments that clearly arose in Africa. For example, sometimes even the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea) is excluded because of geography and language and the fact that some of its peoples have narrow noses and faces.

However, the Horn is at the same latitude as Nigeria, and its languages are African. The latitude of 15 degree passes through Timbuktu, surely in "sub-Saharan Africa," as well as Khartoum in Sudan; both are north of the Horn. Another false idea is that supra-Saharan and Saharan Africa were peopled after the emergence of "Europeans" or Near Easterners by populations coming from outside Africa. Hence, the ancient Egyptians in some writings have been de-Africanized. These ideas, which limit the definition of Africa and Africans, are rooted in racism and earlier, erroneous "scientific" approaches." (S. Keita, "The Diversity of Indigenous Africans," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Clenko, Editor (1996), pp. 104-105. [10])


Modern DNA studies find even though some African peoples look different, they are genetically related through the PN2 transition clade of the Y-chromosone. Thus light-skinned African Libyans and dark-skinned Zulus are all genetically related Africans ,even though they don't look exactly the same.

"But the Y-chromosome clade defined by the PN2 transition (PN2/M35, PN2/M2) shatters the boundaries of phenotypically defined races and true breeding populations across a great geographical expanse. African peoples with a range of skin colors, hair forms and physiognomies have substantial percentages of males whose Y chromosomes form closely related clades with each other, but not with others who are phenotypically similar. The individuals in the morphologically or geographically defined 'races' are not characterized by 'private' distinct lineages restricted to each of them." (S O Y Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)


"Recall that the Horn-Nile Valley crania show, as a group, the largest overlap with other regions. A review of the recent literature indicates that there are male lineage ties between African peoples who have been traditionally labeled as being ''racially'' different, with ''racially'' implying an ontologically deep divide. The PN2 transition, a Y chromosome marker, defines a lineage (within the YAPþ derived haplogroup E or III) that emerged in Africa probably before the last glacial maximum, but after the migration of modern humans from Africa (see Semino et al., 2004). This mutation forms a clade that has two daughter subclades (defined by the biallelic markers M35/215 (or 215/M35) and M2) that unites numerous phenotypically variant African populations from the supra-Saharan, Saharan, and sub-Saharan regions.."
(S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679-689, 2004.)
keita2004neanalysis.htm

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages.. Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world." (Tishkoff SA, Williams SM., Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2002 Aug (8):611-21.)

DNA of some modern Egyptians found a genetic ancestral heritage to East Africa:
"The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity of 58 individuals from Upper Egypt, more than half (34 individuals) from Gurna, whose population has an ancient cultural history, were studied by sequencing the control-region and screening diagnostic RFLP markers. This sedentary population presented similarities to the Ethiopian population by the L1 and L2 macrohaplogroup frequency (20.6%), by the West Eurasian component (defined by haplogroups H to K and T to X) and particularly by a high frequency (17.6%) of haplogroup M1. We statistically and phylogenetically analysed and compared the Gurna population with other Egyptian, Near East and sub-Saharan Africa populations; AMOVA and Minimum Spanning Network analysis showed that the Gurna population was not isolated from neighbouring populations. Our results suggest that the Gurna population has conserved the trace of an ancestral genetic structure from an ancestral East African population, characterized by a high M1 haplogroup frequency. The current structure of the Egyptian population may be the result of further influence of neighbouring populations on this ancestral population."
(Stevanovitch A, Gilles A, Bouzaid E, et al. (2004) Mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity in a sedentary population from Egypt.Ann Hum Genet. 68(Pt 1):23-39.)

Tishkoff et al:

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages (see online link to Ethnologue). Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world(TABLE 1).However,most studies report only a few markers in divergent African populations, which makes it difficult to draw general conclusions about the levels and patterns of genetic diversity in these populations (FIG. 1). Because genetic studies have been biased towards more economically developed African countries that have key research or medical centres, populations from more underdeveloped or politically unstable regions of Africa remain undersampled (FIG. 1). Historically, human population genetic studies have relied on one or two African populations as being representative of African diversity, but recent studies show extensive genetic variation among even geographically close African populations, which indicates that there is not a single 'representative' African population."
-- Tishkoff NATURE REVIEWS | GENETICS VOLUME 3 | AUGUST 2002


"Genetic studies that attempt to recover the biological history of the species have generally found that there is a split between their restricted African samples and "the rest of the world." These approaches conceptualize human population history as a series of bifurcations with each node being relatively uniform. The "Africans" usually used are either the short statured Aka or Mbuti, Khoisan speakers, or West African stereotype s, in keeping with a socially, not scientifically constructed concept of African. Studies using individuals as the unit of analysis evince a different pattern. A select subset of Africans called the "group of 49" forms a unit versus the rest of humankind. However the latter individuals ("rest of humankind") also includes non-East African sub-Saharans. Hence there is no "racial" split. As has been stated, the idea that human variation can be described as being structured by subspecies(races) that are treated as lineages is fundamentally false. In actuality, also, although averages are used, the gene studies usually give us histories that are not necessarily the same as population histories."
Writing African History Chapter 4, Physical Anthropology and African History, Shomarka Keita University of Rochester Press p.134

Continent wide African DNA linkages
"The most extensive pan-African haplotype (16189 16192 16223 16278 16294 16309 16390) is in the L2a1 haplogroup. This sequence is observed in West Africa among the Malinke, Wolof, and others; in North Africa among the Maure, Hausa, Fulbe, and others; in Central Africa among the Bamileke, Fali, and others; in South Africa among the Khoisan family including the Khwe and Bantu speakers; and in East Africa among the Kikuyu. Closely related variants are observed among the Tuareg in North and West Africa and among the East African Dinka and Somali."
(-- Bert Ely , Jamie Lee Wilson , Fatimah Jackson and Bruce A Jackson. (2006). African-American mitochondrial DNAs often match mtDNAs found in multiple African ethnic groups. BMC Biology 2006, 4:34)

"It is of interest that the M35 and M2 lineages are united by a mutation - the PN2 transition. This PN2 defined clade originated in East Africa, where various populations have a notable frequency of its underived state. This would suggest that an ancient population in East Africa, or more correctly its males, form the basis of the ancestors of all African upper Paleolithic populations - and their subsequent descendants in the present day."
(--Bengtson, John D. (ed.), In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. 2008. John Benjamins Publishing: pp. 3-16)


Egyptian Y-chromosome haplotypes show preponderance is with African clusters not Europe or the Near East


Other DNA quotes from S.O.Y. Keita
See: http://www.geocities.com/keitadnaquotes.htm


Recent DNA studies of the Sudan show genetic unity and linkage between the Sudanic, Horn, Egyptian, Nubian and other Nilotic peoples, confirming earlier skeletal/cranial studies and historical data. (Yurco (1989, 1996), Keita (1993,2004, 2005) Lovell (1999), Zakrewski (2003, 2007) et. al). Of note is that DNA data shows that some peoples linked to one of the oldest Egyptian populations, the original Copts, have a significant frequency of the B-M60 marker, indicating early colonization of Egypt by Nilotics in the state formation period.

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"Haplogroup E-M78, however, is more widely distributed and is thought to have an origin in eastern African. More recently, this haplogroup has been carefully dissected and was found to depict several well-established subclades with defined geographical clustering (Cruciani et al., 2006, 2007). Although this haplogroup is common to most Sudanese populations, it has exceptionally high frequency among populations like those of western Sudan (particularly Darfur) and the Beja in eastern Sudan... Although the PC plot places the Beja and Amhara from Ethiopia in one sub-cluster based on shared frequencies of the haplogroup J1, the distribution of M78 subclades (Table 2) indicates that the Beja are perhaps related as well to the Oromo on the basis of the considerable frequencies of E-V32 among Oromo in comparison to Amhara (Cruciani et al., 2007)...

These findings affirm the historical contact between Ethiopia and eastern Sudan (1998), and the fact that these populations speak languages of the Afroasiatic family tree reinforces the strong correlation between linguistic and genetic diversity (Cavalli-Sforza, 1997)."

"Genetic continuum of the Nubians with their kin in southern Egypt is indicated by comparable frequencies of E-V12 the predominant M78 subclade among southern Egyptians."

"The Copt samples displayed a most interesting Y-profile, enough (as much as that of Gaalien in Sudan) to suggest that they actually represent a living record of the peopling of Egypt. The significant frequency of B-M60 in this group might be a relic of a history of colonization of southern Egypt probably by Nilotics in the early state formation, something that conforms both to recorded history and to Egyptian mythology."
Source:
(Hisham Y. Hassan 1, Peter A. Underhill 2, Luca L. Cavalli-Sforza 2, Muntaser E. Ibrahim 1. (2008). Y-chromosome variation among Sudanese: Restricted gene flow, concordance with language, geography, and history. Am J Phys Anthropology, 2008.)


Older research notes the physical makeup of the original Copts, now confirmed by recent DNA data above:
"In Libya, which is mostly desert and oasis, there is a visible Negroid element in the sedentary populations, and at the same is true of the Fellahin of Egypt, whether Copt or Muslim. Osteological studies have shown that the Negroid element was stronger in predynastic times than at present, reflecting an early movement northward along the banks of the Nile, which were then heavily forested." (Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. "Populations, Human")


Haplogroup E3A and E3B represent more than 70% of the Y-chromosones on the African continent, with varying proportions found in different parts of the continent. In some African populations for example, E3B exceeds 80%. Migrations out of Africa, are responsible for the spread of E3b to Europe. Non-Africans thus acquired a sub-set f African genes through this migration.


"In Europe, the overall frequency pattern of haplogroup E-M78 does not support the hypothesis of a uniform spread of people from a single parental Near Eastern population... The Y chromosome specific biallelic marker DYS271 defines the most common haplogroup (E3a) currently found in sub-Saharan Africa. A sister clade, E3b (E-M215), is rare in sub-Saharan Africa, but very common in northern and eastern Africa. On the whole, these two clades represent more than 70% of the Y chromosomes of the African continent. A third clade belonging to E3 (E3c or E-M329) has been recently reported to be present only in eastern Africa, at low frequencies.. The new topology of the E3 haplogroup is suggestive of a relatively recent eastern African origin for the majority of the chromosomes presently found in sub-Saharan Africa."

"In conclusion, we detected the signatures of several distinct processes of migration and/or recurrent gene flow associated with the dispersal of haplogroup E3b lineages. Early events involved the dispersal of E-M78d chromosomes from eastern Africa into and out of Africa, as well as the introduction of the E-M34 subclade into Africa from the Near East. Later events involved short-range migrations within Africa (E-M78? and E-V6) and from northern Africa into Europe (E-M81 and E-M78ß), as well as an important range expansion from the Balkans to western and southern-central Europe (E-M78a). This latter expansion was the main contributor to the present distribution of E3b chromosomes in Europe."

(Cruciani, F, et. al. (2004) Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa, Am J Hum Genet. 74(5): 1014-1022.)


Somalis link much more heavily with African populations such as those in Kenya and Ethiopia than Middle Eastern or European ones according to DNA evidence. Eurasian genes only accounted for about 15% of the mix among Somalis, typically associated with recent Arab influence. On such key common DNA markers as E3b1, Europeans only weighed in at 5%, and Middle Easterners at approximately 6%. The overwhelming link of Somalis- over 85% of the total is with Africans. Kenya and Ethiopia are located in "sub-Saharan" Africa.

"The high frequency (77.6%) of haplogroup E3b1 was characteristic of male Somalis. The frequency of E3b1 was significantly lower in Ethiopian Oromos (35.9%), Ethiopian Amharas (22.9%), Egyptians (20.0%), Sudanese (17.5%), Kenyans (15.1%),10 Iraqis (6.3%), Northern Africans (6.1%), Southern Europeans (0.5-5.1%) and sub-Saharan populations." (Sanchez et al.,(2005) High frequencies of Y chromosome lineages characterized by E3b1, DYS19-11, DYS392-12 in Somali males, Eu J of Hum Genet (2005) 13, 856-866)

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Simplistic "race percentage" models are dubious in Africa which has the highest genetic diversity in the world. That diversity proceeded from deeper sub-Saharan Africa, to East and N.E. Africa, then to the rest of the globe. All other populations, including Europeans and "Middle easterners" carry this diversity which was built into Africa to begin with. Africans thus don't need any "race mix" to look different. Their diversity is built-in and supplied the whole globe. Any returnees or "backflow" to Africa looked like Africans, including Europeans. (Brace 2005, Hanihara 1996, Holliday 2003).

" These studies suggest a recent and primary subdivision between African and non-African populations, high levels of divergence among African populations, and a recent shared common ancestry of non-African populations, from a population originating in Africa. The intermediate position, between African and non-African populations, that the Ethiopian Jews and Somalis occupy in the PCA plot also has been observed in other genetic studies (Ritte et al. 1993; Passarino et al. 1998) and could be due either to shared common ancestry or to recent gene flow. The fact that the Ethiopians and Somalis have a subset of the sub-Saharan African haplotype diversity and that the non-African populations have a subset of the diversity present in Ethiopians and Somalis makes simple-admixture models less likely; rather, these observations support the hypothesis proposed by other nuclear-genetic studies (Tishkoff et al. 1996a, 1998a, 1998b; Kidd et al. 1998) that populations in northeastern Africa may have diverged from those in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa early in the history of modern African populations and that a subset of this northeastern-African population migrated out of Africa and populated the rest of the globe. These conclusions are supported by recent mtDNA analysis (Quintana-Murci et al. 1999)."
[Tishkoff et al. (2000) Short Tandem-Repeat Polymorphism/Alu Haplotype Variation at the PLAT Locus: Implications for Modern Human Origins. Am J Hum Genet; 67:901-925]


Data on Ethiopian peoples like the Oromo are underreported even though they make up the largest group percentage wise in the Ethiopian population, (50%) and are often pooled with others, hiding and obscuring their overall contribution to the Ethiopian gene pool.

"This difference, not revealed in the study by Passarino et al. (1998), in which the Oromo were underrepresented, might reflect distinct population histories."
(--Semino, et al. (2002). Ethiopians and Khoisan Share the Deepest Clades of the Human Y..")

"These data, together with those reported elsewhere (Ritte et al. 1993a, 1993b; Hammer et al. 2000) suggest that the Ethiopian Jews acquired their religion without substantial genetic admixture from Middle Eastern peoples and that they can be considered an ethnic group with essentially a continental African genetic composition." (Cruciani, et. al Am J Hum Genet. 2002 May; 70(5): 1197-1214. "A Back Migration from Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa Is Supported by High-Resolution Analysis of Human Y-Chromosome Haplotypes)


Afrocentric critic Mary Leftokwitz says Egypt was peopled by persons from sub-Saharan Africa:

"Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North. See Bruce G. Trigger, "The Rise of Civilization in Egypt," Cambridge History of Africa (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982), vol I, pp 489-90; S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54.
(Mary Lefkotitz (1997). Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. Basic Books. pg 242) [/QB][/QUOTE]


In Black Athena Revisited, Lefkowitz finds similarity between Egyptians and Sudanics and recommends the work of conservative anthropologist Nancy Lovell for more research on the subject.

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"not surprisingly, the Egyptian skulls were not very distance from the Jebel Moya [a Neolithic site in the southern Sudan] skulls, but were much more distance from all others, including those from West Africa. Such a study suggests a closer genetic affinity between peoples in Egypt and the northern Sudan, which were close geographically and are known to have had considerable cultural contact throughout prehistory and pharaonic history... Clearly more analyses of the physical remains of ancient Egyptians need to be done using current techniques, such as those of Nancy Lovell at the University of Alberta is using in her work.."


Lefkotitz cites Keita 1993 in Not Out of Africa. Here is Keita on the Jebel Moya studies:

"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Jebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." [/img]
S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


Here is the work of the anthropologist so strongly recommended by Lefkowitz, Nancy Lovell:


"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

and

"must be placed in the context of hypotheses informed by archaeological, linguistic, geographic and other data. In such contexts, the physical anthropological evidence indicates that early Nile Valley populations can be identified as part of an African lineage, but exhibiting local variation. This variation represents the short and long term effects of evolutionary forces, such as gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection, influenced by culture and geography." ("Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999). pp 328-332)


The same Nancy Lovell recommended by Lefkowitz studied dental traits among some high status persons of the key Egyptian Naqada group and found that they resembled the peoples of Nubia.

T. Prowse, and N. Lovell "Concordance of cranial and dental morphological traits and evidence for endogamy in ancient Egypt"
American journal of physical anthropology. 1996, vol. 101, no2, pp. 237-246 (2 p.1/4)


A biological affinities study based on frequencies of cranial nonmetric traits in skeletal samples from three cemeteries at Predynastic Naqada, Egypt, confirms the results of a recent nonmetric dental morphological analysis. Both cranial and dental traits analyses indicate that the individuals buried in a cemetery characterized archaeologically as high status are significantly different from individuals buried in two other, apparently non-elite cemeteries and that the non-elite samples are not significantly different from each other. A comparison with neighboring Nile Valley skeletal samples suggests that the high status cemetery represents an endogamous ruling or elite segment of the local population at Naqada, which is more closely related to populations in northern Nubia than to neighboring populations in southern Egypt.


Lefkowitz warns against Eurocentric "racial" analysis as to the Egyptians and Nubians.

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"The Nubian tribute-bearers are painted in two skin tones, black and dark brown. These tones do not necessarily represent actual skin tones in real life but may serve to distinguish each tribute-bearer from the next in a row in which the figures overlap. Alternatively, the brown-skinned people may be of Nubian origin, and the black-skinned ones may be farther south 9Trigger 1978, 33). The shading of skin tones in Egyptian tomb paintings, which varies considerably, may not be a certain criterion for distinguishing race. Specific symbols of ethnic identity can also vary. Identifying race in Egyptian representational art, again, is difficult to do- probably because race (as opposed to ethnic affiliation, that is, Egyptians versus all non-Egyptians) was not a criterion for differentiation used by the ancient Egyptians...


Northern Egypt shows more physical variation than the south, but not necessarily as part of any significant 'race' mix, but local, built-in variation. They were closer to southerners than any other peoples. In comparisons with "Middle Eastern" populations of the same ancient period, the Egyptians link more closely with other Africans than the Middle Easterners. Africans vary in how they look because they have the highest built-in molecular diversity to begin with.

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"..sample populations available from northern Egypt from before the 1st Dynasty (Merimda, Maadi and Wadi Digla) turn out to be significantly different from sample populations from early Palestine and Byblos, suggesting a lack of common ancestors over a long time. If there was a south-north cline variation along the Nile valley it did not, from this limited evidence, continue smoothly on into southern Palestine. The limb-length proportions of males from the Egyptian sites group them with Africans rather than with Europeans." (Barry Kemp, "Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation. (2005) Routledge. p. 52-60)


"Individuals from different geographical regions frequently plotted near each other, revealing aspects of variation at the level of individuals that is obscured by concentrating on the most distinctive facial traits once used to construct ''types.''The high level of African interindividual variation in craniometric pattern is reminiscent of the great level of molecular diversity found in Africa." (S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679-689, 2004.)

Quote on northern Egypt analysis- the Qarunian (Faiyum) remains (c. 7000 BC)
"The body was that of a forty-year old woman with a height of about 1.6 meters, who was of a more modern racial type than the classic 'Mechtoid' of the Fakhurian culture (see pp. 65-6), being generally more gracile, having large teeth and thick jaws bearing some resemblance to the modern 'negroid' type." (Beatrix Midant-Reynes, Ian Shaw (2000). The Prehistory of Egypt. Wiley-Blackwell. pg. 82)


Modern studies show diversity in how people look is heavily based on distance from sub-Saharan Africa, not merely climate. In genetically diverse Africa, broad-nosed people live on the cool or cold mountain slopes of East Africa or the hot, dry Sahara, and narrow-nosed peoples like many Fulani like in the wet tropics of West Africa. Yellowish-skinned San tribes live in the hot zones of Southern Africa.

"The relative importance of ancient demography and climate in determining worldwide patterns of human within-population phenotypic diversity is still open to debate. Several morphometric traits have been argued to be under selection by climatic factors, but it is unclear whether climate affects the global decline in morphological diversity with increasing geographical distance from sub-Saharan Africa. Using a large database of male and female skull measurements, we apply an explicit framework to quantify the relative role of climate and distance from Africa. We show that distance from sub-Saharan Africa is the sole determinant of human within-population phenotypic diversity, while climate plays no role. By selecting the most informative set of traits, it was possible to explain over half of the worldwide variation in phenotypic diversity. These results mirror those previously obtained for genetic markers and show that 'bones and molecules' are in perfect agreement for humans." (Distance from Africa, not climate, explains within-population phenotypic diversity in humans. (2008) by: Lia Betti, François Balloux, William Amos, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Andrea Manica, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 2008/12/02)


Analysis of skeletal and cranial remains reveals that the ancient Egyptians of the early Dynastic and pre-Dynastic phases, link closer to nearby Saharan, Sudanic and East African populations than Mediterranean and Middle Eastern peoples. Greeks, Romans, Hyskos, Arabs and others were to appear later in Egyptian history. Craniometric studies generally place ancient Upper Egyptian populations closer to the range of tropical Africans in the Nile Valley and East Africa than to Mediterraneans, or Middle Easterners.

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S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Kebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." (Keita 1993)

"When the unlikely relationships [Indian matches] and eliminated, the Egyptian series are more similar overall to other African series than to European or Near Eastern (Byzantine or Palestinian) series." (Keita 1993)

"Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant."(Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa: Their Interaction. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472 )

"Analysis of crania is the traditional approach to assessing ancient population origins, relationships, and diversity. In studies based on anatomical traits and measurements of crania, similarities have been found between Nile Valley crania from 30,000, 20,000 and 12,000 years ago and various African remains from more recent times (see Thoma 1984; Brauer and Rimbach 1990; Angel and Kelley 1986; Keita 1993). Studies of crania from southern predynastic Egypt, from the formative period (4000-3100 B.C.), show them usually to be more similar to the crania of ancient Nubians, Kushites, Saharans, or modern groups from the Horn of Africa than to those of dynastic northern Egyptians or ancient or modern southern Europeans."
(S. O. Y and A.J. Boyce, "The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians", in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 20-33)


"There is no archaeological, linguistic, or historical data which indicate a European or Asiatic invasion of, or migration to, the Nile Valley during First Dynasty times. Previous concepts about the origin of the First Dynasty Egyptians as being somehow external to the Nile Valley or less native are not supported by archaeology... In summary, the Abydos First Dynasty royal tomb contents reveal a notable craniometric heterogeneity. Southerners predominate. (Kieta, S. (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)"

"The predominant craniometric pattern in the Abydos royal tombs is 'southern' (tropical African variant), and this is consistent with what would be expected based on the literature and other results (Keita, 1990). This pattern is seen in both group and unknown analyses... Archaeology and history seem to provide the most parsimonious explanation for the variation in the royal tombs at Abydos.. Tomb design suggests the presence of northerners in the south in late Nakada times (Hoffman, 1988) when the unification probably took place. Delta names are attached to some of the tombs at Abydos (Gardiner, 1961; Yurco, 1990, personal communication), thus perhaps supporting Petrie's (1939) and Gardiner's contention that north-south marriages were undertaken to legitimize the hegemony of the south. The courtiers of northern elites would have accompanied them.

Given all of the above, it is probably not possible to view the Abydos royal tomb sample as representative of the general southern Upper Egyptian population of the time. Southern elites and/or their descendants eventually came to be buried in the north (Hoffman, 1988). Hence early Second Dynasty kings and Djoser (Dynasty 111) (Hayes, 1953) and his descendants are not buried in Abydos. Petrie (1939) states that the Third Dynasty, buried in the north, was of Sudanese origin, but southern Egypt is equally likely. This perhaps explains Harris and Weeks' (1973) suggested findings of southern morphologies in some Old Kingdom Giza remains, also verified in portraiture (Drake, 1987). Further study would be required to ascertain trends in the general population of both regions. The strong Sudanese affinity noted in the unknown analyses may reflect the Nubian interactions with upper Egypt in predynastic times prior to Egyptian unification (Williams, 1980,1986)..." (S. Keita (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)


"When the Elephantine results were added to a broader pooling of the physical characteristics drawn from a wide geographic region which includes Africa, the Mediterranean and the Near East quite strong affinities emerge between Elephantine and populations from Nubia, supporting a strong south-north cline. (Barry Kemp. (2006) Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. p. 54)


Afrocentric critic C. Loring Brace's 2005 study groups ancient Egyptian populations like the Naqada closer to Nubians and Somalis than European, Mediterranean or Middle Eastern populations. Brace's study shows that the closest European linking with Africans in Egypt or Nubia are Middle Stone Age Portugese and Neolithics, OLDER populations more closely resembling AFRICANS than modern Europeans. Early Neolithic populations, like the Nautifians, in what is now Israel, show sub-Saharan 'negroid' affinities. (Brace, et al. The questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European craniofacial form, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 3; 103(1): p. 242-247.)


"The Niger-Congo speakers, Congo, Dahomey and Haya, cluster closely with each other and a bit less closely with the Nubian sample, both the recent and the Bronze Age Nubians, and more remotely with the Naqada Bronze Age sample of Egypt, the modern Somalis, and the Arabic-speaking Fellaheen (farmers) of Israel. When those samples are separated and run in a single analysis as in Fig. 1, there clearly is a tie between them that is diluted the farther one gets from sub-Saharan Africa" (Brace, 2005)

"The surprise is that the Neolithic peoples of Europe and their Bronze Age successors are not closely related to the modern inhabitants, although the prehistoric/modern ties are somewhat more apparent in southern Europe. It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa... Interestingly enough, however, the small Natufian sample falls between the Niger-Congo group and the other samples used. Fig. 2 shows the plot produced by the first two canonical variates, but the same thing happens when canonical variates 1 and 3 (not shown here) are used. This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic), .. When canonical variates are plotted, neither sample ties in with Cro-Magnon as was once suggested. The data treated here support the idea that the Neolithic moved out of the Near East into the circum-Mediterranean areas and Europe by a process of demic diffusion but that subsequently the in situ residents of those areas, derived from the Late Pleistocene inhabitants, absorbed both the agricultural life way and the people who had brought it." (Brace, 2005)


Both skeletal/cranial and DNA studies by other authors confirm that some Neolithics did not derive from the Near East. They most likely resembled African populations. Hence comparisons using older European Neolithics versus Africans are comparisons with older prehistoric Europeans who looked more like Africans, than modern 'white' Europeans, as shown by Brace (2005), and Hanihara (1996) also, who states "Early West Asians looked like Africans."

"The absence of mtDNA haplogroup J in the ancient Portuguese Neolithic sample suggests that this population was not derived directly from Near Eastern farmers. The Mesolithic and Neolithic groups show genetic discontinuity implying colonisation at the Neolithic transition in Portugal." (CHANDLER, H.; SYKES, B.; ZILHÃO, J. (2005) - Using ancient DNA to examine genetic continuity at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Portugal, in ARIAS, P.; ONTAÑÓN, R.; GARCÍA-MONCÓ, C. (eds.) - «Actas del III Congreso del Neolítico en la Península Ibérica», Santander, Monografías del Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria 1, p. 781-786.)

"Early Europeans still resembled modern tropical peoples - some resemble modern Australian and Africans, more than modern Europeans.. Nor does the picture get any clearer when we move on to the Cro-Magnons, the presumed ancestors of modern Europeans. Some were more like present-day Australians or Africans, judged by objective anatomical observations." (Christopher Stringer, Robin McKie (1998). African Exodus. Macmillan, p. 162)


Early Europeans, as recently as 6,000-9000 years ago, looked somewhat like Africans in terms of retained 'tropical' characteristics. Cold adaptation was to bring about several physical changes over time from the initial Out of Africa migrations to Europe. Retained traces of 'tropical' characteristics, indicate a "large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans." (Holliday and Churchill 2003).

"Body proportions covary with climate, apparently as the result of climatic selection. Ontogenetic research and migrant studies have demonstrated that body proportions are largely genetically controlled and are under low selective rates; thus studies of body form can provide evidence for evolutionarily short-term dispersals and/or gene flow. Replacement predicts that the earliest modern Europeans will possess "tropical" body proportions (assuming Africa is the center of origin), while Regional Continuity permits only minor shifts in body shape, due to climatic change and/or improved cultural buffering. .. results refute the hypothesis of local continuity in Europe, and are consistent with an interpretation of elevated gene flow (and population dispersal?) from Africa, followed by subsequent climatic adaptation to colder conditions." (Holliday, Trenton (1997) Body proportions in Late Pleistocene Europe and modern human origins. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 423-447)


".. while the Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans have significantly higher (i.e., tropically-adapted) brachial and crural indices than do recent Europeans, they also have shorter (i.e., cold-adapted) limbs. The somewhat paradoxical retention of "tropical" indices in the context of more "cold-adapted" limb length is best explained as evidence for Replacement in the European Late Pleistocene, followed by gradual cold adaptation in glacial Europe." (Holliday, Trenton (1999) Brachial and crural indices of European Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans. Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 36, Issue 5, May 1999, Pages 549-566)


"Stature, body mass, and body proportions are evaluated for the Cheddar Man (Gough's Cave 1) skeleton. Like many of his Mesolithic contemporaries, Gough's Cave 1 evinces relatively short estimated stature (ca. 166.2 cm [5' 5']) and low body mass (ca. 66 kg [146 lbs]). In body shape, he is similar to recent Europeans for most proportional indices. He differs, however, from most recent Europeans in his high crural index and tibial length/trunk height indices. Thus, while Gough's Cave 1 is characterized by a total morphological pattern considered 'cold-adapted', these latter two traits may be interpreted as evidence of a large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans." (TRENTON W. HOLLIDAY a1 and STEVEN E. CHURCHILL. (2003). Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of body size and shape, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology, 58:37-44 Cambridge University Press)


More data showing early Europeans were tropically adapted types like Africans
"Body proportions are under strong climatic selection and evince remarkable stability within regional lineages. As such, they offer a viable and robust alternative to cranio-facial data in assessing hypothesised continuity and replacement with the transition to agro-pastoralism in central Europe. Humero-clavicular, brachial and crural indices in a large sample (n=75) of Linienbandkeramik (LBK), Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age specimens from the middle Elbe-Saale-Werra valley (MESV) were compared with Eurasian and African terminal Pleistocene, European Mesolithic and geographically disparate recent human specimens. Mesolithic Europeans display considerable variation in humero-clavicular and brachial indices yet none approach the extreme "hyper-polar" morphology of LBK humans from the MESV. In contrast, Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age peoples display elongated brachial and crural indices reminiscent of terminal Pleistocene and "tropically adapted" recent humans. These marked morphological changes likely reflect exogenous immigration during the terminal Fourth millennium cal BC. Population expansion and diffusion is a function of increased mobility and settlement dispersal concomitant with significant technological and subsistence changes in later Neolithic societies during the late fourth millennium cal BCE."
-- Gallagher et al. "Population continuity, demic diffusion and Neolithic origins in central-southern Germany: the evidence from body proportions." Homo. 2009;60(2):95-126. Epub 2009 Mar 4.


Early West Asians looked like Africans. Thus any ancient returnees or "backflow" from West Asia back to Africa is by people who look like Africans to begin with. Brace 2005 shows this as to Europeans. Hanihara 1996, demonstrates this below as to West Asians (i.e. 'Middle easterners'). Also see above.

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"Distance analysis and factor analysis, based on Q-mode correlation coefficients, were applied to 23 craniofacial measurements in 1,802 recent and prehistoric crania from major geographical areas of the Old World. The major findings are as follows: 1) Australians show closer similarities to African populations than to Melanesians. 2) Recent Europeans align with East Asians, and early West Asians resemble Africans. 3) The Asian population complex with regional difference between northern and southern members is manifest. 4) Clinal variations of craniofacial features can be detected in the Afro-European region on the one hand, and Australasian and East Asian region on the other hand. 5) The craniofacial variations of major geographical groups are not necessarily consistent with their geographical distribution pattern. This may be a sign that the evolutionary divergence in craniofacial shape among recent populations of different geographical areas is of a highly limited degree. Taking all of these into account, a single origin for anatomically modern humans is the most parsimonious interpretation of the craniofacial variations presented in this study."
(Hanihara T. Comparison of craniofacial features of major human groups. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1996 Mar;99(3):389-412.)


Older studies often show misclassification or exclusion of Nile Valley remains deemed 'negroid'. Although clearly of the "African" type, such remains were frequently relabeled "Mediterranean."

"Analyses of Egyptian crania are numerous. Vercoutter (1978) notes that ancient Egyptian crania have frequently all been lumped (implicitly or explicitly) as Mediterranean, although Negroid remains are recorded in substantial numbers by many workers... "Nutter (1958), using the Penrose statistic, demonstrated that Nagada I and Badari crania, both regarded as Negroid, were almost identical and that these were most similar to the Negroid Nubian series from Kerma studied by Collett (1933). [Collett, not accepting variability, excluded "clear negro" crania found in the Kerma series from her analysis, as did Morant (1925), implying that they were foreign..." (S. Keita (1990) Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 83:35-48)


Different features among Africans, particularly EAST AFRICANS, like narrow noses are not due to different "race" mixes but are part of the built-in physical diversity and variation of African peoples. Narrow noses appear in the oldest African populations for example, in Kenya's Gamble Cave complex. East Africans like Somalians or Kenyans do not need any outside race "mix" or migration to make them look the way they do.

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".. all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in a number of body proportions.. There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to the populations of Europe and western Asia.. In skin colour, the Tutsi are darker than the Hutu, in the reverse direction to that leading to the caucasoids. Lip thickness provides a similar case: on an average the lips of the Tutsi are thicker than those of the Hutu." [Jean Hiernaux, The People of Africa (1975), pgs 42-43, 62-63)

"In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the whole world range is covered in the sub-continent. Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the average nose widths covers 92 per cent of the world range: only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record. Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage....."
- Jean Hiernaux, "The People of Africa" 1975 p.53, 54

"Prehistoric human crania from Bromhead's Site, Willey's Kopje, Makalia Burial Site, Nakuru, and other localities in the Eastern Rift Valley of Kenya are reassessed using measurements and a multivariate statistical approach. Materials available for comparison include series of Bushman and Hottentot crania. South and East African Negroes, and Egyptians. Up to 34 cranial measurements taken on these series are utilized to construct three multiple discriminant frameworks, each of which can assign modern individuals to a correct group with considerable accuracy. When the prehistoric crania are classified with the help of these discriminants, results indicate that several of the skulls are best grouped with modern Negroes. This is especially clear in the case of individuals from Bromhead's Site, Willey's Kopje, and Nakuru, and the evidence hardly suggests post-Pleistocene domination of the Rift and surrounding territory by "Mediterranean" Caucasoids, as has been claimed. Recent linguistic and archaeological findings are also reviewed, and these seem to support application of the term Nilotic Negro to the early Rift populations." (Rightmire GP. New studies of post-Pleistocene human skeletal remains from the Rift Valley, Kenya. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1975 May;42(3):351-69. )

"....inhabitants of East Africa right on the equator have appreciably longer, narrower, and higher noses than people in the Congo at the same latitude. A former generation of anthropologists used to explain this paradox by invoking an invasion by an itinerant "white" population from the Mediterranean area, although this solution raised more problems than it solved since the East Africans in question include some of the blackest people in the world with characteristically wooly hair and a body build unique among the world's populations for its extreme linearity and height.... The relatively long noses of East Africa become explicable then when one realizes that much of the area is extremely dry for parts of the year." (C. Loring Brace, "Nonracial Approach Towards Human Diversity," cited in The Concept of Race, Edited by Ashley Montagu, The Free Press, 1980, pp. 135-136, 138)

"The .... excavations at Gogoshiis Qabe (Somalia) uncovered eleven virtually complete and articulated primary burials...Closest morphological affinities are with early Holocene skeletons from Lake Turkana, Kenya...and Lake Besaka, Ethiopia.."
(S. Brandt, (1986) The Upper Pleistocene and early Holocene prehistory of the Horn of Africa. Journal African Archaeological Review. Volume 4, Number 1, Pages 41-82 )

"The role of tall, linearly built populations in eastern Africa's prehistory has always been debated. Traditionally, they are viewed as late migrants into the area. But as there is better palaeoanthropological and linguistic documentation for the earlier presence of these populations than for any other group in eastern Africa, it is far more likely that they are indigenous eastern Africans. ... prehistoric linear populations show resemblances to both Upper Pleistocene eastern African fossils and present-day, non-Bantu-speaking groups in eastern Africa, with minor differences stemming from changes in overall robusticity of the dentition and skeleton. This suggests a longstanding tradition of linear populations in eastern Africa, contributing to the indigenous development of cultural and biological diversity from the Pleistocene up to the present."
(L . A . SCHEPARTZ, "Who were the later Pleistocene eastern Africans?" The African Archaeological Review, 6 (1988), pp. 57- 72)


Recent study shows ancient Egyptians physically more like tropically adapted Black Americans than White Americans, confirming older studies that show today's Egyptians in general are closer to US blacks than Northern Europeans, and Southern Europeans as well.


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"We also compare Egyptian body proportions to those of modern American Blacks and Whites... Long bone stature regression equations were then derived for each sex. Our results confirm that, although ancient Egyptians are closer in body proportion to modern American Blacks than they are to American Whites, proportions in Blacks and Egyptians are not identical... Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks. ..brachial indices are definitely more 'African'... There is no evidence for significant variation in proportions among temporal or social groupings; thus, the new formulae may be broadly applicable to ancient Egyptian remains." ("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55


Africa is the most genetically diverse region in the world with the original man being from East Africa according to conservative scholars:

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages.. Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world." (Tishkoff SA, Williams SM., Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2002 Aug (8):611-21.)

" In other words, all non-Africans carry M168. Of course, Africans carrying the M168 mutation today are the descendants of the African subpopulation from which the migrants originated.... Thus, the Australian/Eurasian Adam (the ancestor of all non-Africans) was an East African Man." (Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis, Wiley-Blackwell: 2006, pg 108)


The Natufians, early inhabitants of the Sinai - Israel- Palestine area, and reputed pioneers of several Neolithic agricultural and technological developments, appear to have had "Negroid" affinities. Important Natufian sites include Mt. Carmel, Jericho and several others.


"Against this background of disease, movement and pedomorphic reduction of body size one can identify Negroid (Ethiopic or Bushmanoid?) traits of nose and prognathism appearing in Natufian latest hunters (McCown, 1939) and in Anatolian and Macedonian first farmers, probably from Nubia via the unknown predecesors of the Badarians and Tasians....". (Biological Relations of Egyptians and Eastern Mediterranean Populations during pre-Dynastic and Dynastic Times. J. Lawrence Angel. Journal of Human Evolutiom. 1972:1, 1, Pg 307)

"The Mushabians moved into Sinai from the Nile Delta, bringing North African lithic chipping tecniques."
("Pleistocene connections between Africa and Southwest Asia: an archaeological perspective. O. Bar-Yosef. African Archaeological Review. 5 (1987) Pg 29)

"It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa... Interestingly enough, however, the small Natufian sample falls between the Niger-Congo group and the other samples used... This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic.." (C.L Brace, et. al. 2005. The Questionable contribution of the Neolithic...)


Early inhabitants of the general Natufian Israel area show limb proportions suited to tropical peoples- similar to sub-Saharan's homeland

"However, the real revelation came when Erik [Trinkhaus] inserted his data on the Cro-Magnons of Europe and the Skhul-Qafzeh skeletons from Israel into the equations. In this case, he got a figure of 85 percent for the shinbone-thighbone ratio. Not only were they unlike the Neanderthals, but these people actually fell at the other extreme in their readings on the limb thermometer. The predicted average temperature of origin for folk with an 85% shin-thigh fraction, indicating much longer extremities relative to trunk length - was about 20 degrees higher than the Neanderthals', suggesting a subtropical- if not tropical- homeland!" (African Exodus By Christopher Stringer, Robin McKie, McMillan: pg 79-83)


The 1993 'Clines and Clusters' study by C.L. Brace, et. al. has been used to minmize or downplay the realtionship between Egypt and its African neighbors. For example it:

--Created an "African" or "sub-Saharan" group, but excluded the Maghreb (including parts of the Sahara and Sahel), the Sudan and the Horn area (Ethiopia and Somalia) even though these latter two are BELOW the Sahara, and thus "sub-Saharan".

--Excluded the Badari, and Naqada I and II, key Egyptian groups, thus obscuring the Sudanic/Saharan character of numerous early samples, noted in several earlier analyses.
Ignored the formative range of the Saharans on Egypt, from the megaliths and cattle cults of the Nabta Playa to early mummification practices was ignored. T

--Excluded the Nubian population of the Badari and early Naqada period, including the rich remains of the well documented Qustul culture, near the present Sudanese-Egyptian border, again obscuring the close relationship between the two peoples.

--Created a vague "Bronze Age" grouping of Nubians, and a "modern" group of medieval samples, an era long after the dynasties and when Nubia had experienced more gene flow of that and the later Arab incursions, beginning in the 700s. Sampling thus ignored the early Badari/Naqada Nubians, jumped the 25th Dynasty era, and shifted to the medieval era in the age range of the Arab conquests.
Used Somalian samples that were modern, and thus within the range of recent gene flow (such as the Arab era), particularly on the coast.

--The result was a "comparison" finding that the ancient Egyptians had no relationship "at all" to other "sub-Saharan" peoples and were relatively distant from the Nubians and Somalians. peoples. This finding has been undermined by the subsequent research of several scholars, including limb proportion studies.

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"However, Brace et al. (1993) find that a series of upper Egyptian/Nubian epipalaeolithic crania affiliate by cluster analysis with groups they designate "sub-Saharan African" or just simply "African" (from which they incorrectly exclude the Maghreb, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa), whereas post-Badarian southern predynastic and a late dynastic northern series (called "E" or Gizeh) cluster together, and secondarily with Europeans. In the primary cluster with the Egyptian groups are also remains representing populations from the ancient Sudan and recent Somalia. Brace et al. (1993) seemingly interpret these results as indicating a population relationship from Scandinavia to the Horn of Africa, although the mechanism for this is not clearly stated; they also state that the Egyptians had no relationship with sub-Saharan Africans, a group that they nearly treat (incorrectly) as monolithic, although sometimes seemingly including Somalia, which directly undermines aspects of their claims. Sub-Saharan Africa does not define/delimit authentic Africanity." (S.O.Y. Keita. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data". Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)


Brace carefully excluded the Badari- a key native pre-dynastic group that led into the dynasties, and suggested possible European immigration to ancient Egypt. Keita put this to the test and found that the excluded group matched up more closely with Africans than Europeans.

"An examination of the distance hierarchies reveals the Badarian series to be more similar to the Teita in both analyses and always more similar to all of the African series than to the Norse and Berg groups (see Tables 3A & 3B and Figure 2). Essentially equal similarity is found with the Zalavar and Dogon series in the 11-variable analysis and with these and the Bushman in the one using 15 variables. The Badarian series clusters with the tropical African groups no matter which algorithm is employed (see Figures 3 and 4).. In none of them did the Badarian sample affiliate with the European series."(S.O.Y. Keita. Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)

More on the biased and skewed 'true negro' model

"Another example of the use of a socially constructed typological paradigm is in studies of the Nile Valley populations in which the concept of a biological African is restricted to those with a particular craniometric pattern (called in the past the 'True Negro' though no 'True White' was ever defined). Early Nubians, Egyptians, and even Somalians are viewed essentially as non-Africans, when in fact numerous lines of evidence and an evolutionary model make them a part of African biocultural/biogeographical history. The diversity of 'authentic' Africans is a reality. This diversity prevents biogeographical/biohistorical Africans from clustering into a single unit, no matter the kind of data." (The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence, S. O. Y. Keita, Rick A. Kittles, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 99, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 534-544)

"..presents all tropical Africans with narrower noses and faces as being related to or descended from external, ultimately non-African peoples. However, narrow-faced, narrow-nosed populations have long been resident in Saharo-tropical Africa... and their origin need not be sought elsewhere. These traits are also indigenous. The variability in tropical Africa is expectedly naturally high. Given their longstanding presence, narrow noses and faces cannot be deemed `non-African."(S.O.Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993), page 134 )

"Another example of the use of a socially constructed typological paradigm is in studies of the Nile Valley populations in which the concept of a biological African is restricted to those with a particular craniometric pattern (called in the past the 'True African' though no 'True White' was ever defined). Early Nubians, Egyptians, and even Somalians are viewed essentially as non-Africans, when in fact numerous lines of evidence and an evolutionary model make them a part of African biocultural/biogeographical history. The diversity of 'authentic' Africans is a reality. This diversity prevents biogeographical/biohistorical Africans from clustering into a single unit, no matter the kind of data."
---Keita and Kittles. "The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence." American Anthropologist 99, no. 3 (September 1997): 534-544

Hair and the 'true negro'
"Strouhal (1971) microscopically examined some hair which had been preserved on a Badrarian skull. The analysis was interpreted as suggesting a stereotypical tropical African-European hybrid (mulatto). However this hair is grossly no different from that of Fulani, some Kanuri, or Somali and does not require a gene flow explanation any more than curly hair in Greece necessarily does. Extremely "wooly" hair is not the only kind native to tropical Africa.." (S. O. Y. Keita. (1993). "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54)


Sampling bias and the true negro. In some Nile Valley research sampling bias persists such as drawing samples from the far north of Egypt, boscuring the region's genetic complexity. The stereotypical "true negro" type is still used to artifically separate related peoples and obscure a fuller, more accurate picture of African genetic diversity. Sampling bias appears both in DNA studies (noted by Keita) and in cranial studies (noted by Egyptologist Barry Kemp).

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Keita on DNA studies drawing samples from the far north, an area with more foreign settlement and gene flow

"However, in some of the studies, only individuals from northern Egypt are sampled, and this could theoretically give a false impression of Egyptian variability (contrast Lucotte and Mercier 2003a with Manni et al. 2002), because this region has received more foreign settlers (and is nearer the Near East). Possible sample bias should be integrated into the discussion of results." (S.O.Y. Keita, A.J. Boyce, "Interpreting Geographical Patterns of Y Chromosome Variation1," History in Africa 32 (2005) 221-246 )

Egyptologist Barry Kemp on the worldwide CRANID database that used northern samples near the Mediterranean as "representative" of the ancient Egyptians, and classifying them in a "European" direction, while excluding key historic sites further south..

"If, on the other hand, CRANID had used one of the Elephantine populations of the same period, the geographic association would be much more with the African groups to the south. It is dangerous to take one set of skeletons and use them to characterize the population of the whole of Egypt." (Barry Kemp, Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation, Routledge: 2005, p. 55)


Modern anthropology shows that the ancient Egyptians are well within the range of tropical Africa, contradicting older research in the 1990s that sought to deny any relationship. The anthropologist below, Nancy Lovell was recommended by Mary lefkowitz in Black Athena Revisted.


"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)


One of the oldest remains from Upper Egypt, shows strong sub-Saharan affinities, and early northern Egypt also shows sub-Saharan affinities through cultural traits- the 'Nubian complex' of technology and production.

"The morphometric affinities of the 33,000 year old skeleton from Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt are examined using multivariate statistical procedures.. The results indicate a strong association between some of the sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age (MSA) specimens, and the Nazlet Khater mandible. Furthermore, the results suggest that variability between African populations during the Neolithic and Protohistoric periods was more pronounced than the range of variability observed among recent African and Levantine populations." (PINHASI Ron, SEMAL Patrick (2000). The position of the Nazlet Khater specimen among prehistoric and modern African and Levantine populations. Journal of human evolution. 2000, vol. 39, no3, pp. 269-288 )

"..Middle Paleolithic and the transition to the Upper Paleolithic in the Lower Nile Valley are described... the Middle Paleolithic or, more appropriately, Middle Stone Age of this region starts with the arrival of new populations from sub-Saharan Africa, as evidenced by the nature of the Early to Middle Stone Age transition in stratified sites. Throughout the late Middle Pleistocene technological change occurs leading to the establishment of the Nubian Complex by the onset of the Upper Pleistocene." (Van Peer, Philip. Did middle stone age moderns of sub-Saharan African descent trigger an upper paleolithic revolution in the lower nile valley? Anthropologie. vol. 42, no3, pp. 215-225)


Dental studies provide evidence that the ancient Egyptian population maintained a high degree of continuity into the early, mid and late Dynastic periods. A key ancient group, the Badari, found to link to tropical African metrics, was excluded by such studies as Brace (1993) but dental research shows they link well with later pre and Dynastic populations. J. Irish's 2006 dental study examined the ancient Badarian people excluded by Brace and found that they were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like." His dental results show that:

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"Despite the difference, Gebel Ramlah [the Western Desert- Saharan region] is closest to predynastic and early dynastic samples from Abydos, Hierakonpolis, and Badari.."

the Badarians were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like"

"A comparison of Badari to the Naqada and Hierakonpolis samples .. contradicts the idea of a foreign origin for the Naqada (Petrie, 1939; Baumgartel, 1970)"

Evidence in favor of continuity is also demonstrated by comparison of individual samples. "Naqada and especially Hierakonpolis share close affinities with First-Second Dynasty Abydos.. These findings do not support the concept of a foreign dynastic ''race''"

"Thus, despite increasing foreign influence after the Second Intermediate Period, not only did Egyptian culture remain intact (Lloyd, 2000a), but the people themselves, as represented by the dental samples, appear biologically constant as well."

(Joel D. Irish (2006). Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Dental Affinities Among Neolithic Through Postdynastic Peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.)


Africans have the highest dental diversity
"Previous research by the first author revealed that, relative to other modern peoples, sub-Saharan Africans exhibit the highest frequencies of ancestral (or plesiomorphic) dental traits... The fact that sub-Saharan Africans express these apparently plesiomorphic characters, along with additional information on their affinity to other modern populations, evident intra-population heterogeneity, and a world-wide dental cline emanating from the sub-continent, provides further evidence that is consistent with an African origin model." (Irish JD, Guatelli-Steinberg D.(2003) Ancient teeth and modern human origins: an expanded comparison of African Plio-Pleistocene and recent world dental samples. Hum Evol. 2003 Aug;45(2):113-44. )


Ancient Egyptian civilization was indigenous with continuity among its peoples, not an influx of Middle Easterners, Europeans or other outsiders like Arabs until relatively late in history

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"Some have argued that various early Egyptians like the Badarians probably migrated northward from Nubia, while others see a wide-ranging movement of peoples across the breadth of the Sahara before the onset of desiccation. Whatever may be the origins of any particular people or civilization, however, it seems reasonably certain that the predynastic communities of the Nile valley were essentially indigenous in culture, drawing little inspiration from sources outside the continent during the several centuries directly preceding the onset of historical times..." (Robert July, Pre-Colonial Africa, 1975, p. 60-61)


"overall population continuity over the Predynastic and early Dynastic, and high levels of genetic heterogeneity, thereby suggesting that state formation occurred as a mainly indigenous process."
(Zakrzewski, S.R. (2007). "Population continuity or population change: Formation of the ancient Egyptian state". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132 (4): 501-509)

"the peoples of the steppes and grasslands to the immediate south of Egypt domesticated cattle, as early as 9000 to 8000 B.C. They included peoples from the Afroasiastic linguistic group and the second major African language family, Nilo-Saharan (Wendorf, Schild, Close 1984; Wendorf, et al. 1982). Thus the earliest domestic cattle may have come to Egypt from these southern neighbors, circa 6000 B.C., and not from the Middle East.[148] Pottery, another significant advance in material cultural may also have followed this pattern, initiatied "as early as 9000 B.C. by the Nilo-Saharans and Afrasians who lived to the south of Egypt. Soon thereafter, pots spread to Egyptian sites, almost 2,000 years before the first pottery was made in the Middle East."
(Christopher Ehret, "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 25-27)


X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies show some to be linked physically to Nubian types, and some documented royal officials are clearly "Negroid' like Pepi-seneb, an eminent scribe c. 2745 BC. Some royal New Kingdom mummies also show melanin frequencies consistent with Negroid origin.


"In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults."
(An X-ray atlas of the royal mummies. Edited by J.E. Harris and E.F. Wente. (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980.) Review: Michael R. Zimmerman, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 56, Issue 2 , (1981) Pages 207 - 208)

"While the Upper Nile Egyptians show phenotypic features that occur in higher frequencies in the Sudan and southward into East Africa (namely, facial prognathism, chamaerrhiny, and paedomorphic cranial architecture with specific modifications of the nasal aperature), these so-called Negroid features are not universal in the region of Thebes, Karnak, and Luxor."
(Kennedy, Kenneth A.R., T. Plummer, J. Chinment, "Identification of the Eminent Dead: Pepi, A Scribe of Egypt," In Katherine J. Reichs (ed.), Forensic Osteology, 1986.)


German Institute for Archaeology -excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. In several of the noble specimens:
"The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."
(Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues", Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13)


Nubians were ethnically the closest people to the Egyptians. Conflict between the two were typical clashes between kingdoms without the simplistic "racial" models drawn by some 20th century writers.
Quote 1:
"The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)

- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Quote 2:

"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region.4 As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."

- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


Ancient Egyptian religion closer to the religion of African regions than to Mesopotamia, Europe or the Middle East

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Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508
"A large number of gods go back to prehistoric times. The images of a cow and star goddess (Hathor), the falcon (Horus), and the human-shaped figures of the fertility god (Min) can be traced back to that period. Some rites, such as the "running of the Apil-bull," the "hoeing of the ground," and other fertility and hunting rites (e.g., the hippopotamus hunt) presumably date from early times.. Connections with the religions in southwest Asia cannot be traced with certainty."
"It is doubtful whether Osiris can be regarded as equal to Tammuz or Adonis, or whether Hathor is related to the "Great Mother." There are closer relations with northeast African religions. The numerous animal cults (especially bovine cults and panther gods) and details of ritual dresses (animal tails, masks, grass aprons, etc) probably are of African origin. The kinship in particular shows some African elements, such as the king as the head ritualist (i.e., medicine man), the limitations and renewal of the reign (jubilees, regicide), and the position of the king's mother (a matriarchal element). Some of them can be found among the Ethiopians in Napata and Meroe, others among the Prenilotic tribes (Shilluk)."
(Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508)


Egyptian dynastic civilization based from the 'darker' south (Upper Egypt) not the north (Lower Egypt)

QUOTE(s):
"While not attempting to underestimate the contribution that Deltaic political and religious institutions made to those of a united Egypt, many Egyptologists now discount the idea that a united prehistoric kingdom of Lower Egypt ever existed."


"While communities such as Ma'adi appear to have played an important role in entrepots through which goods and ideas form south-west Asia filtered into the Nile Valley in later prehistoric times, the main cultural and political tradition that gave rise to the cultural pattern of Early Dynastic Egypt is to be found not in the north but in the south.":
The Cambridge History of Africa: Volume 1, From the Earliest Times to c. 500 BC, (Cambridge University Press: 1982), Edited by J. Desmond Clark pp. 500-509

"..the early cultures of Merimde, the Fayum, Badari Naqada I and II are essentially African and early African social customs and religious beliefs were the root and foundation of the ancient Egyptian way of life." (Source: Shaw, Thurston (1976) Changes in African Archaeology in the Last Forty Years in African Studies since 1945. p. 156-68. London.)


Egyptian state founded from the south, and indigenous in character. Egyptians dominated Palestine in some eras.

"What is truly unique about this state is the integration of rule over an extensive geographic region, in contrast to other contemporaneous Near Easter polities in Nubia, Mesopotamia, Palestine and the Levant. Present evidence suggests that the state which emerged by the First Dynasty had its roots in the Nagada culture of Upper Egypt, where grave types, pottery and artifacts demonstrate an evolution of form from the Predynastic to the First Dynasty, This cannot be demonstrated for the material culture of Lower Egypt, which was eventually displaced by that which originated in Upper Egypt. Hierarchical society with much social and economic differentiation, as symbolized in the Nagada II cemeteries of Upper Egypt, does not seem to have been present, then, in Lower Egypt, a fact which supports an Upper Egyptian origin for the unified state. Thus archaeological evidence cannot support earlier theories that the founders of Egyptian civilization were an invading Dynastic race from the east.."

"Egyptian contact in the 4th millennium B.C. with SW Asia is undeniable, but the effect of this contact on state formation is Egypt is less clear... The unified state which emerged in Egypt in the 3rd millenium B.C. however, was unlike the polities in Mesopotamia, the Levant, northern Syria, or Early Bronze Age Palestine- in sociopolitical organization, material culture, and belief system. There was undoubtedly heightened commercial contact with SW Asia in the 4th millennium B.C., but the Early Dynastic state which emerged in Egypt is unique and religious in character."
(Bard, Kathryn A. 1994 The Egyptian Predynastic: A Review of the Evidence. Journal of Field Archaeology 21(3):265-288.)

"From Petrie onwards, it was regularly suggested that despite the evidence of Predynastic cultures, Egyptian civilization of the 1st Dynasty appeared suddenly and must therefore have been introduced by an invading foreign 'race'. Since the 1970s however, excavations at Abydos and Hierakonpolis have clearly demonstrated the indigenous, Upper Egyptian roots of early civilization in Egypt.

Contact between northern Egypt and Palestine was overland, as evidence in northern Sinai demonstrates.. Israeli archealogists suggest that this evidence represents a commercial network established and controlled by the Egyptians as early as EBA Ia, and that this network was a major factor in the rise of the urban settlements found later in Palestine EBA II. Naomi Porat's technological study of ceramics from EBA sites in southern Palestine clearly demonstrates that in EBA Ib strata many of the pottery vessels used for food preparation were probably manufactured by Egyptian potters using Egyptian technology but local Palestinian clays. In EBA Ib strata there are also many storage jars made from Nile silt and marl wares, which must have been imported from Egypt. Not only did the Egyptians establish camps and way stations in northern Sinai, but the ceramic evidence also suggests that they established a highly organized network of settlements in southern Palestine where an Egyptian population was in residence."
(Ian Shaw ed. (2003) The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt By Ian Shaw. Oxford University Press, page 40-63)


Much older scholarship shows cultural similarities between ancient Egypt and the rest of Africa, contradicting claims of Middle Eastern inspiration.

