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Son of Ra
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I've been wanting to touch base on this for a while and believe this should be discussed more in depth. A lot of people have this thought that West Africans have always been isolated from the rest of the world in Ancient times and also that they developed civilization very recently. We already know that Tichitt Walata proves that wrong and that they were quite advanced in stone building.
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But still...Were Africans isolated throughout "antiquity" or is that a Eurocentric myth? I believe the latter...We all know that the Carthaginians sailed to the West Coast of Africa, but how often did they encounter West Africans? How detailed was the contacts and how close were their relations???

Here is something member Jari posted back on another thread. This one.

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The trade of the Phoenicians with the west coast of Africa had for its principal objects the procuring of ivory, of elephant, lion, leopard, and deer-skins, and probably of gold. Scylax relates that there was an established trade in his day (about B.C. 350) between Phoenicia and an island which he calls Cerne, probably Arguin, off the West African coast. "The merchants," he says, "who are Phoenicians, when they have arrived at Cerne, anchor their vessels there, and after having pitched their tents upon the shore, proceed to unload their cargo, and to convey it in smaller boats to the mainland. The dealers with whom they trade are Ethiopians; and these dealers sell to the Phoenicians skins of deer, lions, panthers, and domestic animals--elephants' skins also, and their teeth. The Ethiopians wear embroidered garments, and use ivory cups as drinking vessels; their women adorn themselves with ivory bracelets; and their horses also are adorned with ivory. The Phoenicians convey to them eointment, elaborate vessels from Egypt, castrated swine(?), and Attic pottery and cups. These last they commonly purchase [in Athens] at the Feast of Cups. These Ethiopians are eaters of flesh and drinkers of milk; they make also much wine from the vine; and the Phoenicians, too, supply some wine to them. They have a considerable city, to which the Phoenicians sail up." The river on which the city stood was probably the Senegal.

It will be observed that Scylax says nothing in this passage of any traffic for gold. We can scarcely suppose, however, that the Phoenicians, if they penetrated so far south as this, could remain ignorant of the fact that West Africa was a gold-producing country, much less that, being aware of the fact, they would fail to utilise it. Probably they were the first to establish that "dumb commerce" which was afterwards carried on with so much advantage to themselves by the Carthaginians, and whereof Herodotus gives so graphic an account. "There is a country," he says, "in Libya, and a nation, beyond the Pillars of Hercules, which the Carthaginians are wont to visit, where they no sooner arrive than forthwith they unlade their wares, and having disposed them after an orderly fashion along the beach, there leave them, and returning aboard their ships, raise a great smoke. The natives, when they see the sample, come down to the shore, and laying out to view so much gold as they think the wares are worth, withdraw to a distance. The Carthaginians upon this come ashore again and look. If they think the gold to be enough, they take it and go their way; but if it does not seem to them sufficient, they go aboard ship once more, and wait patiently. Then the others approach and add to their gold, till the Carthaginians are satisfied. Neither party deals unfairly by the other: for they themselves never touch the gold till it comes up to the worth of their goods, nor do the natives ever carry off the goods until the gold has been taken away."

The nature of the Phoenician trade with the Canaries, or Fortunate Islands, is not stated by any ancient author, and can only be conjectured. It would scarcely have been worth the Phoenicians' while to convey timber to Syria from such a distance, or we might imagine the virgin forests of the islands attracting them. The large breed of dogs from which the Canaries derived their later name may perhaps have constituted an article of export even in Phoenician times, as we know they did later, when we hear of their being conveyed to King Juba; but there is an entire lack of evidence on the subject. Perhaps the Phoenicians frequented the islands less for the sake of commerce than for that of watering and refitting the ships engaged in the African trade, since the natives were less formidable than those who inhabited the mainland.

Information supplied by: "http://phoenicia.org

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llustration of angus mcbride showing Phoenicians traders trading with Mandé merchants of the Pre-Imperial Mali of the Tichitt-Walata cliffs of Southern Mauritania in The 10th or 8th century BC.

So again how close was their relationship? Were their West Africans in Carthage? This topic has always concerned me.

