quote:Originally posted by .Charlie Bass.: Further research should incorporate more populations the Nubians were in contact with, to further shed light on Nubian population structure.
I'd definitely like to see a comparison between Egyptians, Nubians, and southern Sudanic populations. I've always pictured ancient Nubians as looking like southern Sudanese and I want to know if they really did look like that.
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^ If you recall anything written about Nubians including this thread, you would remember that 1. so-called "Nubians" were primarily north Sudanese and 2. "Nubians" vary in features. The latter is the reason why in some tomb paintings Nubians looked no different from Egyptians, while others just looked darker with thin lips and pointy noses and others still had stereotypical broad features.
One thing that should be pointed out is that not only were 'Nubians' diverse from the start but that during Middle Kingdom times Kush had an empire of its own that stretched from the Nile Valley lands proper to God knows where. Kush's imperial state was discussed in a couple of threads in the past so I hope someone can find them if I can't.
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Djehuti wrote: ----------------------------- others still had stereotypical broad features. -----------------------------
Stereotypical to whom? Your sorry ass?
Why the f__k do you always have to bring your crazy racialism into every discussion involving Africans? Did your sorry philopeeeeeno island run out of dogs to put on the menu?
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Hey Bass does this study compare Nubians and Egyptians to any other populations besides one another?
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quote:Originally posted by SirInfamous: Hey Bass does this study compare Nubians and Egyptians to any other populations besides one another?
quote:Badarian crania, in comparison to dynastic groups, are slight and less robust than their later counterparts (Angel, 1972; Morant, 1935; Stoessiger, 1927). Stoessiger (1927) likened the gracile nature of the Badarians to the gracile nature of the people from Naqada, but she pointed out that the Badarians are more prognathic. On this basis, many have postulated that the Badarians are relatives to South African populations (Morant, 1935 G. Morant, A study of predynastic Egyptian skulls from Badari based on measurements taken by Miss BN Stoessiger and Professor DE Derry, Biometrika 27 (1935), pp. 293–309.Morant, 1935; Mukherjee et al., 1955; Irish and Konigsberg, 2007). The archaeological evidence points to this relationship as well. (Hassan, 1986) and (Hassan, 1988) noted similarities between Badarian pottery and the Neolithic Khartoum type, indicating an archaeological affinity among Badarians and Africans from more southern regions. Furthermore, like the Badarians, Naqada has also been classified with other African groups, namely the Teita (Crichton, 1996; Keita, 1990).
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