--Specific central African tool designs found at the well known Naqada, Badari and Fayum archaeological sites in Egypt (de Heinzelin 1962, Arkell and Ucko, 1956 et al). Shaw (1976) states that "the early cultures of Merimde, the Fayum, Badari Naqada I and II are essentially African and early African social customs and religious beliefs were the root and foundation of the ancient Egyptian way of life."
Pottery evidence first seen in the Saharan Highlands then spreading to the Nile Valley (Flight 1973).
Art motifs of Saharan rock paintings showing similarities to those in pharaonic art. A number of scholars suggest that these earlier artistic styles influenced later pharaonic art via Saharans leaving drier areas and moving into the Nile Valley taking their art styles with them (Mori 1964, Blanc 1964, et al)

--Earlier pioneering mummification outside Egypt. The oldest mummy in Africa is of a black Saharan child (Donadoni 1964, Blanc 1964) Frankfort (1956) suggests that it is thus possible to understand the pharaonic worldview by reference to the religious beliefs of these earlier African precursors. Attempts to suggest the root of such practices are due to Caucasoid civilizers from elsewhere are thus contradicted by the data on the ground.

--Several cultural practices of Egypt show strong similarities to an African totemic clan base. Childe (1969, 1978), Aldred (1978) and Strouhal (1971) demonstrate linkages with several African practices such as divine kingship and the king as divine rainmaker.

--Physical similarities of the early Nile valley populations with that of tropical Africans. Such connections are demonstrated in the work of numerous scholars such as Thompson and Randall Mclver 1905, Falkenburger 1947, and Strouhal 1971. The distance diagrams of Mukherjee, Rao and Trevor (1955) place the ancient Badarians genetically near 'black' tribes such as the Ashanti and the Taita. See also the "Issues of lumping under Mediterranean clusters" section above for similar older analyses.

--Serological (blood) evidence of genetic linkages. Paoli 1972 for example found a significant resemblance between ABO frequencies of dynastic Egyptians and the black northern Haratin who are held to be the probable descendants of the original Saharans (Hiernaux, 1975).

--Language similarities which include several hundred roots ascribable to African elements (UNESCO 1974)

--Ancient Egyptian origin stories ascribing origins of the gods and their ancestors to African locations to the south and west of Egypt (Davidson 1959)

--Advanced state building and political unity in Nubia, including writing, administrative apparatus and insignia some 300 years before dynastic Egypt, and the long demonstrated interchange between Nubia and Egypt (Williams 1980)

--Newer studies (Wendorf 2001, Wilkinson 1999, et al.) confirm these older analyses. Excavations from Nabta Playa, located about 100km west of Abu Simbel for example, suggest that the Neolithic inhabitants of the region were migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, based on cultural similarities and social complexity which is thought to be reflective of Egypt's Old Kingdom

--Other scholars (Wilkinson 1999) present similar material and cultural evidence- including similarities between predynastic Egypt and traditional African cattle-culture, typical of Southern Sudanese and East African pastoralists of today, and various cultural and artistic data such as iconography on rock art found in both Egypt and in the Sudan.


Assorted demic diffusion theories holding a mass influx of Europeans or Middle Easterners to Africa bringing cattle and agriculture to the natives is not supported by credible evidence. Indigenous development is most likely.

"Furthermore, the archaeology of northern Africa DOES NOT SUPPORT demic diffusion of farming from the Near East. The evidence presented by Wetterstrom indicates that early African farmers in the Fayum initially INCORPORATED Near Eastern domesticates INTO an INDIGENOUS foraging strategy, and only OVER TIME developed a dependence on horticulture. This is inconsistent with in-migrating farming settlers, who would have brought a more ABRUPT change in subsistence strategy. "The same archaeological pattern occurs west of Egypt, where domestic animals and, later, grains were GRADUALLY adopted after 8000 yr B.P. into the established pre-agricultural Capsian culture, present across the northern Sahara since 10,000 yr B.P. From this continuity, it has been argued that the pre-food-production Capsian peoples spoke languages ancestral to the Berber and/or Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, placing the proto-Afroasiatic period distinctly before 10,000 yr B.P."

Source: The Origins of Afroasiatic
Christopher Ehret, S. O. Y. Keita, Paul Newman;, and Peter Bellwood
Science 3 December 2004: Vol. 306. no. 5702, p. 1680


When claims of European or 'Mediterranean' migrant influx to ancient Egypt before the Hyskos/Greek/Roman era are analyzed research data conclusively debunks them.
Quote from "Early Nile Valley Farmers From El-Badari"


Male Badarian crania were analyzed using the generalized distance of Mahalanobis in a comparative analysis with other African and European series from the Howells?s database. The study was carried out to examine the affinities of the Badarians to evaluate, in preliminary fashion, a demic diffusion hypothesis that postulates that horticulture and the Afroasiatic language family were brought ultimately from southern Europe. (The assumption was made that the southern Europeans would be more similar to the central and northern Europeans than to any indigenous African populations.) The Badarians show a greater affinity to indigenous Africans while not being identical. This suggests that the Badarians were more affiliated with local and an indigenous African population than with Europeans.
(S.O.Y. Keita. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data". Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)


The Sahara and the Sudan seem to have provided a major source for the genesis of Egyptian civilization contributing many of its unique elements.

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"a critical factor in the rise of social complexity and the subsequent emergence of the Egyptian state in Upper Egypt (Hoffman 1979; Hassan 1988). If so, Egypt owes a major debt to those early pastoral groups in the Sahara; they may have provided Egypt with many of those features that still distinguish it from its neighbors to the east."
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 17, 97-123 (1998), "Nabta Playa and Its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory," Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild.

"Over the last two decades, numerous contemporary (Khartoum Neolithic) sites and cemeteries have been excavated in the Central Sudan.. The most striking point to emerge is the overall similarity of early neolithic developments inhabitation, exchange, material culture and mortuary customs in the Khartoum region to those underway at the same time in the Egyptian Nile Valley, far to the north." (Wengrow, David (2003) "Landscapes of Knowledge, Idioms of Power: The African Foundations of Ancient Egyptian Civilization Reconsidered," in Ancient Egypt in Africa, David O'Connor and Andrew Reid, eds. Ancient Egypt in Africa. London: University College London Press, 2003, pp. 119-137)


"Sub-Saharan" genetic elements found as far afield as the Turkish and Greek regions

F. X. Ricaut, M. Waelkens. (2008). Cranial Discrete Traits in a Byzantine Population and Eastern Mediterranean Population Movements Human Biology - Volume 80, Number 5, October 2008, pp. 535-564

"A late Pleistocene-early Holocene northward migration (from Africa to the Levant and to Anatolia) of these populations has been hypothesized from skeletal data (Angel 1972, 1973; Brace 2005) and from archaeological data, as indicated by the probable Nile Valley origin of the "Mesolithic" (epi-Paleolithic) Mushabi culture found in the Levant (Bar Yosef 1987). This migration finds some support in the presence in Mediterranean populations (Sicily, Greece, southern Turkey, etc.; Patrinos et al.; Schiliro et al. 1990) of the Benin sickle cell haplotype. This haplotype originated in West Africa and is probably associated with the spread of malaria to southern Europe through an eastern Mediterranean route (Salares et al. 2004) following the expansion of both human and mosquito populations brought about by the advent of the Neolithic transition (Hume et al 2003; Joy et al. 2003; Rich et al 1998). This northward migration of northeastern African populations carrying sub-Saharan biological elements is concordant with the morphological homogeneity of the Natufian populations (Bocquentin 2003), which present morphological affinity with sub-Saharan populations (Angel 1972; Brace et al. 2005). In addition, the Neolithic revolution was assumed to arise in the late Pleistocene Natufians and subsequently spread into Anatolia and Europe (Bar-Yosef 2002), and the first Anatolian farmers, Neolithic to Bronze Age Mediterraneans and to some degree other Neolithic-Bronze Age Europeans, show morphological affinities with the Natufians (and indirectly with sub-Saharan populations; Angel 1972; Brace et al 2005), in concordance with a process of demic diffusion accompanying the extension of the Neolithic revolution (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1994)."

"Following the numerous interactions among eastern Mediterranean and Levantine populations and regions, caused by the introduction of agriculture from the Levant into Anatolia and southeastern Europe, there was, beginning in the Bronze Age, a period of increasing interactions in the eastern Mediterranean, mainly during the Greek, Roman, and Islamic periods. These interactions resulted in the development of trading networks, military campaigns, and settler colonization. Major changes took place during this period, which may have accentuated or diluted the sub-Saharan components of earlier Anatolian populations. The second option seems more likely, because even though the population from Sagalassos territory was interacting with northeastern African and Levantine populations [trade relationships with Egypt (Arndt et al. 2003), involvement of thousands of mercenaries from Pisidia (Sagalassos region) in the war around 300 B.C. between the Ptolemaic kingdom (centered in Egypt) and the Seleucid kingdom (Syria/Mesopotamia/Anatolia), etc.], the major cultural and population interactions involving the Anatolian populations since the Bronze Age occurred with the Mediterranean populations form southeastern Europe, as suggested from historical and genetic data."

""In this context it is likely that Bronze Age events may have facilitated the southward diffusion of populations carrying northern and central European biological elements and may have contributed to some degree of admixture between northern and central Europeans and Anatolians, and on a larger scale, between northeastern Mediterraneans and Anatolians. Even if we do not know which populations were involved, historical and archaeological data suggest, for instance, the 2nd millennium B.C. Minoan and later Mycenaean occupation of Anatolian coast, the arrival in Anatolia in the early 1st millennium B.C. of the Phrygians coming from Thrace, and later the arrival of settlers from Macedonia in Pisidia and in the Sagalassos territory (under Seleucid rule). The coming of the Dorians from Northern Greece and central Europe (the Dorians are claimed to be one of the main groups at the origin of the ancient Greeks) may have also brought northern and central European biological elements into southern populations. Indeed, the Dorians may have migrated southward to the Peloponnese, across the southern Aegean and Create, and later reached Asia Minor."


Ancient Egyptian language is part of the Afrasian or Afroasiatic group which has its origins in Africa, and together with other archaeological evidence firmly makes it an African culture. Acording to mainstream research:

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"Ancient Egyptian civilization was, in ways and to an extent usually not recognized, fundamentally African. The evidence of both language and culture reveals these African roots. The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt. The ancient Egyptian language belonged to the Afrasian family (also called Afroasiatic or, formerly, Hamito-Semitic). The speakers of the earliest Afrasian languages, according to recent studies, were a set of peoples whose lands between 15,000 and 13,000 B.C. stretched from Nubia in the west to far northern Somalia in the east. They supported themselves by gathering wild grains. The first elements of Egyptian culture were laid down two thousand years later, between 12,000 and 10,000 B.C., when some of these Afrasian communities expanded northward into Egypt, bringing with them a language directly ancestral to ancient Egyptian. They also introduced to Egypt the idea of using wild grains as food." (Christopher Ehret (1996) "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture." In Egypt in Africa Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press)


"Ancient Egypt belongs to a language group known as 'Afroasiatic' (formerly called Hamito-Semitic) and its closest relatives are other north-east African languages from Somalia to Chad. Egypt's cultural features, both material and ideological and particularly in the earliest phases, show clear connections with that same broad area. In sum, ancient Egypt was an African culture, developed by African peoples, who had wide ranging contacts in north Africa and western Asia." (Morkot, Robert (2005) The Egyptians: An Introduction. Routledge. p. 10)

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ANCIENT EGYPTIANS AND HAIR
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Mummification practices and dyeing of hair
Hair studies of mummies note that color is often influenced by environmental factors at burial sites. Brothwell and Spearman (ref in Fletcher's works-1963) point out that reddish-brown ancient color hair is usually the result of partial oxidation of the melanin pigment. Other causes of hair color "blonding" involve bleaching, caused by the alkaline in the mummification process. Color also varies due to the Egyptian practice of dyeing hair with henna. Other samples show individuals lightening the hair using vegetable colorants. Thus variations in hair color among mummies do not necessarily suggest the presence of blond or red-haired Europeans or Near Easterners flitting about Egypt before being mummified, but the influence of environmental factors.
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Egyptian practice of putting locks of hair in mummy wrappings.

Racial analysis is also made problematic by the Egyptian practice of burying hair, in many "votive or funerary deposits buried separately from the body, a practice found from Predynastic to Roman times despite its frequent omission from excavation reports." (Fletcher 2002) In examining hair samples Fletcher (2004) notes that care is needed to determine what is natural scalp hair, versus hair from a wig, versus hair extensions to natural locks. Tracking the exact source of hair is also critical since the Egyptians were known to have placed locks of hair from different sources among mummy wrappings. (The Search for Nefertiti, By Joann Fletcher, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 93-94, 96; Joann Fletcher, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HAIR AND WIGS, THE OSTRACON THE JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2; SUMMER 2002)
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Hair for wigs often obtained through trade not mass waves of "Caucasoid" migrants.

The use of wigs made of varying hair also complicates attempts at 'racial' analysis. Fletcher (2002) shows that many Egyptian wigs have been found with what is defined as straighter 'cynotrichous' hair. This however is hardly a marker of massive European or Near Eastern presence or admixture. Fletcher notes that the Egyptians often eschewed their own personal hair, shaving carefully and using wigs widely. The hair for these wigs was often obtained through trade. Indeed, "hair itself being a valuable commodity ranked alongside gold and incense in account lists from the town of Kahun." Egyptian trading links with other regions is well known, and a prized commodity like straighter 'cynotrichous' hair could have been easily obtained via the Sahara, Levant, the Maghreb, Mediterranean contacts, or even the hair of Asiatic war captives or casulaties from Egypt's numerous conflicts.
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Red-headed Ramses- routine for genetic variability in Africa not "whiteness"

Rameses came along comparatively late in Egyptian history, when outsiders toEgypt like the Hyskos were increasing in the region. Detailed microscopic analysis during the 1980s (Balout 1985) identified some of the hair of Egyptian Pharoah Rameses II as being a yellowish-red. Such a finding should not be surprising given the wide range of physical variability in Africa, the most genetically diverse region on earth, out of which flowed other population groups. Indeed, blondism and various other hair shades are not unknown in East Africa or Nubia, particularly in children, nor are such hair color variants uncommon in dark-haired or dark skinned populations like the Australians. (Hrdy 1978) Given the range of genetic variability in Africa, a red-haired Rameses is hardly unusual. Rameses' reign, in the 19th Dynasty, came over 1,500 years after the Egyptian state had been established, and after the Hyskos interlude. Such latecomers to Egypt, like the Hyskos, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs etc would add their own genetic strands to the nation's mix. Whatever the blend of genes that occurred with Rameses, his hair offers little supposed "proof" of a "white" or "Nordic" Egypt. If anything, X-rays of the royal mummies by mainstream scientists show that the Egyptians pharoahs and other royals had several uncomfortable 'Negroid' leanings. (http://www.geocities.com/nilevalleypeoples/xraymummies1.htm)
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Red hair can be readily produced by dark-skinned populations- just check out Australia and pheomelanin

The finding of Rameses "red" hair also deserves further scrutiny. The analysis found evidence of dyeing to make the hair yellowish-red, but some elements were untouched by the dye. These elements of yellowish-red hair in Balout's study, were established on the basis of the presence of pheomelanin, a red-brown polymeric pigment in the skin and hair of humans. However, pheomelanin can also be found in persons with dark brown or even black hair as well, which gives it a reddish hue. Most natural melanins contain sulfur, which is typically associated with pheomelanin. In scientific tests of melanin, black hair contained as much as 5% sulfur, 3% lower than the 8.8% found in Irish red hair, but exceeding the 2.3% found in Scandinavian blond hair. (Jolles, et al. 1996) Thus the yellowish-red hair discovered on Rameses is well within the range of human variation for dark haired people, whatever the exact gene combination that led to the condition.

As noted above, such variation began with ancient African populations. Most red hair is found in northern and western Europe, especially in the British Isles, and even then it appears in minor frequencies in Europe- some 4% of the population. It is unlikely such populations had any major contact or influence in the ancient Nile Valley. The analysis on Rameses also did not show classic "European" red hair but hair of a light red to yellowish tinge. Black haired or dark-skinned populations are quite capable of producing such yellowish-red color variants on their own, as can be seen in today's east and northeast Africa (see child's photo above). Nor is such color variation unusual to Africa. Native dark-skinned populations in Australia, routinely produce people witn blond or reddis hair. .

The analysis also found Rames' hair to be cymotrich or wavy, again a characteristic quite within the range of overall African or Nile valley physical and genetic diversity. A "pure" Nordic type of straight hair was thus not established for Rameses. Hence the notion of white Europeans or red-headed Caucasoids from other areas flowing into ancient Egypt to add hair variation.

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REFERENCES

Joann Fletcher, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HAIR AND WIGS, THE OSTRACON THE JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2; SUMMER 2002

The Search for Nefertiti, By Joann Fletcher, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 93-94, 96

Brothwell. D., and R. Spearman 1963 The hair of earlier peoples. In: Science in Archaeology. D. Brothwell and E. Higgs, eds. Thames and Hudeon, London, p. 427-436

Daniel Hrdy 1978- Analysis of Hair Samples of Mummies from Semna South, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (1978) 49: 277-262)

Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 83:35-48 (1990


Hair Styles and History, by Cyril Aldred, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 15, No. 6 (Feb., 1957), pp. 141-147)

L. Balout, C. Roubet and C. Desroches-Noblecourt, and was titled La Momie de Ramsès II: Contribution Scientifique à l'Égyptologie (1985).

Formation and Structure of Human Hair: Biology and Structure, By Pierre Jollès, Helmut Zahn, H. Höcker, Birkhäuser, 1996, pp. 200-225


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NUBIA AND EGYPT

Close relationships between Nubians and Egyptians in various eras, contradicting "racial war" claims


"The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)

- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Integration of Nubian and egyptian elites in some eras


"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region.4 As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."
- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


using the same methods of those who see "racial wars" between Nubians and Egyptians, one can also see "racial" wars against "white" west Asians who were often conquered or put to tribute by the ancient Egyptians. applying a consistency using the same methods:


RAMESES II. SLAYING THE ASIATICS BEFORE RA, THE TUTELARY DEITY OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABÛ-SIMBEL..


THE DISCOURSE OF AMEN-RA,
LORD OF THRONES.

Thou hast struck off the heads of the Asiatics, and their children cannot escape from thee. Every land illuminated by thy diadem is encircled by thy might; and in all the zone of the heavens there is not a rebel to rise up against thee. The enemy bring in their tribute on their backs, prostrating themselves before thee, their limbs trembling and their hearts burned up within them."

Campaign against "white" Mittani in parts of Lebanon:

"He is a king valiant ... Naharin which its lord had deserted out of fear ... I hacked up its towns and villages and I set fire to them ... I carried off their inhabitants ... also their herds of cattle ... I felled all their plantations and their fruit trees ...I had many vessels ... built on the mountains of God's Land in the neighborhood of the Lady of Byblos ... then on that mountain of Naharin, my Majesty erected my stela, carved out of the mountain on the western side of the Euphrates.."


Conquest against and tribute from "white" Palestine:

"Tribute of the princes of Retenu, who came to do obeisance ... to the souls of his majesty... Now every harbor at which his majesty arrived was supplied with loaves and with assorted loaves, with oil, incense, wine, f[ruit] ---- abundant were they beyond everything ...


Tribute from 'white' Lebanon:

The chieftains, lord of Lebanon, construct the royal ships in order that people may sail south in them to bring all the marvels of the "Garden" to the palace. LPH. ... The chieftains of Retjenu (Retenu) who drag the flagpoles by means of oxen to the shore, it is they who come with their dues to the place where his majesty is, to the Residence in ...... bearing all the fine products brought as marvels of the south and being taxed for tribute annually as (with) all bondsmen of his Majesty."


Operations against more 'white' 'Troglodytes':


"Then my Majesty made them take their oaths of allegiance as follows: never again shall we do anything evil against Menkheperre (another name for Thutmose III), may he live forever ...
Then my Majesty had them set free on the road to their cities*). They went off on donkeys for I had seized their chariotry. I captured their inhabitants for Egypt and their property likewise." [W. Helck transl. by B. Cummings (1982), `Urkunden der 18. Dynastie', `Egyptian Historical Records of the Later 18th Dynasty']

"His majesty proceeded northward, to overthrow the Asiatics (Mntyw-Stt). His majesty arrived at a district, Sekmem (Skmm) was its name. His majesty led the good way in proceeding to the palace of `Life, Prosperity, and Health (L.P.H.,' when Sekmen had fallen, together with Retenu (Rtnw) the wretched, while I was acting as rearguard." [Breasted, `Records', Vol. I, Sec. 680]
Time of Seti the Great - Presentation of Syrian Prisoners and Precious Vessels to Amon

"Smiting the Troglodytes, beating down the Asiatics (Mn·t·yw), making his boundary as far as the `Horns of the Earth', as far as the marshes of Naharin (N-h-r-n)." [Ibid., Vol. III, Sec. 118;]

"Slaying of the Asiatic Troglodytes (Ynw-Mn·t·yw [Menate, Manasseh]), all inaccessible countries, all lands, the Fenkhu of the marshes of Asia, the Great Bend of the sea (w'd-wr)."


Booty seized from "white" Caananites:

".... 340 living prisoners; 83 hands; 2,401 mares; 191 foals; 6 stallions; ... young ...; a chariot, wrought with gold, (its) pole of gold, belonging to the chief of `M-k-ty' (as the land around Jerusalem was called); .... 892 chariots of his wretched army; total, 924 (chariots); a beautiful suit of bronze armor, belonging to the chief of Jerusalem; .... 200 suits of armor, belonging to his wretched army; 502 bows; 7 poles of (mry) wood, wrought with silver, belonging to the tent of that foe. Behold, the army of his majesty took ...., 297 ...., 1,929 large cattle, 2,000 small cattle, 20500 white small cattle." [JBRE, `Records', Vol. II, Sec. 435; See also the following sections.]


Tribute from "white" Assur/Assyria
"The tribute of the chief of Assur (Ys-sw-r): genuine lapis lazuli, a large block, making 20 deben, 9 kidet; genuine lapis lazuli, 2 blocks; total, 3; and pieces, [making] 30 deben; total, 50 deben and 9 kidet; fine lapis lazuli from Babylon (Bb-r); vessels of Assur of hrrt- stone in colors, ---- very many." "Tribute of the chief of Assur: horses ---. A ---- of skin of the M-h-w as the [protection] of a chariot, of the finest of --- wood; 190(+x) wagons --- --- wood, nhb wood, 343 pieces, carob wood, 50 pieces; nby and k'nk wood, 206 pieces; olive oil, ------.." [BREASTED, Vol. II, Sec. 446, 449]


"Whites" put to slave labor in Egypt.

from Project Guttenberg full text of:
A HISTORY OF EGYPT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PERSIAN CONQUEST
BY JAMES HENRY BREASTED,
II, 760-1, 773. 2 II, 761.

Inscription
"the Asiatics of all countries came with bowed head, doing obeisance to the fame of his majesty."


book text:

"Thutmose's war-galleys moored in the harbour of the town; but at this time not merely the iceaUh of Asia was unloaded from the ships; the Asiatics themselves, bound one to another in long lines, were led down the gang planks to begin a life of slave- labour for the Pharaoh (Fig. 119). They wore long matted beards, an abomination to the Egyptians ; their hair hung in heavy black masses upon their shoulders, and they were clad in gaily coloured woolen stuffs, such as the Egyptian, spotless in his white linen robe, would never put on his body.

Their arms were pinioned behind them at the elbows or crossed over their heads and lashed together ; or, again, their hands were thrust through odd pointed ovals of wood, which served as hand-cuffs. The women carried their children slung in a fold of the mantle over their shoulders. With their strange speech and uncouth postures the poor wretches were the subject of jibe and merriment on the part of the multitude ; while the artists of the time could never forbear caricaturing them. Many of them found their way into the houses of the Pharaoh's favourites, and his generals were liberally rewarded with gifts of such slaves; but the larger number were immediately employed on the temple estates, the Pharaoh's domains, or in the construction of his great monuments and buildings.

These Facts cannot be ignored

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
You are being simple minded. Lefkowitz just told you that the greeks distinguished between North and south Indians AND Egyptians and Ethopians. She has a PHD in Classic Greek studies, you do not. Thus her views trump yours.
Now, scholarship is never "self explanatory." that kind of lay thinking is what leads you guys to these crazy theories.
You guys just throw stuff out there in a careless manner.
 
Posted by ChairmanofBA (Member # 16757) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
You are being simple minded. Lefkowitz just told you that the greeks distinguished between North and south Indians AND Egyptians and Ethopians. She has a PHD in Classic Greek studies, you do not. Thus her views trump yours.
Now, scholarship is never "self explanatory." that kind of lay thinking is what leads you guys to these crazy theories.
You guys just throw stuff out there in a careless manner.

What does the Egyptians seperating themselves from Ethiopians have to do with anything? The Ashante and Fante seperated themselves from amongst each other and they both are black.


Tell me what give you validity of scholars who went into Egypt.


"Those who are extremely black are cowards, like for instance, the Egyptians and
Ethiopians. But those who are excessively white are also cowards as we can
see from the example of women, the complexion of courage is between the
two." (?) (Aristotle, _Physiognomy_, 6)
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
You get another 'F' king. Those facts as you call them are just a collection of quotes and we have no earthly idea of the context they were used in. Again, no historiographic research. You simply do not get it. This list, the way you put it together, is almost incoherent.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
you cannot use modern pictures to make an ancient point. We see no scholarly research on the art work you post. There is an entire body of work on each and every one of those statues.
Most of amenhotep's staues look like a full lipped arab, north african caucasian.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
AP The good folks here time and again have given you stats,numbers,genetic info,but you still couldn't get so they try to make it simple by showing you pictures and you still don't get it.OK maybe you are very old school so they go right to the very Greeks and Romans who we thought you would respect and YOU STILL DON'T GET IT...You love the Rahotp sculpture,but ok how different does he look from someone in Washington Hts.Spanish Harlem,lower west side in the Village ABC avenues.and are those people not connected to Africans even pale skinned nefrotet? that example connot possibily make you and Simple happy. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

You are a sad case of a man who cannot be saved from his Ignorance. There is nothing but Studies and Facts that you could learn about if only you approached Kemet as someone that needs to learn.

Instead you come here as a person who thinks he knows more about this stuff then any other poster. It's too bad you really have as much clue about these things as a child just entering Kindergarten....You are clueless.

Credit to all the Posters who posted Facts for people to read Sudaniya, Brada-Anansi, ChairmanofBA etc. Just know that there is people who read these forums and gain alot from what we posted.

Peace
 
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Just making sure that Sudaniya's pics don't get ignored. Reup:

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Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:
Belphegor - just remember that I tried to give you a dignified way out. Now if you will please provide links to the studies that you speak of, I will commence the ass-kicking.

You can find every study ever done here: http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/category/ancient-egypt/

Every study shows the Egyptians are the same today as they were in ancient times. No population change. They weren't black; they weren't white. They were mixed people like modern Egyptians are. Yes, there were also blacks in Egypt, and yes, blacks also ruled over Egypt in a few dynasties, but that doesn't mean all the original Egyptians were expelled out of Egypt at that time. You can see light-skinned looking people in the art when blacks ruled, and you can see black looking people in the art when the original Egyptians ruled. The mummies are proof. The Old Kingdom statues are proof. Only 1/10 of the art depicts a black person.

Ancient Egypt was a mixed civilisation, and the sooner you get this into your head, the better.

Don't be silly with "Egypt was black," "Egypt was white," "the mummies are fake," "the statues are fake" and so on. There is no conspiracy. Don't be morons.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
@ Belphegor There is such a thing called tropical body plans,that was designed for folks who evolved in a tropical envirionment.Think of some folks that lived in the horn of Africa, Have you seen many Africans from the horn? yes the Kemites was a mix...an inter African Mix of folks from the Nile valley,the great lakes region,the Sahara, the horn. the color ranges is present all over Africa But these are all genuine Africans with absolutely notthing to do with people coming from the outside to do any mass mixing untill well after 2500yrs of conquest and occupations by non Africans.The preceeding 8000yrs and beyond even before there was a polity called Kemet existed was African.You are trying to be P.C by creating somekind of balance not black,not white but both,is simply wrong.
If you want to see examples of intermixing of Africans and non Africans then checkout the Palestine/Isreal region and Anatolian first farmers.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Belphegor:
quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:
Belphegor - just remember that I tried to give you a dignified way out. Now if you will please provide links to the studies that you speak of, I will commence the ass-kicking.

You can find every study ever done here: http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/category/ancient-egypt/

Every study shows the Egyptians are the same today as they were in ancient times. No population change. They weren't black; they weren't white. They were mixed people like modern Egyptians are. Yes, there were also blacks in Egypt, and yes, blacks also ruled over Egypt in a few dynasties, but that doesn't mean all the original Egyptians were expelled out of Egypt at that time. You can see light-skinned looking people in the art when blacks ruled, and you can see black looking people in the art when the original Egyptians ruled. The mummies are proof. The Old Kingdom statues are proof. Only 1/10 of the art depicts a black person.

Ancient Egypt was a mixed civilisation, and the sooner you get this into your head, the better.

Don't be silly with "Egypt was black," "Egypt was white," "the mummies are fake," "the statues are fake" and so on. There is no conspiracy. Don't be morons.

Belphegor - Not only did I try to give you a dignified way out, I also gave you the respect of assuming that you were a serious person and a serious debater.

And then you seek to qualify your statements with a link to a known racist website called mathildas??

No idiot, they don't do REAL studies at mathildas, what they do there is exactly what you are trying to do here, that is, post nonsense.

Real studies are posted here.

Eurasian and African mitochondrial DNA influences in the Saudi Arabian population

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/32


All things considered Belphegor, I think that Stormfront might be a better venue for you, Bye.
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
No, they were not a mix of only sub-Saharan Africans (blacks). African, indeed, but not black. There were three back immigrations from Asia into North Africa. These people later became North Africans as we know them. Not blacks, but mixed people such as the Egyptians. Their Y-DNA is African, but not black. Again, it's impossible for modern Egyptians to be invaders from Arabia because only about 10% of their Y-DNA is Arabian! And the mummies prove it too.

I'm not trying to be politically correct, I'm just trying to be correct. The ancient Egyptians were the same as modern Egyptians, and that's it. Genetics prove it.

I saw people here claiming idiotic things such as "there are no Caucasians," "there were no white people 10k years ago," "the mummification process changes their hair" and stuff like that. All I can say is thank god you're not lecturing at universities. You're wrong, the anthropologists, biologists, geneticists and historians are right. As simple as that. Whether you claim they are wrong is irrelevant, because they obviously know far more than you do.

The black Africans people post here with Caucasian features and claim they are "not" mixed are lying. They have part Eurasian ancestry. DNA tests proved it. Stop saying that those are black traits as well; they are not. They are Caucasian traits and those people are mixed.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
"OH GOD" NOooo Not another Nut!!! what is she and lite showerfront, sending their rejects here to try and sharpen their debates??? [Roll Eyes]
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:
quote:
Originally posted by Belphegor:
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Originally posted by Mike111:
Belphegor - just remember that I tried to give you a dignified way out. Now if you will please provide links to the studies that you speak of, I will commence the ass-kicking.

You can find every study ever done here: http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/category/ancient-egypt/

Every study shows the Egyptians are the same today as they were in ancient times. No population change. They weren't black; they weren't white. They were mixed people like modern Egyptians are. Yes, there were also blacks in Egypt, and yes, blacks also ruled over Egypt in a few dynasties, but that doesn't mean all the original Egyptians were expelled out of Egypt at that time. You can see light-skinned looking people in the art when blacks ruled, and you can see black looking people in the art when the original Egyptians ruled. The mummies are proof. The Old Kingdom statues are proof. Only 1/10 of the art depicts a black person.

Ancient Egypt was a mixed civilisation, and the sooner you get this into your head, the better.

Don't be silly with "Egypt was black," "Egypt was white," "the mummies are fake," "the statues are fake" and so on. There is no conspiracy. Don't be morons.

Belphegor - Not only did I try to give you a dignified way out, I also gave you the respect of assuming that you were a serious person and a serious debater.

And then you seek to qualify your statements with a link to a known racist website called mathildas??

No idiot, they don't do REAL studies at mathildas, what they do there is exactly what you are trying to do here, that is, post nonsense.

Real studies are posted here.

Eurasian and African mitochondrial DNA influences in the Saudi Arabian population

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/32


All things considered Belphegor, I think that Stormfront might be a better venue for you, Bye.

The only one racist here seems to be you. That blog is certainly not racist. It's got all the genuine studies there. Just because you claim it's a racist page and that those studies were made by racists/whatever is irrelevant.

The studies are real. You just don't want to believe them because of your Afrocentrism. You can't debunk them either.

Modern Egyptians are the same as ancient Egyptians. DNA tests proved it.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Everyone knows that except those here in denial. Hawass has found that on his extensive examination of the pyramid graveyards. As he says, "These are my ancestors."
 
Posted by JayDot_Ptah (Member # 16569) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Belphegor:
All studies show that the modern Egyptians are the same as the ancients were. The modern ones even have more black DNA than the ancients had. All mummies also show Caucasian maternal ancestry. They actually appear to have more Eurasian mtDNA than the modern ones. Modern Egyptians also show much more African (not black) Y chromosome than some black African tribes. You claim the modern ones are Arabs, which is genetically impossible. Only 1/10 of all the art/mummies shows a black/dark person, which is more or less correct.

There were a few dynasties when the black ruled over Egypt, somewhere between the 16th and 20th, and later the 25th. Albeit, there were always more or less some blacks in ancient Upper Egypt.

The predynastic people from Lower Egypt were not black. Only the Upper Egyptian predynastic skulls are negroid and don't look nothing like dynastic skulls from Upper Egypt or predyanstic skulls from Lower Egypt.

The original Ancient Egyptians weren't black, they weren't white either. Eurocentrists and Afrocentrists should stop being silly.

[Embarrassed] ...Here we go again.

Very feeble attempt to veil your own Eurocentric outlook w/ this "they weren't black or white" nonsense. So since a "white" Egypt has been long dispelled, we must conclude that it was inhabited by neither "black" nor "white" people, right? GTFOH.

You merely parrot those (like Hawass) that have an anti-black Egypt agenda, yet cite no source nor divulge any information to substantiate your claims.
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
My views are not "Eurocentric" because if they were, I'd be claiming the Egyptians were white. We all know that is nonsense. Them being black is also nonsense. My view is the mainstream one. The modern Egyptians are the same as the ancient ones. DNA tests prove this.

I gave a link to a blog that contains ALL studies made on the topic of ancient Egypt. Must I get a .pdf link for every one and post it here?

Nobody has any "anti-black Egypt agenda." Everybody wants their history preserved. It's Afrocentrists and Eurocentrists who want to steal Egyptian history, so of course Hawass and every other serious person speaks against these logical fallacies.

Why can't you people grasp the simple fact that the mummies AREN'T black? Just answer me this.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Brada-Anansi:
@ Belphegor There is such a thing called tropical body plans. But these are all genuine Africans with absolutely notthing to do with people coming from the outside to do any mass mixing untill well after 2500yrs of conquest and occupations by non Africans.

Brada-Anansi: - You are putting yourself on a slippery slope. For every Black phenotype, you can find a White counterpart. i.e. there are slender long-limbed White people, just like the East Africans - the difference is that they are not an entire sub-race. There are White Dwarfs, just like the pygmy's - the difference is that they are not an entire sub-race. This all makes sense when you remember that Whites themselves are a sub-race of Black Africans.

You are also getting yourself in trouble with the notion that Egyptians were an insular people. They certainly were not! The Egyptians were world travelers, and Egypt itself was a cosmopolitan country. I will deal with that in my next post.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Of course they are his ancestors..as they are the ancestors of almost every Egyptians living today.NON here said any different.And btw just so you know black folks having non African DNA is not much of a concern for most.the people who are most concern with that is a lot of white folks.
All said the features are African weather narrow or oval they evolved in side Africa,and 8000yrs BCE there was no Sahara so there was notthing to SUB.
 
Posted by JayDot_Ptah (Member # 16569) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Belphegor:
No, they were not a mix of only sub-Saharan Africans (blacks). African, indeed, but not black. There were three back immigrations from Asia into North Africa. These people later became North Africans as we know them. Not blacks, but mixed people such as the Egyptians. Their Y-DNA is African, but not black. Again, it's impossible for modern Egyptians to be invaders from Arabia because only about 10% of their Y-DNA is Arabian! And the mummies prove it too.

I'm not trying to be politically correct, I'm just trying to be correct. The ancient Egyptians were the same as modern Egyptians, and that's it. Genetics prove it.

I saw people here claiming idiotic things such as "there are no Caucasians," "there were no white people 10k years ago," "the mummification process changes their hair" and stuff like that. All I can say is thank god you're not lecturing at universities. You're wrong, the anthropologists, biologists, geneticists and historians are right. As simple as that. Whether you claim they are wrong is irrelevant, because they obviously know far more than you do.

The black Africans people post here with Caucasian features and claim they are "not" mixed are lying. They have part Eurasian ancestry. DNA tests proved it. Stop saying that those are black traits as well; they are not. They are Caucasian traits and those people are mixed.

The modern Egyptians you are referring to (so-called Berbers and Arabs) arrived in N. Africa no earlier than approx. 9ky ago, according to "mainstream" paleoanthropological data - and that is stretching it.

The usage of terms like "negroid", "causasian features", and the like automatically squander any credence to what you assert. You would be laughed out of the "scientific" community for using such language.

Let me just ask you this: are the indigenous, aboriginal people of SE Asia and Australia phonetically black? According to "mainstream" geneticists, are they not parenthetically closer to Eurasians?
 
Posted by JayDot_Ptah (Member # 16569) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Belphegor:
My views are not "Eurocentric" because if they were, I'd be claiming the Egyptians were white. We all know that is nonsense. Them being black is also nonsense. My view is the mainstream one. The modern Egyptians are the same as the ancient ones. DNA tests prove this.

I gave a link to a blog that contains ALL studies made on the topic of ancient Egypt. Must I get a .pdf link for every one and post it here?

Nobody has any "anti-black Egypt agenda." Everybody wants their history preserved. It's Afrocentrists and Eurocentrists who want to steal Egyptian history, so of course Hawass and every other serious person speaks against these logical fallacies.

Why can't you people grasp the simple fact that the mummies AREN'T black? Just answer me this.

How is it nonsense when Egypt is in AFRICA, where the majority of what we consider "black" people reside??? Try to use a little common sense here.

What DNA tests prove that they weren't black??? You can't find any that aren't revised. Diop dispelled that LOOONNG ago, my friend. And how in the hell would you know whether or not the mummies were black??? Let me guess. They had "caucasian" features, right?

Then how does one explain the Aboriginal people of Asia and Australia having so-called "black" facial features and structure and straight hair at the same time?

Your methods for gauging the appearance of the ancient Egyptians are antiquated and long refuted.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Belphegor - When you make claims of scientific studies and then cite a nutcase website as the source, instead of the normal academic sources that serious people use, and which I gave you. Then you are just another ass-hole White boy coming here to bother Black people - get lost. Nothing you say has any value that is worth debating - fuching idiot.

BTW - On your way out, please take Kemp and his boys with you.

 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Mike, i have never seen you use a serious academic source, where did that come from?
Further, you do not own the board and should not be telling anyone to leave. Why don't you leave?
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Brada-Anansi:
Of course they are his ancestors..as they are the ancestors of almost every Egyptians living today.NON here said any different.And btw just so you know black folks having non African DNA is not much of a concern for most.the people who are most concern with that is a lot of white folks.
All said the features are African weather narrow or oval they evolved in side Africa,and 8000yrs BCE there was no Sahara so there was notthing to SUB.

Yes, African, but not black as Afrocentrists claim. Big difference.

quote:
Originally posted by JayDot_Ptah:
The modern Egyptians you are referring to (so-called Berbers and Arabs) arrived in N. Africa no earlier than approx. 9ky ago, according to "mainstream" paleoanthropological data - and that is stretching it.

The usage of terms like "negroid", "causasian features", and the like automatically squander any credence to what you assert. You would be laughed out of the "scientific" community for using such language.

Let me just ask you this: are the indigenous, aboriginal people of SE Asia and Australia phonetically black? According to "mainstream" geneticists, are they not parenthetically closer to Eurasians?

The modern Egyptians I'm referring to are the same as the original ancient Egyptians.

I'll quote myself:
"I saw people here claiming idiotic things such as "there are no Caucasians," "there were no white people 10k years ago," "the mummification process changes their hair" and stuff like that. All I can say is thank god you're not lecturing at universities."

They have black skin and whatnot, but genetically they are nothing like black Africans.

quote:
Originally posted by JayDot_Ptah:
How is it nonsense when Egypt is in AFRICA, where the majority of what we consider "black" people reside??? Try to use a little common sense here.

What DNA tests prove that they weren't black??? You can't find any that aren't revised. Diop dispelled that LOOONNG ago, my friend. And how in the hell would you know whether or not the mummies were black??? Let me guess. They had "caucasian" features, right?

Then how does one explain the Aboriginal people of Asia and Australia having so-called "black" facial features and structure and straight hair at the same time?

Your methods for gauging the appearance of the ancient Egyptians are antiquated and long refuted.

It's nonsense because there were three back migrations to North Africa from Eurasia. You Afrocentrists make the stupid claim that the entire Africa is/was black. That's a lie. North African people weren't and aren't black.

Diop isn't even an anthropologist, and there is no evidence that he actually tested the mummies. Later tests done by the same method as Diop showed you couldn't tell olive skin from black. Nothing "dispelled" here, sorry, friend. Every test done on the hair, teeth, skulls etc. shows that. And before you say something about fake mummies/hair whatever, I'll quote myself again:

"I saw people here claiming idiotic things such as "there are no Caucasians," "there were no white people 10k years ago," "the mummification process changes their hair" and stuff like that. All I can say is thank god you're not lecturing at universities."

Aboriginal Australoids and Asians have nothing in common with black Africans.

quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:
Belphegor - When you make claims of scientific studies and then cite a nutcase website as the source, instead of the normal academic sources that serious people use, and which I gave you. Then you are just another ass-hole White boy coming here to bother Black people - get lost. Nothing you say has any value that is worth debating - fuching idiot.

BTW - On your way out, please take Kemp and his boys with you.

You can get the academic links to the studies on that blog! The blog is a collection of academic studies regarding ancient Egypt and anthropology in general. And your study is nothing special. Doesn't say anything about Egyptians being black.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
Mike, i have never seen you use a serious academic source, where did that come from?
Further, you do not own the board and should not be telling anyone to leave. Why don't you leave?

TheAmericanPatriot: that is a Lie.

But then again, as a White man, that comes very easily to you and your fellow travelers, doesn't it!
 
Posted by JayDot_Ptah (Member # 16569) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Belphegor:
quote:
Originally posted by Brada-Anansi:
Of course they are his ancestors..as they are the ancestors of almost every Egyptians living today.NON here said any different.And btw just so you know black folks having non African DNA is not much of a concern for most.the people who are most concern with that is a lot of white folks.
All said the features are African weather narrow or oval they evolved in side Africa,and 8000yrs BCE there was no Sahara so there was notthing to SUB.

Yes, African, but not black as Afrocentrists claim. Big difference.

quote:
Originally posted by JayDot_Ptah:
The modern Egyptians you are referring to (so-called Berbers and Arabs) arrived in N. Africa no earlier than approx. 9ky ago, according to "mainstream" paleoanthropological data - and that is stretching it.

The usage of terms like "negroid", "causasian features", and the like automatically squander any credence to what you assert. You would be laughed out of the "scientific" community for using such language.

Let me just ask you this: are the indigenous, aboriginal people of SE Asia and Australia phonetically black? According to "mainstream" geneticists, are they not parenthetically closer to Eurasians?

The modern Egyptians I'm referring to are the same as the original ancient Egyptians.

I'll quote myself:
"I saw people here claiming idiotic things such as "there are no Caucasians," "there were no white people 10k years ago," "the mummification process changes their hair" and stuff like that. All I can say is thank god you're not lecturing at universities."

They have black skin and whatnot, but genetically they are nothing like black Africans.

quote:
Originally posted by JayDot_Ptah:
How is it nonsense when Egypt is in AFRICA, where the majority of what we consider "black" people reside??? Try to use a little common sense here.

What DNA tests prove that they weren't black??? You can't find any that aren't revised. Diop dispelled that LOOONNG ago, my friend. And how in the hell would you know whether or not the mummies were black??? Let me guess. They had "caucasian" features, right?

Then how does one explain the Aboriginal people of Asia and Australia having so-called "black" facial features and structure and straight hair at the same time?

Your methods for gauging the appearance of the ancient Egyptians are antiquated and long refuted.

It's nonsense because there were three back migrations to North Africa from Eurasia. You Afrocentrists make the stupid claim that the entire Africa is/was black. That's a lie. North African people weren't and aren't black.

Diop isn't even an anthropologist, and there is no evidence that he actually tested the mummies. Later tests done by the same method as Diop showed you couldn't tell olive skin from black. Nothing "dispelled" here, sorry, friend. Every test done on the hair, teeth, skulls etc. shows that. And before you say something about fake mummies/hair whatever, I'll quote myself again:

"I saw people here claiming idiotic things such as "there are no Caucasians," "there were no white people 10k years ago," "the mummification process changes their hair" and stuff like that. All I can say is thank god you're not lecturing at universities."

Aboriginal Australoids and Asians have nothing in common with black Africans.

quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:
Belphegor - When you make claims of scientific studies and then cite a nutcase website as the source, instead of the normal academic sources that serious people use, and which I gave you. Then you are just another ass-hole White boy coming here to bother Black people - get lost. Nothing you say has any value that is worth debating - fuching idiot.

BTW - On your way out, please take Kemp and his boys with you.

You can get the academic links to the studies on that blog! The blog is a collection of academic studies regarding ancient Egypt and anthropology in general. And your study is nothing special. Doesn't say anything about Egyptians being black.

Dude, you're just grasping for straws at this point.

Quoting yourself will not help to bolster those extremely worn out arguments, nor will asserting that the Aboriginals have nothing to do w/ Africans.

The REALITY that the landmass we now call Africa - all of it - was originally inhabited by "black" people is stupid because you can't accept it nor refute it. Please stop fecklessly tossing around the term "back migrations" w/o properly contextualizing it. You appear to be using Mathilda-like sources to back your position.

People of your ilk tend to conveniently negate the fact that the dessication of what is now the Sahara is a relatively recent occurrence - within the last 10ky or so. And you should know that human occupance predates 10ky by a stretch.

Diop wasn't an anthropologists???? You are egregiously deluded. Not only did he prove that he could gauge the pigmentation of the AE's, his method is STILL used to date to determine the "race" of burn victims. You're just another dissident European who can't accept the truth.

Good day now...
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Don't know about no whites 10kyrs ago,who said that? no one here!!. you are making assumption that if there was back migrations from outside Africa then those people must have looked white or off white or offay..so they can lighten up the Blacks and become Egyptians.Go check out the dogumentary video the real Eve.the scientist there are the ones who made the break-thru discoveries,in the field of genetics.I could post it but Mike will throw rocks @ me if I do [Big Grin]
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Ptah, 10,000 years ago is not a "relatively recent occurance." History is, in part, the story of continual movement of peoples all over the globe. Those migrations continue to this day.
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by JayDot_Ptah:
Dude, you're just grasping for straws at this point.

Quoting yourself will not help to bolster those extremely worn out arguments, nor will asserting that the Aboriginals have nothing to do w/ Africans.

The REALITY that the landmass we now call Africa - all of it - was originally inhabited by "black" people is stupid because you can't accept it nor refute it. Please stop fecklessly tossing around the term "back migrations" w/o properly contextualizing it. You appear to be using Mathilda-like sources to back your position.

People of your ilk tend to conveniently negate the fact that the dessication of what is now the Sahara is a relatively recent occurrence - within the last 10ky or so. And you should know that human occupance predates 10ky by a stretch.

Diop wasn't an anthropologists???? You are egregiously deluded. Not only did he prove that he could gauge the pigmentation of the AE's, his method is STILL used to date to determine the "race" of burn victims. You're just another dissident European who can't accept the truth.

Good day now...

It's true. Check their DNA. Australoids and Aboriginal Asians aren't related to black Africans.

We have remains from predynastic people from Lower Egypt. They are a mix of blacks/Eurasians. They aren't sub-Saharan black people. They were the people who developed into ancient Egyptians and current Egyptians. Again, not black.

Remains are not negroid. And yes, this is a valid scientific forensic description. Scientists can determine from bones, skulls, teeth and hair to which race one belongs. And if you want to play word games that race does not exist, then explain that to the forensics who can base from the remains whether one is a black male, a black female, a white male, a white female, an Asian male, an Asian female, so on and so forth. Again, black Africans with Caucasoid features are mixed. Stop lying they are not.

A real anthropologist for example is Keita. Anthropology was only one of the subjects Diop was studying. He wasn't studying to become an anthropologist like Keita did. Check what Keita (a black man) has to say on the ancient Egyptians. Is he an Eurocentrist? Also, nobody knows how he got the results for the mummies, because later tests on mummies based on the same test he did couldn't show the difference between olive and black skin. His test is not suitable for mummies.

quote:
Originally posted by Brada-Anansi:
Don't know about no whites 10kyrs ago,who said that? no one here!!. you are making assumption that if there was back migrations from outside Africa then those people must have looked white or off white or offay..so they can lighten up the Blacks and become Egyptians.Go check out the dogumentary video the real Eve.the scientist there are the ones who made the break-thru discoveries,in the field of genetics.I could post it but Mike will throw rocks @ me if I do [Big Grin]

I don't know whether in this thread or another, but something between those lines was said. Not necessarily 10,000 years, but close. The remains of the predynastic people in Lower Egypt are not negroid. Neither are early dynastic Egyptian skulls in Lower Egypt. They belonged to the mixed people who developed into the ancient Egyptians over time, and are now modern Egyptians. Not black people. And no, the people who migrated back to Africa were not black people. Go make a thesis about it and see if it'll get you either a PhD or a ridicule. The modern Egyptians actually show more black DNA due to black slaves now than the mummies do. The mummies are proof the ancient Egyptians weren't black. Again, black Africans people post here with Caucasian features are mixed, just like the DNA shows. Their skulls don't look like the predynastic ones, or dynastic ones however (except those in Upper Egypt, where there were always some blacks so the Nubian presence is obvious).

Stop saying there are black Africans with those facial characteristics when all of them are mixed with Eurasians anyway and the ancient Egyptians didn't portray themselves as black people. If you look at the statue of Nofret from the 4th dynasty:

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You clearly see she is not a black person. The paint also didn't "wore off," nor is the statue "fake" or "recoloured by white devils." Prove it is! Don't forget your conspiracy tinfoil hat! Please don't post black Egyptians from the 16th-20th or 25th dynasties, because everybody knows blacks ruled Egypt at those periods. Posting Greeks or Romans from the Greco-Roman period would be the same thing, as everybody knows whites ruled it at that time. Again, there were always blacks in Upper Egypt, but the original Egyptians and the majority of them were the same as modern Egyptians. That's why 9/10 statues/mummies/art is not black-looking.

Also, the "black people" who inhabited Africa and dispersed around the globe were not black Africans as we know them today, they were more like "proto-humans" from which the modern black Africans and other people (the oriental Asians are debatable because new studies appear to show that they didn't develop "Out of Africa") developed from. All of those are long gone now. Those are the people who got to Australia and other parts of the world, not modern black Africans. You might as well claim Europe and every other civilisation on the world a "black African civilisation" if you go by that false logic.

Please get it through your heads that the ancient Egyptians weren't exclusively or for the most part black Africans. It's not exactly rocket science.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
great points
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
The modern Egyptians may be mixed, but there is some point in time before and when the mixing started. This would obviously imply that there were at least 2 separate and distinct types of people. As genetics has proven.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Do you know how large a land mass Africa is that it snows on some mountain tops,that it has scorching deserts and humid rain forests,Wide open grass lands, do you know how many types of micro evolutions that can take place in vastly sepprated land scapes. I told you twice now the the ancient Kemites have tropical body plans...I was slightly off they had SUPER TROPICAL BODY PLANS meaning the evolved in a very tropical environment,Tropical man is almost never white exception albinos who have trouble living.notthing about them suggests out side influence not language,not culture,not tradition,not tool kits,not biology,not anything.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
You keep coming back to Neforet,Nefert statue is special because it is unusal for every one Neforet I can raise you 10 queen Tye,for everyone Rahotep I can raise 10 Montuhotep.
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Brada-Anansi:
Do you know how large a land mass Africa is that it snows on some mountain tops,that it has scorching deserts and humid rain forests,Wide open grass lands, do you know how many types of micro evolutions that can take place in vastly sepprated land scapes. I told you twice now the the ancient Kemites have tropical body plans...I was slightly off they had SUPER TROPICAL BODY PLANS meaning the evolved in a very tropical environment,Tropical man is almost never white exception albinos who have trouble living.notthing about them suggests out side influence not language,not culture,not tradition,not tool kits,not biology,not anything.

The modern Egyptians have the same limb lengths as the ancient ones. They are not black Africans.

quote:
Originally posted by Brada-Anansi:
You keep coming back to Neforet,Nefert statue is special because it is unusal for every one Neforet I can raise you 10 queen Tye,for everyone Rahotep I can raise 10 Montuhotep.

Yawn. There's hundreds of white looking statues and paintings from the Old Kingdom, I bet you can't find 10. Tiye is from the 20th dynasty, I have no problem with her being black. Sure, Nofret is special... Just like her husband and hundreds of statues from the same time. Why is she special again?

Just get it through your head already that there were non-black Egyptians in the Old Kingdom and that they were the original Egyptians.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
I could go on and on and on with statues from the Old Kingdom that look nothing like black Africans.

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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:
The modern Egyptians may be mixed, but there is some point in time before and when the mixing started. This would obviously imply that there were at least 2 separate and distinct types of people. As genetics has proven.

Didn't any of you bother to learn something of human evolution BEFORE you came here??
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
The composite statue to which this face once belonged may have been part of a group of sculptures depicting Tiye, her husband Amenhotep III, and son Akhenaten.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
NYC


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Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:

You get another 'F' king. Those facts as you call them are just a collection of quotes and we have no earthly idea of the context they were used in. Again, no historiographic research. You simply do not get it. This list, the way you put it together, is almost incoherent.

LOL Apparently you are blind as well as stupid. Those quotes are specifically cited passages from actual scientific studies or did your eyes happen to skip the sources they come from?!

quote:
you cannot use modern pictures to make an ancient point. We see no scholarly research on the art work you post. There is an entire body of work on each and every one of those statues.
Most of amenhotep's staues look like a full lipped arab, north african caucasian.

So what about the ancient pictures and portraits which blatantly and obviously portray the Egyptians as blacks??!! Or did your eyes just skip those too??
quote:
Everyone knows that except those here in denial. Hawass has found that on his extensive examination of the pyramid graveyards. As he says, "These are my ancestors."
First of all Hawass, come from the city of Damietta which is historically known as an Arab colonist city.

Second of all, Hawass is an archaeologists NOT an anthropologists so why you appeal to his authority on the matter of anthropology is no doubt desperate as well as stupid!

And lastly since when does Hawass's word have any weight at all considering its constant inconsistency!!
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by sudaniya:
We in North Africa have diverse features:

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Man from Luxor:

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The people above are fellahine; we do not look any different from our ancestors.

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The primordial component of ancient Egypt's population came from upper Egypt, and would have looked NO different from their modern descendents above.

The ancient Egyptians spoke a language closely related to languages in Sudan, Ethiopia, Chad and Somalia; those who assert the fantasy of a "caucasian" ancient Egypt, must demonstrate the "back-migration" of these supposed people from the Caucasus, and what langauge did these elusive "Caucasians" speak, did they speak an Indo-European language? Why did they speak an African langauge closely related to other African languages?
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:
I could go on and on and on with statues from the Old Kingdom that look nothing like black Africans.

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Those statues prove absolutely nothing, Simple Girl; we in North-East Africa have people like that, many of my family members look like those statues.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
The sources I gave are Valid, An should not be dismissed simply because Patriot has no Clue what they mean.

How a fool posts links to a real foolish person like Mathilda I will never know. Her distortion of studies is known.

Why don't these mathilda followers ask her why she does not post on Egyptsearch herself.

There is a reason why.

I will leave you with this:

Older limb studies find the same- Blacks and closer to the Egyptians than whites:

"In this regard it is interesting to note that limb proportions of Predynastic Naqada people in Upper Egypt are reported to be "Super-Negroid," meaning that the distal segments are elongated in the fashion of tropical Africans.....skin color intensification and distal limb elongation are apparent wherever people have been long-term residents of the tropics." (C.L. Brace, 1993. Clines and clusters..")

Peace
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Simple Girl

You keep claiming that so and so statue is not of a Black African, and I keep asking you WHAT DOES A BLACK AFRICN LOOK LIKE.

Either tell us what a Black African looks like or keep your stupid eyeball witness to yourself.

The Statues you post are EXACTLY what alot of NorthEast Africans look like.

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Jesus Christ King you are a stupid man. You come up with these wild ideas because you just refuse to use historiographic principles that every graduate scholar and student HAS TO USE every day. Ignore me from now on, I am weary of your ignorant babble.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Sudaniya these people proberly never set foot out side their home lands,and thus past judgement on people they have never seen.I'll ask them this ? simple and Belphegor where was gods-land and land of the ancestors according to the Kemites?Where was the 1st nome located and what was it called? what is Nabta Playta and what does it mean to you and where is it located.
Where is the starting point of A and C group cultures.please take the time and look these things up.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

The only one Stupid is YOU, Thats why you still have not told us how This Pic:

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Is a pic of a Caucasian and not an African. When you actually decide to tell us what makes this Statue a Caucasian maybe then you will not look like the fool you look like.