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quote:
Originally posted by Son of Ra:
[QB] I've been wanting to touch base on this for a while and believe this should be discussed more in depth. A lot of people have this thought that West Africans have always been isolated from the rest of the world in Ancient times and also that they developed civilization very recently. We already know that Tichitt Walata proves that wrong and that they were quite advanced in stone building.
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But still...Were Africans isolated throughout "antiquity" or is that a Eurocentric myth? I believe the latter...We all know that the Carthaginians sailed to the West Coast of Africa, but how often did they encounter West Africans? How detailed was the contacts and how close were their relations???

Here is something member Jari posted back on another thread. This one.


The Ancient ksour (medieval trading centres) of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata are trading and religious centres along the ancient Sahara trade routes. These four towns date from the 13th and 14th century.

Chinguetti was a principal gathering place for pilgrims of the Maghrib to gather on the way to Mecca. It became known as a holy city in its own right, especially for pilgrims unable to make the long journey to the Arab Peninsula. Although largely abandoned to the desert, the city features a series of medieval manuscript libraries without peer in West Africa.


The second picture is the The Great "Friday Mosque" of Chinguetti.

Chinguetti is located in northern Mauritania and is considered one of Islam's seven holy cities.

As the center of several trans-Saharan trade routes, The Chinguetti Mosque is a mosque in Chinguetti, Mauritania. It was an ancient center of worship created by the founders of the oasis city of Chinguetti in the Adrar region of Mauritania in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. it was a key stop for caravans carrying gold, salt, dates, and ivory across the Sahara. Chinguetti is also home to an extraordinary collection of important Islamic manuscripts.

The minaret of The Great "Friday Mosque" is supposed to be the second oldest in continuous use anywhere in the Muslim world.
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Mauritania, Adrar area, Chinguetti, Al Ahmed Mahmoud library
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not WA but,

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The Great Enclosure, part of the Great Zimbabwe ruins.

Great Zimbabwe

The majority of scholars believe that it was built by members of the Gokomere culture, who were ancestors of modern Shona in Zimbabwe. A few believe that the ancestors of the Lemba or Venda were responsible, or cooperated with the Gokomere in the construction.

The Great Zimbabwe area was settled by the fourth century of the common era. Between the fourth and the seventh centuries, communities of the Gokomere or Ziwa cultures farmed the valley, and mined and worked iron, but built no stone structures. These are the earliest Iron Age settlements in the area identified from archaeological diggings.

Construction and growth
Construction of the stone buildings started in the 11th century and continued for over 300 years.The ruins at Great Zimbabwe are some of the oldest and largest structures located in Southern Africa, and are the second oldest after nearby Mapungubwe in South Africa. Its most formidable edifice, commonly referred to as the Great Enclosure, has walls as high as 36 feet (11 m) extending approximately 820 feet (250 m), making it the largest ancient structure south of the Sahara Desert. David Beach believes that the city and its state, the Kingdom of Zimbabwe, flourished from 1200 to 1500, although a somewhat earlier date for its demise is implied by a description transmitted in the early 1500s to João de Barros. Its growth has been linked to the decline of Mapungubwe from around 1300, due to climatic change or the greater availability of gold in the hinterland of Great Zimbabwe.[At its peak, estimates are that Great Zimbabwe had as many as 18,000 inhabitants.The ruins that survive are built entirely of stone. The ruins span 1,800 acres (7.3 km2).

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Interesting, I wonder why West Africa never adopted the Punic script, seeing as how it has been so influential in the creations of other scripts. Also, in those depictions and passages, are those Carthaginians or Phoenicians? They may share a common ancestry but Carthage was distinct from Phoenicia due to it being a hybrid Semitic-African society.
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quote:
Originally posted by PreColonialAfrica13:
Interesting, I wonder why West Africa never adopted the Punic script, seeing as how it has been so influential in the creations of other scripts. Also, in those depictions and passages, are those Carthaginians or Phoenicians? They may share a common ancestry but Carthage was distinct from Phoenicia due to it being a hybrid Semitic-African society.

