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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Morpheus: [QB] A couple of months ago I debated a poster on a message board who while an Egalitarian/antiracist strongly opposes the idea that the Ancient Egyptians were Black. During our debate among the evidence I cited for the biological affinities of the Ancient Egyptians was Mekota and Vermehren (2005) who state that a test of Ancient Egyptian noble mummies reveal that their skin is packed with melanin, "as expected for specimens of Negroid origin." In his very next post he countered by citing an alleged study claimed to be from the same authors refuting their original study. Here were his exact words: [QUOTE]Don't mean to complain, but the purpose of this research wasn't to determine skin melanin levels, nor are the researchers anthropologists. You might want to read the following: [QUOTE] Owing to extensive decomposition of the material, all immunohistochemical stains were ambiguous. There was no specific staining in any slides. The extreme background staining due to nonspecific protein fragments gave false-positive reactions; thus the results are inconclusive and not useful for analysis.[/QUOTE] http://www.sendspace.com/file/tbuo0i [/QUOTE]He further stated: [QUOTE]The melanin study you referenced was disowned by its own authors - who were not anthropologists - because of methodological problems.[/QUOTE]Now as you can see the Sendspace link doesn't work. It didn't work when he posted it which I found to be strange. He eventually bowed out of that discussion but yesterday I decided to make a new thread to revisit the topic and ask him to reupload the study. Then I thought about it....why didn't the link work in the first place? And how did he come up with a counter argument so fast? I posted the sendspace link itself into Google and it directed me straight to a thread from Anthroscape (The new Dodona) where a racist by the name of "Racial Awareness" was actually the one who posted the link! http://s1.zetaboards.com/anthroscape/single/?p=433217&t=2352458 I should have known! :rolleyes: In his desperation to refute me he have googled the study for a rebuttal and come across this post. I didn't think he would stoop that low but the proof is right there. The link didn't work because it is old which means he himself has not even read the study (the study isn't even identified as you can see). Does anyone know the identity of the alleged study in question claimed to refute the original? I googled the text and came up with nothing. Also if there are any more studies on the melanin level of Ancient Egyptian skin please post them here. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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