Now be a man and tell us what makes this pic a Caucasian.

No peace for you
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Patriot

Do you understand what is said in this Study:

QUOTE:
"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the "super-Negroid" body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.

Can you explain to the forum why this study is either valid or not valid?

No peace for you
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
still no historiographic study. You do not even understand the concept. Until you do that everything you post is worthless.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

Quit ducking the Questions. If you think you know so much answer the Question REpost:

Do you understand what is said in this Study:

QUOTE:
"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the "super-Negroid" body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.

Can you explain to the forum why this study is either valid or not valid?

If you want to put historiographic's into the conversation, then by all means show us how the study of the Past, and Recent history plays into the Questions I asked you.

No Peace for you.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Patriot

Don't think I forgot the other question you have failed to answer.

You really try to come off as someone who knows what he talks about, Yet you are the most clueless Racist on the Forum. You never answer questions told to you, and you always try and change the subject hoping the person asking you the question will forget about your responsiblity. Now "Professor(Not)" tell us again how this Pic:

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Shows a Caucasian and not an African. Really though no one thinks or cares that you call yourself a professor, if you were really a professor, It would not take you this long to answer simple grade school questions.

No Peace for you
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
I hope this puts to rest that out of all the Racist on this forum. Patriot is the most clueless and foolish.

He makes claims he refuses to back up, and just simple post one linears showing what kind of education he has.

I will always say that Patriot needs the most help(Mentally) out of all the crazy psycho racists we have on this forum.

His silence just proves how much of a sadsack pathetic scumbag he really is.

Shame. [Frown]

Peace
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Hey King the only one that I have ever seen that got A.P to Produce anything even for a little while was ALtkruri, and that was it.
 
Posted by Whatbox (Member # 10819) on :
 
And alTakruri is a bright vet who knows AP well and knows what he's doing.

I'm saving that pic for next time AP wants to try and derail a thread -- just a quick casual post of a pick AP claims looks Caucasoid and of his claims and then smoothly gliding right back on topic. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Hey Whatbox if your still online take a quick look over at TNV my latest video postings is about Black Canaanites today alive and kicking in the area of Isreal/Palestine quite intersting.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Belphegor:

It's true. Check their DNA. Australoids and Aboriginal Asians aren't related to black Africans.

But ancient Egyptians ARE black Africans!

quote:
We have remains from predynastic people from Lower Egypt. They are a mix of blacks/Eurasians. They aren't sub-Saharan black people. They were the people who developed into ancient Egyptians and current Egyptians. Again, not black.
Incorrect. First of all blacks aren't limited to "Sub-Sahara" but are indigenous to *ALL* of Africa, especially considering the fact that the Sahara did not always exist!

"..sample populations available from northern Egypt from before the 1st Dynasty (Merimda, Maadi
and Wadi Digla) turn out to be significantly different from sample populations from early
Palestine and Byblos, suggesting a lack of common ancestors over a long time. If there was a south-north cline variation along the Nile valley it did not, from this limited evidence, continue smoothly on into southern Palestine. The limb-length proportions of males from the Egyptian sites group them with Africans rather than with Europeans.
" Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation, Barry Kemp (Author) Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (December 12, 2005)

As you can see, predynastic Lower Egyptians possess affinities to other Africans and not Eurasians!

quote:
Remains are not negroid. And yes, this is a valid scientific forensic description. Scientists can determine from bones, skulls, teeth and hair to which race one belongs. And if you want to play word games that race does not exist, then explain that to the forensics who can base from the remains whether one is a black male, a black female, a white male, a white female, an Asian male, an Asian female, so on and so forth. Again, black Africans with Caucasoid features are mixed. Stop lying they are not.
Incorrect!! There is no such thing as "caucasoid" or "negroid" since craniofacial features are the most diverse trait in the human species. Even among members of a certain population of a particular region there is variation. This is why the assignment of features such as long faces, narrow noses, and thin lips to a "caucasian" race is INVALID. This has been explained before. You should realize that there are people in Sub-Sahara who were classified as "caucasoid" because of their features even though they are genetically 100% African with no Eurasian ancestry at all! Even prehistoric remains in Tanzania were once labeled as "caucasoid" which is why you need to accept that indigenous i.e. Black Africans are diverse in features and racial designations don't exist let alone apply!

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A real anthropologist for example is Keita. Anthropology was only one of the subjects Diop was studying. He wasn't studying to become an anthropologist like Keita did. Check what Keita (a black man) has to say on the ancient Egyptians. Is he an Eurocentrist? Also, nobody knows how he got the results for the mummies, because later tests on mummies based on the same test he did couldn't show the difference between olive and black skin. His test is not suitable for mummies.
Of course! And Keita also said this: "Sahara does not delimit tropical Africanity"

quote:
I don't know whether in this thread or another, but something between those lines was said. Not necessarily 10,000 years, but close. The remains of the predynastic people in Lower Egypt are not negroid. Neither are early dynastic Egyptian skulls in Lower Egypt. They belonged to the mixed people who developed into the ancient Egyptians over time, and are now modern Egyptians. Not black people. And no, the people who migrated back to Africa were not black people. Go make a thesis about it and see if it'll get you either a PhD or a ridicule. The modern Egyptians actually show more black DNA due to black slaves now than the mummies do. The mummies are proof the ancient Egyptians weren't black. Again, black Africans people post here with Caucasian features are mixed, just like the DNA shows. Their skulls don't look like the predynastic ones, or dynastic ones however (except those in Upper Egypt, where there were always some blacks so the Nubian presence is obvious).
Again, racial classes like "negroid" are arbitrary and specious so therefore scientifically invalid. All predynastic remains including those in Lower Egypt show tropical African affinities with all other indigenous Africans including Sub-Saharans! So far there hasn't been any DNA tests to assess ancient Egyptian populations but those done in modern Egyptian populations make it quite clear that Egyptians are an African substratum that has been layered upon by recent foreign immigration!!

To say that the modern Egyptian population is virtually the same as ancient is absurd and ignores blatant history!

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^ Notice how much African E lineages are still present in the 'Arab' Egyptian population alone! Wonder how much more is present in the non-Arab rural areas of Egypt especially Upper Egypt where the black phenotype still prevails!!
quote:
Stop saying there are black Africans with those facial characteristics when all of them are mixed with Eurasians anyway and the ancient Egyptians didn't portray themselves as black people.
No YOU are the one lying if you deny that black Africans naturally possess cranio-facial diversity without Eurasian admixture!!

Jean Hiernaux
The People of Africa(Peoples of the World Series) 1975
"The oldest remains of Homo sapiens sapiens found in East Africa were associated with an industry having similarities with the Capsian. It has been called Upper Kenyan Capsian, although its derivation from the North African Capsian is far from certain. At Gamble's Cave in Kenya, five human skeletons were associated with a late phase of the industry, Upper Kenya Capsian C, which contains pottery. A similar associationis presumed for a skeleton found at Olduvai, which resembles those from Gamble's Cave. The date of Upper Kenya Capsian C is not precisely known (an earlier phase from Prospect Farm on Eburru Mountain close to Gamble's Cave has been dated to about 8000 BC); but the presence of pottery indicates a rather later date, perhaps around 400 BC. The skeletons are of very tall people. They had long, narrow heads, and relatively long, narrow faces. The nose was of medium width; and prognathism, when present, was restricted to the alveolar, or tooth-bearing, region......all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in a number of body proportions.............
From the foregoing, it is tempting to locate the area of differentiation of these people in the interior of East Africa. There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to the populations of Europe and western Asia.


...In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the whole world range is covered in the sub-continent. Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the average nose widths covers 92 per cent of the world range: only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record. Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage.....


Keita 1993: "In the most recent well-known anthropological work attacking Afrocentric positions on the "race" of the Egyptians, Brace et al. (1993) commit the decades old error of giving greater variabilty to those traditionally labeled "Caucasoids." While, Brace et al. attempt to avoid using such labels, their classification methods nonetheless show that they subscribe to the same idea (only under the guise of "clusters and clines"). In attempting to show that greater gene flow has occured between Somalis and Europeans, they assign undue importance to the traits like narrow noses and narrow faces, while discounting evidence such as dark complexion and "supra-Negroid" limb ratios (long, slender limbs). Thus, while suggesting that the dark skins of Egyptians may not be due to gene flow at all, but only to adaptation, they see narrow noses in Somalia as suggestive of gene flow with northwest Europe more subtantial than that with the geographically contiguous sub-Saharan Africa!"

quote:
If you look at the statue of Nofret from the 4th dynasty:

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You clearly see she is not a black person. The paint also didn't "wore off," nor is the statue "fake" or "recoloured by white devils." Prove it is! Don't forget your conspiracy tinfoil hat! Please don't post black Egyptians from the 16th-20th or 25th dynasties, because everybody knows blacks ruled Egypt at those periods. Posting Greeks or Romans from the Greco-Roman period would be the same thing, as everybody knows whites ruled it at that time. Again, there were always blacks in Upper Egypt, but the original Egyptians and the majority of them were the same as modern Egyptians. That's why 9/10 statues/mummies/art is not black-looking.

LOL It's funny those like you denial always show the same few examples such as Nofret whose paint is obviously worn off though her features are again not uncommon for black Africans especially her wide mouth.

It's also obvious that you have not seen that much Egyptian art if you believe 9/10 of it do not look black which is actually the opposite!!

18th dynasty Amenhotep III and his wife Tiye
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Also, the "black people" who inhabited Africa and dispersed around the globe were not black Africans as we know them today, they were more like "proto-humans" from which the modern black Africans and other people (the oriental Asians are debatable because new studies appear to show that they didn't develop "Out of Africa") developed from. All of those are long gone now. Those are the people who got to Australia and other parts of the world, not modern black Africans. You might as well claim Europe and every other civilisation on the world a "black African civilisation" if you go by that false logic.
LMAO This makes no sense! So the first modern humans of Africa who as scientists say had black skin and share many of the same features with black Africans today and looked like this...

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were not black??!!

You are definitely in deep denial to the point of insanity!!

quote:
Please get it through your heads that the ancient Egyptians weren't exclusively or for the most part black Africans. It's not exactly rocket science.
You're right about one thing-- It's NOT rocket science! It's physical anthropology and common sense!! As indigenous populations of Africa they WERE BLACK!! [Eek!]
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Well it looks like Pat's only relief in Belphagor is busted! Speaking of Pat

quote:
TheAmericanPatriot posts in response to King's citation:

still no historiographic study. You do not even understand the concept. Until you do that everything you post is worthless.

[Eek!] LMAO [Big Grin]

What does historiography have anything to do with the anthropological study that King cited which shows the Egyptians to have "super-negroid" bodily proportions??!

You are as desperate and dumb as Belphagor! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
You do not cite studies to prove a point, you do a historiographic study. Do you even know what that is?
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
"LMAO This makes no sense! So the first modern humans of Africa who as scientists say had black skin and share many of the same features with black Africans today and looked like this..."

So what you're saying is, whites, Asians and every other person evolved from black Africans, but black Africans remained the same? In a sense, black Africans are non-evolved? LOL. If I'd say that, I'd be called a racist!

Also posting images from the black-ruled dynasties again.

The paint "wore off." LOL. Yeah, if you say so.

Go tell that negroids and Caucasoids do not exist to the scientists who do tests based on human remains, not me, buddy. You Afrocentrists might be crazy enough to believe that, but good luck trying to convince the scientists.

Yawn to the rest of your post.

According to your logic, every person is a black African, and white skin, for example, is by extension nothing but a black African trait. Wow, black Africans sure are diverse! The Chinese are also black Africans, correct? Chinese civilization is basically black African civilization. Oh my god, I have seen the light! It all makes sense now!

Morons.
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by sudaniya:
Those statues prove absolutely nothing, Simple Girl; we in North-East Africa have people like that, many of my family members look like those statues.

Yeah you do, you've got modern Egyptians that look like that! You've got modern Egyptians that look like light-skinned ancient Egyptians, and you've got darker-skinned (not black) modern Egyptians that look like ancient egyptians. No black Africans. Africans, yes, black, no. Unless your family members are albinos, you don't, so stop lying. Black Africans do not look like that. Egyptians look like that. They are African, but they are not black. Do you not understand this? Africa does not equal black. Is this really so hard to grasp?

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African? Yes. Black? No. Your family members do not look like this unless they are albinos. Stop stealing Egyptian history.

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This wooden statue of Osiris is from the Ptolemaic dynasty. The Nubians were long gone. Why the Greeks would sculpt a black African is beyond me. Logic tells me this is not a black African, even though he might look like one.

quote:
Originally posted by KING:
I hope everyone sees how Crazy is this American Patriot.

He gets FACTS, then he calls them nonsense. So I wonder what is his remark to all these facts:

Recent studies find the ancient Egyptians had a tropical body plan like sub-Saharan 'black' Africans and were not cold-adapted like European type populations. Tropical body plans also indicate darker-skin.


QUOTE:
"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the "super-Negroid" body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.


a 2008 Study puts the ancient Egyptians closer to US Blacks than whites:

Quotes:

"Intralimb (crural and brachial) indices are significantly higher in ancient Egyptians than in American Whites (except crural index among females), i.e., Egyptians have relatively longer distal segments (Table 4). Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks... Many of those who have studied ancient Egyptians have commented on their characteristically ''tropical'' or ''African'' body plan (Warren, 1897; Masali, 1972; Robins, 1983; Robins and Shute, 1983, 1984, 1986; Zakrzewski, 2003). Egyptians also fall within the range of modern African populations (Ruff and Walker, 1993), but close to the upper limit of modern Europeans as well, at least for the crural index (brachial indices are definitely more ''African'').. In terms of femoral and tibial length to total skeletal height proportions, we found that ancient Egyptians are significantly different from US Blacks, although still closer to Blacks than to Whites.


Comparisons of linear body proportions of Old Kingdom and non-Old Kingdom period individuals, and workers and high officials in our sample found no statistically significant differences among them. Zakrzewski (2003) also found little evidence for differences in linear body proportions of Egyptians over a wider temporal range. In general, recent studies of skeletal variation among ancient Egyptians support scenarios of biological continuity through time. Irish (2006) analyzed quantitative and qualitative dental traits of 996 Egyptians from Neolithic through Roman periods, reporting the presence of a few outliers but concluding that the dental samples appear to be largely homogeneous and that the affinities observed indicate overall biological uniformity and continuity from Predynastic through Dynastic and Postdynastic periods.

Zakrzewski (2007) provided a comprehensive summary of previous Egyptian craniometric studies and examined Egyptian crania from six time periods. She found that the earlier samples were relatively more homogeneous in comparison to the later groups. However, overall results indicated genetic continuity over the Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, albeit with a high level of genetic diversity within the population, suggesting an indigenous process of state formation. She also concluded that while the biological patterning of the Egyptian population varied across time, no consistent temporal or spatial trends are apparent. Thus, the stature estimation formulae developed here may be broadly applicable to all ancient Egyptian populations.."
("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55


Older limb studies find the same- Blacks and closer to the Egyptians than whites:

"In this regard it is interesting to note that limb proportions of Predynastic Naqada people in Upper Egypt are reported to be "Super-Negroid," meaning that the distal segments are elongated in the fashion of tropical Africans.....skin color intensification and distal limb elongation are apparent wherever people have been long-term residents of the tropics." (C.L. Brace, 1993. Clines and clusters..")


"An attempt has been made to estimate male and female Egyptian stature from long bone length using Trotter & Gleser negro stature formulae, previous work by the authors having shown that these rather than white formulae give more consistent results with male dynastic material... When consistency has been achieved in this way, predynastic proportions are founded to be such that distal segments of the limbs are even longer in relation to the proximal segments than they are in modern negroes. Such proportions are termed "super-negroid"...

Robins (1983) and Robins & Shute (1983) have shown that more consistent results are obtained from ancient Egyptian male skeletons if Trotter & Gleser formulae for negro are used, rather than those for whites which have always been applied in the past. .. their physical proportions were more like modern negroes than those of modern whites, with limbs that were relatively long compared with the trunk, and distal segments that were long compared with the proximal segments. If ancient Egyptian males had what may be termed negroid proportions, it seems reasonable that females did likewise."
(Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986. Predynastic Egyptian stature and physical proportions. Hum Evol 1:313-324. Ruff CB. 1994.)


The ancient Badarians were quite representative of ancient Egyptians as a whole and showed clear links with tropical Africans to the south. They have been sometimes excluded in studies of the ancient Egyptian population, which shows continuity in its history, not mass influxes of foreigners until the late periods.

Quotes:
"As a result of their facial prognathism, the Badarian sample has been described as forming a morphological cluster with Nubian, Tigrean, and other southern (or \Negroid") groups (Morant, 1935, 1937; Mukherjee et al., 1955; Nutter, 1958, Strouhal, 1971; Angel, 1972; Keita, 1990). Cranial nonmetric trait studies have found this group to be similar to other Egyptians, including much later material (Berry and Berry, 1967, 1972), but also to be significantly different from LPD material (Berry et al., 1967). Similarly, the study of dental nonmetric traits has suggested that the Badarian population is at the centroid of Egyptian dental samples (Irish, 2006), thereby suggesting similarity and hence continuity across Egyptian time periods. From the central location of the Badarian samples in Figure 2, the current study finds the Badarian to be relatively morphologically close to the centroid of all the Egyptian samples. The Badarian have been shown to exhibit
greatest morphological similarity with the temporally successive EPD (Table 5). Finally, the biological distinctiveness
of the Badarian from other Egyptian samples has also been demonstrated (Tables 6 and 7).

These results suggest that the EDyn do form a distinct morphological pattern. Their overlap with other Egyptian samples (in PC space, Fig. 2) suggests that although their morphology is distinctive, the pattern does overlap with the other time periods. These results therefore do not support the Petrie concept of a \Dynastic race" (Petrie, 1939; Derry, 1956). Instead, the results suggest that the Egyptian state was not the product of mass movement of populations into the Egyptian Nile region, but rather that it was the result of primarily indigenous development combined with prolonged small-scale migration, potentially from trade, military, or other contacts.

This evidence suggests that the process of state formation itself may have been mainly an indigenous process, but that it may have occurred in association with in-migration to the Abydos region of the Nile Valley. This potential in-migration may have occurred particularly during the EDyn and OK. A possible explanation is that the Egyptian state formed through increasing control of trade and raw materials, or due to military actions, potentially associated with the use of the Nile Valley as a corridor for prolonged small scale movements through the desert environment.
(Sonia R. Zakrzewski. (2007). Population Continuity or Population Change: Formation of the Ancient Egyptian State. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 132:501-509)


Ancient Egyptians most related to other Africans and are part of a Nilotic continuity rather than something Mediterranean or Middle Eastern

"Certainly there was some foreign admixture [in Egypt], but basically a homogeneous African population had lived in the Nile Valley from ancient to modern times... [the] Badarian people, who developed the earliest Predynastic Egyptian culture, already exhibited the mix of North African and Sub-Saharan physical traits that have typified Egyptians ever since (Hassan 1985; Yurco 1989; Trigger 1978; Keita 1990.. et al.,)... The peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and much of East African Ethiopia and Somalia are now generally regarded as a Nilotic continuity, with widely ranging physical features (complexions light to dark, various hair and craniofacial types) but with powerful common cultural traits, including cattle pastoralist traditions.." (Frank Yurco, "An Egyptological Review," 1996 -in Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, Black Athena Revisited, 1996, The University of North Carolina Press, p. 62-100)
African peoples are the most diverse in the world whether analyzed by DNA or skeletal or cranial methods. Attempts to deny this are rooted in racism and error. African people, particularly SUB-SAHARAN Africans, vary the most in how they look, more so than any other population in the world.

"Estimates of genetic diversity in major geographic regions are frequently made by pooling all individuals into regional aggregates. This method can potentially bias results if there are differences in population substructure within regions, since increased variation among local populations could inflate regional diversity. A preferred method of estimating regional diversity is to compute the mean diversity within local populations. Both methods are applied to a global sample of craniometric data consisting of 57 measurements taken on 1734 crania from 18 local populations in six geographic regions: sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, East Asia, Australasia, Polynesia, and the Americas. Each region is represented by three local populations.

Both methods for estimating regional diversity show sub-Saharan Africa to have the highest levels of phenotypic variation, consistent with many genetic studies."
(Relethford, John "Global Analysis of Regional Differences in Craniometric Diversity and Population Substructure". Human Biology - Volume 73, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 629-636)

"The living peoples of the African continent are diverse in facial characteristics, stature, skin color, hair form, genetics, and other characteristics. No one set of characteristics is more African than another. Variability is also found in "sub-Saharan" Africa, to which the word "Africa" is sometimes erroneously restricted. There is a problem with definitions. Sometimes Africa is defined using cultural factors, like language, that exclude developments that clearly arose in Africa. For example, sometimes even the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea) is excluded because of geography and language and the fact that some of its peoples have narrow noses and faces.

However, the Horn is at the same latitude as Nigeria, and its languages are African. The latitude of 15 degree passes through Timbuktu, surely in "sub-Saharan Africa," as well as Khartoum in Sudan; both are north of the Horn. Another false idea is that supra-Saharan and Saharan Africa were peopled after the emergence of "Europeans" or Near Easterners by populations coming from outside Africa. Hence, the ancient Egyptians in some writings have been de-Africanized. These ideas, which limit the definition of Africa and Africans, are rooted in racism and earlier, erroneous "scientific" approaches." (S. Keita, "The Diversity of Indigenous Africans," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Clenko, Editor (1996), pp. 104-105. [10])


Modern DNA studies find even though some African peoples look different, they are genetically related through the PN2 transition clade of the Y-chromosone. Thus light-skinned African Libyans and dark-skinned Zulus are all genetically related Africans ,even though they don't look exactly the same.

"But the Y-chromosome clade defined by the PN2 transition (PN2/M35, PN2/M2) shatters the boundaries of phenotypically defined races and true breeding populations across a great geographical expanse. African peoples with a range of skin colors, hair forms and physiognomies have substantial percentages of males whose Y chromosomes form closely related clades with each other, but not with others who are phenotypically similar. The individuals in the morphologically or geographically defined 'races' are not characterized by 'private' distinct lineages restricted to each of them." (S O Y Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)


"Recall that the Horn-Nile Valley crania show, as a group, the largest overlap with other regions. A review of the recent literature indicates that there are male lineage ties between African peoples who have been traditionally labeled as being ''racially'' different, with ''racially'' implying an ontologically deep divide. The PN2 transition, a Y chromosome marker, defines a lineage (within the YAPþ derived haplogroup E or III) that emerged in Africa probably before the last glacial maximum, but after the migration of modern humans from Africa (see Semino et al., 2004). This mutation forms a clade that has two daughter subclades (defined by the biallelic markers M35/215 (or 215/M35) and M2) that unites numerous phenotypically variant African populations from the supra-Saharan, Saharan, and sub-Saharan regions.."
(S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679-689, 2004.)
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"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages.. Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world." (Tishkoff SA, Williams SM., Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2002 Aug (8):611-21.)

DNA of some modern Egyptians found a genetic ancestral heritage to East Africa:
"The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity of 58 individuals from Upper Egypt, more than half (34 individuals) from Gurna, whose population has an ancient cultural history, were studied by sequencing the control-region and screening diagnostic RFLP markers. This sedentary population presented similarities to the Ethiopian population by the L1 and L2 macrohaplogroup frequency (20.6%), by the West Eurasian component (defined by haplogroups H to K and T to X) and particularly by a high frequency (17.6%) of haplogroup M1. We statistically and phylogenetically analysed and compared the Gurna population with other Egyptian, Near East and sub-Saharan Africa populations; AMOVA and Minimum Spanning Network analysis showed that the Gurna population was not isolated from neighbouring populations. Our results suggest that the Gurna population has conserved the trace of an ancestral genetic structure from an ancestral East African population, characterized by a high M1 haplogroup frequency. The current structure of the Egyptian population may be the result of further influence of neighbouring populations on this ancestral population."
(Stevanovitch A, Gilles A, Bouzaid E, et al. (2004) Mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity in a sedentary population from Egypt.Ann Hum Genet. 68(Pt 1):23-39.)

Tishkoff et al:

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages (see online link to Ethnologue). Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world(TABLE 1).However,most studies report only a few markers in divergent African populations, which makes it difficult to draw general conclusions about the levels and patterns of genetic diversity in these populations (FIG. 1). Because genetic studies have been biased towards more economically developed African countries that have key research or medical centres, populations from more underdeveloped or politically unstable regions of Africa remain undersampled (FIG. 1). Historically, human population genetic studies have relied on one or two African populations as being representative of African diversity, but recent studies show extensive genetic variation among even geographically close African populations, which indicates that there is not a single 'representative' African population."
-- Tishkoff NATURE REVIEWS | GENETICS VOLUME 3 | AUGUST 2002


"Genetic studies that attempt to recover the biological history of the species have generally found that there is a split between their restricted African samples and "the rest of the world." These approaches conceptualize human population history as a series of bifurcations with each node being relatively uniform. The "Africans" usually used are either the short statured Aka or Mbuti, Khoisan speakers, or West African stereotype s, in keeping with a socially, not scientifically constructed concept of African. Studies using individuals as the unit of analysis evince a different pattern. A select subset of Africans called the "group of 49" forms a unit versus the rest of humankind. However the latter individuals ("rest of humankind") also includes non-East African sub-Saharans. Hence there is no "racial" split. As has been stated, the idea that human variation can be described as being structured by subspecies(races) that are treated as lineages is fundamentally false. In actuality, also, although averages are used, the gene studies usually give us histories that are not necessarily the same as population histories."
Writing African History Chapter 4, Physical Anthropology and African History, Shomarka Keita University of Rochester Press p.134

Continent wide African DNA linkages
"The most extensive pan-African haplotype (16189 16192 16223 16278 16294 16309 16390) is in the L2a1 haplogroup. This sequence is observed in West Africa among the Malinke, Wolof, and others; in North Africa among the Maure, Hausa, Fulbe, and others; in Central Africa among the Bamileke, Fali, and others; in South Africa among the Khoisan family including the Khwe and Bantu speakers; and in East Africa among the Kikuyu. Closely related variants are observed among the Tuareg in North and West Africa and among the East African Dinka and Somali."
(-- Bert Ely , Jamie Lee Wilson , Fatimah Jackson and Bruce A Jackson. (2006). African-American mitochondrial DNAs often match mtDNAs found in multiple African ethnic groups. BMC Biology 2006, 4:34)

"It is of interest that the M35 and M2 lineages are united by a mutation - the PN2 transition. This PN2 defined clade originated in East Africa, where various populations have a notable frequency of its underived state. This would suggest that an ancient population in East Africa, or more correctly its males, form the basis of the ancestors of all African upper Paleolithic populations - and their subsequent descendants in the present day."
(--Bengtson, John D. (ed.), In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. 2008. John Benjamins Publishing: pp. 3-16)


Egyptian Y-chromosome haplotypes show preponderance is with African clusters not Europe or the Near East


Other DNA quotes from S.O.Y. Keita
See: http://www.geocities.com/keitadnaquotes.htm


Recent DNA studies of the Sudan show genetic unity and linkage between the Sudanic, Horn, Egyptian, Nubian and other Nilotic peoples, confirming earlier skeletal/cranial studies and historical data. (Yurco (1989, 1996), Keita (1993,2004, 2005) Lovell (1999), Zakrewski (2003, 2007) et. al). Of note is that DNA data shows that some peoples linked to one of the oldest Egyptian populations, the original Copts, have a significant frequency of the B-M60 marker, indicating early colonization of Egypt by Nilotics in the state formation period.

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"Haplogroup E-M78, however, is more widely distributed and is thought to have an origin in eastern African. More recently, this haplogroup has been carefully dissected and was found to depict several well-established subclades with defined geographical clustering (Cruciani et al., 2006, 2007). Although this haplogroup is common to most Sudanese populations, it has exceptionally high frequency among populations like those of western Sudan (particularly Darfur) and the Beja in eastern Sudan... Although the PC plot places the Beja and Amhara from Ethiopia in one sub-cluster based on shared frequencies of the haplogroup J1, the distribution of M78 subclades (Table 2) indicates that the Beja are perhaps related as well to the Oromo on the basis of the considerable frequencies of E-V32 among Oromo in comparison to Amhara (Cruciani et al., 2007)...

These findings affirm the historical contact between Ethiopia and eastern Sudan (1998), and the fact that these populations speak languages of the Afroasiatic family tree reinforces the strong correlation between linguistic and genetic diversity (Cavalli-Sforza, 1997)."

"Genetic continuum of the Nubians with their kin in southern Egypt is indicated by comparable frequencies of E-V12 the predominant M78 subclade among southern Egyptians."

"The Copt samples displayed a most interesting Y-profile, enough (as much as that of Gaalien in Sudan) to suggest that they actually represent a living record of the peopling of Egypt. The significant frequency of B-M60 in this group might be a relic of a history of colonization of southern Egypt probably by Nilotics in the early state formation, something that conforms both to recorded history and to Egyptian mythology."
Source:
(Hisham Y. Hassan 1, Peter A. Underhill 2, Luca L. Cavalli-Sforza 2, Muntaser E. Ibrahim 1. (2008). Y-chromosome variation among Sudanese: Restricted gene flow, concordance with language, geography, and history. Am J Phys Anthropology, 2008.)


Older research notes the physical makeup of the original Copts, now confirmed by recent DNA data above:
"In Libya, which is mostly desert and oasis, there is a visible Negroid element in the sedentary populations, and at the same is true of the Fellahin of Egypt, whether Copt or Muslim. Osteological studies have shown that the Negroid element was stronger in predynastic times than at present, reflecting an early movement northward along the banks of the Nile, which were then heavily forested." (Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. "Populations, Human")


Haplogroup E3A and E3B represent more than 70% of the Y-chromosones on the African continent, with varying proportions found in different parts of the continent. In some African populations for example, E3B exceeds 80%. Migrations out of Africa, are responsible for the spread of E3b to Europe. Non-Africans thus acquired a sub-set f African genes through this migration.


"In Europe, the overall frequency pattern of haplogroup E-M78 does not support the hypothesis of a uniform spread of people from a single parental Near Eastern population... The Y chromosome specific biallelic marker DYS271 defines the most common haplogroup (E3a) currently found in sub-Saharan Africa. A sister clade, E3b (E-M215), is rare in sub-Saharan Africa, but very common in northern and eastern Africa. On the whole, these two clades represent more than 70% of the Y chromosomes of the African continent. A third clade belonging to E3 (E3c or E-M329) has been recently reported to be present only in eastern Africa, at low frequencies.. The new topology of the E3 haplogroup is suggestive of a relatively recent eastern African origin for the majority of the chromosomes presently found in sub-Saharan Africa."

"In conclusion, we detected the signatures of several distinct processes of migration and/or recurrent gene flow associated with the dispersal of haplogroup E3b lineages. Early events involved the dispersal of E-M78d chromosomes from eastern Africa into and out of Africa, as well as the introduction of the E-M34 subclade into Africa from the Near East. Later events involved short-range migrations within Africa (E-M78? and E-V6) and from northern Africa into Europe (E-M81 and E-M78ß), as well as an important range expansion from the Balkans to western and southern-central Europe (E-M78a). This latter expansion was the main contributor to the present distribution of E3b chromosomes in Europe."

(Cruciani, F, et. al. (2004) Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa, Am J Hum Genet. 74(5): 1014-1022.)


Somalis link much more heavily with African populations such as those in Kenya and Ethiopia than Middle Eastern or European ones according to DNA evidence. Eurasian genes only accounted for about 15% of the mix among Somalis, typically associated with recent Arab influence. On such key common DNA markers as E3b1, Europeans only weighed in at 5%, and Middle Easterners at approximately 6%. The overwhelming link of Somalis- over 85% of the total is with Africans. Kenya and Ethiopia are located in "sub-Saharan" Africa.

"The high frequency (77.6%) of haplogroup E3b1 was characteristic of male Somalis. The frequency of E3b1 was significantly lower in Ethiopian Oromos (35.9%), Ethiopian Amharas (22.9%), Egyptians (20.0%), Sudanese (17.5%), Kenyans (15.1%),10 Iraqis (6.3%), Northern Africans (6.1%), Southern Europeans (0.5-5.1%) and sub-Saharan populations." (Sanchez et al.,(2005) High frequencies of Y chromosome lineages characterized by E3b1, DYS19-11, DYS392-12 in Somali males, Eu J of Hum Genet (2005) 13, 856-866)

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Simplistic "race percentage" models are dubious in Africa which has the highest genetic diversity in the world. That diversity proceeded from deeper sub-Saharan Africa, to East and N.E. Africa, then to the rest of the globe. All other populations, including Europeans and "Middle easterners" carry this diversity which was built into Africa to begin with. Africans thus don't need any "race mix" to look different. Their diversity is built-in and supplied the whole globe. Any returnees or "backflow" to Africa looked like Africans, including Europeans. (Brace 2005, Hanihara 1996, Holliday 2003).

" These studies suggest a recent and primary subdivision between African and non-African populations, high levels of divergence among African populations, and a recent shared common ancestry of non-African populations, from a population originating in Africa. The intermediate position, between African and non-African populations, that the Ethiopian Jews and Somalis occupy in the PCA plot also has been observed in other genetic studies (Ritte et al. 1993; Passarino et al. 1998) and could be due either to shared common ancestry or to recent gene flow. The fact that the Ethiopians and Somalis have a subset of the sub-Saharan African haplotype diversity and that the non-African populations have a subset of the diversity present in Ethiopians and Somalis makes simple-admixture models less likely; rather, these observations support the hypothesis proposed by other nuclear-genetic studies (Tishkoff et al. 1996a, 1998a, 1998b; Kidd et al. 1998) that populations in northeastern Africa may have diverged from those in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa early in the history of modern African populations and that a subset of this northeastern-African population migrated out of Africa and populated the rest of the globe. These conclusions are supported by recent mtDNA analysis (Quintana-Murci et al. 1999)."
[Tishkoff et al. (2000) Short Tandem-Repeat Polymorphism/Alu Haplotype Variation at the PLAT Locus: Implications for Modern Human Origins. Am J Hum Genet; 67:901-925]


Data on Ethiopian peoples like the Oromo are underreported even though they make up the largest group percentage wise in the Ethiopian population, (50%) and are often pooled with others, hiding and obscuring their overall contribution to the Ethiopian gene pool.

"This difference, not revealed in the study by Passarino et al. (1998), in which the Oromo were underrepresented, might reflect distinct population histories."
(--Semino, et al. (2002). Ethiopians and Khoisan Share the Deepest Clades of the Human Y..")

"These data, together with those reported elsewhere (Ritte et al. 1993a, 1993b; Hammer et al. 2000) suggest that the Ethiopian Jews acquired their religion without substantial genetic admixture from Middle Eastern peoples and that they can be considered an ethnic group with essentially a continental African genetic composition." (Cruciani, et. al Am J Hum Genet. 2002 May; 70(5): 1197-1214. "A Back Migration from Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa Is Supported by High-Resolution Analysis of Human Y-Chromosome Haplotypes)


Afrocentric critic Mary Leftokwitz says Egypt was peopled by persons from sub-Saharan Africa:

"Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North. See Bruce G. Trigger, "The Rise of Civilization in Egypt," Cambridge History of Africa (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982), vol I, pp 489-90; S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54.
(Mary Lefkotitz (1997). Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. Basic Books. pg 242)


In Black Athena Revisited, Lefkowitz finds similarity between Egyptians and Sudanics and recommends the work of conservative anthropologist Nancy Lovell for more research on the subject.

Quote:
"not surprisingly, the Egyptian skulls were not very distance from the Jebel Moya [a Neolithic site in the southern Sudan] skulls, but were much more distance from all others, including those from West Africa. Such a study suggests a closer genetic affinity between peoples in Egypt and the northern Sudan, which were close geographically and are known to have had considerable cultural contact throughout prehistory and pharaonic history... Clearly more analyses of the physical remains of ancient Egyptians need to be done using current techniques, such as those of Nancy Lovell at the University of Alberta is using in her work.."


Lefkotitz cites Keita 1993 in Not Out of Africa. Here is Keita on the Jebel Moya studies:

"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Jebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." [/img]
S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


Here is the work of the anthropologist so strongly recommended by Lefkowitz, Nancy Lovell:


"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

and

"must be placed in the context of hypotheses informed by archaeological, linguistic, geographic and other data. In such contexts, the physical anthropological evidence indicates that early Nile Valley populations can be identified as part of an African lineage, but exhibiting local variation. This variation represents the short and long term effects of evolutionary forces, such as gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection, influenced by culture and geography." ("Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999). pp 328-332)


The same Nancy Lovell recommended by Lefkowitz studied dental traits among some high status persons of the key Egyptian Naqada group and found that they resembled the peoples of Nubia.

T. Prowse, and N. Lovell "Concordance of cranial and dental morphological traits and evidence for endogamy in ancient Egypt"
American journal of physical anthropology. 1996, vol. 101, no2, pp. 237-246 (2 p.1/4)


A biological affinities study based on frequencies of cranial nonmetric traits in skeletal samples from three cemeteries at Predynastic Naqada, Egypt, confirms the results of a recent nonmetric dental morphological analysis. Both cranial and dental traits analyses indicate that the individuals buried in a cemetery characterized archaeologically as high status are significantly different from individuals buried in two other, apparently non-elite cemeteries and that the non-elite samples are not significantly different from each other. A comparison with neighboring Nile Valley skeletal samples suggests that the high status cemetery represents an endogamous ruling or elite segment of the local population at Naqada, which is more closely related to populations in northern Nubia than to neighboring populations in southern Egypt.


Lefkowitz warns against Eurocentric "racial" analysis as to the Egyptians and Nubians.

Quote:
"The Nubian tribute-bearers are painted in two skin tones, black and dark brown. These tones do not necessarily represent actual skin tones in real life but may serve to distinguish each tribute-bearer from the next in a row in which the figures overlap. Alternatively, the brown-skinned people may be of Nubian origin, and the black-skinned ones may be farther south 9Trigger 1978, 33). The shading of skin tones in Egyptian tomb paintings, which varies considerably, may not be a certain criterion for distinguishing race. Specific symbols of ethnic identity can also vary. Identifying race in Egyptian representational art, again, is difficult to do- probably because race (as opposed to ethnic affiliation, that is, Egyptians versus all non-Egyptians) was not a criterion for differentiation used by the ancient Egyptians...


Northern Egypt shows more physical variation than the south, but not necessarily as part of any significant 'race' mix, but local, built-in variation. They were closer to southerners than any other peoples. In comparisons with "Middle Eastern" populations of the same ancient period, the Egyptians link more closely with other Africans than the Middle Easterners. Africans vary in how they look because they have the highest built-in molecular diversity to begin with.

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"..sample populations available from northern Egypt from before the 1st Dynasty (Merimda, Maadi and Wadi Digla) turn out to be significantly different from sample populations from early Palestine and Byblos, suggesting a lack of common ancestors over a long time. If there was a south-north cline variation along the Nile valley it did not, from this limited evidence, continue smoothly on into southern Palestine. The limb-length proportions of males from the Egyptian sites group them with Africans rather than with Europeans." (Barry Kemp, "Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation. (2005) Routledge. p. 52-60)


"Individuals from different geographical regions frequently plotted near each other, revealing aspects of variation at the level of individuals that is obscured by concentrating on the most distinctive facial traits once used to construct ''types.''The high level of African interindividual variation in craniometric pattern is reminiscent of the great level of molecular diversity found in Africa." (S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679-689, 2004.)

Quote on northern Egypt analysis- the Qarunian (Faiyum) remains (c. 7000 BC)
"The body was that of a forty-year old woman with a height of about 1.6 meters, who was of a more modern racial type than the classic 'Mechtoid' of the Fakhurian culture (see pp. 65-6), being generally more gracile, having large teeth and thick jaws bearing some resemblance to the modern 'negroid' type." (Beatrix Midant-Reynes, Ian Shaw (2000). The Prehistory of Egypt. Wiley-Blackwell. pg. 82)


Modern studies show diversity in how people look is heavily based on distance from sub-Saharan Africa, not merely climate. In genetically diverse Africa, broad-nosed people live on the cool or cold mountain slopes of East Africa or the hot, dry Sahara, and narrow-nosed peoples like many Fulani like in the wet tropics of West Africa. Yellowish-skinned San tribes live in the hot zones of Southern Africa.

"The relative importance of ancient demography and climate in determining worldwide patterns of human within-population phenotypic diversity is still open to debate. Several morphometric traits have been argued to be under selection by climatic factors, but it is unclear whether climate affects the global decline in morphological diversity with increasing geographical distance from sub-Saharan Africa. Using a large database of male and female skull measurements, we apply an explicit framework to quantify the relative role of climate and distance from Africa. We show that distance from sub-Saharan Africa is the sole determinant of human within-population phenotypic diversity, while climate plays no role. By selecting the most informative set of traits, it was possible to explain over half of the worldwide variation in phenotypic diversity. These results mirror those previously obtained for genetic markers and show that 'bones and molecules' are in perfect agreement for humans." (Distance from Africa, not climate, explains within-population phenotypic diversity in humans. (2008) by: Lia Betti, François Balloux, William Amos, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Andrea Manica, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 2008/12/02)


Analysis of skeletal and cranial remains reveals that the ancient Egyptians of the early Dynastic and pre-Dynastic phases, link closer to nearby Saharan, Sudanic and East African populations than Mediterranean and Middle Eastern peoples. Greeks, Romans, Hyskos, Arabs and others were to appear later in Egyptian history. Craniometric studies generally place ancient Upper Egyptian populations closer to the range of tropical Africans in the Nile Valley and East Africa than to Mediterraneans, or Middle Easterners.

QUOTE(s):
S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Kebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." (Keita 1993)

"When the unlikely relationships [Indian matches] and eliminated, the Egyptian series are more similar overall to other African series than to European or Near Eastern (Byzantine or Palestinian) series." (Keita 1993)

"Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant."(Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa: Their Interaction. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472 )

"Analysis of crania is the traditional approach to assessing ancient population origins, relationships, and diversity. In studies based on anatomical traits and measurements of crania, similarities have been found between Nile Valley crania from 30,000, 20,000 and 12,000 years ago and various African remains from more recent times (see Thoma 1984; Brauer and Rimbach 1990; Angel and Kelley 1986; Keita 1993). Studies of crania from southern predynastic Egypt, from the formative period (4000-3100 B.C.), show them usually to be more similar to the crania of ancient Nubians, Kushites, Saharans, or modern groups from the Horn of Africa than to those of dynastic northern Egyptians or ancient or modern southern Europeans."
(S. O. Y and A.J. Boyce, "The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians", in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 20-33)


"There is no archaeological, linguistic, or historical data which indicate a European or Asiatic invasion of, or migration to, the Nile Valley during First Dynasty times. Previous concepts about the origin of the First Dynasty Egyptians as being somehow external to the Nile Valley or less native are not supported by archaeology... In summary, the Abydos First Dynasty royal tomb contents reveal a notable craniometric heterogeneity. Southerners predominate. (Kieta, S. (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)"

"The predominant craniometric pattern in the Abydos royal tombs is 'southern' (tropical African variant), and this is consistent with what would be expected based on the literature and other results (Keita, 1990). This pattern is seen in both group and unknown analyses... Archaeology and history seem to provide the most parsimonious explanation for the variation in the royal tombs at Abydos.. Tomb design suggests the presence of northerners in the south in late Nakada times (Hoffman, 1988) when the unification probably took place. Delta names are attached to some of the tombs at Abydos (Gardiner, 1961; Yurco, 1990, personal communication), thus perhaps supporting Petrie's (1939) and Gardiner's contention that north-south marriages were undertaken to legitimize the hegemony of the south. The courtiers of northern elites would have accompanied them.

Given all of the above, it is probably not possible to view the Abydos royal tomb sample as representative of the general southern Upper Egyptian population of the time. Southern elites and/or their descendants eventually came to be buried in the north (Hoffman, 1988). Hence early Second Dynasty kings and Djoser (Dynasty 111) (Hayes, 1953) and his descendants are not buried in Abydos. Petrie (1939) states that the Third Dynasty, buried in the north, was of Sudanese origin, but southern Egypt is equally likely. This perhaps explains Harris and Weeks' (1973) suggested findings of southern morphologies in some Old Kingdom Giza remains, also verified in portraiture (Drake, 1987). Further study would be required to ascertain trends in the general population of both regions. The strong Sudanese affinity noted in the unknown analyses may reflect the Nubian interactions with upper Egypt in predynastic times prior to Egyptian unification (Williams, 1980,1986)..." (S. Keita (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)


"When the Elephantine results were added to a broader pooling of the physical characteristics drawn from a wide geographic region which includes Africa, the Mediterranean and the Near East quite strong affinities emerge between Elephantine and populations from Nubia, supporting a strong south-north cline. (Barry Kemp. (2006) Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. p. 54)


Afrocentric critic C. Loring Brace's 2005 study groups ancient Egyptian populations like the Naqada closer to Nubians and Somalis than European, Mediterranean or Middle Eastern populations. Brace's study shows that the closest European linking with Africans in Egypt or Nubia are Middle Stone Age Portugese and Neolithics, OLDER populations more closely resembling AFRICANS than modern Europeans. Early Neolithic populations, like the Nautifians, in what is now Israel, show sub-Saharan 'negroid' affinities. (Brace, et al. The questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European craniofacial form, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 3; 103(1): p. 242-247.)


"The Niger-Congo speakers, Congo, Dahomey and Haya, cluster closely with each other and a bit less closely with the Nubian sample, both the recent and the Bronze Age Nubians, and more remotely with the Naqada Bronze Age sample of Egypt, the modern Somalis, and the Arabic-speaking Fellaheen (farmers) of Israel. When those samples are separated and run in a single analysis as in Fig. 1, there clearly is a tie between them that is diluted the farther one gets from sub-Saharan Africa" (Brace, 2005)

"The surprise is that the Neolithic peoples of Europe and their Bronze Age successors are not closely related to the modern inhabitants, although the prehistoric/modern ties are somewhat more apparent in southern Europe. It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa... Interestingly enough, however, the small Natufian sample falls between the Niger-Congo group and the other samples used. Fig. 2 shows the plot produced by the first two canonical variates, but the same thing happens when canonical variates 1 and 3 (not shown here) are used. This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic), .. When canonical variates are plotted, neither sample ties in with Cro-Magnon as was once suggested. The data treated here support the idea that the Neolithic moved out of the Near East into the circum-Mediterranean areas and Europe by a process of demic diffusion but that subsequently the in situ residents of those areas, derived from the Late Pleistocene inhabitants, absorbed both the agricultural life way and the people who had brought it." (Brace, 2005)


Both skeletal/cranial and DNA studies by other authors confirm that some Neolithics did not derive from the Near East. They most likely resembled African populations. Hence comparisons using older European Neolithics versus Africans are comparisons with older prehistoric Europeans who looked more like Africans, than modern 'white' Europeans, as shown by Brace (2005), and Hanihara (1996) also, who states "Early West Asians looked like Africans."

"The absence of mtDNA haplogroup J in the ancient Portuguese Neolithic sample suggests that this population was not derived directly from Near Eastern farmers. The Mesolithic and Neolithic groups show genetic discontinuity implying colonisation at the Neolithic transition in Portugal." (CHANDLER, H.; SYKES, B.; ZILHÃO, J. (2005) - Using ancient DNA to examine genetic continuity at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Portugal, in ARIAS, P.; ONTAÑÓN, R.; GARCÍA-MONCÓ, C. (eds.) - «Actas del III Congreso del Neolítico en la Península Ibérica», Santander, Monografías del Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria 1, p. 781-786.)

"Early Europeans still resembled modern tropical peoples - some resemble modern Australian and Africans, more than modern Europeans.. Nor does the picture get any clearer when we move on to the Cro-Magnons, the presumed ancestors of modern Europeans. Some were more like present-day Australians or Africans, judged by objective anatomical observations." (Christopher Stringer, Robin McKie (1998). African Exodus. Macmillan, p. 162)


Early Europeans, as recently as 6,000-9000 years ago, looked somewhat like Africans in terms of retained 'tropical' characteristics. Cold adaptation was to bring about several physical changes over time from the initial Out of Africa migrations to Europe. Retained traces of 'tropical' characteristics, indicate a "large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans." (Holliday and Churchill 2003).

"Body proportions covary with climate, apparently as the result of climatic selection. Ontogenetic research and migrant studies have demonstrated that body proportions are largely genetically controlled and are under low selective rates; thus studies of body form can provide evidence for evolutionarily short-term dispersals and/or gene flow. Replacement predicts that the earliest modern Europeans will possess "tropical" body proportions (assuming Africa is the center of origin), while Regional Continuity permits only minor shifts in body shape, due to climatic change and/or improved cultural buffering. .. results refute the hypothesis of local continuity in Europe, and are consistent with an interpretation of elevated gene flow (and population dispersal?) from Africa, followed by subsequent climatic adaptation to colder conditions." (Holliday, Trenton (1997) Body proportions in Late Pleistocene Europe and modern human origins. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 423-447)


".. while the Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans have significantly higher (i.e., tropically-adapted) brachial and crural indices than do recent Europeans, they also have shorter (i.e., cold-adapted) limbs. The somewhat paradoxical retention of "tropical" indices in the context of more "cold-adapted" limb length is best explained as evidence for Replacement in the European Late Pleistocene, followed by gradual cold adaptation in glacial Europe." (Holliday, Trenton (1999) Brachial and crural indices of European Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans. Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 36, Issue 5, May 1999, Pages 549-566)


"Stature, body mass, and body proportions are evaluated for the Cheddar Man (Gough's Cave 1) skeleton. Like many of his Mesolithic contemporaries, Gough's Cave 1 evinces relatively short estimated stature (ca. 166.2 cm [5' 5']) and low body mass (ca. 66 kg [146 lbs]). In body shape, he is similar to recent Europeans for most proportional indices. He differs, however, from most recent Europeans in his high crural index and tibial length/trunk height indices. Thus, while Gough's Cave 1 is characterized by a total morphological pattern considered 'cold-adapted', these latter two traits may be interpreted as evidence of a large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans." (TRENTON W. HOLLIDAY a1 and STEVEN E. CHURCHILL. (2003). Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of body size and shape, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology, 58:37-44 Cambridge University Press)


More data showing early Europeans were tropically adapted types like Africans
"Body proportions are under strong climatic selection and evince remarkable stability within regional lineages. As such, they offer a viable and robust alternative to cranio-facial data in assessing hypothesised continuity and replacement with the transition to agro-pastoralism in central Europe. Humero-clavicular, brachial and crural indices in a large sample (n=75) of Linienbandkeramik (LBK), Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age specimens from the middle Elbe-Saale-Werra valley (MESV) were compared with Eurasian and African terminal Pleistocene, European Mesolithic and geographically disparate recent human specimens. Mesolithic Europeans display considerable variation in humero-clavicular and brachial indices yet none approach the extreme "hyper-polar" morphology of LBK humans from the MESV. In contrast, Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age peoples display elongated brachial and crural indices reminiscent of terminal Pleistocene and "tropically adapted" recent humans. These marked morphological changes likely reflect exogenous immigration during the terminal Fourth millennium cal BC. Population expansion and diffusion is a function of increased mobility and settlement dispersal concomitant with significant technological and subsistence changes in later Neolithic societies during the late fourth millennium cal BCE."
-- Gallagher et al. "Population continuity, demic diffusion and Neolithic origins in central-southern Germany: the evidence from body proportions." Homo. 2009;60(2):95-126. Epub 2009 Mar 4.


Early West Asians looked like Africans. Thus any ancient returnees or "backflow" from West Asia back to Africa is by people who look like Africans to begin with. Brace 2005 shows this as to Europeans. Hanihara 1996, demonstrates this below as to West Asians (i.e. 'Middle easterners'). Also see above.

quote:
"Distance analysis and factor analysis, based on Q-mode correlation coefficients, were applied to 23 craniofacial measurements in 1,802 recent and prehistoric crania from major geographical areas of the Old World. The major findings are as follows: 1) Australians show closer similarities to African populations than to Melanesians. 2) Recent Europeans align with East Asians, and early West Asians resemble Africans. 3) The Asian population complex with regional difference between northern and southern members is manifest. 4) Clinal variations of craniofacial features can be detected in the Afro-European region on the one hand, and Australasian and East Asian region on the other hand. 5) The craniofacial variations of major geographical groups are not necessarily consistent with their geographical distribution pattern. This may be a sign that the evolutionary divergence in craniofacial shape among recent populations of different geographical areas is of a highly limited degree. Taking all of these into account, a single origin for anatomically modern humans is the most parsimonious interpretation of the craniofacial variations presented in this study."
(Hanihara T. Comparison of craniofacial features of major human groups. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1996 Mar;99(3):389-412.)


Older studies often show misclassification or exclusion of Nile Valley remains deemed 'negroid'. Although clearly of the "African" type, such remains were frequently relabeled "Mediterranean."

"Analyses of Egyptian crania are numerous. Vercoutter (1978) notes that ancient Egyptian crania have frequently all been lumped (implicitly or explicitly) as Mediterranean, although Negroid remains are recorded in substantial numbers by many workers... "Nutter (1958), using the Penrose statistic, demonstrated that Nagada I and Badari crania, both regarded as Negroid, were almost identical and that these were most similar to the Negroid Nubian series from Kerma studied by Collett (1933). [Collett, not accepting variability, excluded "clear negro" crania found in the Kerma series from her analysis, as did Morant (1925), implying that they were foreign..." (S. Keita (1990) Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 83:35-48)


Different features among Africans, particularly EAST AFRICANS, like narrow noses are not due to different "race" mixes but are part of the built-in physical diversity and variation of African peoples. Narrow noses appear in the oldest African populations for example, in Kenya's Gamble Cave complex. East Africans like Somalians or Kenyans do not need any outside race "mix" or migration to make them look the way they do.

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".. all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in a number of body proportions.. There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to the populations of Europe and western Asia.. In skin colour, the Tutsi are darker than the Hutu, in the reverse direction to that leading to the caucasoids. Lip thickness provides a similar case: on an average the lips of the Tutsi are thicker than those of the Hutu." [Jean Hiernaux, The People of Africa (1975), pgs 42-43, 62-63)

"In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the whole world range is covered in the sub-continent. Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the average nose widths covers 92 per cent of the world range: only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record. Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage....."
- Jean Hiernaux, "The People of Africa" 1975 p.53, 54

"Prehistoric human crania from Bromhead's Site, Willey's Kopje, Makalia Burial Site, Nakuru, and other localities in the Eastern Rift Valley of Kenya are reassessed using measurements and a multivariate statistical approach. Materials available for comparison include series of Bushman and Hottentot crania. South and East African Negroes, and Egyptians. Up to 34 cranial measurements taken on these series are utilized to construct three multiple discriminant frameworks, each of which can assign modern individuals to a correct group with considerable accuracy. When the prehistoric crania are classified with the help of these discriminants, results indicate that several of the skulls are best grouped with modern Negroes. This is especially clear in the case of individuals from Bromhead's Site, Willey's Kopje, and Nakuru, and the evidence hardly suggests post-Pleistocene domination of the Rift and surrounding territory by "Mediterranean" Caucasoids, as has been claimed. Recent linguistic and archaeological findings are also reviewed, and these seem to support application of the term Nilotic Negro to the early Rift populations." (Rightmire GP. New studies of post-Pleistocene human skeletal remains from the Rift Valley, Kenya. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1975 May;42(3):351-69. )

"....inhabitants of East Africa right on the equator have appreciably longer, narrower, and higher noses than people in the Congo at the same latitude. A former generation of anthropologists used to explain this paradox by invoking an invasion by an itinerant "white" population from the Mediterranean area, although this solution raised more problems than it solved since the East Africans in question include some of the blackest people in the world with characteristically wooly hair and a body build unique among the world's populations for its extreme linearity and height.... The relatively long noses of East Africa become explicable then when one realizes that much of the area is extremely dry for parts of the year." (C. Loring Brace, "Nonracial Approach Towards Human Diversity," cited in The Concept of Race, Edited by Ashley Montagu, The Free Press, 1980, pp. 135-136, 138)

"The .... excavations at Gogoshiis Qabe (Somalia) uncovered eleven virtually complete and articulated primary burials...Closest morphological affinities are with early Holocene skeletons from Lake Turkana, Kenya...and Lake Besaka, Ethiopia.."
(S. Brandt, (1986) The Upper Pleistocene and early Holocene prehistory of the Horn of Africa. Journal African Archaeological Review. Volume 4, Number 1, Pages 41-82 )

"The role of tall, linearly built populations in eastern Africa's prehistory has always been debated. Traditionally, they are viewed as late migrants into the area. But as there is better palaeoanthropological and linguistic documentation for the earlier presence of these populations than for any other group in eastern Africa, it is far more likely that they are indigenous eastern Africans. ... prehistoric linear populations show resemblances to both Upper Pleistocene eastern African fossils and present-day, non-Bantu-speaking groups in eastern Africa, with minor differences stemming from changes in overall robusticity of the dentition and skeleton. This suggests a longstanding tradition of linear populations in eastern Africa, contributing to the indigenous development of cultural and biological diversity from the Pleistocene up to the present."
(L . A . SCHEPARTZ, "Who were the later Pleistocene eastern Africans?" The African Archaeological Review, 6 (1988), pp. 57- 72)


Recent study shows ancient Egyptians physically more like tropically adapted Black Americans than White Americans, confirming older studies that show today's Egyptians in general are closer to US blacks than Northern Europeans, and Southern Europeans as well.


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"We also compare Egyptian body proportions to those of modern American Blacks and Whites... Long bone stature regression equations were then derived for each sex. Our results confirm that, although ancient Egyptians are closer in body proportion to modern American Blacks than they are to American Whites, proportions in Blacks and Egyptians are not identical... Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks. ..brachial indices are definitely more 'African'... There is no evidence for significant variation in proportions among temporal or social groupings; thus, the new formulae may be broadly applicable to ancient Egyptian remains." ("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55


Africa is the most genetically diverse region in the world with the original man being from East Africa according to conservative scholars:

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages.. Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world." (Tishkoff SA, Williams SM., Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2002 Aug (8):611-21.)