Carthage is not distinct from Pheonica it was a Phoenician colony like Utica, Eivissa, Leptis Magna.
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The Mediterranean basin in the mid-sixth century B.C., showing the areas colonized by the Greeks (red), Phoenicians (purple) and Etruscans (yellow).


I don't think the degree of indigenous African admixture into these colonies is known. If you have book reference sources please show them


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@The Lioness

Good posts, but do you have anything on West Africans relations with Carthage?

@PrecoloniaAfrica

Agreed.

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quote:
Originally posted by Son of Ra:
[QB] @The Lioness

Good posts, but do you have anything on West Africans relations with Carthage?


look up Hanno
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llustration by angus mcbride showing Phoenicians traders trading with Mandé merchants of the Pre-Imperial Mali of the Tichitt-Walata cliffs of Southern Mauritania in The 10th or 8th century BC.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyovdsZ7Be1qgfbgio1_1280.png&imgrefurl=

somebody blocked out the map in the earlier version of this picture for some reason


The Phoenicians built significant cities in Mauretania, including Lixus, Volubilis and Chellah. After Rome defeated Carthage in the Punic Wars, these Mauritanian cities became important regional centers of this part of the North African Roman Empire. The Romans did some expeditions south of their Mauretania Tingitana, perhaps reaching the area north of the river Senegal populated by the Pharusii tribe

After the defeat of Carthage it became Roman territory
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^^^ occuring in what was called Mauretania Tingitana

That is Roman Mauretania spelled with an E these in what is now called Morocco

while modern Mauritania spelled with an is here:
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So Tichit-Walata was in the Southern area of what is now modern Mauritania and the closest Phoenican cities were in what is now Morroco ( as well as Tuniisa etc. )

The illustration portays Phoenicians traders trading with Mandé merchants of the Pre-Imperial Mali in the 10th c
I'm not sure that happened, would need to see another source verifying it.

Here is post imperial Mali, the mali Empire
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as compared to modern Mali which doesn't include that part of modern Mauritania
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gets to be a little confusing, same place names, differnt locations in different time periods

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quote:
Originally posted by PreColonialAfrica13:
Interesting, I wonder why West Africa never adopted the Punic script, seeing as how it has been so influential in the creations of other scripts. Also, in those depictions and passages, are those Carthaginians or Phoenicians? They may share a common ancestry but Carthage was distinct from Phoenicia due to it being a hybrid Semitic-African society.

They never adopted the script because they already had numerous syllabic systems based on Thinite script.

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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:
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llustration by angus mcbride showing Phoenicians traders trading with Mandé merchants of the Pre-Imperial Mali of the Tichitt-Walata cliffs of Southern Mauritania in The 10th or 8th century BC.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyovdsZ7Be1qgfbgio1_1280.png&imgrefurl=

somebody blocked out the map in the earlier version of this picture for some reason


The Phoenicians built significant cities in Mauretania, including Lixus, Volubilis and Chellah. After Rome defeated Carthage in the Punic Wars, these Mauritanian cities became important regional centers of this part of the North African Roman Empire. The Romans did some expeditions south of their Mauretania Tingitana, perhaps reaching the area north of the river Senegal populated by the Pharusii tribe

After the defeat of Carthage it became Roman territory
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^^^ occuring in what was called Mauretania Tingitana

That is Roman Mauretania spelled with an E these in what is now called Morocco

while modern Mauritania spelled with an is here:
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So Tichit-Walata was in the Southern area of what is now modern Mauritania and the closest Phoenican cities were in what is now Morroco ( as well as Tuniisa etc. )

The illustration portays Phoenicians traders trading with Mandé merchants of the Pre-Imperial Mali in the 10th c
I'm not sure that happened, would need to see another source verifying it.

