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[QUOTE]Originally posted by jluis: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [B] Have you heard of the African Aquatic culture that was from the Sahelian zone down to the Khartoum Mesolithic? It appears the Sahara had both pastorial communities and settled communities that pratice agritculture. The pastorial people within the Sahara were most likely related to the modern day Fulani because it was pointed out by the late Amadoua Hamparte Ba that many of the litorial traditions of the Saharan rock art matched the modern Fulani people. I base this off other similarities between the Saharan rock art and motifs of Amun that resemble the following. Not to mention early archaeological sites in Nabta Playa correlate very well with pastorial people moving into the Nile Valley. Are you familar with these connections,or Nabta Playa? What about the ''black mummy'' they found in southern Libya that resembles the belief system of the ancient Egyptians? Starting by the end of the quote: Scattered finds are not enough to base arguments on PHYSICAL variation. Belief systems and artistic similarities are cultural and can be easily transmitted from one group to another. Think for instance in Islam and Cristianity. If we apply to them the same line of thinking you just apply above, we should reach the conclusion that black Africans are a mix of Arabic populations (muslims), southern europeans (cristianity: catholics) and northen europeans (reformed churcs). This is clearly not the case and so the argument should be dropped. About the Fulani origins, it actually support my point that the current Sahara dwellers (scattered populations, by the way) are not the descendants of hunther-gatherers but recent colonizers of the area (recent here means after dry up). The real descendents of Sahara hunter-gatherers are in the W African forest belt and within the Bantu group. Other two groups of descendants of hunter-gatherers are the Berbers and finally, the Egyptians themselves. Which leads me to the Aquatic culture. First to say that there are several aquatics cultures in the northern half of Africa. You mention one, the one linked to the Nile valley (Khartoum mesolitic and also further down). The Chad lake/Niger river complex is another, still active. The third one, less known is the Western Sahara Basin, now completedly dry but with signs of having been watered and populated in several moments of the recent past. Well, the origin of the particular culture you mention is much probably upperstream, in the Lake Victoria and the string of lakes of East Africa, from Uganda to Malawi. This is the core of the distribution pattern of African peoples. The dry up of the Sahara is just a "local" event which drove some populations to the South, towards the forest belt. But the point Zero of human populations in Africa is the Great Lakes area. To get a clearer view of the populations of Africa in general and of the Nile Valley in particular, you should look upstream, to the sources of Nile and the Great Lakes area. There is no need to relay in isolated populations of the oasis around Egypt. Go to the hills of Kampala and look around: you will see the heart of Africa. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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