" In other words, all non-Africans carry M168. Of course, Africans carrying the M168 mutation today are the descendants of the African subpopulation from which the migrants originated.... Thus, the Australian/Eurasian Adam (the ancestor of all non-Africans) was an East African Man." (Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis, Wiley-Blackwell: 2006, pg 108)


The Natufians, early inhabitants of the Sinai - Israel- Palestine area, and reputed pioneers of several Neolithic agricultural and technological developments, appear to have had "Negroid" affinities. Important Natufian sites include Mt. Carmel, Jericho and several others.


"Against this background of disease, movement and pedomorphic reduction of body size one can identify Negroid (Ethiopic or Bushmanoid?) traits of nose and prognathism appearing in Natufian latest hunters (McCown, 1939) and in Anatolian and Macedonian first farmers, probably from Nubia via the unknown predecesors of the Badarians and Tasians....". (Biological Relations of Egyptians and Eastern Mediterranean Populations during pre-Dynastic and Dynastic Times. J. Lawrence Angel. Journal of Human Evolutiom. 1972:1, 1, Pg 307)

"The Mushabians moved into Sinai from the Nile Delta, bringing North African lithic chipping tecniques."
("Pleistocene connections between Africa and Southwest Asia: an archaeological perspective. O. Bar-Yosef. African Archaeological Review. 5 (1987) Pg 29)

"It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa... Interestingly enough, however, the small Natufian sample falls between the Niger-Congo group and the other samples used... This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic.." (C.L Brace, et. al. 2005. The Questionable contribution of the Neolithic...)


Early inhabitants of the general Natufian Israel area show limb proportions suited to tropical peoples- similar to sub-Saharan's homeland

"However, the real revelation came when Erik [Trinkhaus] inserted his data on the Cro-Magnons of Europe and the Skhul-Qafzeh skeletons from Israel into the equations. In this case, he got a figure of 85 percent for the shinbone-thighbone ratio. Not only were they unlike the Neanderthals, but these people actually fell at the other extreme in their readings on the limb thermometer. The predicted average temperature of origin for folk with an 85% shin-thigh fraction, indicating much longer extremities relative to trunk length - was about 20 degrees higher than the Neanderthals', suggesting a subtropical- if not tropical- homeland!" (African Exodus By Christopher Stringer, Robin McKie, McMillan: pg 79-83)


The 1993 'Clines and Clusters' study by C.L. Brace, et. al. has been used to minmize or downplay the realtionship between Egypt and its African neighbors. For example it:

--Created an "African" or "sub-Saharan" group, but excluded the Maghreb (including parts of the Sahara and Sahel), the Sudan and the Horn area (Ethiopia and Somalia) even though these latter two are BELOW the Sahara, and thus "sub-Saharan".

--Excluded the Badari, and Naqada I and II, key Egyptian groups, thus obscuring the Sudanic/Saharan character of numerous early samples, noted in several earlier analyses.
Ignored the formative range of the Saharans on Egypt, from the megaliths and cattle cults of the Nabta Playa to early mummification practices was ignored. T

--Excluded the Nubian population of the Badari and early Naqada period, including the rich remains of the well documented Qustul culture, near the present Sudanese-Egyptian border, again obscuring the close relationship between the two peoples.

--Created a vague "Bronze Age" grouping of Nubians, and a "modern" group of medieval samples, an era long after the dynasties and when Nubia had experienced more gene flow of that and the later Arab incursions, beginning in the 700s. Sampling thus ignored the early Badari/Naqada Nubians, jumped the 25th Dynasty era, and shifted to the medieval era in the age range of the Arab conquests.
Used Somalian samples that were modern, and thus within the range of recent gene flow (such as the Arab era), particularly on the coast.

--The result was a "comparison" finding that the ancient Egyptians had no relationship "at all" to other "sub-Saharan" peoples and were relatively distant from the Nubians and Somalians. peoples. This finding has been undermined by the subsequent research of several scholars, including limb proportion studies.

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"However, Brace et al. (1993) find that a series of upper Egyptian/Nubian epipalaeolithic crania affiliate by cluster analysis with groups they designate "sub-Saharan African" or just simply "African" (from which they incorrectly exclude the Maghreb, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa), whereas post-Badarian southern predynastic and a late dynastic northern series (called "E" or Gizeh) cluster together, and secondarily with Europeans. In the primary cluster with the Egyptian groups are also remains representing populations from the ancient Sudan and recent Somalia. Brace et al. (1993) seemingly interpret these results as indicating a population relationship from Scandinavia to the Horn of Africa, although the mechanism for this is not clearly stated; they also state that the Egyptians had no relationship with sub-Saharan Africans, a group that they nearly treat (incorrectly) as monolithic, although sometimes seemingly including Somalia, which directly undermines aspects of their claims. Sub-Saharan Africa does not define/delimit authentic Africanity." (S.O.Y. Keita. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data". Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)


Brace carefully excluded the Badari- a key native pre-dynastic group that led into the dynasties, and suggested possible European immigration to ancient Egypt. Keita put this to the test and found that the excluded group matched up more closely with Africans than Europeans.

"An examination of the distance hierarchies reveals the Badarian series to be more similar to the Teita in both analyses and always more similar to all of the African series than to the Norse and Berg groups (see Tables 3A & 3B and Figure 2). Essentially equal similarity is found with the Zalavar and Dogon series in the 11-variable analysis and with these and the Bushman in the one using 15 variables. The Badarian series clusters with the tropical African groups no matter which algorithm is employed (see Figures 3 and 4).. In none of them did the Badarian sample affiliate with the European series."(S.O.Y. Keita. Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)

More on the biased and skewed 'true negro' model

"Another example of the use of a socially constructed typological paradigm is in studies of the Nile Valley populations in which the concept of a biological African is restricted to those with a particular craniometric pattern (called in the past the 'True Negro' though no 'True White' was ever defined). Early Nubians, Egyptians, and even Somalians are viewed essentially as non-Africans, when in fact numerous lines of evidence and an evolutionary model make them a part of African biocultural/biogeographical history. The diversity of 'authentic' Africans is a reality. This diversity prevents biogeographical/biohistorical Africans from clustering into a single unit, no matter the kind of data." (The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence, S. O. Y. Keita, Rick A. Kittles, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 99, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 534-544)

"..presents all tropical Africans with narrower noses and faces as being related to or descended from external, ultimately non-African peoples. However, narrow-faced, narrow-nosed populations have long been resident in Saharo-tropical Africa... and their origin need not be sought elsewhere. These traits are also indigenous. The variability in tropical Africa is expectedly naturally high. Given their longstanding presence, narrow noses and faces cannot be deemed `non-African."(S.O.Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993), page 134 )

"Another example of the use of a socially constructed typological paradigm is in studies of the Nile Valley populations in which the concept of a biological African is restricted to those with a particular craniometric pattern (called in the past the 'True African' though no 'True White' was ever defined). Early Nubians, Egyptians, and even Somalians are viewed essentially as non-Africans, when in fact numerous lines of evidence and an evolutionary model make them a part of African biocultural/biogeographical history. The diversity of 'authentic' Africans is a reality. This diversity prevents biogeographical/biohistorical Africans from clustering into a single unit, no matter the kind of data."
---Keita and Kittles. "The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence." American Anthropologist 99, no. 3 (September 1997): 534-544

Hair and the 'true negro'
"Strouhal (1971) microscopically examined some hair which had been preserved on a Badrarian skull. The analysis was interpreted as suggesting a stereotypical tropical African-European hybrid (mulatto). However this hair is grossly no different from that of Fulani, some Kanuri, or Somali and does not require a gene flow explanation any more than curly hair in Greece necessarily does. Extremely "wooly" hair is not the only kind native to tropical Africa.." (S. O. Y. Keita. (1993). "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54)


Sampling bias and the true negro. In some Nile Valley research sampling bias persists such as drawing samples from the far north of Egypt, boscuring the region's genetic complexity. The stereotypical "true negro" type is still used to artifically separate related peoples and obscure a fuller, more accurate picture of African genetic diversity. Sampling bias appears both in DNA studies (noted by Keita) and in cranial studies (noted by Egyptologist Barry Kemp).

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Keita on DNA studies drawing samples from the far north, an area with more foreign settlement and gene flow

"However, in some of the studies, only individuals from northern Egypt are sampled, and this could theoretically give a false impression of Egyptian variability (contrast Lucotte and Mercier 2003a with Manni et al. 2002), because this region has received more foreign settlers (and is nearer the Near East). Possible sample bias should be integrated into the discussion of results." (S.O.Y. Keita, A.J. Boyce, "Interpreting Geographical Patterns of Y Chromosome Variation1," History in Africa 32 (2005) 221-246 )

Egyptologist Barry Kemp on the worldwide CRANID database that used northern samples near the Mediterranean as "representative" of the ancient Egyptians, and classifying them in a "European" direction, while excluding key historic sites further south..

"If, on the other hand, CRANID had used one of the Elephantine populations of the same period, the geographic association would be much more with the African groups to the south. It is dangerous to take one set of skeletons and use them to characterize the population of the whole of Egypt." (Barry Kemp, Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation, Routledge: 2005, p. 55)


Modern anthropology shows that the ancient Egyptians are well within the range of tropical Africa, contradicting older research in the 1990s that sought to deny any relationship. The anthropologist below, Nancy Lovell was recommended by Mary lefkowitz in Black Athena Revisted.


"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)


One of the oldest remains from Upper Egypt, shows strong sub-Saharan affinities, and early northern Egypt also shows sub-Saharan affinities through cultural traits- the 'Nubian complex' of technology and production.

"The morphometric affinities of the 33,000 year old skeleton from Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt are examined using multivariate statistical procedures.. The results indicate a strong association between some of the sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age (MSA) specimens, and the Nazlet Khater mandible. Furthermore, the results suggest that variability between African populations during the Neolithic and Protohistoric periods was more pronounced than the range of variability observed among recent African and Levantine populations." (PINHASI Ron, SEMAL Patrick (2000). The position of the Nazlet Khater specimen among prehistoric and modern African and Levantine populations. Journal of human evolution. 2000, vol. 39, no3, pp. 269-288 )

"..Middle Paleolithic and the transition to the Upper Paleolithic in the Lower Nile Valley are described... the Middle Paleolithic or, more appropriately, Middle Stone Age of this region starts with the arrival of new populations from sub-Saharan Africa, as evidenced by the nature of the Early to Middle Stone Age transition in stratified sites. Throughout the late Middle Pleistocene technological change occurs leading to the establishment of the Nubian Complex by the onset of the Upper Pleistocene." (Van Peer, Philip. Did middle stone age moderns of sub-Saharan African descent trigger an upper paleolithic revolution in the lower nile valley? Anthropologie. vol. 42, no3, pp. 215-225)


Dental studies provide evidence that the ancient Egyptian population maintained a high degree of continuity into the early, mid and late Dynastic periods. A key ancient group, the Badari, found to link to tropical African metrics, was excluded by such studies as Brace (1993) but dental research shows they link well with later pre and Dynastic populations. J. Irish's 2006 dental study examined the ancient Badarian people excluded by Brace and found that they were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like." His dental results show that:

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"Despite the difference, Gebel Ramlah [the Western Desert- Saharan region] is closest to predynastic and early dynastic samples from Abydos, Hierakonpolis, and Badari.."

the Badarians were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like"

"A comparison of Badari to the Naqada and Hierakonpolis samples .. contradicts the idea of a foreign origin for the Naqada (Petrie, 1939; Baumgartel, 1970)"

Evidence in favor of continuity is also demonstrated by comparison of individual samples. "Naqada and especially Hierakonpolis share close affinities with First-Second Dynasty Abydos.. These findings do not support the concept of a foreign dynastic ''race''"

"Thus, despite increasing foreign influence after the Second Intermediate Period, not only did Egyptian culture remain intact (Lloyd, 2000a), but the people themselves, as represented by the dental samples, appear biologically constant as well."

(Joel D. Irish (2006). Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Dental Affinities Among Neolithic Through Postdynastic Peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.)


Africans have the highest dental diversity
"Previous research by the first author revealed that, relative to other modern peoples, sub-Saharan Africans exhibit the highest frequencies of ancestral (or plesiomorphic) dental traits... The fact that sub-Saharan Africans express these apparently plesiomorphic characters, along with additional information on their affinity to other modern populations, evident intra-population heterogeneity, and a world-wide dental cline emanating from the sub-continent, provides further evidence that is consistent with an African origin model." (Irish JD, Guatelli-Steinberg D.(2003) Ancient teeth and modern human origins: an expanded comparison of African Plio-Pleistocene and recent world dental samples. Hum Evol. 2003 Aug;45(2):113-44. )


Ancient Egyptian civilization was indigenous with continuity among its peoples, not an influx of Middle Easterners, Europeans or other outsiders like Arabs until relatively late in history

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"Some have argued that various early Egyptians like the Badarians probably migrated northward from Nubia, while others see a wide-ranging movement of peoples across the breadth of the Sahara before the onset of desiccation. Whatever may be the origins of any particular people or civilization, however, it seems reasonably certain that the predynastic communities of the Nile valley were essentially indigenous in culture, drawing little inspiration from sources outside the continent during the several centuries directly preceding the onset of historical times..." (Robert July, Pre-Colonial Africa, 1975, p. 60-61)


"overall population continuity over the Predynastic and early Dynastic, and high levels of genetic heterogeneity, thereby suggesting that state formation occurred as a mainly indigenous process."
(Zakrzewski, S.R. (2007). "Population continuity or population change: Formation of the ancient Egyptian state". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132 (4): 501-509)

"the peoples of the steppes and grasslands to the immediate south of Egypt domesticated cattle, as early as 9000 to 8000 B.C. They included peoples from the Afroasiastic linguistic group and the second major African language family, Nilo-Saharan (Wendorf, Schild, Close 1984; Wendorf, et al. 1982). Thus the earliest domestic cattle may have come to Egypt from these southern neighbors, circa 6000 B.C., and not from the Middle East.[148] Pottery, another significant advance in material cultural may also have followed this pattern, initiatied "as early as 9000 B.C. by the Nilo-Saharans and Afrasians who lived to the south of Egypt. Soon thereafter, pots spread to Egyptian sites, almost 2,000 years before the first pottery was made in the Middle East."
(Christopher Ehret, "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 25-27)


X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies show some to be linked physically to Nubian types, and some documented royal officials are clearly "Negroid' like Pepi-seneb, an eminent scribe c. 2745 BC. Some royal New Kingdom mummies also show melanin frequencies consistent with Negroid origin.


"In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults."
(An X-ray atlas of the royal mummies. Edited by J.E. Harris and E.F. Wente. (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980.) Review: Michael R. Zimmerman, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 56, Issue 2 , (1981) Pages 207 - 208)

"While the Upper Nile Egyptians show phenotypic features that occur in higher frequencies in the Sudan and southward into East Africa (namely, facial prognathism, chamaerrhiny, and paedomorphic cranial architecture with specific modifications of the nasal aperature), these so-called Negroid features are not universal in the region of Thebes, Karnak, and Luxor."
(Kennedy, Kenneth A.R., T. Plummer, J. Chinment, "Identification of the Eminent Dead: Pepi, A Scribe of Egypt," In Katherine J. Reichs (ed.), Forensic Osteology, 1986.)


German Institute for Archaeology -excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. In several of the noble specimens:
"The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."
(Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues", Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13)


Nubians were ethnically the closest people to the Egyptians. Conflict between the two were typical clashes between kingdoms without the simplistic "racial" models drawn by some 20th century writers.
Quote 1:
"The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)

- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Quote 2:

"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region.4 As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."

- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


Ancient Egyptian religion closer to the religion of African regions than to Mesopotamia, Europe or the Middle East

QUOTE(s):
Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508
"A large number of gods go back to prehistoric times. The images of a cow and star goddess (Hathor), the falcon (Horus), and the human-shaped figures of the fertility god (Min) can be traced back to that period. Some rites, such as the "running of the Apil-bull," the "hoeing of the ground," and other fertility and hunting rites (e.g., the hippopotamus hunt) presumably date from early times.. Connections with the religions in southwest Asia cannot be traced with certainty."
"It is doubtful whether Osiris can be regarded as equal to Tammuz or Adonis, or whether Hathor is related to the "Great Mother." There are closer relations with northeast African religions. The numerous animal cults (especially bovine cults and panther gods) and details of ritual dresses (animal tails, masks, grass aprons, etc) probably are of African origin. The kinship in particular shows some African elements, such as the king as the head ritualist (i.e., medicine man), the limitations and renewal of the reign (jubilees, regicide), and the position of the king's mother (a matriarchal element). Some of them can be found among the Ethiopians in Napata and Meroe, others among the Prenilotic tribes (Shilluk)."
(Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508)


Egyptian dynastic civilization based from the 'darker' south (Upper Egypt) not the north (Lower Egypt)

QUOTE(s):
"While not attempting to underestimate the contribution that Deltaic political and religious institutions made to those of a united Egypt, many Egyptologists now discount the idea that a united prehistoric kingdom of Lower Egypt ever existed."


"While communities such as Ma'adi appear to have played an important role in entrepots through which goods and ideas form south-west Asia filtered into the Nile Valley in later prehistoric times, the main cultural and political tradition that gave rise to the cultural pattern of Early Dynastic Egypt is to be found not in the north but in the south.":
The Cambridge History of Africa: Volume 1, From the Earliest Times to c. 500 BC, (Cambridge University Press: 1982), Edited by J. Desmond Clark pp. 500-509

"..the early cultures of Merimde, the Fayum, Badari Naqada I and II are essentially African and early African social customs and religious beliefs were the root and foundation of the ancient Egyptian way of life." (Source: Shaw, Thurston (1976) Changes in African Archaeology in the Last Forty Years in African Studies since 1945. p. 156-68. London.)


Egyptian state founded from the south, and indigenous in character. Egyptians dominated Palestine in some eras.

"What is truly unique about this state is the integration of rule over an extensive geographic region, in contrast to other contemporaneous Near Easter polities in Nubia, Mesopotamia, Palestine and the Levant. Present evidence suggests that the state which emerged by the First Dynasty had its roots in the Nagada culture of Upper Egypt, where grave types, pottery and artifacts demonstrate an evolution of form from the Predynastic to the First Dynasty, This cannot be demonstrated for the material culture of Lower Egypt, which was eventually displaced by that which originated in Upper Egypt. Hierarchical society with much social and economic differentiation, as symbolized in the Nagada II cemeteries of Upper Egypt, does not seem to have been present, then, in Lower Egypt, a fact which supports an Upper Egyptian origin for the unified state. Thus archaeological evidence cannot support earlier theories that the founders of Egyptian civilization were an invading Dynastic race from the east.."

"Egyptian contact in the 4th millennium B.C. with SW Asia is undeniable, but the effect of this contact on state formation is Egypt is less clear... The unified state which emerged in Egypt in the 3rd millenium B.C. however, was unlike the polities in Mesopotamia, the Levant, northern Syria, or Early Bronze Age Palestine- in sociopolitical organization, material culture, and belief system. There was undoubtedly heightened commercial contact with SW Asia in the 4th millennium B.C., but the Early Dynastic state which emerged in Egypt is unique and religious in character."
(Bard, Kathryn A. 1994 The Egyptian Predynastic: A Review of the Evidence. Journal of Field Archaeology 21(3):265-288.)

"From Petrie onwards, it was regularly suggested that despite the evidence of Predynastic cultures, Egyptian civilization of the 1st Dynasty appeared suddenly and must therefore have been introduced by an invading foreign 'race'. Since the 1970s however, excavations at Abydos and Hierakonpolis have clearly demonstrated the indigenous, Upper Egyptian roots of early civilization in Egypt.

Contact between northern Egypt and Palestine was overland, as evidence in northern Sinai demonstrates.. Israeli archealogists suggest that this evidence represents a commercial network established and controlled by the Egyptians as early as EBA Ia, and that this network was a major factor in the rise of the urban settlements found later in Palestine EBA II. Naomi Porat's technological study of ceramics from EBA sites in southern Palestine clearly demonstrates that in EBA Ib strata many of the pottery vessels used for food preparation were probably manufactured by Egyptian potters using Egyptian technology but local Palestinian clays. In EBA Ib strata there are also many storage jars made from Nile silt and marl wares, which must have been imported from Egypt. Not only did the Egyptians establish camps and way stations in northern Sinai, but the ceramic evidence also suggests that they established a highly organized network of settlements in southern Palestine where an Egyptian population was in residence."
(Ian Shaw ed. (2003) The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt By Ian Shaw. Oxford University Press, page 40-63)


Much older scholarship shows cultural similarities between ancient Egypt and the rest of Africa, contradicting claims of Middle Eastern inspiration.

--Specific central African tool designs found at the well known Naqada, Badari and Fayum archaeological sites in Egypt (de Heinzelin 1962, Arkell and Ucko, 1956 et al). Shaw (1976) states that "the early cultures of Merimde, the Fayum, Badari Naqada I and II are essentially African and early African social customs and religious beliefs were the root and foundation of the ancient Egyptian way of life."
Pottery evidence first seen in the Saharan Highlands then spreading to the Nile Valley (Flight 1973).
Art motifs of Saharan rock paintings showing similarities to those in pharaonic art. A number of scholars suggest that these earlier artistic styles influenced later pharaonic art via Saharans leaving drier areas and moving into the Nile Valley taking their art styles with them (Mori 1964, Blanc 1964, et al)

--Earlier pioneering mummification outside Egypt. The oldest mummy in Africa is of a black Saharan child (Donadoni 1964, Blanc 1964) Frankfort (1956) suggests that it is thus possible to understand the pharaonic worldview by reference to the religious beliefs of these earlier African precursors. Attempts to suggest the root of such practices are due to Caucasoid civilizers from elsewhere are thus contradicted by the data on the ground.

--Several cultural practices of Egypt show strong similarities to an African totemic clan base. Childe (1969, 1978), Aldred (1978) and Strouhal (1971) demonstrate linkages with several African practices such as divine kingship and the king as divine rainmaker.

--Physical similarities of the early Nile valley populations with that of tropical Africans. Such connections are demonstrated in the work of numerous scholars such as Thompson and Randall Mclver 1905, Falkenburger 1947, and Strouhal 1971. The distance diagrams of Mukherjee, Rao and Trevor (1955) place the ancient Badarians genetically near 'black' tribes such as the Ashanti and the Taita. See also the "Issues of lumping under Mediterranean clusters" section above for similar older analyses.

--Serological (blood) evidence of genetic linkages. Paoli 1972 for example found a significant resemblance between ABO frequencies of dynastic Egyptians and the black northern Haratin who are held to be the probable descendants of the original Saharans (Hiernaux, 1975).

--Language similarities which include several hundred roots ascribable to African elements (UNESCO 1974)

--Ancient Egyptian origin stories ascribing origins of the gods and their ancestors to African locations to the south and west of Egypt (Davidson 1959)

--Advanced state building and political unity in Nubia, including writing, administrative apparatus and insignia some 300 years before dynastic Egypt, and the long demonstrated interchange between Nubia and Egypt (Williams 1980)

--Newer studies (Wendorf 2001, Wilkinson 1999, et al.) confirm these older analyses. Excavations from Nabta Playa, located about 100km west of Abu Simbel for example, suggest that the Neolithic inhabitants of the region were migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, based on cultural similarities and social complexity which is thought to be reflective of Egypt's Old Kingdom

--Other scholars (Wilkinson 1999) present similar material and cultural evidence- including similarities between predynastic Egypt and traditional African cattle-culture, typical of Southern Sudanese and East African pastoralists of today, and various cultural and artistic data such as iconography on rock art found in both Egypt and in the Sudan.


Assorted demic diffusion theories holding a mass influx of Europeans or Middle Easterners to Africa bringing cattle and agriculture to the natives is not supported by credible evidence. Indigenous development is most likely.

"Furthermore, the archaeology of northern Africa DOES NOT SUPPORT demic diffusion of farming from the Near East. The evidence presented by Wetterstrom indicates that early African farmers in the Fayum initially INCORPORATED Near Eastern domesticates INTO an INDIGENOUS foraging strategy, and only OVER TIME developed a dependence on horticulture. This is inconsistent with in-migrating farming settlers, who would have brought a more ABRUPT change in subsistence strategy. "The same archaeological pattern occurs west of Egypt, where domestic animals and, later, grains were GRADUALLY adopted after 8000 yr B.P. into the established pre-agricultural Capsian culture, present across the northern Sahara since 10,000 yr B.P. From this continuity, it has been argued that the pre-food-production Capsian peoples spoke languages ancestral to the Berber and/or Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, placing the proto-Afroasiatic period distinctly before 10,000 yr B.P."

Source: The Origins of Afroasiatic
Christopher Ehret, S. O. Y. Keita, Paul Newman;, and Peter Bellwood
Science 3 December 2004: Vol. 306. no. 5702, p. 1680


When claims of European or 'Mediterranean' migrant influx to ancient Egypt before the Hyskos/Greek/Roman era are analyzed research data conclusively debunks them.
Quote from "Early Nile Valley Farmers From El-Badari"


Male Badarian crania were analyzed using the generalized distance of Mahalanobis in a comparative analysis with other African and European series from the Howells?s database. The study was carried out to examine the affinities of the Badarians to evaluate, in preliminary fashion, a demic diffusion hypothesis that postulates that horticulture and the Afroasiatic language family were brought ultimately from southern Europe. (The assumption was made that the southern Europeans would be more similar to the central and northern Europeans than to any indigenous African populations.) The Badarians show a greater affinity to indigenous Africans while not being identical. This suggests that the Badarians were more affiliated with local and an indigenous African population than with Europeans.
(S.O.Y. Keita. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data". Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)


The Sahara and the Sudan seem to have provided a major source for the genesis of Egyptian civilization contributing many of its unique elements.

QUOTE(s):
"a critical factor in the rise of social complexity and the subsequent emergence of the Egyptian state in Upper Egypt (Hoffman 1979; Hassan 1988). If so, Egypt owes a major debt to those early pastoral groups in the Sahara; they may have provided Egypt with many of those features that still distinguish it from its neighbors to the east."
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 17, 97-123 (1998), "Nabta Playa and Its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory," Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild.

"Over the last two decades, numerous contemporary (Khartoum Neolithic) sites and cemeteries have been excavated in the Central Sudan.. The most striking point to emerge is the overall similarity of early neolithic developments inhabitation, exchange, material culture and mortuary customs in the Khartoum region to those underway at the same time in the Egyptian Nile Valley, far to the north." (Wengrow, David (2003) "Landscapes of Knowledge, Idioms of Power: The African Foundations of Ancient Egyptian Civilization Reconsidered," in Ancient Egypt in Africa, David O'Connor and Andrew Reid, eds. Ancient Egypt in Africa. London: University College London Press, 2003, pp. 119-137)


"Sub-Saharan" genetic elements found as far afield as the Turkish and Greek regions

F. X. Ricaut, M. Waelkens. (2008). Cranial Discrete Traits in a Byzantine Population and Eastern Mediterranean Population Movements Human Biology - Volume 80, Number 5, October 2008, pp. 535-564

"A late Pleistocene-early Holocene northward migration (from Africa to the Levant and to Anatolia) of these populations has been hypothesized from skeletal data (Angel 1972, 1973; Brace 2005) and from archaeological data, as indicated by the probable Nile Valley origin of the "Mesolithic" (epi-Paleolithic) Mushabi culture found in the Levant (Bar Yosef 1987). This migration finds some support in the presence in Mediterranean populations (Sicily, Greece, southern Turkey, etc.; Patrinos et al.; Schiliro et al. 1990) of the Benin sickle cell haplotype. This haplotype originated in West Africa and is probably associated with the spread of malaria to southern Europe through an eastern Mediterranean route (Salares et al. 2004) following the expansion of both human and mosquito populations brought about by the advent of the Neolithic transition (Hume et al 2003; Joy et al. 2003; Rich et al 1998). This northward migration of northeastern African populations carrying sub-Saharan biological elements is concordant with the morphological homogeneity of the Natufian populations (Bocquentin 2003), which present morphological affinity with sub-Saharan populations (Angel 1972; Brace et al. 2005). In addition, the Neolithic revolution was assumed to arise in the late Pleistocene Natufians and subsequently spread into Anatolia and Europe (Bar-Yosef 2002), and the first Anatolian farmers, Neolithic to Bronze Age Mediterraneans and to some degree other Neolithic-Bronze Age Europeans, show morphological affinities with the Natufians (and indirectly with sub-Saharan populations; Angel 1972; Brace et al 2005), in concordance with a process of demic diffusion accompanying the extension of the Neolithic revolution (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1994)."

"Following the numerous interactions among eastern Mediterranean and Levantine populations and regions, caused by the introduction of agriculture from the Levant into Anatolia and southeastern Europe, there was, beginning in the Bronze Age, a period of increasing interactions in the eastern Mediterranean, mainly during the Greek, Roman, and Islamic periods. These interactions resulted in the development of trading networks, military campaigns, and settler colonization. Major changes took place during this period, which may have accentuated or diluted the sub-Saharan components of earlier Anatolian populations. The second option seems more likely, because even though the population from Sagalassos territory was interacting with northeastern African and Levantine populations [trade relationships with Egypt (Arndt et al. 2003), involvement of thousands of mercenaries from Pisidia (Sagalassos region) in the war around 300 B.C. between the Ptolemaic kingdom (centered in Egypt) and the Seleucid kingdom (Syria/Mesopotamia/Anatolia), etc.], the major cultural and population interactions involving the Anatolian populations since the Bronze Age occurred with the Mediterranean populations form southeastern Europe, as suggested from historical and genetic data."

""In this context it is likely that Bronze Age events may have facilitated the southward diffusion of populations carrying northern and central European biological elements and may have contributed to some degree of admixture between northern and central Europeans and Anatolians, and on a larger scale, between northeastern Mediterraneans and Anatolians. Even if we do not know which populations were involved, historical and archaeological data suggest, for instance, the 2nd millennium B.C. Minoan and later Mycenaean occupation of Anatolian coast, the arrival in Anatolia in the early 1st millennium B.C. of the Phrygians coming from Thrace, and later the arrival of settlers from Macedonia in Pisidia and in the Sagalassos territory (under Seleucid rule). The coming of the Dorians from Northern Greece and central Europe (the Dorians are claimed to be one of the main groups at the origin of the ancient Greeks) may have also brought northern and central European biological elements into southern populations. Indeed, the Dorians may have migrated southward to the Peloponnese, across the southern Aegean and Create, and later reached Asia Minor."


Ancient Egyptian language is part of the Afrasian or Afroasiatic group which has its origins in Africa, and together with other archaeological evidence firmly makes it an African culture. Acording to mainstream research:

QUOTE(s):

"Ancient Egyptian civilization was, in ways and to an extent usually not recognized, fundamentally African. The evidence of both language and culture reveals these African roots. The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt. The ancient Egyptian language belonged to the Afrasian family (also called Afroasiatic or, formerly, Hamito-Semitic). The speakers of the earliest Afrasian languages, according to recent studies, were a set of peoples whose lands between 15,000 and 13,000 B.C. stretched from Nubia in the west to far northern Somalia in the east. They supported themselves by gathering wild grains. The first elements of Egyptian culture were laid down two thousand years later, between 12,000 and 10,000 B.C., when some of these Afrasian communities expanded northward into Egypt, bringing with them a language directly ancestral to ancient Egyptian. They also introduced to Egypt the idea of using wild grains as food." (Christopher Ehret (1996) "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture." In Egypt in Africa Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press)


"Ancient Egypt belongs to a language group known as 'Afroasiatic' (formerly called Hamito-Semitic) and its closest relatives are other north-east African languages from Somalia to Chad. Egypt's cultural features, both material and ideological and particularly in the earliest phases, show clear connections with that same broad area. In sum, ancient Egypt was an African culture, developed by African peoples, who had wide ranging contacts in north Africa and western Asia." (Morkot, Robert (2005) The Egyptians: An Introduction. Routledge. p. 10)

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ANCIENT EGYPTIANS AND HAIR
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Mummification practices and dyeing of hair
Hair studies of mummies note that color is often influenced by environmental factors at burial sites. Brothwell and Spearman (ref in Fletcher's works-1963) point out that reddish-brown ancient color hair is usually the result of partial oxidation of the melanin pigment. Other causes of hair color "blonding" involve bleaching, caused by the alkaline in the mummification process. Color also varies due to the Egyptian practice of dyeing hair with henna. Other samples show individuals lightening the hair using vegetable colorants. Thus variations in hair color among mummies do not necessarily suggest the presence of blond or red-haired Europeans or Near Easterners flitting about Egypt before being mummified, but the influence of environmental factors.
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Egyptian practice of putting locks of hair in mummy wrappings.

Racial analysis is also made problematic by the Egyptian practice of burying hair, in many "votive or funerary deposits buried separately from the body, a practice found from Predynastic to Roman times despite its frequent omission from excavation reports." (Fletcher 2002) In examining hair samples Fletcher (2004) notes that care is needed to determine what is natural scalp hair, versus hair from a wig, versus hair extensions to natural locks. Tracking the exact source of hair is also critical since the Egyptians were known to have placed locks of hair from different sources among mummy wrappings. (The Search for Nefertiti, By Joann Fletcher, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 93-94, 96; Joann Fletcher, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HAIR AND WIGS, THE OSTRACON THE JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2; SUMMER 2002)
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Hair for wigs often obtained through trade not mass waves of "Caucasoid" migrants.

The use of wigs made of varying hair also complicates attempts at 'racial' analysis. Fletcher (2002) shows that many Egyptian wigs have been found with what is defined as straighter 'cynotrichous' hair. This however is hardly a marker of massive European or Near Eastern presence or admixture. Fletcher notes that the Egyptians often eschewed their own personal hair, shaving carefully and using wigs widely. The hair for these wigs was often obtained through trade. Indeed, "hair itself being a valuable commodity ranked alongside gold and incense in account lists from the town of Kahun." Egyptian trading links with other regions is well known, and a prized commodity like straighter 'cynotrichous' hair could have been easily obtained via the Sahara, Levant, the Maghreb, Mediterranean contacts, or even the hair of Asiatic war captives or casulaties from Egypt's numerous conflicts.
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Red-headed Ramses- routine for genetic variability in Africa not "whiteness"

Rameses came along comparatively late in Egyptian history, when outsiders toEgypt like the Hyskos were increasing in the region. Detailed microscopic analysis during the 1980s (Balout 1985) identified some of the hair of Egyptian Pharoah Rameses II as being a yellowish-red. Such a finding should not be surprising given the wide range of physical variability in Africa, the most genetically diverse region on earth, out of which flowed other population groups. Indeed, blondism and various other hair shades are not unknown in East Africa or Nubia, particularly in children, nor are such hair color variants uncommon in dark-haired or dark skinned populations like the Australians. (Hrdy 1978) Given the range of genetic variability in Africa, a red-haired Rameses is hardly unusual. Rameses' reign, in the 19th Dynasty, came over 1,500 years after the Egyptian state had been established, and after the Hyskos interlude. Such latecomers to Egypt, like the Hyskos, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs etc would add their own genetic strands to the nation's mix. Whatever the blend of genes that occurred with Rameses, his hair offers little supposed "proof" of a "white" or "Nordic" Egypt. If anything, X-rays of the royal mummies by mainstream scientists show that the Egyptians pharoahs and other royals had several uncomfortable 'Negroid' leanings. (http://www.geocities.com/nilevalleypeoples/xraymummies1.htm)
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Red hair can be readily produced by dark-skinned populations- just check out Australia and pheomelanin

The finding of Rameses "red" hair also deserves further scrutiny. The analysis found evidence of dyeing to make the hair yellowish-red, but some elements were untouched by the dye. These elements of yellowish-red hair in Balout's study, were established on the basis of the presence of pheomelanin, a red-brown polymeric pigment in the skin and hair of humans. However, pheomelanin can also be found in persons with dark brown or even black hair as well, which gives it a reddish hue. Most natural melanins contain sulfur, which is typically associated with pheomelanin. In scientific tests of melanin, black hair contained as much as 5% sulfur, 3% lower than the 8.8% found in Irish red hair, but exceeding the 2.3% found in Scandinavian blond hair. (Jolles, et al. 1996) Thus the yellowish-red hair discovered on Rameses is well within the range of human variation for dark haired people, whatever the exact gene combination that led to the condition.

As noted above, such variation began with ancient African populations. Most red hair is found in northern and western Europe, especially in the British Isles, and even then it appears in minor frequencies in Europe- some 4% of the population. It is unlikely such populations had any major contact or influence in the ancient Nile Valley. The analysis on Rameses also did not show classic "European" red hair but hair of a light red to yellowish tinge. Black haired or dark-skinned populations are quite capable of producing such yellowish-red color variants on their own, as can be seen in today's east and northeast Africa (see child's photo above). Nor is such color variation unusual to Africa. Native dark-skinned populations in Australia, routinely produce people witn blond or reddis hair. .

The analysis also found Rames' hair to be cymotrich or wavy, again a characteristic quite within the range of overall African or Nile valley physical and genetic diversity. A "pure" Nordic type of straight hair was thus not established for Rameses. Hence the notion of white Europeans or red-headed Caucasoids from other areas flowing into ancient Egypt to add hair variation.

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REFERENCES

Joann Fletcher, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HAIR AND WIGS, THE OSTRACON THE JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2; SUMMER 2002

The Search for Nefertiti, By Joann Fletcher, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 93-94, 96

Brothwell. D., and R. Spearman 1963 The hair of earlier peoples. In: Science in Archaeology. D. Brothwell and E. Higgs, eds. Thames and Hudeon, London, p. 427-436

Daniel Hrdy 1978- Analysis of Hair Samples of Mummies from Semna South, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (1978) 49: 277-262)

Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 83:35-48 (1990


Hair Styles and History, by Cyril Aldred, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 15, No. 6 (Feb., 1957), pp. 141-147)

L. Balout, C. Roubet and C. Desroches-Noblecourt, and was titled La Momie de Ramsès II: Contribution Scientifique à l'Égyptologie (1985).

Formation and Structure of Human Hair: Biology and Structure, By Pierre Jollès, Helmut Zahn, H. Höcker, Birkhäuser, 1996, pp. 200-225


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NUBIA AND EGYPT

Close relationships between Nubians and Egyptians in various eras, contradicting "racial war" claims


"The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)

- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Integration of Nubian and egyptian elites in some eras


"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region.4 As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."
- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


using the same methods of those who see "racial wars" between Nubians and Egyptians, one can also see "racial" wars against "white" west Asians who were often conquered or put to tribute by the ancient Egyptians. applying a consistency using the same methods:


RAMESES II. SLAYING THE ASIATICS BEFORE RA, THE TUTELARY DEITY OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABÛ-SIMBEL..


THE DISCOURSE OF AMEN-RA,
LORD OF THRONES.

Thou hast struck off the heads of the Asiatics, and their children cannot escape from thee. Every land illuminated by thy diadem is encircled by thy might; and in all the zone of the heavens there is not a rebel to rise up against thee. The enemy bring in their tribute on their backs, prostrating themselves before thee, their limbs trembling and their hearts burned up within them."

Campaign against "white" Mittani in parts of Lebanon:

"He is a king valiant ... Naharin which its lord had deserted out of fear ... I hacked up its towns and villages and I set fire to them ... I carried off their inhabitants ... also their herds of cattle ... I felled all their plantations and their fruit trees ...I had many vessels ... built on the mountains of God's Land in the neighborhood of the Lady of Byblos ... then on that mountain of Naharin, my Majesty erected my stela, carved out of the mountain on the western side of the Euphrates.."


Conquest against and tribute from "white" Palestine:

"Tribute of the princes of Retenu, who came to do obeisance ... to the souls of his majesty... Now every harbor at which his majesty arrived was supplied with loaves and with assorted loaves, with oil, incense, wine, f[ruit] ---- abundant were they beyond everything ...


Tribute from 'white' Lebanon:

The chieftains, lord of Lebanon, construct the royal ships in order that people may sail south in them to bring all the marvels of the "Garden" to the palace. LPH. ... The chieftains of Retjenu (Retenu) who drag the flagpoles by means of oxen to the shore, it is they who come with their dues to the place where his majesty is, to the Residence in ...... bearing all the fine products brought as marvels of the south and being taxed for tribute annually as (with) all bondsmen of his Majesty."


Operations against more 'white' 'Troglodytes':


"Then my Majesty made them take their oaths of allegiance as follows: never again shall we do anything evil against Menkheperre (another name for Thutmose III), may he live forever ...
Then my Majesty had them set free on the road to their cities*). They went off on donkeys for I had seized their chariotry. I captured their inhabitants for Egypt and their property likewise." [W. Helck transl. by B. Cummings (1982), `Urkunden der 18. Dynastie', `Egyptian Historical Records of the Later 18th Dynasty']

"His majesty proceeded northward, to overthrow the Asiatics (Mntyw-Stt). His majesty arrived at a district, Sekmem (Skmm) was its name. His majesty led the good way in proceeding to the palace of `Life, Prosperity, and Health (L.P.H.,' when Sekmen had fallen, together with Retenu (Rtnw) the wretched, while I was acting as rearguard." [Breasted, `Records', Vol. I, Sec. 680]
Time of Seti the Great - Presentation of Syrian Prisoners and Precious Vessels to Amon

"Smiting the Troglodytes, beating down the Asiatics (Mn·t·yw), making his boundary as far as the `Horns of the Earth', as far as the marshes of Naharin (N-h-r-n)." [Ibid., Vol. III, Sec. 118;]

"Slaying of the Asiatic Troglodytes (Ynw-Mn·t·yw [Menate, Manasseh]), all inaccessible countries, all lands, the Fenkhu of the marshes of Asia, the Great Bend of the sea (w'd-wr)."


Booty seized from "white" Caananites:

".... 340 living prisoners; 83 hands; 2,401 mares; 191 foals; 6 stallions; ... young ...; a chariot, wrought with gold, (its) pole of gold, belonging to the chief of `M-k-ty' (as the land around Jerusalem was called); .... 892 chariots of his wretched army; total, 924 (chariots); a beautiful suit of bronze armor, belonging to the chief of Jerusalem; .... 200 suits of armor, belonging to his wretched army; 502 bows; 7 poles of (mry) wood, wrought with silver, belonging to the tent of that foe. Behold, the army of his majesty took ...., 297 ...., 1,929 large cattle, 2,000 small cattle, 20500 white small cattle." [JBRE, `Records', Vol. II, Sec. 435; See also the following sections.]


Tribute from "white" Assur/Assyria
"The tribute of the chief of Assur (Ys-sw-r): genuine lapis lazuli, a large block, making 20 deben, 9 kidet; genuine lapis lazuli, 2 blocks; total, 3; and pieces, [making] 30 deben; total, 50 deben and 9 kidet; fine lapis lazuli from Babylon (Bb-r); vessels of Assur of hrrt- stone in colors, ---- very many." "Tribute of the chief of Assur: horses ---. A ---- of skin of the M-h-w as the [protection] of a chariot, of the finest of --- wood; 190(+x) wagons --- --- wood, nhb wood, 343 pieces, carob wood, 50 pieces; nby and k'nk wood, 206 pieces; olive oil, ------.." [BREASTED, Vol. II, Sec. 446, 449]


"Whites" put to slave labor in Egypt.

from Project Guttenberg full text of:
A HISTORY OF EGYPT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PERSIAN CONQUEST
BY JAMES HENRY BREASTED,
II, 760-1, 773. 2 II, 761.

Inscription
"the Asiatics of all countries came with bowed head, doing obeisance to the fame of his majesty."


book text:

"Thutmose's war-galleys moored in the harbour of the town; but at this time not merely the iceaUh of Asia was unloaded from the ships; the Asiatics themselves, bound one to another in long lines, were led down the gang planks to begin a life of slave- labour for the Pharaoh (Fig. 119). They wore long matted beards, an abomination to the Egyptians ; their hair hung in heavy black masses upon their shoulders, and they were clad in gaily coloured woolen stuffs, such as the Egyptian, spotless in his white linen robe, would never put on his body.

Their arms were pinioned behind them at the elbows or crossed over their heads and lashed together ; or, again, their hands were thrust through odd pointed ovals of wood, which served as hand-cuffs. The women carried their children slung in a fold of the mantle over their shoulders. With their strange speech and uncouth postures the poor wretches were the subject of jibe and merriment on the part of the multitude ; while the artists of the time could never forbear caricaturing them. Many of them found their way into the houses of the Pharaoh's favourites, and his generals were liberally rewarded with gifts of such slaves; but the larger number were immediately employed on the temple estates, the Pharaoh's domains, or in the construction of his great monuments and buildings.

These Facts cannot be ignored

Peace

LOL, most of this bulk of text is about how diverse Africa is and a lot out of context text like those of Keita and those of cranial studies.
Then there's a lot of studies that show population continuity of predynastic Egypt all the way to modern Egypt. Hello? That's what every sane person says! Ancient Egyptians = Modern Egyptians. Thanks for pointing the obvious.
Then there's studies that show some black presence in Upper Egypt especially because of Nubia. Every sane person knows that. Nubia was also colonialized in the 12th dynasty by the Egyptians.
Then there's editor-inserted comments like the one about Nubians being the closest to Egyptians, which is a total lie and no anthropologist actually said that because all the evidence points otherwise. In order to make this at least half true, you should have said Upper Egyptians where the Nubian presence was. Lower Egypt where the actual Egyptians were are not close to Nubians whatsoever, except in the 17th-20th and 25th dynasties, and perhaps some other one as well, since the Nubians from Upper Egypt eventually came to Lower Egypt where the real Egyptians were anyway. But every sane person knows this already anyway. By the way, you copied the texts about Egyptian-Nubian relations twice, you should remove one instance of them. It's obvious you haven't even read this bulk of text, just copied it.
Get it through your ignorant heads already; Africa does not equal black! Can you not grasp this simple fact? There is no help for you if you can't.

Herodotus:
"Some Egyptians said they thought the Colchians originated with Sesostris' army, but I myself guessed their Egyptian origin not only because the Colochians are dark-skinned and curly-haired (which does not count for much by itself, because these features are common to others too)"

"After this man the priests enumerate to me from a papyrus roll the names of other kings, three hundred and thirty in number; and in all these generations of men eighteen were Etiopians [Greek and Roman word for black Africans], one was a woman, a native Egyptian, and the rest were men and of Egyptian race"

"South of Elephantine, the country is inhabited by Ethiopians who also possess half of Tachompso, the other half being occupied by Egyptians."

Xenophanes, 500 BC:
"Black people resided not in the Nile Valley but in a far land, by the fountain of the sun."

Hippocrates, 400 BC:
"As the other Scythians have a peculiarity of shape, and do not resemble any other, the same observation applies to the Egyptians, only that the latter are oppressed by heat and the former by cold."

Regarding your "super-negroid" body plan, Modern Egyptians have the same "super-negroid" body plan as the ancients had:
(Stringer and Gamble, 1993, p. 92)
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/hybrid.htm
So much for this "super-negroid" nonsense of yours.

Cranial studies, like you said, and I agree, show population continuity from the predynastic time to the Roman time:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/zakrzewski_2007.pdf
http://wysinger.homestead.com/egyptian_body_proportions.pdf
No sub-Saharan Africans.

Ancient Egyptians and North Africans are non-similar to sub-Saharans; closer to Eurasians:
http://wiki.majorityrights.com/_media/race/discrete_cranial.pdf

Teeth also show population continuity and mass-reduced teeth:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/who_were_egyptian.pdf

Nubian teeth are evidence of outside source:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/110494504/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/113373976/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/110525346/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Egyptian mummies (except those in the aforementioned black dynasties) are not black Africans:
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/egyptian-mummy-reconstructions/

The hair of the mummies is in good shape aside from the surface being distorted a little:
http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0909049503015334
Yes, they also shaved their hair and wore wigs; wigs made out of their hair. It's possible some wigs were traded with outsiders, for the most part, obviously, it was their own. DNA tests showed they are not sub-Saharan.
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/mummies-and-mummy-hair-from-ancient-egypt/
Hair from Nubian mummies has more European admixture than African, it also has more African admixture than Egyptian hair samples:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/hair_semma.pdf

Y-Chromosome shows back-migration into Africa from Eurasia:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1182266
mtDNA shows possible back-migration from Eurasia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_people#cite_note-A.D.-23
Y-DNA studies show ancient and modern Egyptians are not foreign Arabian or other invaders:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/haplotypes_in_egypt.pdf
http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/AJHG_2004_v74_p1023-1034.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15856073
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200210/ai_n9126114/
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1182266
http://dirkschweitzer.net/E3b-papers/Hassan-Sudan-2008-AJPA.pdf
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=15202071
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2008/04/02/gr.7172008.abstract
http://www.familytreedna.com/pdf/HaploJ.pdf
Egyptian mtDNA is 75% Eurasian:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1377841&blobtype=pdf
Nubian mtDNA is 45% Eurasian in this study:
http://www.anthropology.uw.edu.pl/bne-02-02.pdf
Nubian mtDNA is 60% Eurasian in this ancient mummy study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9158841
Somalian Y-DNA is 15% Eurasian:
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v13/n7/full/5201390a.html
Somalian mtDNA is 46% Eurasian:
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v7/n4/pdf/5200326a.pdf
Fulani Nomads' mtDNA is 8.1% Eurasian:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200602/ai_n17186281/
Ethiopians are 40% Eurasian:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=384897
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1376879&blobtype=pdf
http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/AJHG_2002_v70_p1197-1214.pdf
http://www.ebc.ee/EVOLUTSIOON/publications/Kivisild2004.pdf
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200304/ai_n9235660/pg_3/
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/apl/tahb/2002/00000029/00000004/art00008
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=139378
E3b1 does not indicate "black African:"
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1181964
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1181965
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/the-m78-an-afro-asiatic-y-chromsome-not-sub-saharan/
Low levels of sub-Saharan Y-chromosome lineage in Egypt:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200210/ai_n9126114
Egyptians are of Berber ancistry:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200006/ai_n8879505/
Natufians were not sub-Saharan Africans:
"This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic.

In that run, the Natufian of Israel ties to the French Mesolithic and then to the Afalou/Taforalt sample from North Africa.

The interbreeding of the incoming Neolithic people with the in situ foragers diluted the Sub-Saharan traces that may have come with the Neolithic spread so that no discoverable element of that remained." (Brace, 2005)
Berbers have Eurasian origin:
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16815753
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15180702
http://www.nextbio.com/b/search/article.nb?id=10363131
http://www.springerlink.com/content/g301143g43q54304/
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/4/15
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~vincent/papers/980656.web.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15225159
http://batzerlab.lsu.edu/Publications/Comas%20et%20al.%202000%20Hum%20Genet.pdf
http://www.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/abstrakty/2005-1/05-1Kefi1.htm
The M78 Y chromosome has a North East African, not East African origin:
http://dirkschweitzer.net/E3b-papers/MolecularBiologyandEvolution-07-24-6-1300.pdf
The Predynastic of Upper Egypt and the Late Dynastic of Lower Egypt are more closely related to each other than to any other population. As a whole, they show ties with the European Neolithic, North Africa, modern Europe, and, more remotely, India, but not at all with sub-Saharan Africa, eastern Asia, Oceania, or the New World:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/110532242/abstract

A commonly ‘misunderstood’ paper by Dr C. Loring Brace:
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/a-commonly-misunderstood-paper-by-dr-c-loring-brace/

The case for and against cattle domestication and sorghum cultivation at Nabta Playa:
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/the-case-for-and-against-cattle-domestication-and-sorghum-cultivation-at-nabta-playa/
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/domesticated-animals-across-the-sahara-north-africa-and-nile/

Nilo-Saharan language family tree:
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/nilo-saharan-language-family-tree/

What S.O.Y. Keita says about the race of the ancient Egyptians:
"it can be imagined that the modern diversity to be found in Egypt in terms of craniofacial features, skin colour and what have you, would likely have been very similar to that found in the past."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZssWb4MmGM
"current inhabitants of the Nile valley should be understood as being in the main, although not wholly, descendants of the pre-neolithic regional inhabitants"
You might as well stop quoting Keita for you Afrocentric purposes.

I'm off to Morocco for 10 days, so take your time and read these studies.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Belphegor:

So what you're saying is, whites, Asians and every other person evolved from black Africans, but black Africans remained the same? In a sense, black Africans are non-evolved? LOL. If I'd say that, I'd be called a racist!

No, fool! Of course evolution occurred in terms of some phenotypic features but others like black skin other tropical features remained the same because the populations still lived in the tropics!

Here is an example of aboriginal Asians who also remained in the tropics and therefore retained tropical features:

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^ The boy above is from Southeast Asia but in terms of looks not much has changed.

quote:
Also posting images from the black-ruled dynasties again.
Yes, ALL native dynasties were black including the 18th dynasty whom those portraits come from, fool!

quote:
The paint "wore off." LOL. Yeah, if you say so.
Of course, unless you deny that paint can wear off a statue thousands of years old or that ancient Egyptians were pale-skinned or that ancient women bleach their skins the way many modern Egyptian women do today!

quote:
Go tell that negroids and Caucasoids do not exist to the scientists who do tests based on human remains, not me, buddy. You Afrocentrists might be crazy enough to believe that, but good luck trying to convince the scientists.
I don't need to! The scientists say that themselves!!

J. Edwards, A. Leathers, et al.
...based on Howell’s sampling Fordisc 2.0 authors state that "there are no races, only populations," yet it is clear that Howell was intent on providing known groups that would be distributed among the continental "racial" groups.
We tested the accuracy and effectiveness of Fordisc 2.0 using twelve cranial measurements from a homogeneous population from the X-Group period of Sudanese Nubia (350CE-550CE). When the Fordisc program classified the adult X-Group crania, only 51 (57.3%) of 89 individuals were classified within groups from Africa. Others were placed in such diverse groups as Polynesian (11.24%), European (7.86%), Japanese (4.49%), Native American (3.37%), Peruvian (3.36%), Australian (1.12), Tasmanian (1.12%), and Melanesian (1.12%). The implications of these findings suggest that classifying populations, whether by geography or by "race", is not morphologically or biologically accurate because of the wide variation even in homogeneous populations.


quote:
Yawn to the rest of your post.
Because your poor twisted mind cannot refute it and therefore causes you 'fatigue'. LOL
 
Posted by Belphegor (Member # 16779) on :
 
Quoting myself:
"According to your logic, every person is a black African, and white skin, for example, is by extension nothing but a black African trait. Wow, black Africans sure are diverse! The Chinese are also black Africans, correct? Chinese civilization is basically black African civilization. Oh my god, I have seen the light! It all makes sense now!

Morons."

The above post is another LOL-fest.

"Yes, ALL native dynasties were black including the 18th dynasty whom those portraits come from, fool!"
Yeah, that's why all the art from the Old Kingdom does not represent black Africans, but light-skinned and darker-skinned Egyptians - the same you can find today, right?

Funny how always only the skin colour fades away, right? It's those "white devils" re-painting the statues, isn't it? LOL.

Playing word games that race does not exist... Okay, scientists can from remains determine what kind of features/phenotype the person had. Be it black African, white, mixed black African/white so on and so forth. Now what?

The studies refute everything, I don't have to.

I really have to pack now, see you ignorant fools in 10 days.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Belphegor, You are having an argument with a brick wall. These people just throw out scraps of data with no context and no earthly idea of what they have. Their ideas on southern Europe are nothing more that suppositions they literally make up.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
I was compiling an immense list of all the studies that refute a black Egypt. It looks like Belphegor beat me to it. Good work. [Wink]
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Simple Girl,I ask you and Belphegor a couple of questions before
1)where was God's land and Lands of the ancestors
2)where was the Kemites 1ST nome,what was it called.
3)What is the significance of the finds at Nabta Plyata. where was it located.
4)What is the A and C group culture where was it's origins where did it end up.
5)What language group did the Kemites belong to,where did it originated.
6)What is tropical adopted body plans,what is super tropical adopted body plans and how does fit in with ancient Kemetic remains.

Now look these questions up,give us an answer.
 
Posted by Apocalypse (Member # 8587) on :
 
Belphegor the master of logic wrote on page 9 of this thread:
quote:
They have black skin and whatnot, but genetically they are nothing like black Africans.
On page 10:
quote:
Yeah you do, you've got modern Egyptians that look like that! You've got modern Egyptians that look like light-skinned ancient Egyptians, and you've got darker-skinned (not black) modern Egyptians that look like ancient egyptians. No black Africans. Africans, yes, black, no. Unless your family members are albinos, you don't, so stop lying. Black Africans do not look like that. Egyptians look like that. They are African, but they are not black. Do you not understand this?
Wow! That's deep.
 
Posted by Apocalypse (Member # 8587) on :
 
Another bit of Belphegorian logic regarding the sculpture of Osiris above:

quote:
This wooden statue of Osiris is from the Ptolemaic dynasty. The Nubians were long gone. Why the Greeks would sculpt a black African is beyond me. Logic tells me this is not a black African, even though he might look like one.
Wow! That's deep.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by sudaniya:
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I like the Afro and the braided hair. Queen Tiye looks like an intimidating old African women.

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The military seemed poorly armed.

"The rulers of Ta Seti and Ta Shemu [ upper Egypt] appear to be from one extended family, which makes sense given the whole basis of the African political/religious institution of devine monarchy."

Belphegor, the vast majority of ancient Egypt's dynasties came from Upper Egypt, and were entirely native African; they spoke a language closely related to languages in Sudan, Chad, Somalia, Ethiopia and so on.