Here is post imperial Mali, the mali Empire
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as compared to modern Mali which doesn't include that part of modern Mauritania
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gets to be a little confusing, same place names, differnt locations in different time periods

Good post Lioness, I like the details you put into it. Yeah modern day names of a location is not always the same as the ancient name of a location.
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just wnat to correct myself above Mauretania Tingitana (around Morocco) Used to have Phoenican cities until the Romans took over.
But the Roman North Africa territories of which where Carthage was, the region they also took over was in Tunisia part of the larger Roman provinces in North Africa

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All the colored areas except the light orange were Roman Empire territory. Notice Number 6 , Tunisia, marked "Africa" . They were calling Africa just that area at first, Carthage a city within it
And in earlier times with the Greeks they calling all of the above "Libya" and if I'm not mistaken thought that was thw whole continent we now call Africa

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^^^Interesting.
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I've been wanting to touch base on this for a while and believe this should be discussed more in depth. A lot of people have this thought that West Africans have always been isolated from the rest of the world in Ancient times and also that they developed civilization very recently.

Keep in mind that numerous areas of EUROPE have been
relatively isolated from developments in the Mediterranean,
NEAfrica & the Middle East. England was a relatively isolated
place until the Roman conquest, as were Ireland, Scotland
and Wales. Large parts of the mountainous Balkans
have been relatively isolated, as well as large
swathes of Eastern Europe. The Slavic peoples of Russia
for example were in early eras the prey of other peoples-
hence our word today "slave" derives from "Slav".
Neither Britain or Russia (two of the strongest
nations of the 19th and 20th century respectively)
were of much relative account in antiquity as
regards so-called "civilization."

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Son of Ra, look up HANNO that's a connect between Pheonicians and West Africans
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Does anyone have any idea what kind of people would have lived in the area around Carthage before the Phoenicians showed up? Most of you would probably guess Berbers or some related group, but I for one wonder whether some of them could have been people of West African affinity instead. To me it seems possible for West African people to colonize the area sometime before the Sahara turned into a desert.

BTW I drew a portrait of Hannibal just now:

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(The beauty scar design on his left cheek is supposed to show a Carthaginian religious symbol, but he would have picked it up from African locals who had a longstanding tradition of ritual scarification.)

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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:
Son of Ra, look up HANNO that's a connect between Pheonicians and West Africans

I did, he was an explorer.
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quote:
Originally posted by Truthcentric:


BTW I drew a portrait of Hannibal just now:


here is an altered version of your picture with some of the black lines removed

http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-26-114.png

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which west african groups were in west africa at that time?
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This picture showing the Canaanite/Phoenician as light skin semite is wrong. The Canaanite were a mixture of a majority black and brown people and a minority semite people. The African tribes that make up the Phoenician/Canaanite were the Philistine Akan of Ghana and Dan of Ivory Coast, Mande.
The Somalian, Oromo, Massai, Afar, Tutsi were also Canaanite tribes.

The Canaanite traded all over the Mediterranean sea. They traded in Europe, North Africa, North Europe, East Africa, West Africa, Arabia, India, Mexico, South America and North America etc.

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Phoenician/Canaanite

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Phoenician/Canaanite/Carthage

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^^^Sorry but no...
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I disagree lioness, Carthage was a Phoenician colony(one of many) that evolved into a powerful naval empire independent of phoenicia. What makes them distinct is their mixing with the native berbers of northern africa and the fact that Carthage created colonies throughout Gaul, Iberia, Northern Africa,etc. They were Semitic AND African, they were famous for their African war elephants and using Numidian cavalry.
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It's always embarrassing to see people claim non-African civilizations as black and African. Why do they feel the need to compensate? Africa is not lacking in rich empires and powerful kingdoms. Why claim other peoples? The Phoenicians were clearly Semitic, and even if they were dark-skinned, they wouldn't necessarily be black. I'd shy away from even using the word black to describe people, especially those in the Middle East or Asia, because
"black" as a racial classification is very, very flawed.

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After North African Capsian culture there is 1-2000 year gap of no evidence of human habitation settlements in the Maghreb
Possibly there were some nomads around.
The Capsians were the last hunter gatherer culture about 10,000 to 6,000 BCE.

