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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by HERU: Originally posted by alTakruri: [b] Dr. Fletcher's coinages detract from the standard anthropological and forensic terminology for a fanciful biased determination of hair type related to stereotypical ideas of the misnomered classifications Caucasian and Negro. As such it should be avoided. [/b] I see what you're saying. Have any idea what sort of hairstyles the ancient Egyptians used? [/QUOTE] You can look in the Kmt Art threads for some examples. No doubt there were straight and wooly hairstyles in AE. The most typical one was an Afro that was short on the top and thick at the sides and the back. Then theres braids like those throughout all Africa. Straight haired AEs let theirs flop. And there were wigs of all possible purities and combinations of the various human hair types. If you can find repros of the paintings in the tomb of Nakht, all kinds of styles are represented. But there was one kind of hair that predominated in old Kmt that is not so common in the modern Misr of alYazid's photo contributions of these past few days. Anthropologist Alfred Haddon used ulotrichous for wooly hair. But in Greek oulotriches can mean either curly or wooly haired in contrast to ithutriches or euthutriches. Herodotus uses these opposite types to distinguish western from eastern Aethiopians. His eastern Aethiopians are ithutriches -- straight haired, and western Aethiopians have the oulotaton trichôma -- wooliest hair. It's clear Herodotus sees a relationship between Colchians and Egyptians because both have dark complexions and wooly hair. But that's not enough to adduce a one to one identity because they aren't the only nationalities so characterized. To tighten his argument he brings in other evidence like their both practicing circumcision (along with the Aethiopians another set of dark and wooly nationalities whom the Greeks thought that the Egyptians in turn sprung from) before others -- the circumcising "Syrians" -- caught on to it. HERODOTUS 2.104.1&2 (on Colchian's Egyptian descent) phainontai men gar eontes hoi Kolchoi Aiguptioi, For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; noêsas de proteron autos ê akousas allôn legô. and what I say, I myself noted before I heard it from others. hôs de moi en phrontidi egeneto, When it occurred to me, eiromên amphoterous, I inquired of both peoples; kai mallon hoi Kolchoi ememneato tôn Aiguptiôn ê hoi Aiguptioi tôn Kolchôn: and the Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians; nomizein d' ephasan hoi Aiguptioi tês Sesôstrios stratiês einai tous Kolchous. the Egyptians said that they considered the Colchians part of Sesostris' army. autos de eikasa têide, I myself guessed it, kai hoti melanchroes eisi kai oulotriches. partly because they are dark-skinned and woolly-haired; kai touto men es ouden anêkei: though that indeed counts for nothing, eisi gar kai heteroi toioutoi: since other peoples are, too; alla toiside kai mallon, but my better proof was that hoti mounoi pantôn anthrôpôn Kolchoi kai Aiguptioi kai Aithiopes peritamnontai ap' archês ta aidoia. . the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision HERODOTUS 7.70.1 (on blacks in the Persian army) tôn men dê huper Aiguptou Aithiopôn kai Arabiôn êrche Arsamês, The Ethiopians above Egypt and the Arabians had Arsames for commander, hoi de apo hêliou anatoleôn Aithiopes* dixoi gar dê estrateuonto prosetetachato toisi Indoisi, while the Ethiopians of the east1 (for there were two kinds of them in the army) served with the Indians; diallassontes eidos* men ouden toisi heteroisi, they were not different in appearance from the others, phônên de kai trichôma* mounon: only in speech and hair: hoi men gar apo hêliou Aithiopes ithutriches* eisi, the Ethiopians from the east are straight-haired, hoi d' ek tês Libuês oulotaton trichôma echousi pantôn anthrôpôn. but the ones from Libya have the woolliest hair of all men. [This message has been edited by alTakruri (edited 22 December 2004).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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