Ancient Egypt was the product of Nile Valley Africans; Ta-Seti and Ta-Shemu cognate from the same cultural, linguistic, and genetic base, I can not usurp what I belong to.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Speaking of Ta Seti, Prophecy of Neferti:

Stir, my heart,
Bewail this land, from which you have sprung!
When there is silence before evil,
And when what should be chided is feared,
Then the great man is overthrown in the land of your birth.
Tire not while this is before you,

Rise against what is before you!
Lo, the great no longer rule the land,
What was made has been unmade,
Re should begin to recreate!
The land is quite perished, no remnant is left,
Not the black of a nail is spared from its fate.
(Yet) while the land suffers, none care for it,
None speak, none shed tears: "How fares this land!"
The sundisk, covered, shines not for people to see,
One cannot live when clouds conceal,
All are numb from lack of it.

I shall describe what is before me,
I do not foretell what does not come:
Dry is the river of Egypt,
One crosses the water on foot;
One seeks water for ships to sail on,
Its course having turned into shoreland.
Shoreland will turn into water,
Watercourse back into shoreland.
Southwind will combat northwind,
Sky will lack the single wind.

A strange bird will breed in the Delta marsh,
Having made its nest beside the people,
The people having let it approach by default.
Then perish those delightful things,
The fishponds full of fish-eaters,
Teeming with fish and fowl.
All happiness has vanished,
The land is bowed down in distress,
Owing to those feeders,5
Asiatics who roam the land.
Foes have risen in the East,
Asiatics have come down to Egypt.
If the fortress is [crowded] . . .
..
Desert flocks will drink at the river of Egypt,
Take their ease on the shores for lack of one to fear
For this land is to-and-fro, knowing not what comes,
What-will-be being hidden according as one says:
"When sight and hearing fail the mute leads."
I show you the land in turmoil,
What should not be has come to pass.
Men will seize weapons of warfare,
The land will live in uproar.
Men will make arrows of copper,
Will crave blood for bread,
Will laugh aloud at distress.
None will weep over death,
None will wake fasting for death,
Each man's heart is for himself.
Mourning is not done today,
Hearts have quite abandoned it.
A man sits with his back turned,
While one slays another.
I show you the son as enemy, the brother as foe,
A man slaying his father.

Every mouth is full of "how I wish"
All happiness has vanished;
The land is ruined, its fate decreed,
Deprived of produce, lacking in crops,
What was made has been unmade.
One seizes a man's goods, gives them to an outsider,
I show you the master in need, the outsider sated,
The lazy stuffs himself, the active is needy.
One gives only with hatred,
To silence the mouth that speaks;
To answer a speech the arm thrusts a stick
One speaks by killing him.
Speech falls on the heart like fire,
One cannot endure the word of mouth.

The land is shrunk-its rulers are many,
It is bare-its taxes are great;
The grain is low-the measure is large,
It is measured to overflowing.
Re will withdraw from mankind:
Though he will rise at his hour,
One will not know when noon has come;
No one will discern his shadow,
No face will be dazzled by seeing [him],
No eyes will moisten with water.
He will be in the sky like the moon,
His nightly course unchanged,
His rays on the face as before.

I show you the land in turmoil:
The weak-ammed is strong-ammed,
One salutes him who saluted.
I show you the undermost uppermost,
What was fumed on the back turns the belly.
Men will live in the graveyard,
The beggar will gain riches,
The great [will rob] to live.
The poor will eat bread,
The slaves will be exalted.
Gone from the earth is the nome of On,
The birthplace of every god.

Then a king will come from the South,Ameny, the just)fied, by name,
Son of a woman of Ta-Seti, child of Upper Egypt.
He will take the white crown,
He will wear the red crown;

He will join the Two Mighty Ones,
He will please the Two Lords with what they wish,
With field-circler in his fist, oar in his grasp.
Rejoice, O people of his time,
The son of man will make his name for all eternity!
The evil-minded, the treason-plotters,
They suppress their speech in fear of him;
Asiatics will fall to his sword,
Libyans will fall to his flame,
Rebels to his wrath, traitors to his might,
As the serpent on his brow subdues the rebels for him.
One will build the Walls-of-the-Ruler,
To bar Asiatics from entering Egypt;
They shall beg water as supplicants,
So as to let their cattle drink.
Then Order will return to its seat,
While Chaos is driven away.
Rejoice he who may behold, he who may attend the king! And he who is wise will libate for me,
When he sees fulfilled what I have spoken! http://ib205.tripod.com/prophecy_neferti.html

Not only is TRUTH on our side, But Also the Prophecy of Neferti is linking Egypt with other Africans.

Peace
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Belphegor:

Yeah you do, you've got modern Egyptians that look like that! You've got modern Egyptians that look like light-skinned ancient Egyptians, and you've got darker-skinned (not black) modern Egyptians that look like ancient egyptians. No black Africans. Africans, yes, black, no. Unless your family members are albinos, you don't, so stop lying. Black Africans do not look like that. Egyptians look like that. They are African, but they are not black. Do you not understand this? Africa does not equal black. Is this really so hard to grasp?

And what do you mean by "darker" skin Egyptians??

Do you mean Egyptians like these??

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^ These rural Egyptian men are obviously black!

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African? Yes. Black? No. Your family members do not look like this unless they are albinos. Stop stealing Egyptian history.

Again with the statues with faded paint. Why not post more preserved statues like these:

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This wooden statue of Osiris is from the Ptolemaic dynasty. The Nubians were long gone. Why the Greeks would sculpt a black African is beyond me. Logic tells me this is not a black African, even though he might look like one.

Who said Greeks sculpted it?!! Why not the native Egyptian populace who were black Africans, dummy??

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LOL, most of this bulk of text is about how diverse Africa is and a lot out of context text like those of Keita and those of cranial studies. Then there's a lot of studies that show population continuity of predynastic Egypt all the way to modern Egypt. Hello? That's what every sane person says! Ancient Egyptians = Modern Egyptians. Thanks for pointing the obvious...
This is disengenuous. Of course there is population continuity but to what degree? We know through genetic studies that modern Egyptians even 'Arabs' carry African lineages, and we know that they carry many tropical adapted traits and features-- and this is especially true of rural populations. But it is disengenuous to say that Egypt has not been affected genetically or culturally by foreign immigrations and invasions which is a historical FACT!!

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...Then there's studies that show some black presence in Upper Egypt especially because of Nubia. Every sane person knows that. Nubia was also colonialized in the 12th dynasty by the Egyptians...
Also disengenuous lies. Upper Egypt and Nubia have always shared close affinities as BOTH are closely related indigenous (black) African populations. The same is true with Lower Egyptians!!

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Then there's editor-inserted comments like the one about Nubians being the closest to Egyptians, which is a total lie and no anthropologist actually said that because all the evidence points otherwise. In order to make this at least half true, you should have said Upper Egyptians where the Nubian presence was. Lower Egypt where the actual Egyptians were are not close to Nubians whatsoever, except in the 17th-20th and 25th dynasties, and perhaps some other one as well, since the Nubians from Upper Egypt eventually came to Lower Egypt where the real Egyptians were anyway. But every sane person knows this already anyway. By the way, you copied the texts about Egyptian-Nubian relations twice, you should remove one instance of them. It's obvious you haven't even read this bulk of text, just copied it...
Of course what YOU are saying is a lie!!

'Nubian' admixture or influence has nothing to do with Egyptians' affinities to them! It is because they like Nubians are black peoples!

The late Nakada series preceding the formation of Dynastic Egypt was closest to the Nubian series at Kerma. Starting with the first dynasty, a trend toward hybridization of southern and northern types began, but with occasional anomalies. For example, the Third Dynasty and the Old Kingdom Giza remains are primarily of "Southern" affinity...

Again, the northern coastal types are indigenous African variants according to the available evidence. That they were not exactly the same as the modern coastal inhabitants could be explained by migration that occured after the breakdown of local sovereignty following invasions from West Asia and Europe. Most important was the Muslim period that brought some 2 million immigrants, mostly from the Levant, Anatolia and the Aegean. In fact, in modern Cairo today, a substantial portion of the population are Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Turks, etc., of fairly recent arrival into the region.
(Keita, 1992, 1993)

The late XVII Dynasty and XVIII Dynasty royal mummies display the strongest Nubian affinities. In terms of maxillary protrusion as measured by SNA, the mean value for these Pharaohs is 84.21 comparable to that of African Americans. They exceed the latter in terms of ANB and SN-M Plane, but are closer to Caucasians in regards to SNB. However, the ability of SNA and SNB to predict maxillary and mandibular protrusion respectively has been questioned. Some studies suggest that measuring prognathism from the Frankfort horizontal would produce more reliable results (See RM Ricketts, RJ Schulhof, L Bagha. Orientation-sella-nasion or Frankfort horizontal. Am J Orthod 1976 Jun;69(6):648-654; also JW Moore. Variation of the sella-nasion plane and its effect on SNA and SNB. J Oral Surg. 1976 Jan; 34(1): 24-26).

In regards to head shape, the late XVII and XVIII dynasty mummies are very close to Nubian samples intermediate between the Mesolithic and Christian periods. The zygomatic arches are almost always vertical or forward and not receding.
(Drs. James Harris and Edward Wente, University of Chicago, 1980)

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Get it through your ignorant heads already; Africa does not equal black! Can you not grasp this simple fact? There is no help for you if you can't.
Of course I grasp that fact! After all there are whites living in Africa! What YOU can't grasp is that all populations aboriginal to the African continent are BLACK that includes the Ancient Egyptians but NOT modern day urban Egyptians such as yourself that are either NOT descended from the ancients or you are but with substantial admixture from non-African foreigners, idiot!!

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Herodotus:
"Some Egyptians said they thought the Colchians originated with Sesostris' army, but I myself guessed their Egyptian origin not only because the Colochians are dark-skinned and curly-haired (which does not count for much by itself, because these features are common to others too)"

"After this man the priests enumerate to me from a papyrus roll the names of other kings, three hundred and thirty in number; and in all these generations of men eighteen were Etiopians [Greek and Roman word for black Africans], one was a woman, a native Egyptian, and the rest were men and of Egyptian race"

"South of Elephantine, the country is inhabited by Ethiopians who also possess half of Tachompso, the other half being occupied by Egyptians."

LOL Herodotus didn't use the word "dark-skinned" but "BLACK-skinned"! He also suggested that Egypt itself originated as a colony of Ethiopia but you conveniently forgot that! And 'Ethiopia' is a Greek word the etymology of which is not entirely certain. Many think it means 'burnt-face' however the name was also applied to Canaan or the ancient Levant by the Greeks! So either way you are screwed!

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Xenophanes, 500 BC:
"Black people resided not in the Nile Valley but in a far land, by the fountain of the sun."

LOL No doubt this is mistranslation. I want to know the exact Greek words Xenophanes used or can you not provide it!

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Hippocrates, 400 BC:
"As the other Scythians have a peculiarity of shape, and do not resemble any other, the same observation applies to the Egyptians, only that the latter are oppressed by heat and the former by cold."

And this means??

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Regarding your "super-negroid" body plan, Modern Egyptians have the same "super-negroid" body plan as the ancients had:
(Stringer and Gamble, 1993, p. 92)
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/hybrid.htm
So much for this "super-negroid" nonsense of yours.

Sorry but the link you cited says nothing about "negroid" or tropical adapted body plan but on the contrary cold adapted body plans of neanderthals! Also, the only modern Egyptians with such features are rural southern Egyptians who by the way happen to be black! Most modern Egyptians who aren't black show obvious hybridization with cold-adapted traits if not entirely cold adapted so course they don't have "super-negroid" body plans, idiot!

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Cranial studies, like you said, and I agree, show population continuity from the predynastic time to the Roman time:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/zakrzewski_2007.pdf
http://wysinger.homestead.com/egyptian_body_proportions.pdf
No sub-Saharan Africans.

Yes, continuation until Roman times and or course it said nothing about 'Sub-Sahara' only Africa as again black Africans are indigenous to ALL of Africa!
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Ancient Egyptians and North Africans are non-similar to sub-Saharans; closer to Eurasians:
http://wiki.majorityrights.com/_media/race/discrete_cranial.pdf

This is a lie. As this topic has been discussed before and [url=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=001164]here!
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Teeth also show population continuity and mass-reduced teeth:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/who_were_egyptian.pdf

Which is also common to other regions of Africa including Sub-Sahara. See here
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Nubian teeth are evidence of outside source:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/110494504/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/113373976/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/110525346/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

See the above source-- Dental reduction is a common micro-evolutionary process that is common even among Sub-Saharans!
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Egyptian mummies (except those in the aforementioned black dynasties) are not black Africans:
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/egyptian-mummy-reconstructions/

LOL Sorry but Mathilda of all people is no expert and we debunk her B.S. everyday in this forum! Egyptian mummies from *ALL* native dynasties were black African as shown in many studies including those made by Doctors James Harris and Edward Wente here!
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The hair of the mummies is in good shape aside from the surface being distorted a little:
http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0909049503015334

Ignoring the fact that black Africans have curly and wavy hair forms and that embalming chemicals can further alter hair.
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Yes, they also shaved their hair and wore wigs; wigs made out of their hair. It's possible some wigs were traded with outsiders, for the most part, obviously, it was their own. DNA tests showed they are not sub-Saharan.
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/mummies-and-mummy-hair-from-ancient-egypt/

That depends on what you mean by "sub-Saharan" again, blacks are indigenous to North Africa as well! And even modern Egyptians share genetic lineages with Sub-Saharans!
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Hair from Nubian mummies has more European admixture than African, it also has more African admixture than Egyptian hair samples:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/hair_semma.pdf

Again, even Sub-Saharans vary in hair texture-- wavy or curly hair is no more "European" than frizzy hair is African, stupid.
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Y-Chromosome shows back-migration into Africa from Eurasia:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1182266
mtDNA shows possible back-migration from Eurasia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_people#cite_note-A.D.-23

We've discussed this all too many times. Yes back-migration from recent historical times like the Arab invasion. If by ancient lineages like E1b1b or R1* on the Y or U6 and M1 in mitochondria, there is proof that they are 'Eurasian'!
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Y-DNA studies show ancient and modern Egyptians are not foreign Arabian or other invaders:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/haplotypes_in_egypt.pdf
http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/AJHG_2004_v74_p1023-1034.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15856073
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200210/ai_n9126114/
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1182266
http://dirkschweitzer.net/E3b-papers/Hassan-Sudan-2008-AJPA.pdf
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=15202071
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2008/04/02/gr.7172008.abstract
http://www.familytreedna.com/pdf/HaploJ.pdf

You realize you just contradicted yourself from saying Egyptians are not foreign to Africa yet they have Eurasian DNA!! Of course modern Egyptians at least in urban areas and those that obviously are not black have foreign ancestry compared to more pristine black types in rural areas!
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Egyptian mtDNA is 75% Eurasian:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1377841&blobtype=pdf
Nubian mtDNA is 45% Eurasian in this study:
http://www.anthropology.uw.edu.pl/bne-02-02.pdf
Nubian mtDNA is 60% Eurasian in this ancient mummy study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9158841
Somalian Y-DNA is 15% Eurasian:
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v13/n7/full/5201390a.html
Somalian mtDNA is 46% Eurasian:
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v7/n4/pdf/5200326a.pdf
Fulani Nomads' mtDNA is 8.1% Eurasian:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200602/ai_n17186281/
Ethiopians are 40% Eurasian:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=384897
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1376879&blobtype=pdf
http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/AJHG_2002_v70_p1197-1214.pdf
http://www.ebc.ee/EVOLUTSIOON/publications/Kivisild2004.pdf
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200304/ai_n9235660/pg_3/
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/apl/tahb/2002/00000029/00000004/art00008
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=139378
E3b1 does not indicate "black African:"
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1181964
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1181965
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/the-m78-an-afro-asiatic-y-chromsome-not-sub-saharan/
Low levels of sub-Saharan Y-chromosome lineage in Egypt:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200210/ai_n9126114
Egyptians are of Berber ancistry:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200006/ai_n8879505/

All of these studies were debunked here or simply miscited. That 40% Ethiopians is based on Abyssinians who don't represent all Ethiopians as they are not even the major ethnic group! More importantly what lineages are considered Eurasian?? You realize many lineages are called Eurasian because they are found in Asia even though some of them originated in Africa!
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Natufians were not sub-Saharan Africans:
"This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic.

In that run, the Natufian of Israel ties to the French Mesolithic and then to the Afalou/Taforalt sample from North Africa.

Yes and Niger-Congo samples as well! Look here
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The interbreeding of the incoming Neolithic people with the in situ foragers diluted the Sub-Saharan traces that may have come with the Neolithic spread so that no discoverable element of that remained." (Brace, 2005)
Berbers have Eurasian origin:
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16815753
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15180702
http://www.nextbio.com/b/search/article.nb?id=10363131
http://www.springerlink.com/content/g301143g43q54304/
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/4/15
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~vincent/papers/980656.web.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15225159
http://batzerlab.lsu.edu/Publications/Comas%20et%20al.%202000%20Hum%20Genet.pdf
http://www.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/abstrakty/2005-1/05-1Kefi1.htm
The M78 Y chromosome has a North East African, not East African origin:
http://dirkschweitzer.net/E3b-papers/MolecularBiologyandEvolution-07-24-6-1300.pdf
The Predynastic of Upper Egypt and the Late Dynastic of Lower Egypt are more closely related to each other than to any other population. As a whole, they show ties with the European Neolithic, North Africa, modern Europe, and, more remotely, India, but not at all with sub-Saharan Africa, eastern Asia, Oceania, or the New World:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/110532242/abstract

Moron, a significant portion of the neolithic comes from Africa! Hence many of the cranial features are associated with Africans including Sub-Saharans as well as corresponding lineages like E1b1b!
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A commonly ‘misunderstood’ paper by Dr C. Loring Brace:
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/a-commonly-misunderstood-paper-by-dr-c-loring-brace/

It's not understood by anyone except idiots who are in denial!
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The case for and against cattle domestication and sorghum cultivation at Nabta Playa:
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/the-case-for-and-against-cattle-domestication-and-sorghum-cultivation-at-nabta-playa/
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/domesticated-animals-across-the-sahara-north-africa-and-nile/

Yes Nabta Playa in Africa in the western desert region of Nubia NOT Eurasia!
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Nilo-Saharan language family tree:
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/nilo-saharan-language-family-tree/

Yes. Nilo-Saharan is African in origin and so is Afro-asiatic including Egyptian!
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What S.O.Y. Keita says about the race of the ancient Egyptians:
"it can be imagined that the modern diversity to be found in Egypt in terms of craniofacial features, skin colour and what have you, would likely have been very similar to that found in the past."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZssWb4MmGM
"current inhabitants of the Nile valley should be understood as being in the main, although not wholly, descendants of the pre-neolithic regional inhabitants"

Yes, similar to those modern descendants who have been least affected by foreign influence like the black Sa'idi and Fellahin of rural Egypt!
He also said this: "Again, the northern coastal types are indigenous African variants according to the available evidence. That they were not exactly the same as the modern coastal inhabitants could be explained by migration that occured after the breakdown of local sovereignty following invasions from West Asia and Europe. Most important was the Muslim period that brought some 2 million immigrants, mostly from the Levant, Anatolia and the Aegean. In fact, in modern Cairo today, a substantial portion of the population are Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Turks, etc., of fairly recent arrival into the region."
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You might as well stop quoting Keita for you Afrocentric purposes.
Nope. YOU might as well stop quoting Keita for your anti-African purposes!
Keita: "Sahara does not delimit authentic African diversity"... African tropical phenetic features are continuous from Sub-Sahara to North Africa, thus blacks are not limited to Sub-Sahara!
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I'm off to Morocco for 10 days, so take your time and read these studies.
What for?! We've debunked virtually ALL of those studies already! So take all the time you want!!
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Belphegor:

Quoting myself:
"According to your logic, every person is a black African, and white skin, for example, is by extension nothing but a black African trait. Wow, black Africans sure are diverse! The Chinese are also black Africans, correct? Chinese civilization is basically black African civilization. Oh my god, I have seen the light! It all makes sense now!

Morons."

The above post is another LOL-fest.

No. The above post is a STUPID one! A black African by definition is one from Africa and is of course BLACK and that means *ALL* indigenous Africans! Since the human species originated in Africa then everyone's ancestors were black Africans that doesn't mean they are today!

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The boy above is aboriginal to Southeast Asia. He is obviously black but he is Asian and not African as his ancestors left Africa tens of thousands of years ago!

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^ The ancient Egyptian woman above is obviously black but she is also African and descends from a population that never left the African continent-- that is the pharaonic Egyptians!!

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Yeah, that's why all the art from the Old Kingdom does not represent black Africans, but light-skinned and darker-skinned Egyptians - the same you can find today, right?
WRONG! Egyptians today are largely the product of admixture with foreign invaders and immigrants ancient Egyptians from Old Kingdom Times were NOT!

This can be seen with Old Kingdom portraits like these

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Funny how always only the skin colour fades away, right? It's those "white devils" re-painting the statues, isn't it? LOL.
Nope! Since when have I ever said they "always" fade away! I just provided examples of portraits where the paint is perfectly preserved, moron!

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Playing word games that race does not exist... Okay, scientists can from remains determine what kind of features/phenotype the person had. Be it black African, white, mixed black African/white so on and so forth. Now what?
What? Well scientists have also shown that ancient Egyptians possess features in common with other indigenous (black) Africans like those in Sub-Sahara! So what??!

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The studies refute everything, I don't have to.
Indeed! And they refute YOU and your silly claims to deny Egypt's black identity!

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I really have to pack now, see you ignorant fools in 10 days.
Great! Be sure to read carefully all of our replies and tell us what you 'think'! [Wink]

By the way, since you are going to Morocco, be sure to take a look at the indigenous (black) populations there like the Haratin!

According to Keita (1990) and Livingstone (1967), the Haratin are among the major descendants of the original Saharans. Close similarity in ABO serology between modern Haratin populations and those of ancient Egyptians. These Haratin are considered to be "Negroid" in physical type (Livingstone, 1967). Other serological tests have shown close affinity of certain Berber-speaking groups with tropical Africans in the high rates of cDe, P and V, and low Fy^a antigens(Keita 1990, Mourant et al., 1976, Chamla, 1980)...

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Oh, and these blacks are not recently arrive to North Africa as "slaves" as your twisted anti-black mind probably believes but are aboriginal to the area! [Big Grin]
 
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Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Sudaniya, there is no point! The fools will either claim that they are not really Egyptian but "Nubian" or worse-- slaves from Sudan!! LOL [Big Grin]
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Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:

Belphegor, You are having an argument with a brick wall. These people just throw out scraps of data with no context and no earthly idea of what they have. Their ideas on southern Europe are nothing more that suppositions they literally make up.

LOL Sorry Pat, but the data we throw out is quite clear including the context-- the Egyptians as indigenous Africans were indeed 'black'!! That all you can do is complain is nothing new! [Big Grin]

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Originally posted by Simple Girl:

I was compiling an immense list of all the studies that refute a black Egypt. It looks like Belphegor beat me to it. Good work. [Wink]

Simpleton Girl, it's obvious you don't know that his entire list of links and so-called studies were discussed in this forum first and DEBUNKED!!
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Brada-Anansi posted questions that have yet to be replied to. Will Repost his questions so the Racists have a chance to read and Overstand them

Originally posted by Brada-Anansi:

)where was God's land and Lands of the ancestors
2)where was the Kemites 1ST nome,what was it called.
3)What is the significance of the finds at Nabta Plyata. where was it located.
4)What is the A and C group culture where was it's origins where did it end up.
5)What language group did the Kemites belong to,where did it originated.
6)What is tropical adopted body plans,what is super tropical adopted body plans and how does fit in with ancient Kemetic remains.

Now would love to see these questions answered correctly.

Peace
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Indeed, such relevent questions on the subject of ancient Egyptian history and culture yet I doubt he/she is able to answer them except with the claim that they were not black or they were Eurasian! LOL

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Originally posted by Apocalypse:

Belphegor the master of logic wrote on page 9 of this thread:
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They have black skin and whatnot, but genetically they are nothing like black Africans.
On page 10:
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Yeah you do, you've got modern Egyptians that look like that! You've got modern Egyptians that look like light-skinned ancient Egyptians, and you've got darker-skinned (not black) modern Egyptians that look like ancient egyptians. No black Africans. Africans, yes, black, no. Unless your family members are albinos, you don't, so stop lying. Black Africans do not look like that. Egyptians look like that. They are African, but they are not black. Do you not understand this?
Wow! That's deep.
ROTFLOL
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Pseudo-scholarship contradicts itself indeed!

So the Egyptians had black skin and were native to the African continent but are genetically different from black Africans??! And then they are dark skin and light skinned but "not black"!!!

Yep, it's obvious the demon Belfagor is caught in his lies!! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Diop once said,they^^ will if needs be call blacks whites,so in time you end up with the obsurd conclusion that Blacks are basically Whites,without their sense of logic being the least disturbed.( not an exact quote but some thing to that effect.)
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
I'll play a little game with you all. You post as many black African looking statues from the Old Kingdom as you can, and I'll post as many white looking statues from the Old Kingdom as I can. Since you don't take scientific and scholarly evidence seriously, we'll see how many statues you can post from the Old Kingdom that compares to the numbers I can post. OK?
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
This is going to be interesting. [Big Grin]
 
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Posted by phenelzine (Member # 15694) on :
 
"So the Egyptians had black skin and were native to the African continent but are genetically different from black Africans??! And then they are dark skin and light skinned but "not black"!!!"

It doesn't matter what the phenotypes are--- that's homoplasy--- traits like skin color and body-build can be similar but dont indicate the degree of common ancestry. You need molecular polymorphisms like DNA to find that. So, what do they find in the genes, people?
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
Here's one to get you started. [Big Grin]


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Posted by JMT (Member # 12050) on :
 
Is picture spamming your only crutch you desperately hold on to, simple-minded troll? You've produced nothing scholarly. Your answers are nothing scholarly. When will you answer, if ever, Brada Anasi's questions? BTW, you don't have any idea about the statue you posted or it's origins? LOL! Ignorant. The statue is not what you think it is or what you want it to be. Just proves your ignorance, again. Dumb azz
broad.
http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=001548;p=10#000469
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Geez Simple, the above Pic^^ was one that Eurocentrics once claimed was foreign because it looked tooo "NIGROID".....btw where are my answers???
 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
Ditto.

That's the problem. These AZZEZ like Kemp, Simple girl, Dirk just picture spam and they call it "debate". They have know idea what are showing pic of. They don't understand AE or other African culture, know the history, or is knowledgeable about the language. That's why most vets just ignore them. . . .except DJ. But we know what his motive is.

Simple Girl and others are not worth the energy. where is e3b1b1 when I need to watch a good fight.

quote:
Originally posted by JMT:
Is picture spamming your only crutch you desperately hold on to, simple-minded troll? You've produced nothing scholarly. Your answers are nothing scholarly. When will you answer, if ever, Brada Anasi's questions? BTW, you don't have any idea about the statue you posted or it's origins? LOL! Ignorant. The statue is not what you think it is or what you want it to be. Just proves your ignorance, again. Dumb azz
broad.
http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=001548;p=10#000469


 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
BTW Simple girl. That last pic looks like me. Infact my lips are thinner than his. I was mocked as a kid for having a white man's lip. I am E3a and as far as I know my slave ancestors came from West Africa.
 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
LOL. I believe that is their strength. They are believe their own BS. . . without shame or embarassment.

quote:
Originally posted by Brada-Anansi:
Diop once said,they^^ will if needs be call blacks whites,so in time you end up with the obsurd conclusion that Blacks are basically Whites,without their sense of logic being the least disturbed.( not an exact quote but some thing to that effect.)


 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

I'll play a little game with you all. You post as many black African looking statues from the Old Kingdom as you can, and I'll post as many white looking statues from the Old Kingdom as I can. Since you don't take scientific and scholarly evidence seriously, we'll see how many statues you can post from the Old Kingdom that compares to the numbers I can post. OK?

Sorry but we don't play games. Besides, how are any of the statues you post 'white' looking since they are not painted?? I take it by 'white' looking you mean their features however there are black Africans who have such features as thin lips and narrow noses. Therefore your pics prove NOTHING.
quote:
Originally posted by phenelzine:
"So the Egyptians had black skin and were native to the African continent but are genetically different from black Africans??! And then they are dark skin and light skinned but "not black"!!!"

It doesn't matter what the phenotypes are--- that's homoplasy--- traits like skin color and body-build can be similar but dont indicate the degree of common ancestry. You need molecular polymorphisms like DNA to find that. So, what do they find in the genes, people?

Of course! But it's proven the Egyptians carry African molecular polymorphisms like E1b1b and E1b1a on the Y-chromosome and M1 and U6 in mitochondrial lineages! Besides, you think that their black appearance has something more to do with black Eurasians even though they are natives of the African continent??! LOL
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by JMT:

Is picture spamming your only crutch you desperately hold on to, simple-minded troll? You've produced nothing scholarly. Your answers are nothing scholarly. When will you answer, if ever, Brada Anasi's questions? BTW, you don't have any idea about the statue you posted or it's origins? LOL! Ignorant. The statue is not what you think it is or what you want it to be. Just proves your ignorance, again. Dumb azz
broad.
http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=001548;p=10#000469

Even if spamming is her only mode of debate she would still LOSE! LOL
quote:
Originally posted by Brada-Anansi:

Geez Simple, the above Pic^^ was one that Eurocentrics once claimed was foreign because it looked tooo "NIGROID".....btw where are my answers???

Actually it isn't! You mistake that head for the Louvre so-called "foreign" heads. But that head she posted was actually found in a Giza royal tomb from the 4th dynasty and even early Egyptologists had no choice but call it a princess!
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
Sorry but we don't play games. Besides, how are any of the statues you post 'white' looking since they are not painted?? I take it by 'white' looking you mean their features however there are black Africans who have such features as thin lips and narrow noses. Therefore your pics prove NOTHING.

Sorry but if you're going to go with the idea that the Egyptians had the super-negroid body plan, you're going to have to give up the light skin, narrow noses and thin lips. You can't have it both ways. [Roll Eyes]
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
Two Egyptians from the Old Kingdom with all the characteristics that define the super negroid body plan. [Roll Eyes]
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Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
An actual mummy and not a statue. Here's Queen Tiye's daddy sporting all the features that define the super negroid body plan. [Roll Eyes]

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Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Stupid Girl, do you even know what "super-negroid" body-plan even refers to?? [Big Grin]

I'll give you a clue... it's in the phrase body-plan.

It refers to the actual skeletal structure of the body and its proportions. According to the biological rule known as [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen's_rule]Allen's rule[/url], endothermic animals who live in the tropics have proportionately longer limbs compared to endothermic animals who live in colder climates and have shorter limbs and compact bodies. This is because heat dissipates faster in outstretched bodies and longer limbs which is useful in hot tropic environments, in contrast to compact bodies with shorter limbs where heat is better conserved and is useful in colder climates. Because "negroid" as a specious racial term is debunked, most scientists prefer 'tropical builds' or in the case of Africans like the Egyptians 'Supra-tropical'. Notice, that the "super-negroid" label means that their bodies are even more tropically adapted than say Guinea West Africans of Sub-Sahara!!

It has nothing to do with skin complexion or cranio-facial features, idiot! LOL

Speaking of which.

Jean Hiernaux
The People of Africa(Peoples of the World Series) 1975
The oldest remains of Homo sapiens sapiens found in East Africa were associated with an industry having similarities with the Capsian. It has been called Upper Kenyan Capsian, although its derivation from the North African Capsian is far from certain. At Gamble's Cave in Kenya, five human skeletons were associated with a late phase of the industry, Upper Kenya Capsian C, which contains pottery. A similar associationis presumed for a skeleton found at Olduvai, which resembles those from Gamble's Cave. The date of Upper Kenya Capsian C is not precisely known (an earlier phase from Prospect Farm on Eburru Mountain close to Gamble's Cave has been dated to about 8000 BC); but the presence of pottery indicates a rather later date, perhaps around 400 BC. The skeletons are of very tall people. They had long, narrow heads, and relatively long, narrow faces. The nose was of medium width; and prognathism, when present, was restricted to the alveolar, or tooth-bearing, region......all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in a number of body proportions.............
From the foregoing, it is tempting to locate the area of differentiation of these people in the interior of East Africa. There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to the populations of Europe and western Asia.


...In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the whole world range is covered in the sub-continent. Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the average nose widths covers 92 per cent of the world range:

only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record. Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range
; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage.....


Which is why features like long narrow noses or thin lips are still found among black Africans!

By the way if Tiye looks like this...

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..there's no way her father was not black let alone 'white' regardless of his features!!

Sorry Simpleton Girl, try again!!
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
NO DJ she needs to stop trying and start learning. [Big Grin]

Hey DJ, it is the same sculpture J.A Rogers was talking about in Nature knows no color line...It was discribed in his time as a Nigro princess,and as an example of how early the nigro penetrate the Egyptian sociaty.Btw If you can get that book it's dated of course but it's full of gems,such as quotes from ancient authors about the world in which they lived,including sex scandals involving Africans and Greek and Roman women.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Queen Tiy was a red headed north African caucasian. The royal family in the era of the sun kings was riddled with asian Mitanni wives. Ditto in the case of Tiy's father.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Simple girl - like any White person, The lie comes too easily to you.

This picture is from an article about mummification, on the Turkish site Touregypt. Turks are white people too you know - just a little mixed with non-liar blood - but just not enough to keep them any more honest than the rest of you. Hawass the ass-hole liar is a Turk too you know. So you are not impressing anyone with those bullsh1t pictures from a known Turk bullsh1t site.

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http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/mummification.htm
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Hawass is an Egyptian who often notes that ancient egyptians are his ancestors. He has a PHD, you have your thumb in your mouth.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Hawass the ass-hole liars degrees are as follows:


May 1, 1967 - B.A. in Greek and Roman Archaeology, Alexandria University

His bio does not mention what his masters is in, so I assume it is in lying.

He got his PHD from one of the most racist universities in the U.S.A. - September 30, 1987 - Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Here again - he does not say what his doctorate is in, only that his dissertation was titled "The Funerary Establishments of Khufu, Khafra and Menkaura during the Old Kingdom."

These are not the academic achievements of a man expert in Ancient Egypt, but they do provide some cover for a liar.


And he is NOT an Egyptian, he is a fuching TURK!!
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Mike, They would not let you enroll for a single class at UPenn. He finished his doctorate years go and is now considered one of the top scholars in the field. He is not a Turk but rather a typical Egyptian.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^Yes, Like you are an American!
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot - I was being sarcastic; but then I remembered that you were a Texan - big mistake. No way a Texan would be able to understand anything so subtle.

So, to make it plain enough for a Texan:


These are Americans!

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This is the Lying White trash that came from Europe, by way of central Asia, who killed-off the Americans.



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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot - Being not as virtuous as I should be; I enjoyed rubbing your nose in it, and feel the urge to do it some more.


These are Mesopotamian's:

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This is the Lying White trash that came from central Asia, who killed-off the Mesopotamian's.



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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot - Being not as virtuous as I should be; I enjoyed rubbing your nose in it, and feel the urge to do it some more - again!


These are the Persians:

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This is the Lying White trash that came from central Asia, who killed-off the Persians.

This one is a mixed-race Mutt like Hawass.



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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot - As a REAL American, He he. Are you getting my drift?

Simple girl - you Ninny, are you getting the drift too?

 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by sudaniya:
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Originally posted by sudaniya:
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I like the Afro and the braided hair. Queen Tiye looks like an intimidating old African women.

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The military seemed poorly armed.

"The rulers of Ta Seti and Ta Shemu [ upper Egypt] appear to be from one extended family, which makes sense given the whole basis of the African political/religious institution of devine monarchy."

Belphegor, the vast majority of ancient Egypt's dynasties came from Upper Egypt, and were entirely native African; they spoke a language closely related to languages in Sudan, Chad, Somalia, Ethiopia and so on.

Ancient Egypt was the product of Nile Valley Africans; Ta-Seti and Ta-Shemu cognate from the same cultural, linguistic, and genetic base, I can not usurp what I belong to.

"TheAmericanPatriot" claims Queen Tiye to be a "north African Caucasian"; the man is intransigent and dogmatic. He stil has NOT explained as to when they arrived migrated to the Nile Valley from "Caucasia", and as to what language they spoke.

The ancient Egyptians are linguisticaly and culturally closest to the Sudanese, Somalis, Ethiopians, Chadians, Eritreans and others, but NOT at all to those in the Caucasus
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
What language did the Libyans speak sudaniya? How about the other non negroid groups who populated the area back into pre history. AE was a near eastern power populated by north african caucasians.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
The Egyptians called neighboring Libya Tehenu. Its inhabitants had dark skin and curly hair. - Ahmed Fakhry, `Siwa Oasis', p. 76.

The ancient Libyans spoke an African language that originated from East Africa.

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You can characterise the above black-skin women "caucasian", if it assuages your ego.
 
Posted by AswaniAswad (Member # 16742) on :
 
I agree AfroCentric is a myth but u cant deny that all humans originated from Africa/BlackAfricans until u can humble yourself to that u will always deny your parents.


I know its hard for Persians,Arabs,Asians,Europeans,Latins to believe that they came from those darkones who they all looked down upon and always claim that they are better than. Its like there all programed to think there better than Africans.

All the evidence points to a African World At one Point with No other Race even thought of yet
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^Yes, that is true, we were all one until the round-eyed and slant-eyed Albinos left Africa and journeyed to north Asia.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
sudaniya, North africans were africans, they were not negroid. This is like a UFO or Atlantis site.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
I'm a North African, I am NOT a "caucasian", and neither was Queen Tiye, nor the civilisations along the Nile.

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Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Ancient Egyptians belong to the same group of Africans from East Africa, and the Sahara.

We already know what Language Egyptians spoke and that was a African Language related to the Beja, Eritreans, Ethiopians etc.

We also know that This Pic:

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Is a picture of an African, and only the "Professor(Not)" thinks he is a Caucasian with no proof of this since he fails to tell us what makes it caucasian. When I debate Patriot, why do people tell me to leave him in his own brain dead state, yet I see the same people debating this fool.

Like most people know already, Patriot is one of the worse racists on this forum, he has no facts on his side only his worthless opinion.

Peace
 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! The guy is too thick to get it!

quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:
^Yes, Like you are an American!


 
Posted by argyle104 (Member # 14634) on :
 
sudaniya wrote:
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I'm a North African, I am NOT a "caucasian", and neither was Queen Tiye, nor the civilisations along the Nile.
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Well according to that poor low self-esteem fool, Gail Deavers is caucasian also.


It just goes to show just how sad a state whites have to sink to in order to build up their self-esteem and lose their inferiority complex.
 
Posted by argyle104 (Member # 14634) on :
 
KING wrote:
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We already know what Language Egyptians spoke and that was a African Language related to the Beja, Eritreans, Ethiopians etc.
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Shut your sorry liberal racist ass up. The horn of Africa had little to nothing to do with Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt was spawned by the saharan complex.


Folks, people like King believe that the Nigeriens, Libyans, Chadians, Sudanese, and indigenous Egyptians are to "Negroe" to have had anything to do with Ancient Egypt.


King, take your white ass and do something better with your time.....


like count the number of new wrinkles your thick baggy skin has developed today.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
we have queen Tiy's mummy Sudaniya. She was a red headed north african caucasian. Nobody disputes that except you and a few black radicals here on egyptsearch.
 
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
 
hey TAP, your sallow tone, is losing it effect. Try something new.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Just stating facts ayyman. You have seen the recent Tut reconstruction and hawass' remarks that he was a typical north african caucasian.
In fact, we believe that the 18th dynasty roayal family had a strong infusion of asian blood, Certanily Tiy's father shows that clearly.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
AP - While it is true that there is speculation that Yuya might have been a Mitanni. There is no doubt that Tjuyu was an Egyptian noblewoman, a descendant of Ahmose-Nefertari.

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Ahmose-Nefertari (Louvre)

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Let us mark Ahmose-Nefertari's statue from the (Louvre) as exhibit A, because it is a piece of evidence that can be authenticated!

As even an ignorant redneck like you can see, she was an ordinary looking Black Woman.
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Next we have this statue of Queen Tiye, Ahmose-Nefertari's granddaughter, also authenticated and displayed at the Louvre! This is exhibit B

Here again: even an ignorant redneck like you can see, she was an ordinary looking Black Woman.

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Next we have what is SUPPOSED to be a mummy mask of Thuya, Ahmose-Nefertari's daughter. OOPS! Something is wrong here. Grandmother and Granddaughter look the same, BUT DAUGHTER DOES NOT LOOK THE SAME - This must be an artifact under the control of that lying piece-of-sh1t Lying Turk Hawass - Well what do you know it is (Cairo Museum)!!!

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Next we have Yuya, he is Tiyes father. OOPS, I don't know, but this looks like the mask of a WOMAN. As a matter of fact, it looks pretty much like what is SUPPOSED to be Thuya's mask. Once again: This must be an artifact under the control of that lying piece-of-sh1t Lying Turk Hawass - Well what do you know it is (Cairo Museum)!!!

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Now for the pièce de résistance:

These are SUPPOSED to be the mummies of Yuya and Tjuyu. Funny thing, they don't look anything like Tiye OR the mummy masks!!! Once again: These must be artifacts under the control of that lying piece-of-sh1t Lying Turk Hawass - Well what do you know they are (Cairo Museum)!!!

SUPPOSEDLY - Mummies of Yuya (left) and Tjuyu (right), who were found in the same tomb

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You see AP, the lies ONLY work for ignorant rednecks like yourself, the rest of us know better!

 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
ahmose-Nefertari hardly looks black Mike. Hawass is a great scholar and the VAST majority agree with him. Educated people roll their eyes when these crazy black egyprian views are mentioned.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
BTW - Boys and Girls, if you wonder why the nose is so different on this one; look no further than where it is housed: The BERLIN museum - the same place that has the FAKE Nefertiti bust. Hawass isn't the ONLY Liar!!


{Can you see the scratch marks where they worked on the NOSE?}

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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
When you start calling top scholars liars you lose all credibility. He mummy looks nothing like that bust. You cannot use egyptian art work to make a racial point.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^^The only reason they didn't do the nose on the Blue statue above, is because it is ceramic and would have broken. But as you have seen, wood and stone statues have no chance, almost ALL of them were re-worked. White People have NO shame!!!
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
why would people do that Mike? You are making a charge with no evidence and no motive.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
BTW - Boys and Girls, when looking at these re-worked artifacts, and you are not sure if it was a Black person whose nose was re-worked or a White person from the Greek or Roman periods.

One easy trick that almost always works, is to look at the NOSTRILS - if they are visible. Black People have ROUND nostrils; White People have Elliptical (Oval) Nostrils. (Mixed race people usually have round nostrils)



White nose with Elliptical (Oval) Nostrils.

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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
why would people do that Mike? You are making a charge with no evidence and no motive.

Why AP?
Are you serious?

Think about it, except for the history that you have stolen from Blacks, what history do you have?

Greek? that's just an extension of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Roman? that's just a crude extension of Etruscan (DNA proven Black), and Greek, which once again is Egyptian and Mesopotamian.

See what I mean? Without stolen Black history, you have NO history!!


Proof? see posts above.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
well, if blacks actually did all this what happened?
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Black history is vast, but I am always happy to answer specific questions.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
well Mike, of the 180 some odd countries black nations are among the poorest and weakest and most corrupt. they have less impact in the world than latin American nations.

In deeveloped nations blacks lead in every negative catagory. Black run cities in america are poor, dangerous and corrupt. Black IQ's are lower than any other race.

Again, if all that you say were true, what happened?
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
AP - I will answer your question. But first let me finish with the noses.

Above, I said that White people have no shame. Below is a statue of Karomama, wife of Osorkon IV- (735-712 B.C.). Osorkon IV was the tenth and final ruler of the Twenty-second Dynasty.

Look at what your people did to this awesomely beautiful statue, just to make her appear to be White! Only soulless animals could have done such a thing.

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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
My people, so who are you going to accuse of doing this. Give us some names and some proof.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
well Mike, of the 180 some odd countries black nations are among the poorest and weakest and most corrupt. they have less impact in the world than latin American nations.

In deeveloped nations blacks lead in every negative catagory. Black run cities in america are poor, dangerous and corrupt. Black IQ's are lower than any other race.

Again, if all that you say were true, what happened?

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TheAmericanPatriot - In answer to your question, I have divided the world by (GDP purchasing power parity - country comparison) into White Nations who owe everything that they have to the Rape, Plunder, and Enslavement of other Nations and Peoples.


Then White Nations who had to do it on their OWN.


And African Nations who are trying to rebuild after centuries of said "Rape, Plunder, and Enslavement"


White Nations who had to do it on their OWN.


Albania

GDP (purchasing power parity):

$21.82 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 116


Belarus

$114.1 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 62


Bosnia and Herzegovina

$29.9 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 105


Bulgaria
$93.78 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 68


Czech Republic
$266.3 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 42


Hungary

$205.7 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 51


Romania
$271.2 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 41


White Nations who owe everything that they have to the Rape, Plunder, and Enslavement of other Nations and Peoples.


United States

$14.29 trillion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2


United Kingdom
$2.231 trillion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 7

Russia

$2.225 trillion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 8


France
$2.097 trillion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 9


Spain
$1.378 trillion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 13

Netherlands

$670.2 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 21

Belgium

$390.5 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 30


African Nations who are trying to rebuild after centuries of said "Rape, Plunder, and Enslavement"


Nigeria

$338.1 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 35

Angola

$110.3 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 64


Ethiopia

$66.29 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 82

Kenya

$61.83 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 84

Tanzania

$54.26 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 88

Cameroon

$42.76 billion (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 93


I don't know, but it seems to me that they are doing okay in comparison, and considering the circumstances - they are doing great.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
No they bring up the rear but here is your problem. You want to have it both ways.
You cannot african nations are capable and at the same time say they were raped, plundered and pillaged. It can be one or the other but it cannot be both. If they were weak and helpless then you could say they were raped , pillaged and plundered.

Black people have a future in the world economy AS INDIVIDUALS. Black people as a group have no future.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Damn - not only are Texans dim, but they don't count too well either. There are 195 countries in the world, that means that those African countries are all in the top 50%.

Germany, France, Italy, Japan, all had their asses kicked and were occupied. Like Africa, China and India were occupied for centuries, But now China, and soon India, will OWN the good ole U.S.A. Why? because there is no one left to Rape, Plunder, and Enslave. The former imperialist European nations have been on a downward spiral for decades. Point being..

You really have no point, you are just another ignorant, racist, redneck.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
You got of topic with a spatter of incoherent crap. The point is you cannot have it both ways. You make wild baseless charges without any eveidence to back it up and then substitute with racist name calling.
 
Posted by Serpent Wizdom (Member # 7652) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
No they bring up the rear but here is your problem. You want to have it both ways.
You cannot african nations are capable and at the same time say they were raped, plundered and pillaged. It can be one or the other but it cannot be both. If they were weak and helpless then you could say they were raped , pillaged and plundered.

Black people have a future in the world economy AS INDIVIDUALS. Black people as a group have no future.

LOL!!! so you wish. you sure are preoccupied with black people to dislike us so much... i wonder why?
 
Posted by Apocalypse (Member # 8587) on :
 
quote:
You cannot african nations are capable and at the same time say they were raped, plundered and pillaged. It can be one or the other but it cannot be both. If they were weak and helpless then you could say they were raped , pillaged and plundered.

Look at all the once great nations and empires that have been humbled.
Only a man totally ignorant of the vagaries of history or completely devoid of common sense would make a statement such as the quote above. If this fool really is a professor then western civilization is surely doomed.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Apocalypse - TheAmericanPatriot is from Texas.
 
Posted by Apocalypse (Member # 8587) on :
 
^ AP is probably sitting at a computer on in ranch in Crawford with the greatest fool in history. Texas is even prodigious in its growth of fools.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^Next to oil, that is the main industry.

But I must say that I am impressed with their efforts to be more humane. I understand that they will soon begin executing their retards with lethal injection instead of the electric chair.
 
Posted by Apocalypse (Member # 8587) on :
 
AP, please tear up that last will and testament you wrote after reading Mike111's post above. He didn't mean all retards just the ones convicted of a capital offense.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Odd that you guys like to trash texas. Our economy is solid as a rock while most of the rest of the nation suffers. do you enjoy paying that state income tax?

Mike is like alot of spades. He wants to see himself and black people generally as victims of the evil white man. It is nothing more than a ploy to blame his problems on everyone else.
There are no excuses. Get off your a$$ and acomplish something and think about the people who care about you instead of those that do not.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
AP - Do you know why I make fun of Texans? It's because they are stupid and hypocritical - as are all southern people.

I saw this posted online, and couldn't resist sharing it with you.

Quote: You hear so much about socialism, conservatism, capitalism, free enterprise, free markets, and so forth. But it seemed strange to me as to who was saying what.

This is a list of the states that actually fund the United States of America – there are 20 of them. The other 30 are Welfare cases. What is strange, is that you never, or hardly ever, hear the Senators or congressman of these FUNDING states, complaining about helping other people.

You never hear their representatives supporting or advocating rules that would ONLY benefit the rich (the Bush and Reagan admin. Proposed many such rules and laws), all enthusiastically supported by representatives of the Welfare states.

Which is made only stranger by the fact that the rich live in the 20 funding states. I can’t help but wonder if the people in those welfare states actually know what they are voting for. Because it seems to me that they have been sold a bill of goods.

Their representatives don’t represent them, they represent the rich in the funding states who can’t buy enough influence in their home states, and so they give money to representatives in the welfare states who don’t have an informed electorate to answer to. I mean get serious, Alabama and Mississippi as the bastions of Capitalism and Free enterprise?

Funding States are listed in the order of how much (net) money they send to the federal government.


New York
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Delaware
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Washington
Oregon
California
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Texas
Georgia
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Why should we want to send money to the federal government? Many of us in the west and southwest barely tolerate the feds.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^For those who think me sometimes too harsh in my statements: See what I mean?
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
AP - Here is a pie chart of the U.S. budget. Which parts don't you or Texas use or will use - None Right? Won't even talk about the chicken-shits in the South.

But yet you all keep running your mouths, all the while sucking up every last dollar. Without federal money, all of the Welfare States would go under, but yet, like you, they keep talking sh1t - take note AP, Texas and Georgia are on the edge, pretty soon Texas will be a welfare state too, then what are you going to say.

BTW - You rednecks love your wars, but look at who has to pay for them.





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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
The federal goverment has made a joke out of the constitution. Many of us on the right believe they have gone far past what the constitution allows them to do. The key amendment in the Bill of Rights is the 10th. This amendment defines the limits of the power of the federal government. What it says is that the federal government has only the powers specifically stated in the constitution. Example, no place in the constitution does it give the feds the power to build roads so legally they cannot do it, building roads is a state power. The federal government has no role in education, that is a state power etc etc.

Now based on your chart the several of those departments should be eliminated. Those would include Transportation, Labor, Agriculture, Energy, HUD, welfare etc. All should be state programs.
 
Posted by Apocalypse (Member # 8587) on :
 
quote:
Example, no place in the constitution does it give the feds the power to build roads so legally they cannot do it, building roads is a state power.
Lol! Every high school sophomore is familiar with the interstate commerce clause. Doesn't have to be explicitly stated.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Incorect. The Commerce clause gives the feds the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and BETWEEN the states. The 'expansive' view of the clause which you suggest does not exist in the constitution. Thus the 10th amendment applies since there is a clear distinction between regulation and an specific power.

This argument has been going on since the Constitutional convention. It was the direct cause of the Civil War and even today there is broad disagreement between constitutional scholars on where these lines should be drawn.

Like jefferson i do not believe the Federal courts even have the power of Judicial Review. That power does not exist in the constitution and was literally taken by John Marshall in Marbury v Madison in 1803.
 
Posted by Apocalypse (Member # 8587) on :
 
quote:
The 'expansive' view of the clause which you suggest does not exist
Neither do North African Caucasians exist
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
some people are so ideological they cannot be educated, you may be one of those people.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
Why should we want to send money to the federal government? Many of us in the west and southwest barely tolerate the feds.

This is the view of the Founding Fathers; a limited federal government is conducive to liberty.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by argyle104:
sudaniya wrote:

"Well according to that poor low self-esteem fool, Gail Deavers is caucasian also."

Gail Deavers could be the direct descendent of Queen Tiye, the resemblance is crazy.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
some people are so ideological they cannot be educated, you may be one of those people.

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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
we have been all through this sudaniya. The actual mummy has more value than art work to make ethnic identification. Even if you assumed that her mother was Nubian, the very most she could be is half black.
 
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Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Nice pictures Mike but they look nothing like Queen tiy's mummy. For one thing none of the pictures you posted have red hair, as the queen does.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^You seriously believe that nonsense from those lying ass-holes in Cairo?
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
we have been all through this sudaniya. The actual mummy has more value than art work to make ethnic identification. Even if you assumed that her mother was Nubian, the very most she could be is half black.

We have, and she was a native Nile valley queen, unrelated to any "caucasian" population.

TAP, you should concern yourself with your Germanic ancestors.

The African-Americans are descendents from Africa's diverse populations; Sudan, Ghana, Chad, Nigeria, Mali,Algeria, Libya etc, thus Nile Valley civilisation is part of their history that they share with Nile valley Africans like myself, you are a usurper.

Dig your Germanic past up, Charles.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
No Mike, I have seen the mummy, as have you. You are not looking at the history. The Sun Kings, starting with Amenhotep II had a strong injection of asiatic blood. That has to be dealt with before you can even discuss whether or not the native egyptians in the family were nubian.
Yuya, the brother of Mutemwia was asiatic, which makes almost all of the Sun Kings only partly Egyptian.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
I hope people realize that they are debating with a Nut. Patriot is the person who says This statue:

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Is a caucasian. And when pressed to substaniate his opinion, he runs and hides. People tell me to give the fake Professor a brake, yet I see the same people debating this guy. If thats the case, then people should not be offended when I ask Patriot to tell us how that Statue is a Caucasian.

Peace
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
What is this term "sun kings"??
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
You need to read the barabara watterson book on Akhenaten and the Betsy Jones bio of Thutmose IV. Both deal extensively with the asiatic influences in that family. The history disagrees with you sudaniya. You also cannot use any royal family as an example of the entire population. You are aware that very often the genetic make up of royals is influenced by other factors.
 
Posted by AswaniAswad (Member # 16742) on :
 
I would have to say even if i was white i could not argue that those are two beautiful african women.

It was actually the clerk's praxis that caused the civil war. American law is maritime law it only deals with commerce. Thats why in Law a person and a corporation are the same. When u have a ficitious business name its in all caps the same as your driverlicense name in all caps in law that is considered a strawman a man made of straw not real ficitious. Governments are ficitious so they can only deal with ficitious things. Norton vs Shelby County "The United States of America is a Corporation, and as a Corporation it has a Board of Directors Congress,Senate,President,Secretary,Treasurer.
The people have one share in this corporation that they give up and that is there vote there one vote one share in the corporation called the United States of America
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
The term Sun Kings is used typically by historians to deal with the reigns of Amenhotep II through Tut/Aye.

King does not like me because i tried to teach him basic historiography and he lacked the ability to learn. What we have to decide is whether or not we are going to use solid historical method or just toss out tid bits off the internet with no context.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
Patriot

Do you understand what is said about the Skull of Queen Tiye?

"The Elder Lady"


First identified as Queen Tiye
The occipital bun is reminiscent of Mesolithic Nubians (see below).

Sagittal plateau, rounded forehead with moderately projecting glabella; globular cranium with high vault. Protrusion of incisors, receding chin and steep mandible. Very vertical zygomatic arches and pronounced maxillary prognathism

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Do you know how they conclude that Queen Tiye looked like Mesolithic Nubians?

Peace
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
So are you saying that she calls the entire 18th dynasty "Sun Kings" because ONLY Akhenaten made a monotheism out of Aten? That doesn't sound very scientific to me. For sure it isn't accurate.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

I do not hate anyone. I view you as I would any foolish and Racist person. Which is I feel sorry for you. All you ever do is dodge and ignore facts when they counter your worthless opinion. Thats why you still have not answered how this statue:

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Is a pic of a Caucasian. Why don't you just answer the simple question. How does this pic show a Caucasian, and not a African.

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
well King, as usual you come to the conversation unprepared. The data you presented is one piece of information and as usual you exclude everything that gets in the way of your ideology.
The Elder lady does not appear to be Nubian and the reason is because we know from historical research that at the very best she could only have been half nubian. In fact, she could have that skull and be only one eighth Nubian.
You have to look at the entire body of data. That is exactly what I have been attempting to teach you.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
History is in congruence with my dispositions:

-The ancient Egyptians never migrated from the Caucasuses mountains

-The ancient Egyptians spoke a language closely related to Chadic and the language of the Beja in Sudan; they did not, and never spoke an Indo-European language.

-The myth of a mesopotamanian origin for the ancient Egyptians is NO longer asserted.

-The ancient Egyptians are indigenous to the Nile valley and are NOT migrants from the Caucasuses; ancient Egypt was the product of Nile valley Africans as well as those in the western Sahara; Chad, Niger and Mali.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

What Info have I excluded. If you know the info I left out, then please post it so we can all read it.

So from your vast Info, Please post where I got the info about Queen Tiye wrong.

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Mike, The increase in interest in the Aten grew gradually from the reign of Amenhotep II. It did not just pop up out of nowhere starting with akhenaten.
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

I hope you realize, That the studies are not saying that Queen Tiye, or any of the Pharoahs were Nubians. It's saying that there Skull shape and size, Groups them with Neolithic and Mesolithic Nubians. Meaning that how the skull looks it would link closely with Nubians.

I hope you overstand this part. So please again post the Info that I have left out.

Peace
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
I told you, I just mentioned two books.

Sudaniya, Nobody has ever said that AE was unconnected to Africa. What people say is that they were north african caucasians. The med basin was caucasian long before the historical era. Keep in mind that Egypt is one of those crossroad nations and was influenced by many groups of people. Back in 2005 I had an Egyptian girl in one of my classes. She looked so egyptian you could have placed her picture on the walls of a tomb and she would fit right in....there was nothing black about her.