Phoenican colonies in Africa around 800-1000 BC

Sea People became active as early as the reign of Akhenaten.
An inscription of Ramesses II relates in the 8th year of his reign (which is dated c. 1176 BC):

"No land could stand before their arms, from Hatti, Qode, Carchemish, Arzawa and Alasiya on, being cut off at one time. A camp was set up in one place in Amurru. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being. They were coming toward Egypt, while the flame was prepared before them. Their confederation was the Peleset, Tjeker, Shekelesh, Denyen, and Weshesh, lands united. They laid their hands upon the land as far as the circuit of the earth, their hearts confident and trusting: 'Our plans will succeeded!'
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Even during the predynastic period, temple reliefs frequently show Libyans as a defeated enemy, and there are records from the reigns of the Old Kingdom pharaohs Snefru (2613 BC to 2589 BC) and Sahure of specific campaigns against them.
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Detail of King Snefru from his funerary temple of Dahshur now on the main facade of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo Museum The king is seated on a throne and wears the white robe of royal of the Hed-Seb. 4th Dynasty

LIBYANS

Libyans at right from tomb of Ramesses III 1186–1155 BC
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I was just browsing Google image search for Carthaginian artifacts, and apparently they made masks with evidence for facial scars!

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@Truthcentric


You believe Hannibal was African?

@PreColonialAfrica


Agreed Carthage was both African and Semitic.

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here's a wikipedia entry on Cartheginian Religion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Carthage

"The religion of Carthage in North Africa was a direct continuation of the polytheistic Phoenician religion of the Levant, with significant local modifications. Controversy prevails regarding the possible existence and practice of propitiatory child sacrifice in the religion of Carthage"

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quote:
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@Truthcentric


You believe Hannibal was African?

Don't think there's hard evidence either way, but I do have another recent drawing of him that portrays him as more African:

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And an earlier, more dynamic picture of him brandishing his battle ax:
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I have a photoshopped photo called "what if Truthcentric was Black ???"
I'll post it if approved by Truthcentric

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quote:
Originally posted by PreColonialAfrica13:

I disagree lioness, Carthage was a Phoenician colony(one of many) that evolved into a powerful naval empire independent of phoenicia. What makes them distinct is their mixing with the native berbers of northern africa and the fact that Carthage created colonies throughout Gaul, Iberia, Northern Africa,etc. They were Semitic AND African, they were famous for their African war elephants and using Numidian cavalry.

Can you expand and clarify your statements.


African is a continental identity.
Semitic is a language not an identity.
Many Ethiopians are African and Semitic.


As far as I can make things out Carthage's
people over time became more of African
ancestry than Levantine and identified
themselves strictly as Carthaginian by
cultural ethnic identity but not Canaani.

As an example, self identified Carthaginian
Severus his tondo shows different phenotypes
for himself and his Syrian (Syria => Ssur =>
Tyre) wife.

Admittedly much ethnic flux over 1000 years
altered or added to both North African and
Levantine phenotypes. Both regions had their
indigenous black types as well as non-black
types -- and black is not limited to Africans
south of the Sahara, there are many unrelated
black peoples in the eastern hemisphere still
today.


Many people in the Tunis/Libya region were
identified as Liby-Phoenics by the Greeks.
I guess these were people who didn't rank
one of their antecedents over another.

Others simply retained African identity
despite any extra continental infusions.


Anyway, you are absolutely correct that
Carthage very early on was completely
independent of Canaan though Carthage
did pay rent to the Afrigha up until
the time of Mago.

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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:

After North African Capsian culture there is

a) 1-2000 year gap of no evidence of human habitation settlements in the Maghreb

b) Possibly there were some nomads around.

So which is it a or b?

I sincerely doubt all the people there
disappeared in a puff of smoke for your
unspecified time frame.

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quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:
quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:

After North African Capsian culture there is

a) 1-2000 year gap of no evidence of human habitation settlements in the Maghreb

b) Possibly there were some nomads around.

So which is it a or b?

I sincerely doubt all the people there
disappeared in a puff of smoke for your
unspecified time frame.

