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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] ^ [b]LOL[/b] "Tainted" is an understatement. Since European conceptions of 'race' began in the 1800s, African history has been distorted and warped into one big racist lie. Of course Western scholarship has come a long way since then, and [i]alot[/i] of things have changed. Science has shown 'race' does not truly exist but is a purely social and subjective concept. The reason why is that the very premise of race is that a population with a certain lineage will possess certain physical characterstics. Physical anthropology has debunked this notion and recently genetics has blown it out completely despite what some [URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=005658]old throwbacks[/URL] say. Here is an anthropological primer: Does the statue below depict "caucasian" features? [IMG]http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/PiAmoun/384px-AmenhotepII-StatueHead_Brookl.png[/IMG] [QUOTE][b]Cranial features:[/b] 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: [i]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.[/i] And... [i]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![/i] [i]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. [b]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[/b]......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. [b]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.[/b] [b]claims that Caucasoid peoples once lived in eastern Africa have been shown to be wrong,[/b] - JO Vogel, Precolonial Africa.[/i] So features like narrow faces and noses do NOT indicate foreign ancestry or ‘admixture’. [b]Fulani (West African)[/b] [IMG]http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/photos/sah/main/sah_164_01_p.jpg[/IMG] [b]Somali (East African)[/b] [img]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40489000/jpg/_40489201_ghedi203ok_bbc .jpg[/img] [b]Egyptian (North African)[/b] [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/259/b129oa.jpg[/IMG] [b]Tutsi (Central African)[/b] [IMG]http://tinypic.com/dnzme9.jpg[/IMG] 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 “[b]super-negroid[/b]” 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. [b]Southeast Asian[/b] [IMG]http://www.e-mozi.com/image/andamanese01.jpg[/IMG] Jean Hiernaux The People of Africa 1975 p.53, 54 "[i]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. [b]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[/b]; 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[/i]....." So all this talk of "races" and “mixed-races” because of certain looks is downright silly... And why there really are no 'races' because most of human diversity *comes from Africans*.[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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