We have Mexicans in the United States but that does not make the united states mexican. That is the kind of assertion you are trying to make.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
AP - it seems that your ideas about Egyptology are just as weird as your ideas about politics.

Please pay careful attention, and then STOP THAT FUCHING NONSENSE ABOUT RED FUCHING HAIR!!!

That is an ass-holes argument that was settled years ago, why the hell do you keep harping on it??


Changes in hair color after death

The hair color of mummies or buried bodies can change. Hair contains a mixture of black-brown-yellow eumelanin and red pheomelanin. Eumelanin is less chemically stable than pheomelanin and breaks down faster when oxidized. It is for this reason that Egyptian mummies have reddish hair. The color of hair changes faster under extreme conditions. It changes more slowly under dry oxidizing conditions (such as in burials in sand or in ice) than under wet reducing conditions (such as burials in wood or plaster coffins).

{Not mentioned here, is the well known effects of using HENNA to color the hair}.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_color
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot

Still waiting on the Info about Queen Tiye, That I "Forgot" to post.

Please post it so the forum can read it.

Peace
 
Posted by zarahan (Member # 15718) on :
 
Originally posted by Belphegor:


LOL, most of this bulk of text is about how diverse Africa is and a lot out of context text like those of Keita and those of cranial studies.

You claim a "lot is out of context". If so how? You don't say, only assert then duck and run. But even your Moroccan vacation won't help you, nor will Madilda's "script":


Then there's a lot of studies that show population continuity of predynastic Egypt all the way to modern Egypt. Hello? That's what every sane person says! Ancient Egyptians = Modern Egyptians. Thanks for pointing the obvious.
lol.. ace, you are shooting yourself in the foot. Modern Egypt itself has numerous dark-skinned, black people, particularly in the Aswan and southern regions. If there is population continuity, it also incorporates with these dark-skinned peoples. You again fail with your artifical racial model.


Then there's studies that show some black presence in Upper Egypt especially because of Nubia. Every sane person knows that. Nubia was also colonialized in the 12th dynasty by the Egyptians.

lol.. sad... Black people have been in Egypt from the beginning, not "because of Nubia". As for the 12th Dynasty, you dummy, mainstream Egyptiologist Frank Yurco himself says that the 12the Dynasty pharaohs were of Nubian origin. So your artifical "racial seperation" falls flat, based on your own assertion. QUOTE:

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"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region. As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne.."


- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


Then there's editor-inserted comments like the one about Nubians being the closest to Egyptians, which is a total lie..

You dummy, the only one "lying" is you.. Read it and weep. Egyptologist Frank Yurco himself says: QUOTE:


"Among the foreigners, the Nubians were closest ethnically to the Egyptians. In the late predynastic period (c. 3700-3150 B.C.E.), the Nubians shared the same culture as the Egyptians and even evolved the same pharaonic political structure."

- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)

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"In order to make this at least half true, you should have said Upper Egyptians where the Nubian presence was. Lower Egypt where the actual Egyptians were are not close to Nubians whatsoever, except in the 17th-20th and 25th dynasties, and perhaps some other one as well, since the Nubians from Upper Egypt eventually came to Lower Egypt where the real Egyptians were anyway."

You fail again. Yurco above notes that the Nubians were ethnically the closest to the Egyptians. Bianchi below notes that the Nubians and Egyptians were so close in partof the ancient era that they were virtually indistinguishable.. Read it and weep..


“The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)


- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Regarding your "super-negroid" body plan, Modern Egyptians have the same "super-negroid" body plan as the ancients had:
(Stringer and Gamble, 1993, p. 92) http://home.entouch.net/dmd/hybrid.htm
So much for this "super-negroid" nonsense of yours.


Actually so much for your nonsense. Super-negroid means tropically adapted limb proportions,. If the ancients had it and the moderns had it, and other Africans have it, that makes the Egyptians, whether ancient or modern, CLOSER TO BLACKS than to your "Caucasoids.' You keep undermining your own arguments with your own statments. Read it and weep. Whether ancient or modern, Egyptian limb proportions are closer to blacks than whites. No matter how you slice it, you lose. The closest match is with dark-skinned tropically adapted peoples.. You lose..

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Cranial studies, like you said, and I agree, show population continuity from the predynastic time to the Roman time:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/zakrzewski_2007.pdf
http://wysinger.homestead.com/egyptian_body_proportions.pdf
No sub-Saharan Africans.

lol..the studies you cite above show tropical limb proportions closer to "sub-Saharan" people than white Europeans. You again shoot yourself in the foot.
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Ancient Egyptians and North Africans are non-similar to sub-Saharans; closer to Eurasians:
lol .. you cite white history as your source? Do you realize that "North africans" include black peoples in large slices of the Sahara, chad, Nigeria and the Sudan?



Teeth also show population continuity and mass-reduced teeth:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/who_were_egyptian.pdf


You lose again on teeth. In fact Joel Irish whom you quote had this to say about Egyptian teeth. Your own source, undermines your claim.

QUOTE:

"Despite the difference, Gebel Ramlah [the Western Desert- Saharan region] is closest to predynastic and early dynastic samples from Abydos, Hierakonpolis, and Badari.."

the Badarians were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like"

"A comparison of Badari to the Naqada and Hierakonpolis samples .. contradicts the idea of a foreign origin for the Naqada (Petrie, 1939; Baumgartel, 1970)"

Evidence in favor of continuity is also demonstrated by comparison of individual samples. "Naqada and especially Hierakonpolis share close affinities with First–Second Dynasty Abydos.. These findings do not support the concept of a foreign dynastic ‘‘race’’"

"Thus, despite increasing foreign influence after the Second Intermediate Period, not only did Egyptian culture remain intact (Lloyd, 2000a), but the people themselves, as represented by the dental samples, appear biologically constant as well."


(Joel D. Irish (2006). Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Dental Affinities Among Neolithic Through Postdynastic Peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.)


Nubian teeth are evidence of outside source:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/110494504/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0


lol.. your claim is bogus anyuway. Here's a debunking:

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Egyptian mummies (except those in the aforementioned black dynasties) are not black Africans:

Actually numerous Egyptians mummies fall well within the range for black Africans, who also have narrow noses, long curly hair, light brown skin and a host of other characteristics. Your bogus dodge equating "black African" as a type far south of the Sudan falls flat again. n 1997, the German Institute for Archaeology headed an excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. At this time, three types of tissues were sampled from different mummies: meniscus (fibrocartilage), skin, and placenta. Archaeological findings suggest that the mummies dated from the New Kingdom (approximately 1550_/1080 BC)...... quote"
"The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin." - From: "Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues", Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13



Yes, they also shaved their hair and wore wigs; wigs made out of their hair. It's possible some wigs were traded with outsiders, for the most part, obviously, it was their own. DNA tests showed they are not sub-Saharan.

You mention DNA tests but give no research reference. What research paper did DNA tests on ancient Egyptians and showed they were white? Still waiting for you to prove this bogus claim.. The fact is that Egyptians traded widely for hair- from Nubia to Palestine, to the MEditerranean. Findings of "straight" hair in a tomb does not prove the egyptians were 'Caucasian." You ought to get a better source than the writers who still keep quoting Eugene Strouhal's 1970 study that asserts thaat blacks did not enter Egypt until the New Kingdom.. lol.. And in any event Keita showed that if the true negro model were applied, the hair samples show claimed "white" Egyptians a minority.


Hair from Nubian mummies has more European admixture than African, it also has more African admixture than Egyptian hair samples: http://wysinger.homestead.com/hair_semma.pdf

lol.. another bogus claim.. The hair from Semma shows a VARIABLE pattern with some trending towards sub-Saharan patterns and some towards Europeans depending on the variable measured. All this means is the hair patterns fall soemwhere between those points on various indices. THEY DO NOT INDICATE RACIAL MIXTURE OR THE PRESENCE OF "CAUCASIODS" IN NUBIA.. "Intermediate" on a data plot is just that, intermediate patterning, not proof of any "race mix". White Nordics did not sweep into Nubia in olden tmes.. Sorry... In any event, African diversity is so great that straightish hair is routine. The peoples of the Horn of Africa are a case in point.. And by the way, both Egypt and the Horn is in africa, and the horn is itself in "sub-Saharan' Africa.. lol.. Here's more debunking of your Nubian claims..

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Assorted back migration claims..
YOu fail on 2 counts:

(1) Back migration is simply a SUBSET of the original African genetic diversity

(2) Early back migrants LOOKED LIKE AFRICANS TO BEGIN WITH- they looked like blacks so any hopes of 'caucasoid" MATCHES FALL FLAT. BRACE 2005 confirms how they looked.

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The Predynastic of Upper Egypt and the Late Dynastic of Lower Egypt are more closely related to each other than to any other population. As a whole, they show ties with the European Neolithic, North Africa, modern Europe, and, more remotely, India, but not at all with sub-Saharan Africa, eastern Asia, Oceania, or the New World:

C. Loring Brace has been throughly debunked on certain aspects of his 1993 claims. He did find however that early people livingin Europe looked like blacks, (see his 2005 paper) which explains why older Euros seem to match with Africans. They match because the older euros LOOKED LIKE AFRICANS to begin with.
Brace 93 debunked:

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What S.O.Y. Keita says about the race of the ancient Egyptians:
"it can be imagined that the modern diversity to be found in Egypt in terms of craniofacial features, skin colour and what have you, would likely have been very similar to that found in the past."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZssWb4MmGM
"current inhabitants of the Nile valley should be understood as being in the main, although not wholly, descendants of the pre-neolithic regional inhabitants"
You might as well stop quoting Keita for you Afrocentric purposes.


lol. dude you shoot yourself in the foot again, with your own references. In the same Cambridge video Keita refers to the tropical body poportions showing the closer links to Africans. You also conveniently forget a lot of Keita quotes:

"The living peoples of the African continent are diverse in facial characteristics, stature, skin color, hair form, genetics, and other characteristics. No one set of characteristics is more African than another. Variability is also found in "sub-Saharan" Africa, to which the word "Africa" is sometimes erroneously restricted. There is a problem with definitions. Sometimes Africa is defined using cultural factors, like language, that exclude developments that clearly arose in Africa. For example, sometimes even the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea) is excluded because of geography and language and the fact that some of its peoples have narrow noses and faces.

However, the Horn is at the same latitude as Nigeria, and its languages are African. The latitude of 15 degree passes through Timbuktu, surely in "sub-Saharan Africa," as well as Khartoum in Sudan; both are north of the Horn. Another false idea is that supra-Saharan and Saharan Africa were peopled after the emergence of "Europeans" or Near Easterners by populations coming from outside Africa. Hence, the ancient Egyptians in some writings have been de-Africanized. These ideas, which limit the definition of Africa and Africans, are rooted in racism and earlier, erroneous "scientific" approaches." (S. Keita, "The Diversity of Indigenous Africans," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Clenko, Editor (1996), pp. 104-105. [10])



I'm off to Morocco for 10 days, so take your time and read these studies.
Your claims are mostly bogus. Hiding in "Morocco" won't change that.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Mike, You cannot win an argument with me. If you had bothered to read the Watterson book you would know that Tiy's hair was tested with Ion technology. This test can determine the true hair color of a corpse. We use it all the time in criminal cases. Watterson pointed out that Tiy, indeed, had red hair. That fact has been established. We also know her father was asiatic as was his mother.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
I told you, I just mentioned two books.

Sudaniya, Nobody has ever said that AE was unconnected to Africa. What people say is that they were north african caucasians. The med basin was caucasian long before the historical era. Keep in mind that Egypt is one of those crossroad nations and was influenced by many groups of people. Back in 2005 I had an Egyptian girl in one of my classes. She looked so egyptian you could have placed her picture on the walls of a tomb and she would fit right in....there was nothing black about her.

We have Mexicans in the United States but that does not make the united states mexican. That is the kind of assertion you are trying to make.

To prove your unsubstantiated assertions, you have to demonstrate that the ancient Egyptians have their origins in the Caucasuses, thereby justifying your assertion that they were "Caucasians".

Egyptology NO longer asserts a Mesopotamanian origin for the ancient Egyptian civilisation; the ancient Egyptian civilisation as well as most of its indigenous dynasties, came from the south.

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Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
sudaniya

Great Pics.

Peace
 
Posted by MindoverMatter718 (Member # 15400) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
Watterson pointed out that Tiy, indeed, had red hair.

Red hair does not prove an individual is of non African ancestry nor does it prove this person is of European or "middle eastern" ancestry either, as it has been shown to numerously, mummies have been found throughout the world with red hair (ex. Americas) this doesn't in any way indicate that the individuals found mummified came out of Europe or any place other then where they were found.

Now, when we get down to the gist of things and analyze the data which has been given to us about Tiye, by an antropologist --Dr. James E. Harris, who is also Chairman of the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Michigan -- who studied the actual mummy of the elder lady (Queen Tiye), we can see that she is shown to possess a rounded forehead and a projecting glabella, maxillary prognathism amongst vertical zygomatic arches all of which have been in the past used to describe a "Negroid"......

quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
We also know her father was asiatic as was his mother.

According to what documentations please? Of course this will go unanswered.....
 
Posted by KING (Member # 9422) on :
 
MindoverMatter718

Getting answers from Patriot is as hard as pulling teeth. He makes his worthless opinion(Backed by no FACTS) then he leaves, waits for the forum to quiet down. Then he comes back with the same stupid and dumb views.

He has people waiting for him to validate his position and he leaves probably Laughing that he got people to take him seriously.

Really how can you take a person who says this statue:

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Is a picture of a Caucasian and not an African [Confused]

Really with no proof other then his opinion. He has yet to tell the forum what makes this pic a Caucasian and not an African.

Peace
 
Posted by zarahan (Member # 15718) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by MindoverMatter718:
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
Watterson pointed out that Tiy, indeed, had red hair.

Red hair does not prove an individual is of non African ancestry nor does it prove this person is of European or "middle eastern" ancestry either, as it has been shown to numerously, mummies have been found throughout the world with red hair (ex. Americas) this doesn't in any way indicate that the individuals found mummified came out of Europe or any place other then where they were found.

Now, when we get down to the gist of things and analyze the data which has been given to us about Tiye, by an antropologist --Dr. James E. Harris, who is also Chairman of the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Michigan -- who studied the actual mummy of the elder lady (Queen Tiye), we can see that she is shown to possess a rounded forehead and a projecting glabella, maxillary prognathism amongst vertical zygomatic arches all of which have been in the past used to describe a "Negroid"......

quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
We also know her father was asiatic as was his mother.

According to what documentations please? Of course this will go unanswered.....

lol.. Patriot seems to be rather "thin" on facts. He knows that red hair in itself does not signify the presence of 'Caucasoids" in Egypt.. the topic has been discussed numerous times, but all he has left is to duck and dodge. But one more time;

Red hair is within the range of variation of African peoples. Indeed, in examinations of the red hair of people such as Ramses by Balout et al, pheomelanin was detected. Pheomelanin [FR: phaeomlanine] is the element that makes up red hair, which was found during the electron microscopic examination. However, as many know, pheomelanin can also be found in persons with dark brown or even black hair as well, which gives it a reddish hue. (Jolles 1996)

http://africanamericanculturalcenterpalmcoast.org/historyafrican/nilevalleyhair.htm


But of course Patriot and his ilk will quickly skip over this.

As for Ramses, his so-called "leukoderm" aspect may have nothing to do with "caucasians" at all, but simply a skin condition like Michael jackson's. According to Katherine Griffis-Greenberg, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2000), when discussing Rameses:
"leukoderma is defined as "partial or total loss of skin pigmentation,often occurring in patches. Also called vitiligo or tetter: defined as any of various skin diseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, or herpes, characterized by eruptions and itching."


As for wigs of different hair types, that too, would seem to be fairly obvious. It is interesting that Eurocentrics go to such lengths to pump up the presence of anything red or blonde in ancient Egypt when in fact the bulk of the hair/wigs found are for people with dark hair. And red hair is rare worldwide, occurring in minor frequencies 4% or so, in its main location- the British isles. Red haired Irish or Scots sweeping into Egypt to give the natives hair variation just does not cut it historically, but it is a staple for nonsensical 'Aryan' fantasy.

Lucas in his _Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries_ (4th
edition,1962, rept Dover 1999: 30-32) noted that hair extensions and wigs
were used both for covering thinning hair or by fashion. Not all wigs
were made of human hair, although the majority were, it seems. Lucas reviews
15 wigs found in the Cairo Museum in this work, and notes that all were
dark-haired, except for two which consisted of "vegetable fibre, "
probably date palm and/or grass.

The most well-known of the British Museum wigs is BM 2560, which is a wig
consisting of blonde corkscrew curls on top, with long plaits of brown
hair below. It is featured in several books on Egyptian culture as an example
of"an ancient Egyptian wig." Biri Fay noted in her introduction on wigs in
_Egypt's Golden Age_ , in referring to BM 2560:

"It is likely that every Egyptian nobleman and noblewoman owned at
least one [wig], and wigs are often included in tombs as part of the
equipment for a successful afterlife." ["Wigs and Hair Accessories", p.
196, showing British Museum [BM 2560] from the 18th Dynasty, which is a
wig consisting of a mass of light-colored curls on top of darker
braids].

She described the wig-making process of BM 2560 as follows

"To make the wig, a foundation of tightly plaited hair was woven into a
mesh with rhomboidal openings. About 300 strands of hair were used for
the wig, with each strand consisting of about 400 hairs. Each strand
was anchored by first dipping it into a mixture of warm beeswax and
resin, and then looping it over the mesh matrix. Then a bit of the
strand was sectioned off and used to wrap around the looped-over area.
The hardened wax served as a glue and held the curls in place." (p.
196).

Biri Fay, in her comments on New Kingdom wigs alone, also noted that we
have full examples of wigs in the process or production, wig-making
instruments,and production facilities as found in the late 1970's at Deir el Bahri, a
community of craftsmen and artisans.

Good resources on Egyptian wigs include:

Biri Fay, in _Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in
the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C._, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. (1982).

Georges Posener, "La legende de la tresse d'Hathor", _Egyptological
Studies in Honor of R.A. Parker_ (L.H. Lesko, ed.), (Hanover and London,
1986), p. 111-117.

A. Lucas, "Ancient Egyptian Wigs", ASAE 30 (1930), pp. 190-196.
 
Posted by JayDot_Ptah (Member # 16569) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
No Mike, I have seen the mummy, as have you. You are not looking at the history. The Sun Kings, starting with Amenhotep II had a strong injection of asiatic blood. That has to be dealt with before you can even discuss whether or not the native egyptians in the family were nubian.
Yuya, the brother of Mutemwia was asiatic, which makes almost all of the Sun Kings only partly Egyptian.

What are you like 12 years old???
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Sayz what evidence A.P^^come on back that up please,show us know you didn't get your degree from a box o "Cracker Jacks",pun intended sorry couldn't help it. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Brada, You guys invented the concept of us of presenting ideas without backing it up. The idea here seems to be that if i can find a single scrap of evidence that supports my case that is all i need. That is what leads to the down right nutty ideas you hear from some on this board about black influence in Greece. We know for example that many more Greeks settled in Africa than the other way around and that Greece had much more influence on Africa than africa ever had on the greeks.
Back to the topic at hand. Red hair does not make a caucacian, no doubt, but when put together with the historical data we have a pattern develops which makes it highly unlikely Queen Tiy had much if any african blood. What do you guys offer? A piece of unreliable art work.
I would like to think you can do better but it is doubtful.
Poor King is good at throwing insults but he is lazy and does not want to work. I suggested two books in this thread that would help him understand the issues. they will never be read.
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
Those opposite have NOT provided explanation regarding this elusive migration from the Caucases to the Nile valley.

-When did Caucasus populations migrate to the Nile valley?

-Why did the ancient Egyptians speak an African language and NOT an Indo-European language?
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
sudaniya

Great Pics.

Peace

Thank you, King.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Fisrt of all never post modern pictures to make a historical point. When any scholar or even educated layman sees that they write you off as a goofball.
 
Posted by MindoverMatter718 (Member # 15400) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by KING:
MindoverMatter718

Getting answers from Patriot is as hard as pulling teeth. He makes his worthless opinion(Backed by no FACTS) then he leaves, waits for the forum to quiet down. Then he comes back with the same stupid and dumb views.

So true indeed.....as noted the anthropological assessment has long debunked any fallacious red hair claim of "Caucasians" in ancient Egypt.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot – Reality check.


Egypt - In Encyclopædia Britannica (2009).
The population of the Nile valley and the delta, which are home to the overwhelming majority of Egyptians, forms a fairly homogeneous group whose dominant physical characteristics are the result of the admixture of the indigenous African population with those of Arab ancestry. Within urban areas (the northern delta towns especially), foreign invaders and immigrants—Persians, Romans, Greeks, Crusaders, Turks, and Circassians—long ago left behind a more heterogeneous mixture of physical types. Blond and red hair, blue eyes, and lighter complexions are more common there than in the rural areas of the delta, where peasant agriculturists, the fellahin, have been less affected by intermarriage with outside groups.


{Mike111 note: I am very happy to see Britannica make an effort to return to being a science-based institution. A few years ago, they turned to the White bullsh1t, in order to gain readership; that was still the case up until last year. Obviously, they lost more readership with the White bullsh1t than they gained – even some White people want to know the truth – AP NOT included!}


Brada-Anansi – A while back, we had a conversation about why I don’t read books, but only read raw data and scientific journals.

As I indicated, anyone can write a book, just like anyone can put up a web site. This comes into play because TheAmericanPatriot let it slip that he was using the books of Barbara Watterson as the source for his nonsense. The problem with books is that unlike published journals, there is generally no scientific review of material in books; therefore the author can say whatever she wants, and very often what they want to say is designed to sell books to White people, not to advance science.

In the case of Barbara Watterson, I found this review of one of her books.

This review is from: Amarna: Ancient Egypt's Age Of Revolution (Hardcover)
by Barbara Watterson (Author)

This book is a disappointment on every possible score. The illustrations are almost all appallingly bad scans (amusingly, many of them are crooked!), and there is not one original insight in the text. It is also downright annoying to see "Inebhedj" for "Memphis" and "Waset" for "Thebes." These hypothetical phonetic reconstructions of toponyms serve no purpose except, I suppose, to demonstrate that the author has some nodding acquaintance with ancient Egyptian. Do yourself a favor and read Nicholas Reeves' "Akhenaten" instead!


About the Author
Barbara Watterson received her doctorate from the University of Liverpool. She is currently a freelance lecturer in Egyptology, working, in particular, in Adult Education. Her previous books Women in Ancient Egypt (1991), Introductory Egyptian Hieroglyphics (secind edition, 1993) and Gods of Ancient Egypt (1996).



TheAmericanPatriot and other White “Nut Jobs” on the Web have made much of Red Hair, as if it was something good. The fact is, that Red hair, like Blond hair and Blue eyes, is an indicator of “Genetic Weakness” and likely a precursor to ill health.

But that aside, Blacks also have Red and Blond Hair, it is not the exclusive domain of White people, except in the minds of those idiot White people trying desperately to find some (any) connection to ancient history – they have none.

When I pointed out to TheAmericanPatriot that the hair color of mummies or buried bodies can change. Hair contains a mixture of black-brown-yellow eumelanin and red pheomelanin. Eumelanin is less chemically stable than pheomelanin and breaks down faster when oxidized. It is for this reason that Egyptian mummies have reddish hair. The color of hair changes faster under extreme conditions. It changes more slowly under dry oxidizing conditions (such as in burials in sand or in ice) than under wet reducing conditions (such as burials in wood or plaster coffins).

He responded that “We had done an Ion test” and found that the hair was indeed Red. Obviously the (We) was a Freudian slip: (White conspiracy that is). In any event, there is no Ion test, the way that you test for true hair color is by means of genetic analysis: first, they attempt to multiply a piece of the mc1r gene from an extract of the subjects DNA.

I am sure many have also read the claims of Rameses II red hair. How many of you have seen this bullsh1t {Microscopic study of the mummy’s hair by French Prof. P.F. Ceccaldi and his research team has proved that Ramesses II was indeed a redhead.}

If such a study had been done, the results would have been published and reviewed. I have not found such a study.

However there is one bit of truth from TheAmericanPatriot. He claims that “some or maybe many” Royals might have “Asiatic Blood”. This is quite true, but he says it as if that somehow indicates that they were no longer truly Black. This White Boy is truly MAD, since when does admixture between Blacks, make one group or the other, LESS BLACK? Like I said, this White Boy is MAD.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
if is a genetic weakness Mike how were they able to make slaves out of people like you??? it does not appear you have advanced very far.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
if is a genetic weakness Mike how were they able to make slaves out of people like you??? it does not appear you have advanced very far.

For a change, you have asked a fair question.
I may start a new thread to investigate the many reasons.

But first I want to finish-up with your Red hair bullsh1t.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Red hair by itself [proves nothing. It is a factor when combined with the historical data at hand. I have already been over that. You cannot convince someone who is stupid enough to believe that degreed scholars knock the noses off art work to fool people.

What you need to understand Mike is that white people do not care as much as you do. The fact is they go through life every day and never think about black people one way or the other.
In fact, if you bring up the subject of race around a group of white people they change the subject as quickly as possible.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
TheAmericanPatriot – has often mentioned the Mummy of Ramesses II, and it’s apparent red hair. The red hair itself is of no consequence, as I demonstrated above.

But the concept that somehow scientist “KNOW” which mummy is WHICH, is of consequence – THEY DO NOT!!!

The Mummy of King Tut is a rarity, they DO know who it is, because they found his INTACT Tomb. But the record of the mummy of Ramesses II is the norm! AND THIS IS ONE OF THE BETTER RECORDS.

Ramesses II

Ramesses was originally buried in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Because of the widespread looting of tombs during the 21st Dynasty the priests removed Ramesses body and took it to a holding area where the valuable materials such as gold-leaf and semi-precious inlays, were removed.

The body was then rewrapped and taken to the tomb of an 18th Dynasty queen, Inhapi. The bodies of Ramesses I and Seti I were done in like fashion and ended up at the same place. Amenhotep I's body had been placed there as well at an earlier time.

Seventy-two hours later, all of the bodies were again moved, this time to the Royal Cache that was inside the tomb of High Priest Pinudjem II. The priests documented all of this on the linen that covered the bodies. This “systematic” looting by the priests was done in the guise of protecting the bodies from the "common" thieves.

Did you see that statement “Seventy-two hours later” (How the hell could they know that it was “Seventy-two hours later” thousands of years later? Considering White peoples history of lying about racial matters, you have got to take EVERYTHING they say with a BIG grain of salt!



Here is a list of the very FEW Mummies who have been authenticated, and the circumstances.

Siptah's
Burton discovered bones within Siptah's sarcophagus, but it is now believed that this was an intrusive burial, probably of the Third Intermediate Period. In fact, Siptah's mummy has been identified as one of those moved to the cache in tomb KV35 belonging to Amenhotep II

Ahmose I - His actual mummy was found in the Deir el-Bahari cache.
Ahmose I's mother, Ahhotpe

Seti I - Seti's mummy is said to be the finest of all surviving royal mummies, though it was not found in his tomb. Rather, it was found in the Deir el-Bahari cache in 1881. Dockets on the mummy show that it had been restored during the reign of the High Priest of Amun, Heribor (1080-1074 B.C.) and again in year 15 of Smendes (about 1054 B.C.).

Tao - His mummy was found at Thebes.

Psusennes I - his intact tomb was found during the excavation of Tanis

Shoshenq II - His mummy was found at Tanis in the tomb of Psusennes I.

Merenptah - his mummy was discovered among 18 others in the mummy cache discovered in the tomb of Amenhotep II (KV 35)

Ramesses V - The mummy was found in the tomb of Amenophis II and is now located in the Cairo Museum. The mummy shows that he died of smallpox at about the age of 35.


Above I mentioned King Tut as being a Mummy that we can trust to be who they say he is.

NEWS STORY.

CAIRO, Egypt August 6, 2008 (AP)
Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they are the young pharaoh's offspring, the antiquities authority said Wednesday.

The two tiny female fetuses, between five to seven months in gestational age, were found in King Tut's tomb in Luxor when it was discovered in 1922.
DNA samples from the fetuses "will be compared to each other, along with those of the mummy of King Tutankhamun," the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, said in a statement.

It’s been a full year, where are the results?? My bet is that we will never see them. The results will prove that Hawass is a LIAR, and he knows it!

 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
That is why they are now doing genetic tests Mike, to figure out who is related to who.

They are more concerned that the mummies will be related to jews than they are black africans.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^^I would find it strange if some of them were NOT related to Hebrews; considering their long history together. As a matter of fact; in his book "Against Apion" Josephus seems to argue that Hebrews were in effect, Egyptians.

Jews or Khazars are another matter. They did not come into the area until the current era, so that would be a strange finding indeed.

But, if they also do DNA on ROMAN Mummies, (hopefully they won't claim, as they often do - that they are Egyptian Mummies), then they very well might find Jewish/Khazar DNA.

Byzantine Emperors: Justinian II (704) and Constantine V (732) each had a Khazar wife!!

Sh1t TheAmericanPatriot, you might be Jewish!

 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
AP - You probably thought that I was through with you. No way, you still have some ass-kicking coming.

Some major problems for Blacks trying to prove that the ancient Egyptians were Black people, is the fact that the Egyptians always wore Wigs or some other headgear. That, combined with Whites breaking off the noses of statues, or filing the noses down, made it very difficult indeed to prove that they were Black people. What was needed, was some good-ole-nappy-hair!!!

So I present to you, some funeral stele from northern Egypt during the Roman period.

The Necropolis at Kom Abou Billou

Terenouthis, was once a thriving commercial center on the central western edge of the Nile delta (about 70 km northwest of Cairo) lies today below 1800 years of debris from Nile floods and successive human occupations. Its nearby necropolis is Kom Abou Billou.


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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Black people - Don't any of you start in on me about "all Black people" don't have nappy hair. I know that, I was just making a point!
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:

Queen Tiy was a red headed north African caucasian. The royal family in the era of the sun kings was riddled with asian Mitanni wives. Ditto in the case of Tiy's father.

LOL
Sorry but there's nothing "red-headed" about Tiye's painted bust. You also contradict yourself to say they were of Asian ancestry but then call them 'African'!
quote:
Hawass is an Egyptian who often notes that ancient egyptians are his ancestors. He has a PHD, you have your thumb in your mouth.
Hawass is an Egyptian from the city of Damietta which is historically known as an Arab colonial town! He has a PHD in archaeology NOT bio-anthropology or population genetics. Ahmed Saleh is also an Egyptian and Egyptologist who happens to have a PHD in bio-medical forensics and even he agrees that the ancient Egyptians as indigenous Africans were black. And their modern descendants who have been least affected by foreign ivasions in the rural Nile Valley still are!
quote:
What language did the Libyans speak sudaniya? How about the other non negroid groups who populated the area back into pre history. AE was a near eastern power populated by north african caucasians.
The Libyans spoke a Berber language. Racial concepts like "negroid" are bankrupt, but all the populations indigenous to North Africa were black as some still are like the Berber speaking Tuareg and Haratin. How can Egypt be "Near Eastern" when it is in Africa?? Of course 'Near Eastern' is nothing more than a geo-political ruse which is why it is just as specious as racial concepts like cacazoid and nigroid.
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sudaniya, North africans were africans, they were not negroid. This is like a UFO or Atlantis site.
Nope. Blacks are native to *ALL* of Africa not just south of the Sahara so I don't know how pharaonic Egyptians being black is as fantastical as UFOs or Atlantis.
quote:

we have queen Tiy's mummy Sudaniya. She was a red headed north african caucasian. Nobody disputes that except you and a few black radicals here on egyptsearch.

Nope. If by the Elder Lady there is nothing "caucasian" about her!

"The Elder Lady", first identified as Queen Tiye
The occipital bun is reminiscent of Mesolithic Nubians (see below). Sagittal plateau, rounded forehead with moderately projecting glabella; globular cranium with high vault. Protrusion of incisors, receding chin and steep mandible. Very vertical zygomatic arches and pronounced maxillary prognathism.
-- Drs. James Harris and Edward Wente X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies University of Chicago, 1980
quote:
Just stating facts ayyman. You have seen the recent Tut reconstruction and hawass' remarks that he was a typical north african caucasian.
In fact, we believe that the 18th dynasty roayal family had a strong infusion of asian blood, Certanily Tiy's father shows that clearly.

LOL You wouldn't know the FACTS even if it hits your eyes-- which it does every time you visit this forum!! The recent construction which is actually the 7th one now does not trump all the others before it, especially since it was created by obviously bias scientists who weren't double-blinded like the previous ones. Again, Hawass is not an anthropologist but the one who is specifically said she never used the label "North African Caucasoid" as she explained here!! And there is no evidence of a strong infusion of 'Asian' blood in the 18th dynasty!! Even your idol Hawass made no such claim and on the contrary is against such a notion that the 18th was mixed with Asiatics!!
quote:

ahmose-Nefertari hardly looks black Mike. Hawass is a great scholar and the VAST majority agree with him. Educated people roll their eyes when these crazy black egyptian views are mentioned.

And what is so un-black about Nefertari considering that the images you saw were unpainted? How about this one?

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You obviously don't know what you're talking about since the vast majority of scholars DON'T agree with Hawass including Hawass's own colleague Dr. Saleh! LOL And only idiots like you roll their eyes at the notion that Egyptians as Africans were black!

quote:

When you start calling top scholars liars you lose all credibility. The mummy looks nothing like that bust. You cannot use egyptian art work to make a racial point.

LOL Not even when the artwork blatantly and obviously portrays black people??! by the way, you don't expect a several millennia old shriveled up corpse to look much like a portrait of how she looked in life do you?
quote:

well, if blacks actually did all this what happened?

What do you mean what happened?? Black Egyptians still exist especially in rural Egypt. If you mean what happened to their civilization, it's a historical fact they were overrun by foreigners.
quote:
No they bring up the rear but here is your problem. You want to have it both ways.
You cannot african nations are capable and at the same time say they were raped, plundered and pillaged. It can be one or the other but it cannot be both. If they were weak and helpless then you could say they were raped , pillaged and plundered.

Black people have a future in the world economy AS INDIVIDUALS. Black people as a group have no future.

Of course you have to talk about black Africans as a whole. It's a historical fact that the native civilizations fell due to the same reason Egypt's civilization fell-- foreign conquest. Unless you still cling to your white fantasy that Africans never had civilization despite all the evidence from mainstream academia! YOU can't have it both ways! [Wink]
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ As you can see, the fake professor Pat is intellectually bankrupt as is usually the case.

All he does is express personal opinions and never FACTS which we ALWAYS provide only for him to discard and deny them!

Sudaniya, don't even bother to waste your time on the imbecile. [Embarrassed]
 
Posted by sudaniya (Member # 15779) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
^ As you can see, the fake professor Pat is intellectually bankrupt as is usually the case.

All he does is express personal opinions and never FACTS which we ALWAYS provide only for him to discard and deny them!

Sudaniya, don't even bother to waste your time on the imbecile. [Embarrassed]

You have completely destroyed him with facts;-he will still intransigently assert a "caucasian" ancient Egypt in the face of unassailable evidence.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
There was not a single fact presented sudaniya. Djehuti is like King and many others here. he substitutes statements for facts. Not one of these guys has ever presented a single historiograpic essay, the only way an assertion can be maintained. If they truly understood how uneducated they were they would commit suicide.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
Too many caucasian images in the Old Kingdom art. Afrocentrists want to use a bust of Queen Tiye to prove she was black, but don't want to acknowledge caucasian looking busts to show the presence of white people in Egypt from the early onset. Sorry but you just have to accept it. [Eek!]
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
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Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Can you please reduce the size of the first image-- the scribe??!! It's taking up too much band-width!

By the way, the point you're trying to make, simpleton girl is REFUTED!

Here is a better picture of the scribe you tout:

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This is how the scribe looked years ago when he had more of his original paint (black skin) on him:

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^ If all the paint were perfectly intact he would look no different from the Somali man in the green shirt below.

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^ Notice that despite his black skin he has thin lips and small thin nose. Which is why such features are not confined to 'whites' and THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS 'CAUCASASIAN' RACE!

So you can post all the unpainted or faded-paint images with narrow noses and thin lips, it does not prove they were not black and it definitely does not prove they were white! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
The bust of Queen Tiy is all they have and it is obviously not accurate.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ LOL Not accurate despite having been made during Tiye's lifetime?!! And of course the bust is not all we have.

Tiye's husband, Amenhotep III
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Tiye's grandson, Tutankhamun
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Hatshepsut
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Thutmose III
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Ramses II
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There's more artwork HERE.

quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:

There was not a single fact presented sudaniya. Djehuti is like King and many others here. he substitutes statements for facts. Not one of these guys has ever presented a single historiograpic essay, the only way an assertion can be maintained. If they truly understood how uneducated they were they would commit suicide.

So I take it, it doesn't matter to you that all these statements come from scholars and scientists who are experts in their field unlike Hawass whose statements are out of his league yet you hold them up like divine words! LOL
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
You throw up information but you do not handle it in a scholarly manner. That is what leads you to idiotic Greek conclusions that have no basis in reality. Just pumping out quotes is not scholarship. That is exactly why egyptsearch is the only platform you will have.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^^Djehuti - Sorry, but you are WRONG!!

Though it is true that Black people have straight hair, pointy noses, and thin lips. ONE thing that NO Black person has or ever had, is WHITE SKIN!!!

Whether White people derive from Albinos or aliens, They ARE different and unique. Therefore they are a different and separate race.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
The truth is Mike, NOBODY cares what kind of nose a black person has.
 
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
 
Simple Girl,I ask you and Belphegor a couple of questions before
1)where was God's land and Lands of the ancestors
2)where was the Kemites 1ST nome,what was it called.
3)What is the significance of the finds at Nabta Playta. where was it located.
4)What is the A and C group culture where was it's origins where did it end up.
5)What language group did the Kemites belong to,where did it originated.
6)What is tropical adopted body plans,what is super tropical adopted body plans and how does fit in with ancient Kemetic remains.

Could you please reduce your pic size makes posting and reading difficult.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:

You throw up information but you do not handle it in a scholarly manner. That is what leads you to idiotic Greek conclusions that have no basis in reality. Just pumping out quotes is not scholarship. That is exactly why egyptsearch is the only platform you will have.

LOL And exactly what is so unscholarly about citing actual findings from other scholars??!! Especially when the context of the quotes we cite are crystal clear?!!
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Originally posted by Mike111:

^^Djehuti - Sorry, but you are WRONG!!

Though it is true that Black people have straight hair, pointy noses, and thin lips. ONE thing that NO Black person has or ever had, is WHITE SKIN!!!

Whether White people derive from Albinos or aliens, They ARE different and unique. Therefore they are a different and separate race.

Turkophobic fool, where did I state black people have 'white skin'??!! They wouldn't be black then would they?! Of course there are albinos, but as we have explained to you ad-naseum that is NOT the case with indigenous Europeans whose skin is pale due to mutations in pigment alleles.
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Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:

The truth is Mike, NOBODY cares what kind of nose a black person has.

Apparently YOU and Simpleton Girl do when you cite statues with thin noses etc. Of course never statues with the color fully intact. [Embarrassed]
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^^Then why break them off or file them down??

Better question, why does Simple girl continue to post bogus pictures,
and claim that they are REAL Egyptians?? When there are thousands of pictures of Egyptians with typical Black
features all over the place. That is if nobody cares, like you say.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Djehuti - Whites are indigenous to Europe, in the same
way that your people are indigenous to the Philippines - is that what you meant to say??
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Not exactly, whites are aboriginal to Europe in that they originated there, where as Filipinos like myself are indigenous in that we've lived there for thousands of years but the populations that are truly aboriginal are the Aetas or 'Negritos' as the Spaniards call them.

One could say the pharonic Egyptians are aboriginal Africans as well since they descend from populations who never left the African continent.

Nutty professor Pat keeps talking about 'North African Cacasoids' yet apparently even he's not crazy enough to posit cazoid origins in Africa itself the way crazier racists try to do but instead propose cazoids who migrated there from 'the near east'.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^Can you prove any of that with data or artifact?
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ It was proven to you countless times already. That you don't accept it is the same reason Pat doesn't accept the Egyptians being black. [Embarrassed]
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Djehuti likes to go back to adam and eve and then make some huge leap of faith into the historical era. He never does though offer us a scrap of detail on exactly how all of this happened. It is all smoke and mirrors.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
^^Kinda have to agree with you on this one AP.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Dj - How come this noble woman is mixed race Black/White not Mongol/White if your people (Mongols - Chinese and Japanese) were there for thousands of years?


A Mestizo (mixed-race) woman belonging to the Principalía. Spanish occupation - 1500s

The Principalía or noble class was the social and educated class in the towns of colonial Philippines


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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Djehuti - I'm beginning to see why, despite all evidence,
you keep insisting that Whites are indigenous to Europe.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ All evidence shows whites ARE indigenous to Europe, dumbass! You don't realize that you are just as stupid and as Pat! Speaking of which...
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:

Djehuti likes to go back to adam and eve and then make some huge leap of faith into the historical era. He never does though offer us a scrap of detail on exactly how all of this happened. It is all smoke and mirrors.

What does Adam and Eve have anything to do with the FACT that ancient Egyptians are idigenous/aboriginal African who as such were BLACK!

You and Mike are two of a kind-- You deny that the Egyptians as indigenous Africans were black while Mike does the converse and deny that whites are indigenous to Europe!! [Eek!]

Y'ALL ARE BOTH NUTS!
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:

Dj - How come this noble woman is mixed race Black/White not Mongol/White if your people (Mongols - Chinese and Japanese) were there for thousands of years?

A Mestizo (mixed-race) woman belonging to the Principalía. Spanish occupation - 1500s

The Principalía or noble class was the social and educated class in the towns of colonial Philippines


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'Mestiza' is classification used by Spaniards for those of mixed white/Asian as in non-black Asian or "mongol" (I hate that term). If it were a mixed white/black (aboriginal Asian) she would be called 'Mulatta'.

All racial classifications by the way are invalid and silly. And it still does not change the FACT that whites are aboriginal to Europe where their white skin originated!
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Is it my imagination, or does this mixed race Hawaiian princess, look pretty much the same as the Filipino noble woman above - we know that there is NO Mongol in her.


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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Djehuti - I don't know, but it's beginning to look like you speak with forked tongue.
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
In all his time on the board Djehuti has never presented a rational historiographis study to back up a single post he has made. His stick is to throw out a study and then make wild suppositions about not only what it says, but what it means. He is also fond of resting his entire argument on one piece of work. He spins and distorts and ignores any sembalnce of scholarly method.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Djehuti - This is all beginning to look very strange.

In Hawaii they went from This...

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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
While in the Philippines:


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Could it be that us Afrocentrics have been looking at the wrong threat???

 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Now this is beginning to worry me!!


Africa’s Burgeoning Ties with China
Jian-Ye Wang and Abdoulaye Bio-Tchané

Maximizing the benefits of China’s increasing economic engagement with Africa

Africa and China have been trading partners for centuries. But in recent years, the level and intensity of their relationship have increased dramatically. In the early 1990s, official development aid and government ministries dominated the relationship. Now, however, as the relationship has evolved to center on markets for each other’s exports and Africa’s demand for infrastructure, the Chinese corporate sector and joint ventures have supplanted government agencies. In other words, for Africa, China is now a major market, financier, investor, contractor, and builder—as well as donor.
 
Posted by Red,White, and Blue + Christian (Member # 10893) on :
 
Stop talking to American Patriot. He is baiting you. He is a sophisticated "Arthur Kemp".

Ignore him and continue your research. I live in NYC, I have met Egyptian Jews, Egyptian Copts and Egyptian Muslims starting since I was 13 years old. Just 2 weeks ago I was in a conversation with a man from Egypt. He said and I heard it said before that modern Egypt does not emphasize race. They don't put this info on their Birth Certificates.

Let this racist and any future racist who comes here to distract you go. He is an Texan - enoguh said. Although, I still dig the Dixie Chicks :-)

http://poetwomen.50megs.com/about.html

How many Black Egyptians have come here on this board over the years and givin all you need to know?
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
Texas is the single greatest state in the union. The state has a solid economy, ZERO state income tax and has a population made up of good and generous people. Texans are not racists by any yardstick.
 
Posted by Red,White, and Blue + Christian (Member # 10893) on :
 
El estado de Tejas like California and New Mexico will soon be overrun by an ever increasing Mexican Americasn popultion and you will have no rest while you spend time worrying about Black people. The Hispanic population is at 16% while African Americans will go from 13% to 15%. When I leave my home, I often speak Spanish before English.

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The Mexicans have taken Puerto Rican Spanish Harlem.

You are wrong about everything and all this talk about Caucasian East Africa and Egypt is silly. Every ethnic group is here in NYC and we get along quite well.

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They are here in NYC!!! Everybody is here!!!

American Patriot, you are not more American than me. On Sept. 11, 2001, I thought that I was going to die!
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
What kind of crazy staement is that? I do not recall anyone saying you were not an american.
 
Posted by Red,White, and Blue + Christian (Member # 10893) on :
 
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http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=r01jl2&s=5

http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/28be5/cc629/

The world has changed. You cannot lie anymore. We see everybody else up close.

http://www.amius.org/
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
"The world has changed. You cannot lie anymore. We see everybody else up close."

This man is a moron.
 
Posted by Morpheus (Member # 16203) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
Djehuti likes to go back to adam and eve and then make some huge leap of faith into the historical era. He never does though offer us a scrap of detail on exactly how all of this happened. It is all smoke and mirrors.

quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
There was not a single fact presented sudaniya. Djehuti is like King and many others here. he substitutes statements for facts. Not one of these guys has ever presented a single historiograpic essay, the only way an assertion can be maintained. If they truly understood how uneducated they were they would commit suicide

Hey Professor,

I see you're up to your old antics again. This statement however is false. Aaron Kamugisha wrote an excellent historiographical essay on the Ancient Egyptian race debate, detailing how it has evolved over the centuries from the beginnings of Egyptology and Scientific Racism to the modern period where many mainstream scholars have provided solid evidence that the Ancient Egyptian culture is indigenious to Northeast Africa and its inhabitants primarily a tropically adapted ("Black") people.

I asked Myra to host it on her site. You should give it a read:

http://wysinger.homestead.com/finally.html


Tell us what you think and point out the inaccuracies if you find any.
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
[Roll Eyes] Of course Mike knows nothing about Filipine or any Southeast Asian history, which is no less than his knowledge on European history.

Anything BUT Africans, right? LOL
 
Posted by zarahan (Member # 15718) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot:
There was not a single fact presented sudaniya. Djehuti is like King and many others here. he substitutes statements for facts. Not one of these guys has ever presented a single historiograpic essay, the only way an assertion can be maintained. If they truly understood how uneducated they were they would commit suicide.

Indeed, they have not presented a "single fact"..

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Recent studies find the ancient Egyptians had a tropical body plan like sub-Saharan 'black' Africans and were not cold-adapted like European type populations. Tropical body plans also indicate darker-skin.


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"The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the "super-Negroid" body plan described by Robins (1983).. This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations." (Zakrzewski, S.R. (2003). "Variation in ancient Egyptian stature and body proportions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121 (3): 219-229.


a 2008 Study puts the ancient Egyptians closer to US Blacks than whites:

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"Intralimb (crural and brachial) indices are significantly higher in ancient Egyptians than in American Whites (except crural index among females), i.e., Egyptians have relatively longer distal segments (Table 4). Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks... Many of those who have studied ancient Egyptians have commented on their characteristically ''tropical'' or ''African'' body plan (Warren, 1897; Masali, 1972; Robins, 1983; Robins and Shute, 1983, 1984, 1986; Zakrzewski, 2003). Egyptians also fall within the range of modern African populations (Ruff and Walker, 1993), but close to the upper limit of modern Europeans as well, at least for the crural index (brachial indices are definitely more ''African'').. In terms of femoral and tibial length to total skeletal height proportions, we found that ancient Egyptians are significantly different from US Blacks, although still closer to Blacks than to Whites.


Comparisons of linear body proportions of Old Kingdom and non-Old Kingdom period individuals, and workers and high officials in our sample found no statistically significant differences among them. Zakrzewski (2003) also found little evidence for differences in linear body proportions of Egyptians over a wider temporal range. In general, recent studies of skeletal variation among ancient Egyptians support scenarios of biological continuity through time. Irish (2006) analyzed quantitative and qualitative dental traits of 996 Egyptians from Neolithic through Roman periods, reporting the presence of a few outliers but concluding that the dental samples appear to be largely homogeneous and that the affinities observed indicate overall biological uniformity and continuity from Predynastic through Dynastic and Postdynastic periods.

Zakrzewski (2007) provided a comprehensive summary of previous Egyptian craniometric studies and examined Egyptian crania from six time periods. She found that the earlier samples were relatively more homogeneous in comparison to the later groups. However, overall results indicated genetic continuity over the Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, albeit with a high level of genetic diversity within the population, suggesting an indigenous process of state formation. She also concluded that while the biological patterning of the Egyptian population varied across time, no consistent temporal or spatial trends are apparent. Thus, the stature estimation formulae developed here may be broadly applicable to all ancient Egyptian populations.."
("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55


Older limb studies find the same- Blacks and closer to the Egyptians than whites:

"In this regard it is interesting to note that limb proportions of Predynastic Naqada people in Upper Egypt are reported to be "Super-Negroid," meaning that the distal segments are elongated in the fashion of tropical Africans.....skin color intensification and distal limb elongation are apparent wherever people have been long-term residents of the tropics." (C.L. Brace, 1993. Clines and clusters..")


"An attempt has been made to estimate male and female Egyptian stature from long bone length using Trotter & Gleser negro stature formulae, previous work by the authors having shown that these rather than white formulae give more consistent results with male dynastic material... When consistency has been achieved in this way, predynastic proportions are founded to be such that distal segments of the limbs are even longer in relation to the proximal segments than they are in modern negroes. Such proportions are termed "super-negroid"...

Robins (1983) and Robins & Shute (1983) have shown that more consistent results are obtained from ancient Egyptian male skeletons if Trotter & Gleser formulae for negro are used, rather than those for whites which have always been applied in the past. .. their physical proportions were more like modern negroes than those of modern whites, with limbs that were relatively long compared with the trunk, and distal segments that were long compared with the proximal segments. If ancient Egyptian males had what may be termed negroid proportions, it seems reasonable that females did likewise."
(Robins G, Shute CCD. 1986. Predynastic Egyptian stature and physical proportions. Hum Evol 1:313-324. Ruff CB. 1994.)





The ancient Badarians were quite representative of ancient Egyptians as a whole and showed clear links with tropical Africans to the south. They have been sometimes excluded in studies of the ancient Egyptian population, which shows continuity in its history, not mass influxes of foreigners until the late periods.

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"As a result of their facial prognathism, the Badarian sample has been described as forming a morphological cluster with Nubian, Tigrean, and other southern (or \Negroid") groups (Morant, 1935, 1937; Mukherjee et al., 1955; Nutter, 1958, Strouhal, 1971; Angel, 1972; Keita, 1990). Cranial nonmetric trait studies have found this group to be similar to other Egyptians, including much later material (Berry and Berry, 1967, 1972), but also to be significantly different from LPD material (Berry et al., 1967). Similarly, the study of dental nonmetric traits has suggested that the Badarian population is at the centroid of Egyptian dental samples (Irish, 2006), thereby suggesting similarity and hence continuity across Egyptian time periods. From the central location of the Badarian samples in Figure 2, the current study finds the Badarian to be relatively morphologically close to the centroid of all the Egyptian samples. The Badarian have been shown to exhibit
greatest morphological similarity with the temporally successive EPD (Table 5). Finally, the biological distinctiveness
of the Badarian from other Egyptian samples has also been demonstrated (Tables 6 and 7).

These results suggest that the EDyn do form a distinct morphological pattern. Their overlap with other Egyptian samples (in PC space, Fig. 2) suggests that although their morphology is distinctive, the pattern does overlap with the other time periods. These results therefore do not support the Petrie concept of a \Dynastic race" (Petrie, 1939; Derry, 1956). Instead, the results suggest that the Egyptian state was not the product of mass movement of populations into the Egyptian Nile region, but rather that it was the result of primarily indigenous development combined with prolonged small-scale migration, potentially from trade, military, or other contacts.

This evidence suggests that the process of state formation itself may have been mainly an indigenous process, but that it may have occurred in association with in-migration to the Abydos region of the Nile Valley. This potential in-migration may have occurred particularly during the EDyn and OK. A possible explanation is that the Egyptian state formed through increasing control of trade and raw materials, or due to military actions, potentially associated with the use of the Nile Valley as a corridor for prolonged small scale movements through the desert environment.
(Sonia R. Zakrzewski. (2007). Population Continuity or Population Change: Formation of the Ancient Egyptian State. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 132:501-509)






Ancient Egyptians most related to other Africans and are part of a Nilotic continuity rather than something Mediterranean or Middle Eastern

"Certainly there was some foreign admixture [in Egypt], but basically a homogeneous African population had lived in the Nile Valley from ancient to modern times... [the] Badarian people, who developed the earliest Predynastic Egyptian culture, already exhibited the mix of North African and Sub-Saharan physical traits that have typified Egyptians ever since (Hassan 1985; Yurco 1989; Trigger 1978; Keita 1990.. et al.,)... The peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and much of East African Ethiopia and Somalia are now generally regarded as a Nilotic continuity, with widely ranging physical features (complexions light to dark, various hair and craniofacial types) but with powerful common cultural traits, including cattle pastoralist traditions.." (Frank Yurco, "An Egyptological Review," 1996 -in Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, Black Athena Revisited, 1996, The University of North Carolina Press, p. 62-100)
African peoples are the most diverse in the world whether analyzed by DNA or skeletal or cranial methods. Attempts to deny this are rooted in racism and error. African people, particularly SUB-SAHARAN Africans, vary the most in how they look, more so than any other population in the world.

"Estimates of genetic diversity in major geographic regions are frequently made by pooling all individuals into regional aggregates. This method can potentially bias results if there are differences in population substructure within regions, since increased variation among local populations could inflate regional diversity. A preferred method of estimating regional diversity is to compute the mean diversity within local populations. Both methods are applied to a global sample of craniometric data consisting of 57 measurements taken on 1734 crania from 18 local populations in six geographic regions: sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, East Asia, Australasia, Polynesia, and the Americas. Each region is represented by three local populations.

Both methods for estimating regional diversity show sub-Saharan Africa to have the highest levels of phenotypic variation, consistent with many genetic studies."
(Relethford, John "Global Analysis of Regional Differences in Craniometric Diversity and Population Substructure". Human Biology - Volume 73, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 629-636)

"The living peoples of the African continent are diverse in facial characteristics, stature, skin color, hair form, genetics, and other characteristics. No one set of characteristics is more African than another. Variability is also found in "sub-Saharan" Africa, to which the word "Africa" is sometimes erroneously restricted. There is a problem with definitions. Sometimes Africa is defined using cultural factors, like language, that exclude developments that clearly arose in Africa. For example, sometimes even the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea) is excluded because of geography and language and the fact that some of its peoples have narrow noses and faces.

However, the Horn is at the same latitude as Nigeria, and its languages are African. The latitude of 15 degree passes through Timbuktu, surely in "sub-Saharan Africa," as well as Khartoum in Sudan; both are north of the Horn. Another false idea is that supra-Saharan and Saharan Africa were peopled after the emergence of "Europeans" or Near Easterners by populations coming from outside Africa. Hence, the ancient Egyptians in some writings have been de-Africanized. These ideas, which limit the definition of Africa and Africans, are rooted in racism and earlier, erroneous "scientific" approaches." (S. Keita, "The Diversity of Indigenous Africans," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Clenko, Editor (1996), pp. 104-105. [10])






Modern DNA studies find even though some African peoples look different, they are genetically related through the PN2 transition clade of the Y-chromosone. Thus light-skinned African Libyans and dark-skinned Zulus are all genetically related Africans ,even though they don't look exactly the same.

"But the Y-chromosome clade defined by the PN2 transition (PN2/M35, PN2/M2) shatters the boundaries of phenotypically defined races and true breeding populations across a great geographical expanse. African peoples with a range of skin colors, hair forms and physiognomies have substantial percentages of males whose Y chromosomes form closely related clades with each other, but not with others who are phenotypically similar. The individuals in the morphologically or geographically defined 'races' are not characterized by 'private' distinct lineages restricted to each of them." (S O Y Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)


"Recall that the Horn-Nile Valley crania show, as a group, the largest overlap with other regions. A review of the recent literature indicates that there are male lineage ties between African peoples who have been traditionally labeled as being ''racially'' different, with ''racially'' implying an ontologically deep divide. The PN2 transition, a Y chromosome marker, defines a lineage (within the YAPþ derived haplogroup E or III) that emerged in Africa probably before the last glacial maximum, but after the migration of modern humans from Africa (see Semino et al., 2004). This mutation forms a clade that has two daughter subclades (defined by the biallelic markers M35/215 (or 215/M35) and M2) that unites numerous phenotypically variant African populations from the supra-Saharan, Saharan, and sub-Saharan regions.."
(S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679-689, 2004.)
keita2004neanalysis.htm

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages.. Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world." (Tishkoff SA, Williams SM., Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2002 Aug (8):611-21.)