I don't know for sure
Lack of evidence for human suggests largely a)
-a depopulation that corresponds to the drying of the Sahara.
The people would not have disappeared they would have migrated to other parts of Africa just like people left Northern and Central Europe when Ice age temperatires set in.


Libyans are one of the predominant ancient Maghrebian ethnicities. Greeks say they were long haired and it is confirmed in much of the Egyptian art.
I have posted several examples of Libyans in E art confirming this. Heodotus described two main regions of Libyans and this breaks down further into tribes
Examples of Libyans in Egyptians art show some skin tones similar to Egyptian and others notably lighter.
Their exact origin is unknown.
They are of a time period when foreign "Sea people" were coming into Africa.


quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:

As far as I can make things out Carthage's
people over time became more of African
ancestry than Levantine and identified
themselves strictly as Carthaginian by
cultural ethnic identity but not Canaani.

As an example, self identified Carthaginian
Severus his tondo shows different phenotypes
for himself and his Syrian (Syria => Ssur =>
Tyre) wife.


^^Here is the Tondo>

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You mean to tell me because he is portrayed here as darker that is proof of primary African deep rooted indigenous origin and not just African by nationality? He was born in Leptis Magna a Roman city in Libya.
It's unbelievable to me someone can look at the above picture and think he looks specifically African. He is described as having a Pheonician father and an Italian mother.
Could an individual who looked like that have deep rooted indigenous African ancestry? Maybe but where's the evidence?

Are we to assume the below men are primarily African based on skin tone alone?

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Look on google images "Cartheginian coins" or "Numidian Coins"
or "Mauretanian coins"
Most by far most do not look particularly African many look more similar to Greeks and Romans, yet some were minted in Utica which was in Tunisa Africa and the coins sometimes have speicifc named people.
Did they have some coins that looked particulary African
yes and they have been posted many times before but
if you look at the context, proportionatly these are very few and of nameless people.
Also an African person living in Carthage is not necessarily an African of North African ancestry.

You can disregard anything I said but you still have to have stronger proof than brown skin to prove that Carthage was primarily comprised of deep rooted indigenous North Africans.

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I didn't read the whole thread. But in general, North African populations like Berbers have various level of African and Eurasian admixture depending on which individual and which populations.
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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:



Look on google images "Cartheginian coins" or "Numidian Coins"
or "Mauretanian coins"
Most by far most do not look particularly African many look more similar to Greeks and Romans, yet some were minted in Utica which was in Tunisa Africa and the coins sometimes have speicifc named people.
Did they have some coins that looked particulary African
yes and they have been posted many times before but
if you look at the context, proportionatly these are very few and of nameless people.
Also an African person living in Carthage is not necessarily an African of North African ancestry.

You can disregard anything I said but you still have to have stronger proof than brown skin to prove that Carthage was primarily comprised of deep rooted indigenous North Africans.

It's funny how you insist on this pseudo rant. But when it comes to Africans entering Southern Europe you fight it like a uncontrolled wild cat. You literally stitch stuff together you fantasize about, as if it's a valid argument. And you conveniently leave out certain info. Amusing!


Repost,

Phoenician people themselves were a mixed bunch. And it reflexes in their portrayals. Go figure! [Embarrassed]


Supplemental Data


Identifying Genetic Traces of Historical Expansions: Phoenician Footprints in the Mediterranean

Pierre A. Zalloua, Daniel E. Platt, Mirvat El Sibai, Jade Khalife, Nadine Makhoul, Marc Haber, Yali Xue, Hassan Izaabel, Elena Bosch, Susan M. Adams, Eduardo Arroyo, Ana María López-Parra, Mercedes Aler, Antònia Picornell, Misericordia Ramon, Mark A. Jobling, David Comas, Jaume Bertranpetit, R. Spencer Wells, Chris Tyler-Smith, and The Genographic Consortium


Table S1. Haplogroups and Haplotypes of New Populations Sampled for this Study

http://download.cell.com/AJHG/mmcs/j


Reconstructing ancient mitochondrial DNA links between Africa and Europe


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337428/pdf/821.pdf


"E3b lineages would have then been introduced from the Near East into southern Europe by farmers, during the Neolithic expansion" (Hammer et al. 1998; Semino et al. 2000; Underhill et al. 2001).