DNA of some modern Egyptians found a genetic ancestral heritage to East Africa:
"The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity of 58 individuals from Upper Egypt, more than half (34 individuals) from Gurna, whose population has an ancient cultural history, were studied by sequencing the control-region and screening diagnostic RFLP markers. This sedentary population presented similarities to the Ethiopian population by the L1 and L2 macrohaplogroup frequency (20.6%), by the West Eurasian component (defined by haplogroups H to K and T to X) and particularly by a high frequency (17.6%) of haplogroup M1. We statistically and phylogenetically analysed and compared the Gurna population with other Egyptian, Near East and sub-Saharan Africa populations; AMOVA and Minimum Spanning Network analysis showed that the Gurna population was not isolated from neighbouring populations. Our results suggest that the Gurna population has conserved the trace of an ancestral genetic structure from an ancestral East African population, characterized by a high M1 haplogroup frequency. The current structure of the Egyptian population may be the result of further influence of neighbouring populations on this ancestral population."
(Stevanovitch A, Gilles A, Bouzaid E, et al. (2004) Mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity in a sedentary population from Egypt.Ann Hum Genet. 68(Pt 1):23-39.)

Tishkoff et al:

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages (see online link to Ethnologue). Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world(TABLE 1).However,most studies report only a few markers in divergent African populations, which makes it difficult to draw general conclusions about the levels and patterns of genetic diversity in these populations (FIG. 1). Because genetic studies have been biased towards more economically developed African countries that have key research or medical centres, populations from more underdeveloped or politically unstable regions of Africa remain undersampled (FIG. 1). Historically, human population genetic studies have relied on one or two African populations as being representative of African diversity, but recent studies show extensive genetic variation among even geographically close African populations, which indicates that there is not a single 'representative' African population."
-- Tishkoff NATURE REVIEWS | GENETICS VOLUME 3 | AUGUST 2002


"Genetic studies that attempt to recover the biological history of the species have generally found that there is a split between their restricted African samples and "the rest of the world." These approaches conceptualize human population history as a series of bifurcations with each node being relatively uniform. The "Africans" usually used are either the short statured Aka or Mbuti, Khoisan speakers, or West African stereotype s, in keeping with a socially, not scientifically constructed concept of African. Studies using individuals as the unit of analysis evince a different pattern. A select subset of Africans called the "group of 49" forms a unit versus the rest of humankind. However the latter individuals ("rest of humankind") also includes non-East African sub-Saharans. Hence there is no "racial" split. As has been stated, the idea that human variation can be described as being structured by subspecies(races) that are treated as lineages is fundamentally false. In actuality, also, although averages are used, the gene studies usually give us histories that are not necessarily the same as population histories."
Writing African History Chapter 4, Physical Anthropology and African History, Shomarka Keita University of Rochester Press p.134

Continent wide African DNA linkages
"The most extensive pan-African haplotype (16189 16192 16223 16278 16294 16309 16390) is in the L2a1 haplogroup. This sequence is observed in West Africa among the Malinke, Wolof, and others; in North Africa among the Maure, Hausa, Fulbe, and others; in Central Africa among the Bamileke, Fali, and others; in South Africa among the Khoisan family including the Khwe and Bantu speakers; and in East Africa among the Kikuyu. Closely related variants are observed among the Tuareg in North and West Africa and among the East African Dinka and Somali."
(-- Bert Ely , Jamie Lee Wilson , Fatimah Jackson and Bruce A Jackson. (2006). African-American mitochondrial DNAs often match mtDNAs found in multiple African ethnic groups. BMC Biology 2006, 4:34)

"It is of interest that the M35 and M2 lineages are united by a mutation - the PN2 transition. This PN2 defined clade originated in East Africa, where various populations have a notable frequency of its underived state. This would suggest that an ancient population in East Africa, or more correctly its males, form the basis of the ancestors of all African upper Paleolithic populations - and their subsequent descendants in the present day."
(--Bengtson, John D. (ed.), In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. 2008. John Benjamins Publishing: pp. 3-16)



Egyptian Y-chromosome haplotypes show preponderance is with African clusters not Europe or the Near East


Other DNA quotes from S.O.Y. Keita
See: http://www.geocities.com/keitadnaquotes.htm


Recent DNA studies of the Sudan show genetic unity and linkage between the Sudanic, Horn, Egyptian, Nubian and other Nilotic peoples, confirming earlier skeletal/cranial studies and historical data. (Yurco (1989, 1996), Keita (1993,2004, 2005) Lovell (1999), Zakrewski (2003, 2007) et. al). Of note is that DNA data shows that some peoples linked to one of the oldest Egyptian populations, the original Copts, have a significant frequency of the B-M60 marker, indicating early colonization of Egypt by Nilotics in the state formation period.

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"Haplogroup E-M78, however, is more widely distributed and is thought to have an origin in eastern African. More recently, this haplogroup has been carefully dissected and was found to depict several well-established subclades with defined geographical clustering (Cruciani et al., 2006, 2007). Although this haplogroup is common to most Sudanese populations, it has exceptionally high frequency among populations like those of western Sudan (particularly Darfur) and the Beja in eastern Sudan... Although the PC plot places the Beja and Amhara from Ethiopia in one sub-cluster based on shared frequencies of the haplogroup J1, the distribution of M78 subclades (Table 2) indicates that the Beja are perhaps related as well to the Oromo on the basis of the considerable frequencies of E-V32 among Oromo in comparison to Amhara (Cruciani et al., 2007)...

These findings affirm the historical contact between Ethiopia and eastern Sudan (1998), and the fact that these populations speak languages of the Afroasiatic family tree reinforces the strong correlation between linguistic and genetic diversity (Cavalli-Sforza, 1997)."

"Genetic continuum of the Nubians with their kin in southern Egypt is indicated by comparable frequencies of E-V12 the predominant M78 subclade among southern Egyptians."

"The Copt samples displayed a most interesting Y-profile, enough (as much as that of Gaalien in Sudan) to suggest that they actually represent a living record of the peopling of Egypt. The significant frequency of B-M60 in this group might be a relic of a history of colonization of southern Egypt probably by Nilotics in the early state formation, something that conforms both to recorded history and to Egyptian mythology."
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(Hisham Y. Hassan 1, Peter A. Underhill 2, Luca L. Cavalli-Sforza 2, Muntaser E. Ibrahim 1. (2008). Y-chromosome variation among Sudanese: Restricted gene flow, concordance with language, geography, and history. Am J Phys Anthropology, 2008.)


Older research notes the physical makeup of the original Copts, now confirmed by recent DNA data above:
"In Libya, which is mostly desert and oasis, there is a visible Negroid element in the sedentary populations, and at the same is true of the Fellahin of Egypt, whether Copt or Muslim. Osteological studies have shown that the Negroid element was stronger in predynastic times than at present, reflecting an early movement northward along the banks of the Nile, which were then heavily forested." (Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. "Populations, Human")


Haplogroup E3A and E3B represent more than 70% of the Y-chromosones on the African continent, with varying proportions found in different parts of the continent. In some African populations for example, E3B exceeds 80%. Migrations out of Africa, are responsible for the spread of E3b to Europe. Non-Africans thus acquired a sub-set f African genes through this migration.


"In Europe, the overall frequency pattern of haplogroup E-M78 does not support the hypothesis of a uniform spread of people from a single parental Near Eastern population... The Y chromosome specific biallelic marker DYS271 defines the most common haplogroup (E3a) currently found in sub-Saharan Africa. A sister clade, E3b (E-M215), is rare in sub-Saharan Africa, but very common in northern and eastern Africa. On the whole, these two clades represent more than 70% of the Y chromosomes of the African continent. A third clade belonging to E3 (E3c or E-M329) has been recently reported to be present only in eastern Africa, at low frequencies.. The new topology of the E3 haplogroup is suggestive of a relatively recent eastern African origin for the majority of the chromosomes presently found in sub-Saharan Africa."

"In conclusion, we detected the signatures of several distinct processes of migration and/or recurrent gene flow associated with the dispersal of haplogroup E3b lineages. Early events involved the dispersal of E-M78d chromosomes from eastern Africa into and out of Africa, as well as the introduction of the E-M34 subclade into Africa from the Near East. Later events involved short-range migrations within Africa (E-M78? and E-V6) and from northern Africa into Europe (E-M81 and E-M78ß), as well as an important range expansion from the Balkans to western and southern-central Europe (E-M78a). This latter expansion was the main contributor to the present distribution of E3b chromosomes in Europe."

(Cruciani, F, et. al. (2004) Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa, Am J Hum Genet. 74(5): 1014-1022.)


Somalis link much more heavily with African populations such as those in Kenya and Ethiopia than Middle Eastern or European ones according to DNA evidence. Eurasian genes only accounted for about 15% of the mix among Somalis, typically associated with recent Arab influence. On such key common DNA markers as E3b1, Europeans only weighed in at 5%, and Middle Easterners at approximately 6%. The overwhelming link of Somalis- over 85% of the total is with Africans. Kenya and Ethiopia are located in "sub-Saharan" Africa.

"The high frequency (77.6%) of haplogroup E3b1 was characteristic of male Somalis. The frequency of E3b1 was significantly lower in Ethiopian Oromos (35.9%), Ethiopian Amharas (22.9%), Egyptians (20.0%), Sudanese (17.5%), Kenyans (15.1%),10 Iraqis (6.3%), Northern Africans (6.1%), Southern Europeans (0.5-5.1%) and sub-Saharan populations." (Sanchez et al.,(2005) High frequencies of Y chromosome lineages characterized by E3b1, DYS19-11, DYS392-12 in Somali males, Eu J of Hum Genet (2005) 13, 856-866)

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Simplistic "race percentage" models are dubious in Africa which has the highest genetic diversity in the world. That diversity proceeded from deeper sub-Saharan Africa, to East and N.E. Africa, then to the rest of the globe. All other populations, including Europeans and "Middle easterners" carry this diversity which was built into Africa to begin with. Africans thus don't need any "race mix" to look different. Their diversity is built-in and supplied the whole globe. Any returnees or "backflow" to Africa looked like Africans, including Europeans. (Brace 2005, Hanihara 1996, Holliday 2003).

" These studies suggest a recent and primary subdivision between African and non-African populations, high levels of divergence among African populations, and a recent shared common ancestry of non-African populations, from a population originating in Africa. The intermediate position, between African and non-African populations, that the Ethiopian Jews and Somalis occupy in the PCA plot also has been observed in other genetic studies (Ritte et al. 1993; Passarino et al. 1998) and could be due either to shared common ancestry or to recent gene flow. The fact that the Ethiopians and Somalis have a subset of the sub-Saharan African haplotype diversity and that the non-African populations have a subset of the diversity present in Ethiopians and Somalis makes simple-admixture models less likely; rather, these observations support the hypothesis proposed by other nuclear-genetic studies (Tishkoff et al. 1996a, 1998a, 1998b; Kidd et al. 1998) that populations in northeastern Africa may have diverged from those in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa early in the history of modern African populations and that a subset of this northeastern-African population migrated out of Africa and populated the rest of the globe. These conclusions are supported by recent mtDNA analysis (Quintana-Murci et al. 1999)."
[Tishkoff et al. (2000) Short Tandem-Repeat Polymorphism/Alu Haplotype Variation at the PLAT Locus: Implications for Modern Human Origins. Am J Hum Genet; 67:901-925]


Data on Ethiopian peoples like the Oromo are underreported even though they make up the largest group percentage wise in the Ethiopian population, (50%) and are often pooled with others, hiding and obscuring their overall contribution to the Ethiopian gene pool.

"This difference, not revealed in the study by Passarino et al. (1998), in which the Oromo were underrepresented, might reflect distinct population histories."
(--Semino, et al. (2002). Ethiopians and Khoisan Share the Deepest Clades of the Human Y..")

"These data, together with those reported elsewhere (Ritte et al. 1993a, 1993b; Hammer et al. 2000) suggest that the Ethiopian Jews acquired their religion without substantial genetic admixture from Middle Eastern peoples and that they can be considered an ethnic group with essentially a continental African genetic composition." (Cruciani, et. al Am J Hum Genet. 2002 May; 70(5): 1197-1214. "A Back Migration from Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa Is Supported by High-Resolution Analysis of Human Y-Chromosome Haplotypes)



Afrocentric critic Mary Leftokwitz says Egypt was peopled by persons from sub-Saharan Africa:

"Recent work on skeletons and DNA suggests that the people who settled in the Nile valley, like all of humankind, came from somewhere south of the Sahara; they were not (as some nineteenth-century scholars had supposed) invaders from the North. See Bruce G. Trigger, "The Rise of Civilization in Egypt," Cambridge History of Africa (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982), vol I, pp 489-90; S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54.
(Mary Lefkotitz (1997). Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. Basic Books. pg 242) [/QB][/QUOTE]


In Black Athena Revisited, Lefkowitz finds similarity between Egyptians and Sudanics and recommends the work of conservative anthropologist Nancy Lovell for more research on the subject.

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"not surprisingly, the Egyptian skulls were not very distance from the Jebel Moya [a Neolithic site in the southern Sudan] skulls, but were much more distance from all others, including those from West Africa. Such a study suggests a closer genetic affinity between peoples in Egypt and the northern Sudan, which were close geographically and are known to have had considerable cultural contact throughout prehistory and pharaonic history... Clearly more analyses of the physical remains of ancient Egyptians need to be done using current techniques, such as those of Nancy Lovell at the University of Alberta is using in her work.."



Lefkotitz cites Keita 1993 in Not Out of Africa. Here is Keita on the Jebel Moya studies:

"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Jebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." [/img]
S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54



Here is the work of the anthropologist so strongly recommended by Lefkowitz, Nancy Lovell:


"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)

and

"must be placed in the context of hypotheses informed by archaeological, linguistic, geographic and other data. In such contexts, the physical anthropological evidence indicates that early Nile Valley populations can be identified as part of an African lineage, but exhibiting local variation. This variation represents the short and long term effects of evolutionary forces, such as gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection, influenced by culture and geography." ("Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999). pp 328-332)



The same Nancy Lovell recommended by Lefkowitz studied dental traits among some high status persons of the key Egyptian Naqada group and found that they resembled the peoples of Nubia.

T. Prowse, and N. Lovell "Concordance of cranial and dental morphological traits and evidence for endogamy in ancient Egypt"
American journal of physical anthropology. 1996, vol. 101, no2, pp. 237-246 (2 p.1/4)


A biological affinities study based on frequencies of cranial nonmetric traits in skeletal samples from three cemeteries at Predynastic Naqada, Egypt, confirms the results of a recent nonmetric dental morphological analysis. Both cranial and dental traits analyses indicate that the individuals buried in a cemetery characterized archaeologically as high status are significantly different from individuals buried in two other, apparently non-elite cemeteries and that the non-elite samples are not significantly different from each other. A comparison with neighboring Nile Valley skeletal samples suggests that the high status cemetery represents an endogamous ruling or elite segment of the local population at Naqada, which is more closely related to populations in northern Nubia than to neighboring populations in southern Egypt.



Lefkowitz warns against Eurocentric "racial" analysis as to the Egyptians and Nubians.

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"The Nubian tribute-bearers are painted in two skin tones, black and dark brown. These tones do not necessarily represent actual skin tones in real life but may serve to distinguish each tribute-bearer from the next in a row in which the figures overlap. Alternatively, the brown-skinned people may be of Nubian origin, and the black-skinned ones may be farther south 9Trigger 1978, 33). The shading of skin tones in Egyptian tomb paintings, which varies considerably, may not be a certain criterion for distinguishing race. Specific symbols of ethnic identity can also vary. Identifying race in Egyptian representational art, again, is difficult to do- probably because race (as opposed to ethnic affiliation, that is, Egyptians versus all non-Egyptians) was not a criterion for differentiation used by the ancient Egyptians...



Northern Egypt shows more physical variation than the south, but not necessarily as part of any significant 'race' mix, but local, built-in variation. They were closer to southerners than any other peoples. In comparisons with "Middle Eastern" populations of the same ancient period, the Egyptians link more closely with other Africans than the Middle Easterners. Africans vary in how they look because they have the highest built-in molecular diversity to begin with.

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"..sample populations available from northern Egypt from before the 1st Dynasty (Merimda, Maadi and Wadi Digla) turn out to be significantly different from sample populations from early Palestine and Byblos, suggesting a lack of common ancestors over a long time. If there was a south-north cline variation along the Nile valley it did not, from this limited evidence, continue smoothly on into southern Palestine. The limb-length proportions of males from the Egyptian sites group them with Africans rather than with Europeans." (Barry Kemp, "Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation. (2005) Routledge. p. 52-60)


"Individuals from different geographical regions frequently plotted near each other, revealing aspects of variation at the level of individuals that is obscured by concentrating on the most distinctive facial traits once used to construct ''types.''The high level of African interindividual variation in craniometric pattern is reminiscent of the great level of molecular diversity found in Africa." (S.O.Y Keita. Exploring northeast African metric craniofacial variation at the individual level: A comparative study using principal component analysis. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16:679-689, 2004.)

Quote on northern Egypt analysis- the Qarunian (Faiyum) remains (c. 7000 BC)
"The body was that of a forty-year old woman with a height of about 1.6 meters, who was of a more modern racial type than the classic 'Mechtoid' of the Fakhurian culture (see pp. 65-6), being generally more gracile, having large teeth and thick jaws bearing some resemblance to the modern 'negroid' type." (Beatrix Midant-Reynes, Ian Shaw (2000). The Prehistory of Egypt. Wiley-Blackwell. pg. 82)



Modern studies show diversity in how people look is heavily based on distance from sub-Saharan Africa, not merely climate. In genetically diverse Africa, broad-nosed people live on the cool or cold mountain slopes of East Africa or the hot, dry Sahara, and narrow-nosed peoples like many Fulani like in the wet tropics of West Africa. Yellowish-skinned San tribes live in the hot zones of Southern Africa.

"The relative importance of ancient demography and climate in determining worldwide patterns of human within-population phenotypic diversity is still open to debate. Several morphometric traits have been argued to be under selection by climatic factors, but it is unclear whether climate affects the global decline in morphological diversity with increasing geographical distance from sub-Saharan Africa. Using a large database of male and female skull measurements, we apply an explicit framework to quantify the relative role of climate and distance from Africa. We show that distance from sub-Saharan Africa is the sole determinant of human within-population phenotypic diversity, while climate plays no role. By selecting the most informative set of traits, it was possible to explain over half of the worldwide variation in phenotypic diversity. These results mirror those previously obtained for genetic markers and show that 'bones and molecules' are in perfect agreement for humans." (Distance from Africa, not climate, explains within-population phenotypic diversity in humans. (2008) by: Lia Betti, François Balloux, William Amos, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Andrea Manica, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 2008/12/02)


Analysis of skeletal and cranial remains reveals that the ancient Egyptians of the early Dynastic and pre-Dynastic phases, link closer to nearby Saharan, Sudanic and East African populations than Mediterranean and Middle Eastern peoples. Greeks, Romans, Hyskos, Arabs and others were to appear later in Egyptian history. Craniometric studies generally place ancient Upper Egyptian populations closer to the range of tropical Africans in the Nile Valley and East Africa than to Mediterraneans, or Middle Easterners.

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S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54


"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Kebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese." (Keita 1993)

"When the unlikely relationships [Indian matches] and eliminated, the Egyptian series are more similar overall to other African series than to European or Near Eastern (Byzantine or Palestinian) series." (Keita 1993)

"Populations and cultures now found south of the desert roamed far to the north. The culture of Upper Egypt, which became dynastic Egyptian civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant."(Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa: Their Interaction. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, by Joseph O. Vogel, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California (1997), pp. 465-472 )

"Analysis of crania is the traditional approach to assessing ancient population origins, relationships, and diversity. In studies based on anatomical traits and measurements of crania, similarities have been found between Nile Valley crania from 30,000, 20,000 and 12,000 years ago and various African remains from more recent times (see Thoma 1984; Brauer and Rimbach 1990; Angel and Kelley 1986; Keita 1993). Studies of crania from southern predynastic Egypt, from the formative period (4000-3100 B.C.), show them usually to be more similar to the crania of ancient Nubians, Kushites, Saharans, or modern groups from the Horn of Africa than to those of dynastic northern Egyptians or ancient or modern southern Europeans."
(S. O. Y and A.J. Boyce, "The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians", in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 20-33)


"There is no archaeological, linguistic, or historical data which indicate a European or Asiatic invasion of, or migration to, the Nile Valley during First Dynasty times. Previous concepts about the origin of the First Dynasty Egyptians as being somehow external to the Nile Valley or less native are not supported by archaeology... In summary, the Abydos First Dynasty royal tomb contents reveal a notable craniometric heterogeneity. Southerners predominate. (Kieta, S. (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)"

"The predominant craniometric pattern in the Abydos royal tombs is 'southern' (tropical African variant), and this is consistent with what would be expected based on the literature and other results (Keita, 1990). This pattern is seen in both group and unknown analyses... Archaeology and history seem to provide the most parsimonious explanation for the variation in the royal tombs at Abydos.. Tomb design suggests the presence of northerners in the south in late Nakada times (Hoffman, 1988) when the unification probably took place. Delta names are attached to some of the tombs at Abydos (Gardiner, 1961; Yurco, 1990, personal communication), thus perhaps supporting Petrie's (1939) and Gardiner's contention that north-south marriages were undertaken to legitimize the hegemony of the south. The courtiers of northern elites would have accompanied them.

Given all of the above, it is probably not possible to view the Abydos royal tomb sample as representative of the general southern Upper Egyptian population of the time. Southern elites and/or their descendants eventually came to be buried in the north (Hoffman, 1988). Hence early Second Dynasty kings and Djoser (Dynasty 111) (Hayes, 1953) and his descendants are not buried in Abydos. Petrie (1939) states that the Third Dynasty, buried in the north, was of Sudanese origin, but southern Egypt is equally likely. This perhaps explains Harris and Weeks' (1973) suggested findings of southern morphologies in some Old Kingdom Giza remains, also verified in portraiture (Drake, 1987). Further study would be required to ascertain trends in the general population of both regions. The strong Sudanese affinity noted in the unknown analyses may reflect the Nubian interactions with upper Egypt in predynastic times prior to Egyptian unification (Williams, 1980,1986)..." (S. Keita (1992) Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 87:245-254)


"When the Elephantine results were added to a broader pooling of the physical characteristics drawn from a wide geographic region which includes Africa, the Mediterranean and the Near East quite strong affinities emerge between Elephantine and populations from Nubia, supporting a strong south-north cline. (Barry Kemp. (2006) Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. p. 54)


Afrocentric critic C. Loring Brace's 2005 study groups ancient Egyptian populations like the Naqada closer to Nubians and Somalis than European, Mediterranean or Middle Eastern populations. Brace's study shows that the closest European linking with Africans in Egypt or Nubia are Middle Stone Age Portugese and Neolithics, OLDER populations more closely resembling AFRICANS than modern Europeans. Early Neolithic populations, like the Nautifians, in what is now Israel, show sub-Saharan 'negroid' affinities. (Brace, et al. The questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European craniofacial form, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 3; 103(1): p. 242-247.)




"The Niger-Congo speakers, Congo, Dahomey and Haya, cluster closely with each other and a bit less closely with the Nubian sample, both the recent and the Bronze Age Nubians, and more remotely with the Naqada Bronze Age sample of Egypt, the modern Somalis, and the Arabic-speaking Fellaheen (farmers) of Israel. When those samples are separated and run in a single analysis as in Fig. 1, there clearly is a tie between them that is diluted the farther one gets from sub-Saharan Africa" (Brace, 2005)

"The surprise is that the Neolithic peoples of Europe and their Bronze Age successors are not closely related to the modern inhabitants, although the prehistoric/modern ties are somewhat more apparent in southern Europe. It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa... Interestingly enough, however, the small Natufian sample falls between the Niger-Congo group and the other samples used. Fig. 2 shows the plot produced by the first two canonical variates, but the same thing happens when canonical variates 1 and 3 (not shown here) are used. This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic), .. When canonical variates are plotted, neither sample ties in with Cro-Magnon as was once suggested. The data treated here support the idea that the Neolithic moved out of the Near East into the circum-Mediterranean areas and Europe by a process of demic diffusion but that subsequently the in situ residents of those areas, derived from the Late Pleistocene inhabitants, absorbed both the agricultural life way and the people who had brought it." (Brace, 2005)


Both skeletal/cranial and DNA studies by other authors confirm that some Neolithics did not derive from the Near East. They most likely resembled African populations. Hence comparisons using older European Neolithics versus Africans are comparisons with older prehistoric Europeans who looked more like Africans, than modern 'white' Europeans, as shown by Brace (2005), and Hanihara (1996) also, who states "Early West Asians looked like Africans."

"The absence of mtDNA haplogroup J in the ancient Portuguese Neolithic sample suggests that this population was not derived directly from Near Eastern farmers. The Mesolithic and Neolithic groups show genetic discontinuity implying colonisation at the Neolithic transition in Portugal." (CHANDLER, H.; SYKES, B.; ZILHÃO, J. (2005) - Using ancient DNA to examine genetic continuity at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Portugal, in ARIAS, P.; ONTAÑÓN, R.; GARCÍA-MONCÓ, C. (eds.) - «Actas del III Congreso del Neolítico en la Península Ibérica», Santander, Monografías del Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria 1, p. 781-786.)

"Early Europeans still resembled modern tropical peoples - some resemble modern Australian and Africans, more than modern Europeans.. Nor does the picture get any clearer when we move on to the Cro-Magnons, the presumed ancestors of modern Europeans. Some were more like present-day Australians or Africans, judged by objective anatomical observations." (Christopher Stringer, Robin McKie (1998). African Exodus. Macmillan, p. 162)


Early Europeans, as recently as 6,000-9000 years ago, looked somewhat like Africans in terms of retained 'tropical' characteristics. Cold adaptation was to bring about several physical changes over time from the initial Out of Africa migrations to Europe. Retained traces of 'tropical' characteristics, indicate a "large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans." (Holliday and Churchill 2003).

"Body proportions covary with climate, apparently as the result of climatic selection. Ontogenetic research and migrant studies have demonstrated that body proportions are largely genetically controlled and are under low selective rates; thus studies of body form can provide evidence for evolutionarily short-term dispersals and/or gene flow. Replacement predicts that the earliest modern Europeans will possess "tropical" body proportions (assuming Africa is the center of origin), while Regional Continuity permits only minor shifts in body shape, due to climatic change and/or improved cultural buffering. .. results refute the hypothesis of local continuity in Europe, and are consistent with an interpretation of elevated gene flow (and population dispersal?) from Africa, followed by subsequent climatic adaptation to colder conditions." (Holliday, Trenton (1997) Body proportions in Late Pleistocene Europe and modern human origins. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 423-447)


".. while the Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans have significantly higher (i.e., tropically-adapted) brachial and crural indices than do recent Europeans, they also have shorter (i.e., cold-adapted) limbs. The somewhat paradoxical retention of "tropical" indices in the context of more "cold-adapted" limb length is best explained as evidence for Replacement in the European Late Pleistocene, followed by gradual cold adaptation in glacial Europe." (Holliday, Trenton (1999) Brachial and crural indices of European Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans. Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 36, Issue 5, May 1999, Pages 549-566)


"Stature, body mass, and body proportions are evaluated for the Cheddar Man (Gough's Cave 1) skeleton. Like many of his Mesolithic contemporaries, Gough's Cave 1 evinces relatively short estimated stature (ca. 166.2 cm [5' 5']) and low body mass (ca. 66 kg [146 lbs]). In body shape, he is similar to recent Europeans for most proportional indices. He differs, however, from most recent Europeans in his high crural index and tibial length/trunk height indices. Thus, while Gough's Cave 1 is characterized by a total morphological pattern considered 'cold-adapted', these latter two traits may be interpreted as evidence of a large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans." (TRENTON W. HOLLIDAY a1 and STEVEN E. CHURCHILL. (2003). Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of body size and shape, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology, 58:37-44 Cambridge University Press)


More data showing early Europeans were tropically adapted types like Africans
"Body proportions are under strong climatic selection and evince remarkable stability within regional lineages. As such, they offer a viable and robust alternative to cranio-facial data in assessing hypothesised continuity and replacement with the transition to agro-pastoralism in central Europe. Humero-clavicular, brachial and crural indices in a large sample (n=75) of Linienbandkeramik (LBK), Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age specimens from the middle Elbe-Saale-Werra valley (MESV) were compared with Eurasian and African terminal Pleistocene, European Mesolithic and geographically disparate recent human specimens. Mesolithic Europeans display considerable variation in humero-clavicular and brachial indices yet none approach the extreme "hyper-polar" morphology of LBK humans from the MESV. In contrast, Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age peoples display elongated brachial and crural indices reminiscent of terminal Pleistocene and "tropically adapted" recent humans. These marked morphological changes likely reflect exogenous immigration during the terminal Fourth millennium cal BC. Population expansion and diffusion is a function of increased mobility and settlement dispersal concomitant with significant technological and subsistence changes in later Neolithic societies during the late fourth millennium cal BCE."
-- Gallagher et al. "Population continuity, demic diffusion and Neolithic origins in central-southern Germany: the evidence from body proportions." Homo. 2009;60(2):95-126. Epub 2009 Mar 4.




Early West Asians looked like Africans. Thus any ancient returnees or "backflow" from West Asia back to Africa is by people who look like Africans to begin with. Brace 2005 shows this as to Europeans. Hanihara 1996, demonstrates this below as to West Asians (i.e. 'Middle easterners'). Also see above.

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"Distance analysis and factor analysis, based on Q-mode correlation coefficients, were applied to 23 craniofacial measurements in 1,802 recent and prehistoric crania from major geographical areas of the Old World. The major findings are as follows: 1) Australians show closer similarities to African populations than to Melanesians. 2) Recent Europeans align with East Asians, and early West Asians resemble Africans. 3) The Asian population complex with regional difference between northern and southern members is manifest. 4) Clinal variations of craniofacial features can be detected in the Afro-European region on the one hand, and Australasian and East Asian region on the other hand. 5) The craniofacial variations of major geographical groups are not necessarily consistent with their geographical distribution pattern. This may be a sign that the evolutionary divergence in craniofacial shape among recent populations of different geographical areas is of a highly limited degree. Taking all of these into account, a single origin for anatomically modern humans is the most parsimonious interpretation of the craniofacial variations presented in this study."
(Hanihara T. Comparison of craniofacial features of major human groups. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1996 Mar;99(3):389-412.)



Older studies often show misclassification or exclusion of Nile Valley remains deemed 'negroid'. Although clearly of the "African" type, such remains were frequently relabeled "Mediterranean."

"Analyses of Egyptian crania are numerous. Vercoutter (1978) notes that ancient Egyptian crania have frequently all been lumped (implicitly or explicitly) as Mediterranean, although Negroid remains are recorded in substantial numbers by many workers... "Nutter (1958), using the Penrose statistic, demonstrated that Nagada I and Badari crania, both regarded as Negroid, were almost identical and that these were most similar to the Negroid Nubian series from Kerma studied by Collett (1933). [Collett, not accepting variability, excluded "clear negro" crania found in the Kerma series from her analysis, as did Morant (1925), implying that they were foreign..." (S. Keita (1990) Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 83:35-48)


Different features among Africans, particularly EAST AFRICANS, like narrow noses are not due to different "race" mixes but are part of the built-in physical diversity and variation of African peoples. Narrow noses appear in the oldest African populations for example, in Kenya's Gamble Cave complex. East Africans like Somalians or Kenyans do not need any outside race "mix" or migration to make them look the way they do.

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".. all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in a number of body proportions.. There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to the populations of Europe and western Asia.. In skin colour, the Tutsi are darker than the Hutu, in the reverse direction to that leading to the caucasoids. Lip thickness provides a similar case: on an average the lips of the Tutsi are thicker than those of the Hutu." [Jean Hiernaux, The People of Africa (1975), pgs 42-43, 62-63)

"In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the whole world range is covered in the sub-continent. Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the average nose widths covers 92 per cent of the world range: only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record. Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage....."
- Jean Hiernaux, "The People of Africa" 1975 p.53, 54

"Prehistoric human crania from Bromhead's Site, Willey's Kopje, Makalia Burial Site, Nakuru, and other localities in the Eastern Rift Valley of Kenya are reassessed using measurements and a multivariate statistical approach. Materials available for comparison include series of Bushman and Hottentot crania. South and East African Negroes, and Egyptians. Up to 34 cranial measurements taken on these series are utilized to construct three multiple discriminant frameworks, each of which can assign modern individuals to a correct group with considerable accuracy. When the prehistoric crania are classified with the help of these discriminants, results indicate that several of the skulls are best grouped with modern Negroes. This is especially clear in the case of individuals from Bromhead's Site, Willey's Kopje, and Nakuru, and the evidence hardly suggests post-Pleistocene domination of the Rift and surrounding territory by "Mediterranean" Caucasoids, as has been claimed. Recent linguistic and archaeological findings are also reviewed, and these seem to support application of the term Nilotic Negro to the early Rift populations." (Rightmire GP. New studies of post-Pleistocene human skeletal remains from the Rift Valley, Kenya. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1975 May;42(3):351-69. )

"....inhabitants of East Africa right on the equator have appreciably longer, narrower, and higher noses than people in the Congo at the same latitude. A former generation of anthropologists used to explain this paradox by invoking an invasion by an itinerant "white" population from the Mediterranean area, although this solution raised more problems than it solved since the East Africans in question include some of the blackest people in the world with characteristically wooly hair and a body build unique among the world's populations for its extreme linearity and height.... The relatively long noses of East Africa become explicable then when one realizes that much of the area is extremely dry for parts of the year." (C. Loring Brace, "Nonracial Approach Towards Human Diversity," cited in The Concept of Race, Edited by Ashley Montagu, The Free Press, 1980, pp. 135-136, 138)

"The .... excavations at Gogoshiis Qabe (Somalia) uncovered eleven virtually complete and articulated primary burials...Closest morphological affinities are with early Holocene skeletons from Lake Turkana, Kenya...and Lake Besaka, Ethiopia.."
(S. Brandt, (1986) The Upper Pleistocene and early Holocene prehistory of the Horn of Africa. Journal African Archaeological Review. Volume 4, Number 1, Pages 41-82 )

"The role of tall, linearly built populations in eastern Africa's prehistory has always been debated. Traditionally, they are viewed as late migrants into the area. But as there is better palaeoanthropological and linguistic documentation for the earlier presence of these populations than for any other group in eastern Africa, it is far more likely that they are indigenous eastern Africans. ... prehistoric linear populations show resemblances to both Upper Pleistocene eastern African fossils and present-day, non-Bantu-speaking groups in eastern Africa, with minor differences stemming from changes in overall robusticity of the dentition and skeleton. This suggests a longstanding tradition of linear populations in eastern Africa, contributing to the indigenous development of cultural and biological diversity from the Pleistocene up to the present."
(L . A . SCHEPARTZ, "Who were the later Pleistocene eastern Africans?" The African Archaeological Review, 6 (1988), pp. 57- 72)


Recent study shows ancient Egyptians physically more like tropically adapted Black Americans than White Americans, confirming older studies that show today's Egyptians in general are closer to US blacks than Northern Europeans, and Southern Europeans as well.


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"We also compare Egyptian body proportions to those of modern American Blacks and Whites... Long bone stature regression equations were then derived for each sex. Our results confirm that, although ancient Egyptians are closer in body proportion to modern American Blacks than they are to American Whites, proportions in Blacks and Egyptians are not identical... Intralimb indices are not significantly different between Egyptians and American Blacks. ..brachial indices are definitely more 'African'... There is no evidence for significant variation in proportions among temporal or social groupings; thus, the new formulae may be broadly applicable to ancient Egyptian remains." ("Stature estimation in ancient Egyptians: A new technique based on anatomical reconstruction of stature." Michelle H. Raxter, Christopher B. Ruff, Ayman Azab, Moushira Erfan, Muhammad Soliman, Aly El-Sawaf, (Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008, Jun;136(2):147-55


Africa is the most genetically diverse region in the world with the original man being from East Africa according to conservative scholars:

"Africa contains tremendous cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity, and has more than 2,000 distinct ethnic groups and languages.. Studies using mitochondrial (mt)DNA and nuclear DNA markers consistently indicate that Africa is the most genetically diverse region of the world." (Tishkoff SA, Williams SM., Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2002 Aug (8):611-21.)

" In other words, all non-Africans carry M168. Of course, Africans carrying the M168 mutation today are the descendants of the African subpopulation from which the migrants originated.... Thus, the Australian/Eurasian Adam (the ancestor of all non-Africans) was an East African Man." (Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis, Wiley-Blackwell: 2006, pg 108)





The Natufians, early inhabitants of the Sinai - Israel- Palestine area, and reputed pioneers of several Neolithic agricultural and technological developments, appear to have had "Negroid" affinities. Important Natufian sites include Mt. Carmel, Jericho and several others.


"Against this background of disease, movement and pedomorphic reduction of body size one can identify Negroid (Ethiopic or Bushmanoid?) traits of nose and prognathism appearing in Natufian latest hunters (McCown, 1939) and in Anatolian and Macedonian first farmers, probably from Nubia via the unknown predecesors of the Badarians and Tasians....". (Biological Relations of Egyptians and Eastern Mediterranean Populations during pre-Dynastic and Dynastic Times. J. Lawrence Angel. Journal of Human Evolutiom. 1972:1, 1, Pg 307)

"The Mushabians moved into Sinai from the Nile Delta, bringing North African lithic chipping tecniques."
("Pleistocene connections between Africa and Southwest Asia: an archaeological perspective. O. Bar-Yosef. African Archaeological Review. 5 (1987) Pg 29)

"It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa... Interestingly enough, however, the small Natufian sample falls between the Niger-Congo group and the other samples used... This placement suggests that there may have been a Sub-Saharan African element in the make-up of the Natufians (the putative ancestors of the subsequent Neolithic.." (C.L Brace, et. al. 2005. The Questionable contribution of the Neolithic...)


Early inhabitants of the general Natufian Israel area show limb proportions suited to tropical peoples- similar to sub-Saharan's homeland

"However, the real revelation came when Erik [Trinkhaus] inserted his data on the Cro-Magnons of Europe and the Skhul-Qafzeh skeletons from Israel into the equations. In this case, he got a figure of 85 percent for the shinbone-thighbone ratio. Not only were they unlike the Neanderthals, but these people actually fell at the other extreme in their readings on the limb thermometer. The predicted average temperature of origin for folk with an 85% shin-thigh fraction, indicating much longer extremities relative to trunk length - was about 20 degrees higher than the Neanderthals', suggesting a subtropical- if not tropical- homeland!" (African Exodus By Christopher Stringer, Robin McKie, McMillan: pg 79-83)


The 1993 'Clines and Clusters' study by C.L. Brace, et. al. has been used to minmize or downplay the realtionship between Egypt and its African neighbors. For example it:

--Created an "African" or "sub-Saharan" group, but excluded the Maghreb (including parts of the Sahara and Sahel), the Sudan and the Horn area (Ethiopia and Somalia) even though these latter two are BELOW the Sahara, and thus "sub-Saharan".

--Excluded the Badari, and Naqada I and II, key Egyptian groups, thus obscuring the Sudanic/Saharan character of numerous early samples, noted in several earlier analyses.
Ignored the formative range of the Saharans on Egypt, from the megaliths and cattle cults of the Nabta Playa to early mummification practices was ignored. T

--Excluded the Nubian population of the Badari and early Naqada period, including the rich remains of the well documented Qustul culture, near the present Sudanese-Egyptian border, again obscuring the close relationship between the two peoples.

--Created a vague "Bronze Age" grouping of Nubians, and a "modern" group of medieval samples, an era long after the dynasties and when Nubia had experienced more gene flow of that and the later Arab incursions, beginning in the 700s. Sampling thus ignored the early Badari/Naqada Nubians, jumped the 25th Dynasty era, and shifted to the medieval era in the age range of the Arab conquests.
Used Somalian samples that were modern, and thus within the range of recent gene flow (such as the Arab era), particularly on the coast.

--The result was a "comparison" finding that the ancient Egyptians had no relationship "at all" to other "sub-Saharan" peoples and were relatively distant from the Nubians and Somalians. peoples. This finding has been undermined by the subsequent research of several scholars, including limb proportion studies.

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"However, Brace et al. (1993) find that a series of upper Egyptian/Nubian epipalaeolithic crania affiliate by cluster analysis with groups they designate "sub-Saharan African" or just simply "African" (from which they incorrectly exclude the Maghreb, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa), whereas post-Badarian southern predynastic and a late dynastic northern series (called "E" or Gizeh) cluster together, and secondarily with Europeans. In the primary cluster with the Egyptian groups are also remains representing populations from the ancient Sudan and recent Somalia. Brace et al. (1993) seemingly interpret these results as indicating a population relationship from Scandinavia to the Horn of Africa, although the mechanism for this is not clearly stated; they also state that the Egyptians had no relationship with sub-Saharan Africans, a group that they nearly treat (incorrectly) as monolithic, although sometimes seemingly including Somalia, which directly undermines aspects of their claims. Sub-Saharan Africa does not define/delimit authentic Africanity." (S.O.Y. Keita. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data". Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)


Brace carefully excluded the Badari- a key native pre-dynastic group that led into the dynasties, and suggested possible European immigration to ancient Egypt. Keita put this to the test and found that the excluded group matched up more closely with Africans than Europeans.

"An examination of the distance hierarchies reveals the Badarian series to be more similar to the Teita in both analyses and always more similar to all of the African series than to the Norse and Berg groups (see Tables 3A & 3B and Figure 2). Essentially equal similarity is found with the Zalavar and Dogon series in the 11-variable analysis and with these and the Bushman in the one using 15 variables. The Badarian series clusters with the tropical African groups no matter which algorithm is employed (see Figures 3 and 4).. In none of them did the Badarian sample affiliate with the European series."(S.O.Y. Keita. Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)

More on the biased and skewed 'true negro' model

"Another example of the use of a socially constructed typological paradigm is in studies of the Nile Valley populations in which the concept of a biological African is restricted to those with a particular craniometric pattern (called in the past the 'True Negro' though no 'True White' was ever defined). Early Nubians, Egyptians, and even Somalians are viewed essentially as non-Africans, when in fact numerous lines of evidence and an evolutionary model make them a part of African biocultural/biogeographical history. The diversity of 'authentic' Africans is a reality. This diversity prevents biogeographical/biohistorical Africans from clustering into a single unit, no matter the kind of data." (The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence, S. O. Y. Keita, Rick A. Kittles, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 99, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 534-544)

"..presents all tropical Africans with narrower noses and faces as being related to or descended from external, ultimately non-African peoples. However, narrow-faced, narrow-nosed populations have long been resident in Saharo-tropical Africa... and their origin need not be sought elsewhere. These traits are also indigenous. The variability in tropical Africa is expectedly naturally high. Given their longstanding presence, narrow noses and faces cannot be deemed `non-African."(S.O.Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993), page 134 )

"Another example of the use of a socially constructed typological paradigm is in studies of the Nile Valley populations in which the concept of a biological African is restricted to those with a particular craniometric pattern (called in the past the 'True African' though no 'True White' was ever defined). Early Nubians, Egyptians, and even Somalians are viewed essentially as non-Africans, when in fact numerous lines of evidence and an evolutionary model make them a part of African biocultural/biogeographical history. The diversity of 'authentic' Africans is a reality. This diversity prevents biogeographical/biohistorical Africans from clustering into a single unit, no matter the kind of data."
---Keita and Kittles. "The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence." American Anthropologist 99, no. 3 (September 1997): 534-544

Hair and the 'true negro'
"Strouhal (1971) microscopically examined some hair which had been preserved on a Badrarian skull. The analysis was interpreted as suggesting a stereotypical tropical African-European hybrid (mulatto). However this hair is grossly no different from that of Fulani, some Kanuri, or Somali and does not require a gene flow explanation any more than curly hair in Greece necessarily does. Extremely "wooly" hair is not the only kind native to tropical Africa.." (S. O. Y. Keita. (1993). "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54)


Sampling bias and the true negro. In some Nile Valley research sampling bias persists such as drawing samples from the far north of Egypt, boscuring the region's genetic complexity. The stereotypical "true negro" type is still used to artifically separate related peoples and obscure a fuller, more accurate picture of African genetic diversity. Sampling bias appears both in DNA studies (noted by Keita) and in cranial studies (noted by Egyptologist Barry Kemp).

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Keita on DNA studies drawing samples from the far north, an area with more foreign settlement and gene flow

"However, in some of the studies, only individuals from northern Egypt are sampled, and this could theoretically give a false impression of Egyptian variability (contrast Lucotte and Mercier 2003a with Manni et al. 2002), because this region has received more foreign settlers (and is nearer the Near East). Possible sample bias should be integrated into the discussion of results." (S.O.Y. Keita, A.J. Boyce, "Interpreting Geographical Patterns of Y Chromosome Variation1," History in Africa 32 (2005) 221-246 )

Egyptologist Barry Kemp on the worldwide CRANID database that used northern samples near the Mediterranean as "representative" of the ancient Egyptians, and classifying them in a "European" direction, while excluding key historic sites further south..

"If, on the other hand, CRANID had used one of the Elephantine populations of the same period, the geographic association would be much more with the African groups to the south. It is dangerous to take one set of skeletons and use them to characterize the population of the whole of Egypt." (Barry Kemp, Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation, Routledge: 2005, p. 55)




Modern anthropology shows that the ancient Egyptians are well within the range of tropical Africa, contradicting older research in the 1990s that sought to deny any relationship. The anthropologist below, Nancy Lovell was recommended by Mary lefkowitz in Black Athena Revisted.


"There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa.. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell, " Egyptians, physical anthropology of," in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn A. Bard and Steven Blake Shubert, ( London and New York: Routledge, 1999) pp 328-332)


One of the oldest remains from Upper Egypt, shows strong sub-Saharan affinities, and early northern Egypt also shows sub-Saharan affinities through cultural traits- the 'Nubian complex' of technology and production.

"The morphometric affinities of the 33,000 year old skeleton from Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt are examined using multivariate statistical procedures.. The results indicate a strong association between some of the sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age (MSA) specimens, and the Nazlet Khater mandible. Furthermore, the results suggest that variability between African populations during the Neolithic and Protohistoric periods was more pronounced than the range of variability observed among recent African and Levantine populations." (PINHASI Ron, SEMAL Patrick (2000). The position of the Nazlet Khater specimen among prehistoric and modern African and Levantine populations. Journal of human evolution. 2000, vol. 39, no3, pp. 269-288 )

"..Middle Paleolithic and the transition to the Upper Paleolithic in the Lower Nile Valley are described... the Middle Paleolithic or, more appropriately, Middle Stone Age of this region starts with the arrival of new populations from sub-Saharan Africa, as evidenced by the nature of the Early to Middle Stone Age transition in stratified sites. Throughout the late Middle Pleistocene technological change occurs leading to the establishment of the Nubian Complex by the onset of the Upper Pleistocene." (Van Peer, Philip. Did middle stone age moderns of sub-Saharan African descent trigger an upper paleolithic revolution in the lower nile valley? Anthropologie. vol. 42, no3, pp. 215-225)


Dental studies provide evidence that the ancient Egyptian population maintained a high degree of continuity into the early, mid and late Dynastic periods. A key ancient group, the Badari, found to link to tropical African metrics, was excluded by such studies as Brace (1993) but dental research shows they link well with later pre and Dynastic populations. J. Irish's 2006 dental study examined the ancient Badarian people excluded by Brace and found that they were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like." His dental results show that:

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"Despite the difference, Gebel Ramlah [the Western Desert- Saharan region] is closest to predynastic and early dynastic samples from Abydos, Hierakonpolis, and Badari.."

the Badarians were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like"

"A comparison of Badari to the Naqada and Hierakonpolis samples .. contradicts the idea of a foreign origin for the Naqada (Petrie, 1939; Baumgartel, 1970)"

Evidence in favor of continuity is also demonstrated by comparison of individual samples. "Naqada and especially Hierakonpolis share close affinities with First-Second Dynasty Abydos.. These findings do not support the concept of a foreign dynastic ''race''"

"Thus, despite increasing foreign influence after the Second Intermediate Period, not only did Egyptian culture remain intact (Lloyd, 2000a), but the people themselves, as represented by the dental samples, appear biologically constant as well."

(Joel D. Irish (2006). Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Dental Affinities Among Neolithic Through Postdynastic Peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.)


Africans have the highest dental diversity
"Previous research by the first author revealed that, relative to other modern peoples, sub-Saharan Africans exhibit the highest frequencies of ancestral (or plesiomorphic) dental traits... The fact that sub-Saharan Africans express these apparently plesiomorphic characters, along with additional information on their affinity to other modern populations, evident intra-population heterogeneity, and a world-wide dental cline emanating from the sub-continent, provides further evidence that is consistent with an African origin model." (Irish JD, Guatelli-Steinberg D.(2003) Ancient teeth and modern human origins: an expanded comparison of African Plio-Pleistocene and recent world dental samples. Hum Evol. 2003 Aug;45(2):113-44. )





Ancient Egyptian civilization was indigenous with continuity among its peoples, not an influx of Middle Easterners, Europeans or other outsiders like Arabs until relatively late in history


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"Some have argued that various early Egyptians like the Badarians probably migrated northward from Nubia, while others see a wide-ranging movement of peoples across the breadth of the Sahara before the onset of desiccation. Whatever may be the origins of any particular people or civilization, however, it seems reasonably certain that the predynastic communities of the Nile valley were essentially indigenous in culture, drawing little inspiration from sources outside the continent during the several centuries directly preceding the onset of historical times..." (Robert July, Pre-Colonial Africa, 1975, p. 60-61)


"overall population continuity over the Predynastic and early Dynastic, and high levels of genetic heterogeneity, thereby suggesting that state formation occurred as a mainly indigenous process."
(Zakrzewski, S.R. (2007). "Population continuity or population change: Formation of the ancient Egyptian state". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132 (4): 501-509)

"the peoples of the steppes and grasslands to the immediate south of Egypt domesticated cattle, as early as 9000 to 8000 B.C. They included peoples from the Afroasiastic linguistic group and the second major African language family, Nilo-Saharan (Wendorf, Schild, Close 1984; Wendorf, et al. 1982). Thus the earliest domestic cattle may have come to Egypt from these southern neighbors, circa 6000 B.C., and not from the Middle East.[148] Pottery, another significant advance in material cultural may also have followed this pattern, initiatied "as early as 9000 B.C. by the Nilo-Saharans and Afrasians who lived to the south of Egypt. Soon thereafter, pots spread to Egyptian sites, almost 2,000 years before the first pottery was made in the Middle East."
(Christopher Ehret, "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture," in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 25-27)


X-ray Atlas of the Royal Mummies show some to be linked physically to Nubian types, and some documented royal officials are clearly "Negroid' like Pepi-seneb, an eminent scribe c. 2745 BC. Some royal New Kingdom mummies also show melanin frequencies consistent with Negroid origin.


"In terms of head shape, the XVIV and XX dynasties look more like the early Nubian skulls from the mesolithic with low vaults and sloping, curved foreheads.The XVII and XVIII dynasty skulls are shaped more like modern Nubians with globular skulls and high vaults."
(An X-ray atlas of the royal mummies. Edited by J.E. Harris and E.F. Wente. (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980.) Review: Michael R. Zimmerman, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 56, Issue 2 , (1981) Pages 207 - 208)

"While the Upper Nile Egyptians show phenotypic features that occur in higher frequencies in the Sudan and southward into East Africa (namely, facial prognathism, chamaerrhiny, and paedomorphic cranial architecture with specific modifications of the nasal aperature), these so-called Negroid features are not universal in the region of Thebes, Karnak, and Luxor."
(Kennedy, Kenneth A.R., T. Plummer, J. Chinment, "Identification of the Eminent Dead: Pepi, A Scribe of Egypt," In Katherine J. Reichs (ed.), Forensic Osteology, 1986.)


German Institute for Archaeology -excavation of the tombs of the nobles in Thebes-West, Upper Egypt. In several of the noble specimens:
"The basal epithelial cells were packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin."
(Determination of optimal rehydration, fixation and staining methods for histological and immunohistochemical analysis of mummified soft tissues", Biotechnic & Histochemistry 2005, 80(1): 7_/13)


Nubians were ethnically the closest people to the Egyptians. Conflict between the two were typical clashes between kingdoms without the simplistic "racial" models drawn by some 20th century writers.
Quote 1:
"The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)

- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Quote 2:

"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region.4 As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."

- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


Ancient Egyptian religion closer to the religion of African regions than to Mesopotamia, Europe or the Middle East

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Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508
"A large number of gods go back to prehistoric times. The images of a cow and star goddess (Hathor), the falcon (Horus), and the human-shaped figures of the fertility god (Min) can be traced back to that period. Some rites, such as the "running of the Apil-bull," the "hoeing of the ground," and other fertility and hunting rites (e.g., the hippopotamus hunt) presumably date from early times.. Connections with the religions in southwest Asia cannot be traced with certainty."
"It is doubtful whether Osiris can be regarded as equal to Tammuz or Adonis, or whether Hathor is related to the "Great Mother." There are closer relations with northeast African religions. The numerous animal cults (especially bovine cults and panther gods) and details of ritual dresses (animal tails, masks, grass aprons, etc) probably are of African origin. The kinship in particular shows some African elements, such as the king as the head ritualist (i.e., medicine man), the limitations and renewal of the reign (jubilees, regicide), and the position of the king's mother (a matriarchal element). Some of them can be found among the Ethiopians in Napata and Meroe, others among the Prenilotic tribes (Shilluk)."
(Encyclopedia Britannica 1984 ed. Macropedia Article, Vol 6: "Egyptian Religion" , pg 506-508)


Egyptian dynastic civilization based from the 'darker' south (Upper Egypt) not the north (Lower Egypt)

QUOTE(s):
"While not attempting to underestimate the contribution that Deltaic political and religious institutions made to those of a united Egypt, many Egyptologists now discount the idea that a united prehistoric kingdom of Lower Egypt ever existed."


"While communities such as Ma'adi appear to have played an important role in entrepots through which goods and ideas form south-west Asia filtered into the Nile Valley in later prehistoric times, the main cultural and political tradition that gave rise to the cultural pattern of Early Dynastic Egypt is to be found not in the north but in the south.":
The Cambridge History of Africa: Volume 1, From the Earliest Times to c. 500 BC, (Cambridge University Press: 1982), Edited by J. Desmond Clark pp. 500-509

"..the early cultures of Merimde, the Fayum, Badari Naqada I and II are essentially African and early African social customs and religious beliefs were the root and foundation of the ancient Egyptian way of life." (Source: Shaw, Thurston (1976) Changes in African Archaeology in the Last Forty Years in African Studies since 1945. p. 156-68. London.)




Egyptian state founded from the south, and indigenous in character. Egyptians dominated Palestine in some eras.

"What is truly unique about this state is the integration of rule over an extensive geographic region, in contrast to other contemporaneous Near Easter polities in Nubia, Mesopotamia, Palestine and the Levant. Present evidence suggests that the state which emerged by the First Dynasty had its roots in the Nagada culture of Upper Egypt, where grave types, pottery and artifacts demonstrate an evolution of form from the Predynastic to the First Dynasty, This cannot be demonstrated for the material culture of Lower Egypt, which was eventually displaced by that which originated in Upper Egypt. Hierarchical society with much social and economic differentiation, as symbolized in the Nagada II cemeteries of Upper Egypt, does not seem to have been present, then, in Lower Egypt, a fact which supports an Upper Egyptian origin for the unified state. Thus archaeological evidence cannot support earlier theories that the founders of Egyptian civilization were an invading Dynastic race from the east.."

"Egyptian contact in the 4th millennium B.C. with SW Asia is undeniable, but the effect of this contact on state formation is Egypt is less clear... The unified state which emerged in Egypt in the 3rd millenium B.C. however, was unlike the polities in Mesopotamia, the Levant, northern Syria, or Early Bronze Age Palestine- in sociopolitical organization, material culture, and belief system. There was undoubtedly heightened commercial contact with SW Asia in the 4th millennium B.C., but the Early Dynastic state which emerged in Egypt is unique and religious in character."
(Bard, Kathryn A. 1994 The Egyptian Predynastic: A Review of the Evidence. Journal of Field Archaeology 21(3):265-288.)

"From Petrie onwards, it was regularly suggested that despite the evidence of Predynastic cultures, Egyptian civilization of the 1st Dynasty appeared suddenly and must therefore have been introduced by an invading foreign 'race'. Since the 1970s however, excavations at Abydos and Hierakonpolis have clearly demonstrated the indigenous, Upper Egyptian roots of early civilization in Egypt.

Contact between northern Egypt and Palestine was overland, as evidence in northern Sinai demonstrates.. Israeli archealogists suggest that this evidence represents a commercial network established and controlled by the Egyptians as early as EBA Ia, and that this network was a major factor in the rise of the urban settlements found later in Palestine EBA II. Naomi Porat's technological study of ceramics from EBA sites in southern Palestine clearly demonstrates that in EBA Ib strata many of the pottery vessels used for food preparation were probably manufactured by Egyptian potters using Egyptian technology but local Palestinian clays. In EBA Ib strata there are also many storage jars made from Nile silt and marl wares, which must have been imported from Egypt. Not only did the Egyptians establish camps and way stations in northern Sinai, but the ceramic evidence also suggests that they established a highly organized network of settlements in southern Palestine where an Egyptian population was in residence."
(Ian Shaw ed. (2003) The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt By Ian Shaw. Oxford University Press, page 40-63)



Much older scholarship shows cultural similarities between ancient Egypt and the rest of Africa, contradicting claims of Middle Eastern inspiration.

--Specific central African tool designs found at the well known Naqada, Badari and Fayum archaeological sites in Egypt (de Heinzelin 1962, Arkell and Ucko, 1956 et al). Shaw (1976) states that "the early cultures of Merimde, the Fayum, Badari Naqada I and II are essentially African and early African social customs and religious beliefs were the root and foundation of the ancient Egyptian way of life."
Pottery evidence first seen in the Saharan Highlands then spreading to the Nile Valley (Flight 1973).
Art motifs of Saharan rock paintings showing similarities to those in pharaonic art. A number of scholars suggest that these earlier artistic styles influenced later pharaonic art via Saharans leaving drier areas and moving into the Nile Valley taking their art styles with them (Mori 1964, Blanc 1964, et al)

--Earlier pioneering mummification outside Egypt. The oldest mummy in Africa is of a black Saharan child (Donadoni 1964, Blanc 1964) Frankfort (1956) suggests that it is thus possible to understand the pharaonic worldview by reference to the religious beliefs of these earlier African precursors. Attempts to suggest the root of such practices are due to Caucasoid civilizers from elsewhere are thus contradicted by the data on the ground.

--Several cultural practices of Egypt show strong similarities to an African totemic clan base. Childe (1969, 1978), Aldred (1978) and Strouhal (1971) demonstrate linkages with several African practices such as divine kingship and the king as divine rainmaker.

--Physical similarities of the early Nile valley populations with that of tropical Africans. Such connections are demonstrated in the work of numerous scholars such as Thompson and Randall Mclver 1905, Falkenburger 1947, and Strouhal 1971. The distance diagrams of Mukherjee, Rao and Trevor (1955) place the ancient Badarians genetically near 'black' tribes such as the Ashanti and the Taita. See also the "Issues of lumping under Mediterranean clusters" section above for similar older analyses.

--Serological (blood) evidence of genetic linkages. Paoli 1972 for example found a significant resemblance between ABO frequencies of dynastic Egyptians and the black northern Haratin who are held to be the probable descendants of the original Saharans (Hiernaux, 1975).

--Language similarities which include several hundred roots ascribable to African elements (UNESCO 1974)

--Ancient Egyptian origin stories ascribing origins of the gods and their ancestors to African locations to the south and west of Egypt (Davidson 1959)

--Advanced state building and political unity in Nubia, including writing, administrative apparatus and insignia some 300 years before dynastic Egypt, and the long demonstrated interchange between Nubia and Egypt (Williams 1980)

--Newer studies (Wendorf 2001, Wilkinson 1999, et al.) confirm these older analyses. Excavations from Nabta Playa, located about 100km west of Abu Simbel for example, suggest that the Neolithic inhabitants of the region were migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, based on cultural similarities and social complexity which is thought to be reflective of Egypt's Old Kingdom

--Other scholars (Wilkinson 1999) present similar material and cultural evidence- including similarities between predynastic Egypt and traditional African cattle-culture, typical of Southern Sudanese and East African pastoralists of today, and various cultural and artistic data such as iconography on rock art found in both Egypt and in the Sudan.



Assorted demic diffusion theories holding a mass influx of Europeans or Middle Easterners to Africa bringing cattle and agriculture to the natives is not supported by credible evidence. Indigenous development is most likely.

"Furthermore, the archaeology of northern Africa DOES NOT SUPPORT demic diffusion of farming from the Near East. The evidence presented by Wetterstrom indicates that early African farmers in the Fayum initially INCORPORATED Near Eastern domesticates INTO an INDIGENOUS foraging strategy, and only OVER TIME developed a dependence on horticulture. This is inconsistent with in-migrating farming settlers, who would have brought a more ABRUPT change in subsistence strategy. "The same archaeological pattern occurs west of Egypt, where domestic animals and, later, grains were GRADUALLY adopted after 8000 yr B.P. into the established pre-agricultural Capsian culture, present across the northern Sahara since 10,000 yr B.P. From this continuity, it has been argued that the pre-food-production Capsian peoples spoke languages ancestral to the Berber and/or Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, placing the proto-Afroasiatic period distinctly before 10,000 yr B.P."

Source: The Origins of Afroasiatic
Christopher Ehret, S. O. Y. Keita, Paul Newman;, and Peter Bellwood
Science 3 December 2004: Vol. 306. no. 5702, p. 1680


When claims of European or 'Mediterranean' migrant influx to ancient Egypt before the Hyskos/Greek/Roman era are analyzed research data conclusively debunks them.
Quote from "Early Nile Valley Farmers From El-Badari"



Male Badarian crania were analyzed using the generalized distance of Mahalanobis in a comparative analysis with other African and European series from the Howells?s database. The study was carried out to examine the affinities of the Badarians to evaluate, in preliminary fashion, a demic diffusion hypothesis that postulates that horticulture and the Afroasiatic language family were brought ultimately from southern Europe. (The assumption was made that the southern Europeans would be more similar to the central and northern Europeans than to any indigenous African populations.) The Badarians show a greater affinity to indigenous Africans while not being identical. This suggests that the Badarians were more affiliated with local and an indigenous African population than with Europeans.
(S.O.Y. Keita. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or "European" Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data". Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)







The Sahara and the Sudan seem to have provided a major source for the genesis of Egyptian civilization contributing many of its unique elements.

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"a critical factor in the rise of social complexity and the subsequent emergence of the Egyptian state in Upper Egypt (Hoffman 1979; Hassan 1988). If so, Egypt owes a major debt to those early pastoral groups in the Sahara; they may have provided Egypt with many of those features that still distinguish it from its neighbors to the east."
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 17, 97-123 (1998), "Nabta Playa and Its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory," Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild.

"Over the last two decades, numerous contemporary (Khartoum Neolithic) sites and cemeteries have been excavated in the Central Sudan.. The most striking point to emerge is the overall similarity of early neolithic developments inhabitation, exchange, material culture and mortuary customs in the Khartoum region to those underway at the same time in the Egyptian Nile Valley, far to the north." (Wengrow, David (2003) "Landscapes of Knowledge, Idioms of Power: The African Foundations of Ancient Egyptian Civilization Reconsidered," in Ancient Egypt in Africa, David O'Connor and Andrew Reid, eds. Ancient Egypt in Africa. London: University College London Press, 2003, pp. 119-137)


"Sub-Saharan" genetic elements found as far afield as the Turkish and Greek regions

F. X. Ricaut, M. Waelkens. (2008). Cranial Discrete Traits in a Byzantine Population and Eastern Mediterranean Population Movements Human Biology - Volume 80, Number 5, October 2008, pp. 535-564

"A late Pleistocene-early Holocene northward migration (from Africa to the Levant and to Anatolia) of these populations has been hypothesized from skeletal data (Angel 1972, 1973; Brace 2005) and from archaeological data, as indicated by the probable Nile Valley origin of the "Mesolithic" (epi-Paleolithic) Mushabi culture found in the Levant (Bar Yosef 1987). This migration finds some support in the presence in Mediterranean populations (Sicily, Greece, southern Turkey, etc.; Patrinos et al.; Schiliro et al. 1990) of the Benin sickle cell haplotype. This haplotype originated in West Africa and is probably associated with the spread of malaria to southern Europe through an eastern Mediterranean route (Salares et al. 2004) following the expansion of both human and mosquito populations brought about by the advent of the Neolithic transition (Hume et al 2003; Joy et al. 2003; Rich et al 1998). This northward migration of northeastern African populations carrying sub-Saharan biological elements is concordant with the morphological homogeneity of the Natufian populations (Bocquentin 2003), which present morphological affinity with sub-Saharan populations (Angel 1972; Brace et al. 2005). In addition, the Neolithic revolution was assumed to arise in the late Pleistocene Natufians and subsequently spread into Anatolia and Europe (Bar-Yosef 2002), and the first Anatolian farmers, Neolithic to Bronze Age Mediterraneans and to some degree other Neolithic-Bronze Age Europeans, show morphological affinities with the Natufians (and indirectly with sub-Saharan populations; Angel 1972; Brace et al 2005), in concordance with a process of demic diffusion accompanying the extension of the Neolithic revolution (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1994)."

"Following the numerous interactions among eastern Mediterranean and Levantine populations and regions, caused by the introduction of agriculture from the Levant into Anatolia and southeastern Europe, there was, beginning in the Bronze Age, a period of increasing interactions in the eastern Mediterranean, mainly during the Greek, Roman, and Islamic periods. These interactions resulted in the development of trading networks, military campaigns, and settler colonization. Major changes took place during this period, which may have accentuated or diluted the sub-Saharan components of earlier Anatolian populations. The second option seems more likely, because even though the population from Sagalassos territory was interacting with northeastern African and Levantine populations [trade relationships with Egypt (Arndt et al. 2003), involvement of thousands of mercenaries from Pisidia (Sagalassos region) in the war around 300 B.C. between the Ptolemaic kingdom (centered in Egypt) and the Seleucid kingdom (Syria/Mesopotamia/Anatolia), etc.], the major cultural and population interactions involving the Anatolian populations since the Bronze Age occurred with the Mediterranean populations form southeastern Europe, as suggested from historical and genetic data."

""In this context it is likely that Bronze Age events may have facilitated the southward diffusion of populations carrying northern and central European biological elements and may have contributed to some degree of admixture between northern and central Europeans and Anatolians, and on a larger scale, between northeastern Mediterraneans and Anatolians. Even if we do not know which populations were involved, historical and archaeological data suggest, for instance, the 2nd millennium B.C. Minoan and later Mycenaean occupation of Anatolian coast, the arrival in Anatolia in the early 1st millennium B.C. of the Phrygians coming from Thrace, and later the arrival of settlers from Macedonia in Pisidia and in the Sagalassos territory (under Seleucid rule). The coming of the Dorians from Northern Greece and central Europe (the Dorians are claimed to be one of the main groups at the origin of the ancient Greeks) may have also brought northern and central European biological elements into southern populations. Indeed, the Dorians may have migrated southward to the Peloponnese, across the southern Aegean and Create, and later reached Asia Minor."


Ancient Egyptian language is part of the Afrasian or Afroasiatic group which has its origins in Africa, and together with other archaeological evidence firmly makes it an African culture. Acording to mainstream research:

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"Ancient Egyptian civilization was, in ways and to an extent usually not recognized, fundamentally African. The evidence of both language and culture reveals these African roots. The origins of Egyptian ethnicity lay in the areas south of Egypt. The ancient Egyptian language belonged to the Afrasian family (also called Afroasiatic or, formerly, Hamito-Semitic). The speakers of the earliest Afrasian languages, according to recent studies, were a set of peoples whose lands between 15,000 and 13,000 B.C. stretched from Nubia in the west to far northern Somalia in the east. They supported themselves by gathering wild grains. The first elements of Egyptian culture were laid down two thousand years later, between 12,000 and 10,000 B.C., when some of these Afrasian communities expanded northward into Egypt, bringing with them a language directly ancestral to ancient Egyptian. They also introduced to Egypt the idea of using wild grains as food." (Christopher Ehret (1996) "Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture." In Egypt in Africa Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press)


"Ancient Egypt belongs to a language group known as 'Afroasiatic' (formerly called Hamito-Semitic) and its closest relatives are other north-east African languages from Somalia to Chad. Egypt's cultural features, both material and ideological and particularly in the earliest phases, show clear connections with that same broad area. In sum, ancient Egypt was an African culture, developed by African peoples, who had wide ranging contacts in north Africa and western Asia." (Morkot, Robert (2005) The Egyptians: An Introduction. Routledge. p. 10)

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ANCIENT EGYPTIANS AND HAIR
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Mummification practices and dyeing of hair
Hair studies of mummies note that color is often influenced by environmental factors at burial sites. Brothwell and Spearman (ref in Fletcher's works-1963) point out that reddish-brown ancient color hair is usually the result of partial oxidation of the melanin pigment. Other causes of hair color "blonding" involve bleaching, caused by the alkaline in the mummification process. Color also varies due to the Egyptian practice of dyeing hair with henna. Other samples show individuals lightening the hair using vegetable colorants. Thus variations in hair color among mummies do not necessarily suggest the presence of blond or red-haired Europeans or Near Easterners flitting about Egypt before being mummified, but the influence of environmental factors.
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Egyptian practice of putting locks of hair in mummy wrappings.

Racial analysis is also made problematic by the Egyptian practice of burying hair, in many "votive or funerary deposits buried separately from the body, a practice found from Predynastic to Roman times despite its frequent omission from excavation reports." (Fletcher 2002) In examining hair samples Fletcher (2004) notes that care is needed to determine what is natural scalp hair, versus hair from a wig, versus hair extensions to natural locks. Tracking the exact source of hair is also critical since the Egyptians were known to have placed locks of hair from different sources among mummy wrappings. (The Search for Nefertiti, By Joann Fletcher, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 93-94, 96; Joann Fletcher, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HAIR AND WIGS, THE OSTRACON THE JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2; SUMMER 2002)
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Hair for wigs often obtained through trade not mass waves of "Caucasoid" migrants.

The use of wigs made of varying hair also complicates attempts at 'racial' analysis. Fletcher (2002) shows that many Egyptian wigs have been found with what is defined as straighter 'cynotrichous' hair. This however is hardly a marker of massive European or Near Eastern presence or admixture. Fletcher notes that the Egyptians often eschewed their own personal hair, shaving carefully and using wigs widely. The hair for these wigs was often obtained through trade. Indeed, "hair itself being a valuable commodity ranked alongside gold and incense in account lists from the town of Kahun." Egyptian trading links with other regions is well known, and a prized commodity like straighter 'cynotrichous' hair could have been easily obtained via the Sahara, Levant, the Maghreb, Mediterranean contacts, or even the hair of Asiatic war captives or casulaties from Egypt's numerous conflicts.
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Red-headed Ramses- routine for genetic variability in Africa not "whiteness"

Rameses came along comparatively late in Egyptian history, when outsiders toEgypt like the Hyskos were increasing in the region. Detailed microscopic analysis during the 1980s (Balout 1985) identified some of the hair of Egyptian Pharoah Rameses II as being a yellowish-red. Such a finding should not be surprising given the wide range of physical variability in Africa, the most genetically diverse region on earth, out of which flowed other population groups. Indeed, blondism and various other hair shades are not unknown in East Africa or Nubia, particularly in children, nor are such hair color variants uncommon in dark-haired or dark skinned populations like the Australians. (Hrdy 1978) Given the range of genetic variability in Africa, a red-haired Rameses is hardly unusual. Rameses' reign, in the 19th Dynasty, came over 1,500 years after the Egyptian state had been established, and after the Hyskos interlude. Such latecomers to Egypt, like the Hyskos, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs etc would add their own genetic strands to the nation's mix. Whatever the blend of genes that occurred with Rameses, his hair offers little supposed "proof" of a "white" or "Nordic" Egypt. If anything, X-rays of the royal mummies by mainstream scientists show that the Egyptians pharoahs and other royals had several uncomfortable 'Negroid' leanings. (http://www.geocities.com/nilevalleypeoples/xraymummies1.htm)
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Red hair can be readily produced by dark-skinned populations- just check out Australia and pheomelanin

The finding of Rameses "red" hair also deserves further scrutiny. The analysis found evidence of dyeing to make the hair yellowish-red, but some elements were untouched by the dye. These elements of yellowish-red hair in Balout's study, were established on the basis of the presence of pheomelanin, a red-brown polymeric pigment in the skin and hair of humans. However, pheomelanin can also be found in persons with dark brown or even black hair as well, which gives it a reddish hue. Most natural melanins contain sulfur, which is typically associated with pheomelanin. In scientific tests of melanin, black hair contained as much as 5% sulfur, 3% lower than the 8.8% found in Irish red hair, but exceeding the 2.3% found in Scandinavian blond hair. (Jolles, et al. 1996) Thus the yellowish-red hair discovered on Rameses is well within the range of human variation for dark haired people, whatever the exact gene combination that led to the condition.

As noted above, such variation began with ancient African populations. Most red hair is found in northern and western Europe, especially in the British Isles, and even then it appears in minor frequencies in Europe- some 4% of the population. It is unlikely such populations had any major contact or influence in the ancient Nile Valley. The analysis on Rameses also did not show classic "European" red hair but hair of a light red to yellowish tinge. Black haired or dark-skinned populations are quite capable of producing such yellowish-red color variants on their own, as can be seen in today's east and northeast Africa (see child's photo above). Nor is such color variation unusual to Africa. Native dark-skinned populations in Australia, routinely produce people witn blond or reddis hair. .

The analysis also found Rames' hair to be cymotrich or wavy, again a characteristic quite within the range of overall African or Nile valley physical and genetic diversity. A "pure" Nordic type of straight hair was thus not established for Rameses. Hence the notion of white Europeans or red-headed Caucasoids from other areas flowing into ancient Egypt to add hair variation.

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REFERENCES

Joann Fletcher, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HAIR AND WIGS, THE OSTRACON THE JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN STUDY SOCIETY, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2; SUMMER 2002

The Search for Nefertiti, By Joann Fletcher, HarperCollins, 2004, p. 93-94, 96

Brothwell. D., and R. Spearman 1963 The hair of earlier peoples. In: Science in Archaeology. D. Brothwell and E. Higgs, eds. Thames and Hudeon, London, p. 427-436

Daniel Hrdy 1978- Analysis of Hair Samples of Mummies from Semna South, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (1978) 49: 277-262)

Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 83:35-48 (1990


Hair Styles and History, by Cyril Aldred, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 15, No. 6 (Feb., 1957), pp. 141-147)

L. Balout, C. Roubet and C. Desroches-Noblecourt, and was titled La Momie de Ramsès II: Contribution Scientifique à l'Égyptologie (1985).

Formation and Structure of Human Hair: Biology and Structure, By Pierre Jollès, Helmut Zahn, H. Höcker, Birkhäuser, 1996, pp. 200-225


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NUBIA AND EGYPT

Close relationships between Nubians and Egyptians in various eras, contradicting "racial war" claims


"The ancient Egyptians referred to a region, located south of the third cataract the Nile River, in which Nubians dwelt as Kush.. Within such context, this phrase is not a racial slur. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt there were numerous, well documented instances that celebrate Nubian-Egyptian marriages. A study of these documents, particularly those dated to both the Egyptian New Kingdom (after 1550 B.C.E.) and to Dynasty XXV and early Dynasty XXVI (about 720-640 BCE), reveals that neither spouse nor any of the children of such unions suffered discrimination at the hands of the ancient Egyptians. Indeed such marriages were never an obstacle to social, economic, or political status, provided the individuals concerned conformed to generally accepted Egyptian social standards. Furthermore, at times, certain Nubian practices, such as tattooing for women, and the unisex fashion of wearing earrings, were wholeheartedly embraced by the ancient Egyptians." (Bianchi, 2004: p. 4)


'It is an extremely difficult task to attempt to describe the Nubians during the course of Egypt's New Kingdom, because their presence appears to have virtually evaporated from the archaeological record.. The result has been described as a wholesale Nubian assimilation into Egyptian society. This assimilation was so complete that it masked all Nubian ethnic identities insofar as archaeological remains are concerned beneath the impenetrable veneer of Egypt's material; culture.. In the Kushite Period, when Nubians ruled as Pharaohs in their own right, the material culture of Dynasty XXV (about 750-655 B.C.E.) was decidedly Egyptian in character.. Nubia's entire landscape up to the region of the Third Cataract was dotted with temples indistinguishable in style and decoration from contemporary temples erected in Egypt. The same observation obtains for the smaller number of typically Egyptian tombs in which these elite Nubian princes were interred. (Bianchi, 2004, p. 99-100)


- Robert Bianchi ( 2004). Daily Life of the Nubians. Greenwood Publishing Group


Integration of Nubian and egyptian elites in some eras


"the XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region.4 As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."

- (F. J. Yurco, 'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?', Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989)


using the same methods of those who see "racial wars" between Nubians and Egyptians, one can also see "racial" wars against "white" west Asians who were often conquered or put to tribute by the ancient Egyptians. applying a consistency using the same methods:


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RAMESES II. SLAYING THE ASIATICS BEFORE RA, THE TUTELARY DEITY OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABÛ-SIMBEL..


THE DISCOURSE OF AMEN-RA,
LORD OF THRONES.


Thou hast struck off the heads of the Asiatics, and their children cannot escape from thee. Every land illuminated by thy diadem is encircled by thy might; and in all the zone of the heavens there is not a rebel to rise up against thee. The enemy bring in their tribute on their backs, prostrating themselves before thee, their limbs trembling and their hearts burned up within them."

Campaign against "white" Mittani in parts of Lebanon:

"He is a king valiant ... Naharin which its lord had deserted out of fear ... I hacked up its towns and villages and I set fire to them ... I carried off their inhabitants ... also their herds of cattle ... I felled all their plantations and their fruit trees ...I had many vessels ... built on the mountains of God's Land in the neighborhood of the Lady of Byblos ... then on that mountain of Naharin, my Majesty erected my stela, carved out of the mountain on the western side of the Euphrates.."


Conquest against and tribute from "white" Palestine:

"Tribute of the princes of Retenu, who came to do obeisance ... to the souls of his majesty... Now every harbor at which his majesty arrived was supplied with loaves and with assorted loaves, with oil, incense, wine, f[ruit] ---- abundant were they beyond everything ...


Tribute from 'white' Lebanon:

The chieftains, lord of Lebanon, construct the royal ships in order that people may sail south in them to bring all the marvels of the "Garden" to the palace. LPH. ... The chieftains of Retjenu (Retenu) who drag the flagpoles by means of oxen to the shore, it is they who come with their dues to the place where his majesty is, to the Residence in ...... bearing all the fine products brought as marvels of the south and being taxed for tribute annually as (with) all bondsmen of his Majesty."


Operations against more 'white' 'Troglodytes':


"Then my Majesty made them take their oaths of allegiance as follows: never again shall we do anything evil against Menkheperre (another name for Thutmose III), may he live forever ...
Then my Majesty had them set free on the road to their cities*). They went off on donkeys for I had seized their chariotry. I captured their inhabitants for Egypt and their property likewise." [W. Helck transl. by B. Cummings (1982), `Urkunden der 18. Dynastie', `Egyptian Historical Records of the Later 18th Dynasty']

"His majesty proceeded northward, to overthrow the Asiatics (Mntyw-Stt). His majesty arrived at a district, Sekmem (Skmm) was its name. His majesty led the good way in proceeding to the palace of `Life, Prosperity, and Health (L.P.H.,' when Sekmen had fallen, together with Retenu (Rtnw) the wretched, while I was acting as rearguard." [Breasted, `Records', Vol. I, Sec. 680]
Time of Seti the Great - Presentation of Syrian Prisoners and Precious Vessels to Amon

"Smiting the Troglodytes, beating down the Asiatics (Mn·t·yw), making his boundary as far as the `Horns of the Earth', as far as the marshes of Naharin (N-h-r-n)." [Ibid., Vol. III, Sec. 118;]

"Slaying of the Asiatic Troglodytes (Ynw-Mn·t·yw [Menate, Manasseh]), all inaccessible countries, all lands, the Fenkhu of the marshes of Asia, the Great Bend of the sea (w'd-wr)."


Booty seized from "white" Caananites:

".... 340 living prisoners; 83 hands; 2,401 mares; 191 foals; 6 stallions; ... young ...; a chariot, wrought with gold, (its) pole of gold, belonging to the chief of `M-k-ty' (as the land around Jerusalem was called); .... 892 chariots of his wretched army; total, 924 (chariots); a beautiful suit of bronze armor, belonging to the chief of Jerusalem; .... 200 suits of armor, belonging to his wretched army; 502 bows; 7 poles of (mry) wood, wrought with silver, belonging to the tent of that foe. Behold, the army of his majesty took ...., 297 ...., 1,929 large cattle, 2,000 small cattle, 20500 white small cattle." [JBRE, `Records', Vol. II, Sec. 435; See also the following sections.]


Tribute from "white" Assur/Assyria
"The tribute of the chief of Assur (Ys-sw-r): genuine lapis lazuli, a large block, making 20 deben, 9 kidet; genuine lapis lazuli, 2 blocks; total, 3; and pieces, [making] 30 deben; total, 50 deben and 9 kidet; fine lapis lazuli from Babylon (Bb-r); vessels of Assur of hrrt- stone in colors, ---- very many." "Tribute of the chief of Assur: horses ---. A ---- of skin of the M-h-w as the [protection] of a chariot, of the finest of --- wood; 190(+x) wagons --- --- wood, nhb wood, 343 pieces, carob wood, 50 pieces; nby and k'nk wood, 206 pieces; olive oil, ------.." [BREASTED, Vol. II, Sec. 446, 449]


"Whites" put to slave labor in Egypt.

from Project Guttenberg full text of:
A HISTORY OF EGYPT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PERSIAN CONQUEST
BY JAMES HENRY BREASTED,
II, 760-1, 773. 2 II, 761.

Inscription
"the Asiatics of all countries came with bowed head, doing obeisance to the fame of his majesty."


book text:

"Thutmose's war-galleys moored in the harbour of the town; but at this time not merely the iceaUh of Asia was unloaded from the ships; the Asiatics themselves, bound one to another in long lines, were led down the gang planks to begin a life of slave- labour for the Pharaoh (Fig. 119). They wore long matted beards, an abomination to the Egyptians ; their hair hung in heavy black masses upon their shoulders, and they were clad in gaily coloured woolen stuffs, such as the Egyptian, spotless in his white linen robe, would never put on his body.

Their arms were pinioned behind them at the elbows or crossed over their heads and lashed together ; or, again, their hands were thrust through odd pointed ovals of wood, which served as hand-cuffs. The women carried their children slung in a fold of the mantle over their shoulders. With their strange speech and uncouth postures the poor wretches were the subject of jibe and merriment on the part of the multitude ; while the artists of the time could never forbear caricaturing them. Many of them found their way into the houses of the Pharaoh's favourites, and his generals were liberally rewarded with gifts of such slaves; but the larger number were immediately employed on the temple estates, the Pharaoh's domains, or in the construction of his great monuments and buildings. [/QB][/QUOTE]
 
Posted by Grumman (Member # 14051) on :
 
Djehuti and his flapdoodle:
''And it still does not change the FACT that whites are aboriginal to Europe where their white skin originated!''

...but they were brownskinned until 40,000 years ago...no, make that 6,000 to 12,000 thousand years ago...maybe it's 5,999 years ago...or maybe it was 11,999 years ago; somewhere in between? Woe is me, where can I find an accurate mutation in the alleles.

And if the whites are aboriginal to Europe and their white skin originated there then doesn't that make them...well, original?
 
Posted by zarahan (Member # 15718) on :
 
According to Brace 2005, Hanihara 1996, Holiday 2003 et al and a few other quoted above, the early Euros looked like tropically adapted Africans. The incoming Neolithic according to Brace et. al. did not look like modern day white Europeans. Quote:
"The surprise is that the Neolithic peoples of Europe and their Bronze Age successors are not closely related to the modern inhabitants..

Hanihara ran his data for Middle Easterners- time period- from Bronze-Iron age to Islamic period through Achaemenian. This is comparatively recent, not 40,000 years ago. Conclusion- he found the early Middle Easterners looking like Africans.

The data from both Brace and Hanihara are this not something as far back as 40kya. So the terminology can be tricky. Both you and Dejuhuti would have to specify at what starting point you define "aboriginal" or "original."
 
Posted by TheAmericanPatriot (Member # 15824) on :
 
None of that has anything to do with the historical era.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
Here is a one of many tombs in modern day Bulgaria dated to about 4500 B.C. Notice the placement of the left arm and the presence of a sceptre. Look familiar? The tombs also have what are presently known as the oldest use of gold in the world.

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Here is a reconstruction of a face from one of the tombs. Nothing even looks remotely south of the Sahara about it.

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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Simple Girl - THANK YOU!!

I thank you for trying to transition from being someone who posts racist nonsense, to someone who tries to post material with scientific content.

As you know we have on this board, a Filipino houseboy who is so enamored with all things White, that he remains the only one who still maintains that Whites turned White in Europe, and that Whites are indigenous to Europe.

All efforts to free his poor pathetic, White worshiping mind, from this foolishness have failed. So hopefully as you further investigate this Bulgarian culture, you will pass-on what you find to him. Now I know that White worshiping lap dogs are in short supply these days, and I am sure that you don't want to loose any, but in the name of whatever you hold holy, please free this poor Filipino fool. I will explain how DJ foolishness plays into this.

I have for years tried to explain to him that all Whites, but (Greeks) in this case, were Nomadic horseman from the central Asian steppes who first reached Greece at about 1,200 B.C.

According to M. Gimbutas (1991), "The discontinuity of the Varna, Karanovo, Vinča and Lengyel cultures in their main territories and the large scale population shifts to the north and northwest are indirect evidence of a catastrophe of such proportions that cannot be explained by possible climatic change, land exhaustion, or epidemics (for which there is no evidence in the second half of the 5th millennium B.C.).

Direct evidence of the incursion of horse-riding warriors is found, not only in single burials of males under barrows, but in the emergence of a whole complex of Kurgan cultural traits."


This is a map of the Kurgan hypothesis of how White people entered Europe.

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According to J. Chapman (2005), "Once upon a time, not so very long ago, it was widely accepted that steppe nomads from the North Pontic zone invaded the Balkans, putting an end to the Climax Copper Age society that produced the apogee of tell living.


The Pontic-Caspian steppe: the Steppe is in yellow.

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BUT, Simple Girl - That does NOT mean that I accept your assertion that the late Varna culture was White. And I CERTAINLY do NOT accept that BOGUS bust as being how that Varna skeleton LOOKED!!! You got that Bust from a Bullsh1t NON-Scientific site! But I understand that this scientific research thing is new to you, so keep trying.

The fact is that the Varna skeleton is wearing a gold "Penis sheath", there are no known cases of Whites wearing "Penis sheaths".


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Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ Two psuedo-science idiots duking it out, eh?

Zarahan, it does not matter how many direct quotes and studies from scholars you cite! The nutty professor will just dismiss them all as your "personal suppositions" and or distortions.

He is like a retarded child outdoors with his eyes wide shut and covered over with his hands claiming it's dark when the sun is shining brightly over him! LOL

quote:
Originally posted by Morpheus:

Hey Professor,

I see you're up to your old antics again. This statement however is false. Aaron Kamugisha wrote an excellent historiographical essay on the Ancient Egyptian race debate, detailing how it has evolved over the centuries from the beginnings of Egyptology and Scientific Racism to the modern period where many mainstream scholars have provided solid evidence that the Ancient Egyptian culture is indigenious to Northeast Africa and its inhabitants primarily a tropically adapted ("Black") people.

I asked Myra to host it on her site. You should give it a read:

http://wysinger.homestead.com/finally.html


Tell us what you think and point out the inaccuracies if you find any.

LOL That is if he is brave enough to read it. And even if he is, he will no doubt dismiss it as his usual 'afrocentric' rhetoric. LOL-- again with the retarded child antics! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

Here is a one of many tombs in modern day Bulgaria dated to about 4500 B.C. Notice the placement of the left arm and the presence of a sceptre. Look familiar? The tombs also have what are presently known as the oldest use of gold in the world.

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And what does this have to do with Egypt or any of Africa?? Are you saying Pharonic Egypt originated in Bulgaria??!


quote:
Here is a reconstruction of a face from one of the tombs. Nothing even looks remotely south of the Sahara about it.

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And why should it?? It's European is it not?? Egypt is not south of the Sahara but it still African and thus black. What does prehistoric Bulgaria have to do with Egypt??!
quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:
Simple Girl - THANK YOU!!

I thank you for trying to transition from being someone who posts racist nonsense, to someone who tries to post material with scientific content.

As you know we have on this board, a Filipino houseboy who is so enamored with all things White, that he remains the only one who still maintains that Whites turned White in Europe, and that Whites are indigenous to Europe.

All efforts to free his poor pathetic, White worshiping mind, from this foolishness have failed. So hopefully as you further investigate this Bulgarian culture, you will pass-on what you find to him. Now I know that White worshiping lap dogs are in short supply these days, and I am sure that you don't want to loose any, but in the name of whatever you hold holy, please free this poor Filipino fool. I will explain how DJ foolishness plays into this.

I have for years tried to explain to him that all Whites, but (Greeks) in this case, were Nomadic horseman from the central Asian steppes who first reached Greece at about 1,200 B.C.

According to M. Gimbutas (1991), "The discontinuity of the Varna, Karanovo, Vinča and Lengyel cultures in their main territories and the large scale population shifts to the north and northwest are indirect evidence of a catastrophe of such proportions that cannot be explained by possible climatic change, land exhaustion, or epidemics (for which there is no evidence in the second half of the 5th millennium B.C.).

Direct evidence of the incursion of horse-riding warriors is found, not only in single burials of males under barrows, but in the emergence of a whole complex of Kurgan cultural traits."


This is a map of the Kurgan hypothesis of how White people entered Europe.

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According to J. Chapman (2005), "Once upon a time, not so very long ago, it was widely accepted that steppe nomads from the North Pontic zone invaded the Balkans, putting an end to the Climax Copper Age society that produced the apogee of tell living.


The Pontic-Caspian steppe: the Steppe is in yellow.

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BUT, Simple Girl - That does NOT mean that I accept your assertion that the late Varna culture was White. And I CERTAINLY do NOT accept that BOGUS bust as being how that Varna skeleton LOOKED!!! You got that Bust from a Bullsh1t NON-Scientific site! But I understand that this scientific research thing is new to you, so keep trying.

The fact is that the Varna skeleton is wearing a gold "Penis sheath", there are no known cases of Whites wearing "Penis sheaths".


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Again as explained for the thousandth time!

1. The Kurgan hypothesis is about INDO-EUROPEAN SPEAKER ORIGINS NOT 'WHITE' ORIGINS, DUMMY!

2. The Kurgan steppes of Russia is STILL IN EUROPE!

3. White skin originated in Europe and has NOTHING to do with Indo-European languages which it predates!

Mike, I know you are blinded by ignorance and hatred but please try to understand the FACTS above!
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Simple Girl – I was hoping that by now, you would have done some more research on the Varna skeleton, and found that it was NOT White, but as would be expected for that early time in Europe, as the place was still inhabited by Black people, therefore the skeleton was that of a Black man.

But since you had that nice bogus White bust, I didn’t want to come right out and say it, because as I’m sure you have seen, I often say that White people are degenerate liars when it comes to these things. Therefore as one not well versed in these things, you could well be forgiven for thinking me just another White hating Nigger.

But of course that is not the case, I am not an anyone hating Nigger, I merely seek out the truth, and then disseminate it. In the case of that bogus White bust that some fool at {http://ancient-treasure.info} decided would make a good rouse for the Varnians, it was mild compared to some of the racist lies told, and being told every day by White people, who like you, yearn for an ancient history, that is simply NOT there.

So to clear up the nonsense about the Varna skeleton being White, I will enable you to make the determination yourself!


Human Male European Skull

Although the concept of race assessment is controversial, certain features of the skull may be of use in differentiating ancestral groups. In this skull, the nasal root is prominent and the nasal angle is acute. The nasal spine is short and the lower part of the nostrils has a sharp nasal sill with a very vague impression of bilateral gutters.


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Human Male African Skull

The nasal root is depressed and the nasal angle is obtuse. The nasal aperture is broad from top to bottom. The lower part of the nostrils has a bilateral gutter and there is no sill.


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Varna Skeleton

The nasal root is depressed and the nasal angle is obtuse. The nasal aperture is broad from top to bottom. The lower part of the nostrils has a bilateral gutter and there is no sill. {Sound familiar?}


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DJ - if I was Filipino, I would be seriously embarrassed by you. Stop being such a White apologist and ass kisser.
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
Then what are we to make of this early predynastic skull found in Egypt? It appears to fit the white category of skulls. Was it a white person or a black person?

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Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
^ And it appears that you are an idiot. It's basic anthropological knowledge that all predynastic Egyptian skulls were classed as "negroid" in one way or another. Unless you can explain what whites are doing in prehistoric Africa.. [Embarrassed]

By the way Mike, acknowledging a BASIC FACT as white indigenity to Europe is NOT being apologist; it is being INTELLIGENT & SANE-- two things of which you obviously are not! [Embarrassed]
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
How about this one? It appears to be in between.

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Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Two things Simple Girl:

First, I thought that you were supposed to be done with spam posting. Hint - you have to provide some data and provenance with the things that you post.

Two - I guess you didn't get the word, ALL Phenotypes are originally BLACK PHENOTYPES. Whites are unique ONLY in WHITE SKIN!!!

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In the case of the Varna skeleton, it just HAPPENED to have a broad nose, which was very convenient for me to make my case.

 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
^ And it appears that you are an idiot. It's basic anthropological knowledge that all predynastic Egyptian skulls were classed as "negroid" in one way or another. Unless you can explain what whites are doing in prehistoric Africa.. [Embarrassed]

This is what you said in another thread.

Southern Europe's mixed heritage is not surprising because it right across from Africa. [/QUOTE]

And yet you believe it doesn't work both ways? There is way too much evidence contrary to what you want everyone else to believe.

Last time I looked, I didn't find any evidence of Filipinos having been in ancient Egypt. Who looks more like the idiot? [Eek!]
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Simple Girl - Please excuse my bad manners; One other thing that I need to thank you for is the Varna skeleton from Bulgaria dated to about 4500 B.C.

As you know, it has always been my calculation that Whites did not reach Europe (Greece) until about 1,200 B.C. But I have never been able to prove it.

Your Varna skeleton from Bulgaria dated to about 4500 B.C. goes a long way to help me prove it. If Blacks still had a vibrant high culture at the eastern-most fringes of Europe, at that late date, then certainly Whites were still thousands of years away from Europe.


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Posted by Kem Asaru (Member # 16815) on :
 
I do not know why you Brothers feed into these pathetic racist who are stuck in their 18Th century racism. I understand that we should knock the brains out of falsehood Euro centric BS, but dame these trolls are loving that they get so much recognition . Be done with them!!!They are the people mention in their own book that will cause nothing but mischief.

Hotep
 
Posted by Kem Asaru (Member # 16815) on :
 
Simple Girl, you are simply to stupid to see that you are embarrassing yourself deeply. i pity the fool!! and i have know respect for fools continuing to bask in their ignorance.
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
Kem Asaru - Don't be too harsh with her, the fact is they DO serve a useful purpose. I don't know if you saw Marc's complaint on the Gates thread.

Quote: During the QA I mentioned that most Afrocentrists deal with history since slavery but my research ( www.BeforeBC.de ) dealt with our history worldwide before slavery, before Columbus, before Christ.

I asked if he'd check it out as it dealt with us as proud and free builders of the world's earliest civilizations and not as those cast down in slavery and castigated under false freedom.


Though in the Gates case, it's a matter of money;
i.e. Many AAs are still sucking their thumbs over Slavery, and many Whites are still complicit in it's aftermath, and they know it. So that makes fertile ground for people, like Gates, who want to exploit that period for profit.

But then you have the other end of the spectrum like former poster Sunjata. She was adamant that she didn't want to know anything about Blacks outside of Africa, and to that end, she tried to kill every thread that dealt with Blacks outside of Africa.

So Whites like Simple Girl, forces issues that uninformed Blacks would not normally have occasion to think about. In this case, shame to say, I did not know about the Varna culture until Simple Girl posted it.

But can you believe the amount of Gold that dude had on him, that early in history? And the quality of the artwork is amazing. I had no idea that the Black people in that area were so advanced. Fact is, it might be better than Egyptian artwork for that time.
 
Posted by zarahan (Member # 15718) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:


Human Male European Skull

Although the concept of race assessment is controversial, certain features of the skull may be of use in differentiating ancestral groups. In this skull, the nasal root is prominent and the nasal angle is acute. The nasal spine is short and the lower part of the nostrils has a sharp nasal sill with a very vague impression of bilateral gutters.


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Human Male African Skull

The nasal root is depressed and the nasal angle is obtuse. The nasal aperture is broad from top to bottom. The lower part of the nostrils has a bilateral gutter and there is no sill.


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[/QB]

Caution has to be made with such picture comparisons because of africa's high genetic diversity- the highest in the world from which all else flows. Prognathism, and certain skull shapes, or broad noses may indeed indicate Africoid elements but such markers are only PART of the African mix, which is not limited to the stereotypical "true negro" model put forth by Eurocentrics. BOTH skulls above can be from 'sub-Saharan" Africa.

Narrow noses for example are routine in East Africa or parts of the Sahara, being caused by the dry air or the desert of the cooler higher altitudes. In other words, such diversity is BUILT-IN to Africans without needing any "race mix" or "migrating Caucasoids" to explain the variation. But broad noses also occur in the same high altitudes and dry air, and narrow noses can also be seen in the tropics of West africa. Almost every variation can occur in Africa. Light skin for example occurs among one of afria's oldest populations, the San or Bushmen people. Again, "Caucasoids" or "white blood" are not needed to make Africans vary in how they look.

A second point is that the diversity of africa produces substantial overlap with other population groups. Africa has the greatest cranial and phenetic variability of any region in the world. In times past and even fairly recently, white scholars have been quick to group anything without a broad nose as 'Caucasoid", "hamitic", "Mediterranean", "Middle eastern" and other labels- anything but black. But the diversity of Africa cuases overlap with many regions. The infamous Howells FORDISC study used modern computers (the FORDISC program) to make a number of assertions about Africans, in particular being used by aryo-nuts to "whiten" Nubians. But FORDISC showed a number of fatal flaws- matching ancient black Nubians with far-flung Japanese, Easter Islanders and Hungarians for example.

Kieta warns against simple cranial comparisons, noting the diversity of africa, and that a balanced package of analysis should be used- in other words- cross-check. Thus we know by cross-checking against historical data for example that Hungarians and Japanese did not sweep into ancient Nubia to give the natives civilization. Nor, depsite the fantasies of today's "Aryan" nuts, did ancient white Nordics or British. African skull data overlaps with all these peoples because it represents the original source. We know by cross-checking agaisnt cultural and material artifacts that the black peoples of the Sahara and the Sudan were also long inhabitants of the Nile Valley before egyptian civilization started, and contiued in the Nile valley to the end of ancient Egyptian civ despite attempts to airbrush them out of the picture.
 
Posted by zarahan (Member # 15718) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by zarahan:
quote:
Originally posted by Mike111:


Human Male European Skull

Although the concept of race assessment is controversial, certain features of the skull may be of use in differentiating ancestral groups. In this skull, the nasal root is prominent and the nasal angle is acute. The nasal spine is short and the lower part of the nostrils has a sharp nasal sill with a very vague impression of bilateral gutters.


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Human Male African Skull

The nasal root is depressed and the nasal angle is obtuse. The nasal aperture is broad from top to bottom. The lower part of the nostrils has a bilateral gutter and there is no sill.


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Caution has to be made with such picture comparisons because of africa's high genetic diversity- the highest in the world from which all else flows. Prognathism, and certain skull shapes, or broad noses may indeed indicate Africoid elements but such markers are only PART of the African mix, which is not limited to the stereotypical "true negro" model put forth by Eurocentrics. BOTH skulls above can be from 'sub-Saharan" Africa.

Narrow noses for example are routine in East Africa or parts of the Sahara, being caused by the dry air of the desert or that of the cooler higher altitudes. In other words, such diversity is BUILT-IN to Africans from the beginning, without needing any "race mix" or "migrating Caucasoids" to explain the variation. But broad noses also occur in the same high altitudes and dry air, and narrow noses can also be seen in the tropics of West africa. Almost every variation can occur in Africa. Light skin for example occurs among one of Africa's oldest populations, the San or Bushmen people. Again, "Caucasoids" or "white blood" are not needed to make Africans vary in how they look.

A second point is that the diversity of africa produces substantial overlap with other population groups. Africa has the greatest cranial and phenetic variability of any region in the world. In times past and even fairly recently, white scholars have been quick to group anything without a broad nose as 'Caucasoid", "hamitic", "Mediterranean", "Middle eastern" and other labels- anything but black. But the diversity of Africa cuases overlap with many regions. The infamous Howells FORDISC study used modern computers (the FORDISC program) to make a number of assertions about Africans, in particular being used by aryo-nuts to "whiten" Nubians. But FORDISC showed a number of fatal flaws- matching ancient black Nubians with far-flung Japanese, Easter Islanders and Hungarians for example.

Kieta warns against simple cranial comparisons, noting the diversity of africa, and that a balanced package of analysis should be used- in other words- cross-check. Thus we know by cross-checking against historical data for example that Hungarians and Japanese did not sweep into ancient Nubia to give the natives civilization. Nor, depsite the fantasies of today's "Aryan" nuts, did ancient white Nordics or British. African skull data overlaps with all these peoples because it represents the original source. We know by cross-checking agaisnt cultural and material artifacts that the black peoples of the Sahara and the Sudan were also long inhabitants of the Nile Valley before egyptian civilization started, and contiued in the Nile valley to the end of ancient Egyptian civ despite attempts to airbrush them out of the picture. [/QB]


 
Posted by Morpheus (Member # 16203) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

And yet you believe it doesn't work both ways? There is way too much evidence contrary to what you want everyone else to believe.

Last time I looked, I didn't find any evidence of Filipinos having been in ancient Egypt. Who looks more like the idiot? [Eek!]

Simple Girl,

Are you claiming that the Ancient Egyptians are ancestral to Europe?

I have never seen any credible evidence whatsoever for this claim.

Where is the archeological, linguistic, cultural and anthropological evidence for Ancient Egyptians being ancestral to Europe?

Throughout the history of Egyptsearch not a single poster has provided evidence from a mainstream scholar for this. All we ever get are pictures of statues with the claim that they look "Caucasian", 50 - 100 year old quotes from racists like Coon classifying the skulls as Caucasian or posters trying to White Wash East Africans with outdated or distorted sources claiming they are mixed with Caucasians.

When are we going to get an essay from a reputed source on this level which summarizes the evidence for the true biogeographic origins of the Ancient Egyptians?


The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
.
Re; the Golden Penis Sheath on the Varna king.

There are only a few depictions of people wearing penis sheaths in Egyptian art.

One is the MacGregor Man - named for a previous owner.
This polished black basalt figure of a male wearing a
hood and penis sheath was once in the collection of
the Rev William MacGregor, and is said to have been
found in the region of Naqada. The authenticity of this
sculpture has been questioned. {Why would an African wear a full Hood - Skull cap yes, but Hood?}


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The other is the The Battlefield Palette; dated to the
Late Predynastic period, around 3150 B.C. Egyptians
do not appear to have used penis sheaths, so I wonder
if these people were foreigners to Africa - just a though.



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Posted by zarahan (Member # 15718) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Morpheus:
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:

And yet you believe it doesn't work both ways? There is way too much evidence contrary to what you want everyone else to believe.

Last time I looked, I didn't find any evidence of Filipinos having been in ancient Egypt. Who looks more like the idiot? [Eek!]

Simple Girl,

Are you claiming that the Ancient Egyptians are ancestral to Europe?

I have never seen any credible evidence whatsoever for this claim.

Where is the archeological, linguistic, cultural and anthropological evidence for Ancient Egyptians being ancestral to Europe?

Throughout the history of Egyptsearch not a single poster has provided evidence from a mainstream scholar for this. All we ever get are pictures of statues with the claim that they look "Caucasian", 50 - 100 year old quotes from racists like Coon classifying the skulls as Caucasian or posters trying to White Wash East Africans with outdated or distorted sources claiming they are mixed with Caucasians.

When are we going to get an essay from a reputed source on this level which summarizes the evidence for the true biogeographic origins of the Ancient Egyptians?


The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians

lol.. we may be waiting a long time..
 
Posted by Simple Girl (Member # 16578) on :
 
The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians


Has anyone here actually read and interpreted what this article is saying?
 
Posted by osirion (Member # 7644) on :
 
Not one bit of research I have found contradicts the following which substantiates at least a tenet of Afrocentric claims:

G. Paoli, in "ABO Typing of Ancient Egyptians" IN _Population biology of ancient Egyptians_, edited by D.R. Brothwell and B.A. Chiarelli, London, New York, 1973, showed that the Dynastic Egyptians were most closely matched with the Haratin of the northern Sahara. Paoli mentions the theory of
Cabot-Briggs (Cabot-Briggs, L. (1958), _The Living Races of the Sahara Desert, Massachussets) that this resemblance might indicate the origin of the Haratin. Here are the figures given for the two groups from Paoli (p. 464):


Modern Northern Haratin and Dynastic Egyptian
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No. O A B AB p q r
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Egyptians 160 34 64 34 28 34.35 21.45 44.20 (Paoli)
Haratin 202 40 80 57 25 30.99 23.14 48.87 (Mourant)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:
The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians


Has anyone here actually read and interpreted what this article is saying?

Maybe if YOU said what you interpret it to mean, we could then go from there.
 
Posted by Morpheus (Member # 16203) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:
The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians


Has anyone here actually read and interpreted what this article is saying?

We certainly have. Is there anything in particular that you would like to interpret which you think supports your views, anything that confuses you or anything you disagree with that you can refute with a counter source?

By all means go ahead.

And if you can find an essay from a reputable source that maintains that the Ancient Egyptians are ancestral to Europe that would be helpful so we can better understand where your beliefs are coming from and analyze the evidence they provide for their theory.
 
Posted by zarahan (Member # 15718) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by osirion:
Not one bit of research I have found contradicts the following which substantiates at least a tenet of Afrocentric claims:

G. Paoli, in "ABO Typing of Ancient Egyptians" IN _Population biology of ancient Egyptians_, edited by D.R. Brothwell and B.A. Chiarelli, London, New York, 1973, showed that the Dynastic Egyptians were most closely matched with the Haratin of the northern Sahara. Paoli mentions the theory of
Cabot-Briggs (Cabot-Briggs, L. (1958), _The Living Races of the Sahara Desert, Massachussets) that this resemblance might indicate the origin of the Haratin. Here are the figures given for the two groups from Paoli (p. 464):



Modern Northern Haratin and Dynastic Egyptian
------------------------------------------------------------------------
No. O A B AB p q r
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Egyptians 160 34 64 34 28 34.35 21.45 44.20 (Paoli)
Haratin 202 40 80 57 25 30.99 23.14 48.87 (Mourant)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------


Good reference. I think Keita mentions Paoli in one of his articles. The Haratin are considered to be "Negroid" in physical type (Livingstone, 1967) and black northern Haratin who are also held to be the probable descendants of the original Saharans by (Hiernaux, 1975). This means part of the ancient aboriginal population of North Africa not recent introductions by the slavetrade. The Haratin are considered Berbers according to the Encyclopedia Brittanica- "Berber Tribes", 2006:
"The Berbers are divided into a number of groups that speak distinct languages. The largest of these are the Rif, Kabyle, Shawia, Tuareg, Haratin, Shluh, and Beraber."

Frequencies on some "q" gene elements by both peoples (Haratin and Egyptians) were almost twice those in typically European populations. (Montagu, A. _Introduction to Physical Anthropology_ 1960, p. 334).

Other serological tests have shown close affinity of certain Berber-speaking groups with tropical Africans in the high rates of cDe, P and V, and low Fy^a antigens(Keita 1990, Mourant et al., 1976, Chamla, 1980). They also group close with West Africans in the high incidence of HbC, HbS and the sickle cell condition (Livingstone, 1967). Noted in S.O.Y. KEITA, "Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa", AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 83:35-48 (1990)[10]

The reference also helps contradict the notion that "Berber" means "white." The Haratin are Berbers and no one is going to mistake them for "Caucasoid" soon. To the contrary as ES has documented extensively, Berbers are a mixed bag, a language category, not a "racial" one. There are plenty of "blacks" in that mix. A 2005 gene study by Cherni, et al. for example found that the Berbers studied (Kesra) showed twice the frequency of Sub-Saharan lineages normally in coastal populations and matched up with western Sahara populations better than non-Berber groups like Arabs. It warns of the complexity of the region noting that: "The North African patchy mtDNA landscape has no parallel in other regions of the world.." cautioning against the rigged samples and shaky race percentage claims of Eurocentrics.

Paoli's reference helps us get a more balanced view, particularly with the number of rigged samples and stacked decks in studies of African peoples.

Poloni 1997 for example drew his "representative" samples from the far north of Egypt near Port Said. Hammer 1997 likewise drew his "representative" samples from the far north, near Cairo, as has Cavalli-Sforza on a number of occassions. Bosch studied "North Africa" but somehow excluded almost all of Mali, Chad, Niger and the Sudan, (or used Arabized samples for one location), places typically classified as 'North Africa" by several other scholars. Ironically, even with the deck stacked in Poloni's study, Egyptians linked closer to other Africans, such as Ethiopians and Lemba, than with Europeans or Middle Easterners.

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Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Simple Girl:
quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
^ And it appears that you are an idiot. It's basic anthropological knowledge that all predynastic Egyptian skulls were classed as "negroid" in one way or another. Unless you can explain what whites are doing in prehistoric Africa.. [Embarrassed]

This is what you said in another thread.

Southern Europe's mixed heritage is not surprising because it right across from Africa.

And yet you believe it doesn't work both ways? There is way too much evidence contrary to what you want everyone else to believe.[/quote]
Evidence to the contrary like what?? So far during your entire presence on this thread you have never been able to provide valid evidence for your claims! As far as the converse situation of North Africans being mixed. I never denied North Africans being mixed since we have Berbers especially in the Magrheb areas that carry European maternal ancestry which is why there are white Berber groups like the Kabyle and Rif. But we are talking about ancient to predynastic Egypt!

quote:
Last time I looked, I didn't find any evidence of Filipinos having been in ancient Egypt. Who looks more like the idiot? [Eek!]
Indeed! Who looks more like the idiot than YOU! What do Filipinos have to do with ancient Egypt??! I never made such a connection!

By the way, all this posting of ancient skulls and their nasal openings is USELESS!

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Originally posted by Djehuti many times before:

Cranial Features:
The human phenotypic trait that holds the greatest diversity is cranial morphology. Because of this fact, cranial features can at times be misleading if not taken into proper context. For example, for a long time features like long narrow faces and narrow noses have been associated with “caucasian” or “caucasoid” people even though such features are present in populations throughout the globe from Africa to the Americas. The same can be said about so-called “negroid” features such as broad faces and noses which are also not just confined to Africans but various peoples in Asia, the Pacific etc.

Which is why we have studies like this:

J. Edwards, A. Leathers, et al.
...based on Howell’s sampling Fordisc 2.0 authors state that "there are no races, only populations," yet it is clear that Howell was intent on providing known groups that would be distributed among the continental "racial" groups.
We tested the accuracy and effectiveness of Fordisc 2.0 using twelve cranial measurements from a homogeneous population from the X-Group period of Sudanese Nubia (350CE-550CE). When the Fordisc program classified the adult X-Group crania, only 51 (57.3%) of 89 individuals were classified within groups from Africa. Others were placed in such diverse groups as Polynesian (11.24%), European (7.86%), Japanese (4.49%), Native American (3.37%), Peruvian (3.36%), Australian (1.12), Tasmanian (1.12%), and Melanesian (1.12%). The implications of these findings suggest that classifying populations, whether by geography or by "race", is not morphologically or biologically accurate because of the wide variation even in homogeneous populations.


And...

Forensic Misclassification of
Ancient Nubian Crania:
Implications for Assumptions
about Human Variation -April 2005, Current Anthropology:

It is well known that human biological variation is principally clinal (i.e., structured as gradients) and not racial (i.e., structured as a small number of fairly discrete
groups). We have shown that for a temporally and geographically homogeneous East African population, the most widely used “racial”
program fails to identify the skeletal material accurately. The assignment of skeletal racial origin is based principally upon stereotypical features found most frequently in the most geographically distant populations. While this is useful in some contexts (for example, sorting
skeletal material of largely West African ancestry
from skeletal material of largely Western European ancestry), it fails to identify populations that originate elsewhere and misrepresents fundamental patterns of human biological diversity.


These exact same mistakes were made in classifying Egyptian skulls and is also the reason you hear these old studies speak of a percentage of “Caucasoid” and even a percentage of “mongoloid” skulls!

Jean Hiernaux
The People of Africa(Peoples of the World Series) 1975
The oldest remains of Homo sapiens sapiens found in East Africa were associated with an industry having similarities with the Capsian. It has been called Upper Kenyan Capsian, although its derivation from the North African Capsian is far from certain. At Gamble's Cave in Kenya, five human skeletons were associated with a late phase of the industry, Upper Kenya Capsian C, which contains pottery. A similar associationis presumed for a skeleton found at Olduvai, which resembles those from Gamble's Cave. The date of Upper Kenya Capsian C is not precisely known (an earlier phase from Prospect Farm on Eburru Mountain close to Gamble's Cave has been dated to about 8000 BC); but the presence of pottery indicates a rather later date, perhaps around 400 BC. The skeletons are of very tall people. They had long, narrow heads, and relatively long, narrow faces. The nose was of medium width; and prognathism, when present, was restricted to the alveolar, or tooth-bearing, region......all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in a number of body proportions.............
From the foregoing, it is tempting to locate the area of differentiation of these people in the interior of East Africa. There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to the populations of Europe and western Asia.



"Claims that Caucasoid peoples once lived in eastern Africa have been
shown to be wrong,
" - JO Vogel, Precolonial Africa

So features like narrow faces and noses do NOT indicate foreign ancestry or ‘admixture’ let alone designate "cacasoid"!

Fulani (West African)
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Somali (East African)
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Egyptian (North African)
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Tutsi (Central African)
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Ironically, another trait all of these people above share in common besides facial features is skeletal structure of their bodies. Their body structure has been called “super-negroid” indicating their extra-tropical adapted bodies compared to stereotypical blacks of West Africa who only have plain “negroid” builds. This is another indication that these people definitely have NO non-African ancestry!

Also, just because someone happens to have the same features as those you consider ‘true blacks (negroes)’ does not mean they are even African. As seen by this Andamanese person below.

Southeast Asian
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Jean Hiernaux, The People of Africa 1975
p.53, 54

"In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the whole world range is covered in the sub-continent. Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world. In this area, the range of the average nose widths covers 92 per cent of the world range:

only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record. Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range
; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage.....
"

So all this talk of such peoples being “not black” and “mixed” because of certain looks is downright silly... And why there really are no 'races' because most of human diversity *comes from Africans*.


 
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
 
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Originally posted by Simple Girl:
The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians


Has anyone here actually read and interpreted what this article is saying?

The article says what all of us have been saying all along:

1. The ancient Egyptians display both cranio-skeletally and genetically, forms continuous and consistent with the rest of Africa including Sub-Sahara, which have been layered upon by non-African immigrants.

2. Many of these forms the ancient Egyptians have in many attempts to de-Africanize them been associated with Eurasian forms when that is truly not the case.

Thus YOU lose your pathetic attempt to white-wash ancient Egypt!
 
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