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quote:
Originally posted by Troll Patrol aka Ish Gebor:
It's funny how you insist on this pseudo rant. But when it comes to Africans entering Southern Europe you fight it like a uncontrolled wild cat. You literally stitch stuff together you fantasize about, as if it's a valid argument. Amusing!


Reconstructing ancient mitochondrial DNA links between Africa and Europe


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337428/pdf/821.pdf [/QB]

During the Muslim conquest Arabs, indigenous Africans and part indigenous Africans invaded Iberia and part of Italy.
This left genetic imprints


E-M81 is widespread but rare, except in the Iberian Peninsula Spain, where unlike in the rest of Europe[Note 6] it is found at comparable levels to E-M78, with an average frequency of around 5%, and in some regions it is more common. Its frequencies are higher in the western half of the peninsula with frequencies reaching 8% in Extremadura and South Portugal, 9% in Galicia, 14% in Western Andalusia and 10% in Northwest Castile and 9% to 17% in Cantabria.[19][33][34][35][36] The highest frequencies of this clade found so far in Europe were observed in the Pasiegos from Cantabria, ranging from 18% (8/45)[36] to 41% (23/56).[2] An average frequency of 8.28% (54/652) has also been reported in the Spanish Canary Islands with frequencies over 10% in the three largest islands of Tenerife (10.68%), Gran Canaria (11.54%) and Fuerteventura (13.33%).[37] E-M81 is also found in France,[2] 2.70% (15/555) overall with frequencies surpassing 5% in Auvergne (5/89) and Île-de-France (5/91),[38][39] in Sicily (approximately 2% overall, but up to 5% in Piazza Armerina),[40] and in very much lower frequencies in continental Italy (especially near Lucera)[35] possibly due to ancient migrations during the Islamic, Roman, and Carthaginian empires. As a result of its old world distribution, this subclade is found throughout Latin America, for example 6.1% in Cuba,[41] 5.4% in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), [Note 7] and among Hispanic men from California and Hawaii 2.4%.[42] In smaller numbers, E-M81 men can be found in areas in contact with [North Africa, both around the Sahara, in places like Sudan, and around the Mediterranean in places like Lebanon, Turkey, and amongst Sephardic Jews. There are two recognized subclades of E-M81, although one is much more important than the other.

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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:
quote:
Originally posted by Troll Patrol aka Ish Gebor:
It's funny how you insist on this pseudo rant. But when it comes to Africans entering Southern Europe you fight it like a uncontrolled wild cat. You literally stitch stuff together you fantasize about, as if it's a valid argument. Amusing!


Reconstructing ancient mitochondrial DNA links between Africa and Europe


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337428/pdf/821.pdf

During the Muslim conquest Arabs, indigenous Africans and part indigenous Africans invaded Iberia and part of Italy.
This left genetic imprints [/QB]

Sure lying idiot,


quote:
"E3b lineages would have then been introduced from the Near East into southern Europe by farmers, during the Neolithic expansion"
--(Hammer et al. 1998; Semino et al. 2000; Underhill et al. 2001).


quote:
An expansion of E-M35 carriers, possibly from the Middle East as proposed by other Authors [14], and split into two branches separated by the geographic barrier of the Mediterranean Sea, would explain this geographic pattern. However, the absence of E-V68* and E-V257* in the Middle East (Table S2) ]makes a maritime spread between northern Africa and southern Europe a more plausible hypothesis.
--Beniamino Trombetta et al. (2011)


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quote:
Originally posted by Troll Patrol aka Ish Gebor:
quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:
quote:
Originally posted by Troll Patrol aka Ish Gebor:
It's funny how you insist on this pseudo rant. But when it comes to Africans entering Southern Europe you fight it like a uncontrolled wild cat. You literally stitch stuff together you fantasize about, as if it's a valid argument. Amusing!


Reconstructing ancient mitochondrial DNA links between Africa and Europe


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337428/pdf/821.pdf

During the Muslim conquest Arabs, indigenous Africans and part indigenous Africans invaded Iberia and part of Italy.
This left genetic imprints

Sure lying idiot,



explain in your own words why that's a lie
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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:
quote:
Originally posted by Troll Patrol aka Ish Gebor:
quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:
quote:
Originally posted by Troll Patrol aka Ish Gebor:
It's funny how you insist on this pseudo rant. But when it comes to Africans entering Southern Europe you fight it like a uncontrolled wild cat. You literally stitch stuff together you fantasize about, as if it's a valid argument. Amusing!


Reconstructing ancient mitochondrial DNA links between Africa and Europe


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337428/pdf/821.pdf

During the Muslim conquest Arabs, indigenous Africans and part indigenous Africans invaded Iberia and part of Italy.
This left genetic imprints

Sure lying idiot,



explain in your own words why that's a lie
Are you this dumb or are you acting this dumb!


I just posted about Holocene and Neolithic migration into Europe! It was cited directly from valid peer reviewed sources. Nitwit!


Long before any classic time of a so called recent invasion. Nitwit!


As a so called rebuttal you post from Wikipedia? Nitwit!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_E-M215_(Y-DNA)E-M81


As stated before, you will fight this African migration in Europe with tooth and nail. Or should I use the word "defending"?lol

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you should retract saying what I said was a lie because it wasn't a lie.

If you wnat to add Holocene and Neolithic E3 it doesn't mean what I said was a lie. So in fact you saying what I said is a lie > is a lie. You need to study logic and rhetoric

Also you are using reasoning that does not correspond to the very quotes you are using.
They were talking about what they called "Middle Eastern" farmer input into Europe. That is from about 7000 years ago coming from Anatolia.
Because these farmers had E3 you are taking it upon yourself to call them Africans.

And most of the time people don't know what your point is when you rely on quotes but have a different intent than the authors of those quotes but you don't state it in your own words until I have to press it out of you to be clear

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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:
you should retract saying what I said was a lie because it wasn't a lie.

If you wnat to add Holocene and Neolithic E3 it doesn't mean what I said was a lie. So in fact you saying what I said is a lie > is a lie. You need to study logic an rhetoric

Also you are using reasoning that does not correspond to the very quotes you are using.
They were talking about what they called "Middle Eastern" farmer input into Europe. That is from about 7000 years ago coming from Anatolia.
Because these farmers had E3 you are taking it upon yourself to call them Africans.

And most of the time people don't know what your point is when you rely on quotes but have a different intent than the authors of those quotes but you don't state it in your own words until I have to press it out of you to be clear

I already stated why you lie, but you are too stupid to grasp this concept.


Your lie is in that you try to ignore the African Holocene and Neolithic migration into Southern Europe. As if they only recently entered Southern Europe during the spread of Islam. This twisted suggestion isn't true, therefore it's a lie. If no one stops you, you simply continue making up shyt!


It's no not me, who needs to learn about logic and rhetoric it's you. You are mixing up time frames to win a argument. A argument which you lost already. All you can do is try to save face. Your pseudo wiki attempts are amusing, liar!


Most of the time people do know my point, most of the time you are called out for what you are, a liar and a twister. A Wikipedia pseudo ranter, with irrelevant picture spamming.


So, to end this, when I cite it's all clearcut, but for you it's not since you are delusional and liar with multiple pseudo accounts.


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Repost,


quote:
"In this context it is likely that Bronze Age events may have facilitated the southward diffusion of populations carrying northern and central European biological elements and may have contributed to some degree of admixture between northern and central Europeans and Anatolians, and on a larger scale, between northeastern Mediterraneans and Anatolians. Even if we do not know which populations were involved, historical and archaeological data suggest, for instance, the 2nd millenium B.C. Minoan and later Mycenaean occupation of Anatolian coast, the arrival in Anatolia in the early 1st millennium B.C. of the Phrygians coming from Thrace, and later the arrival of settlers from Macedonia in Pisidia and in the Sagalassos territory (under Seleucid rule). The coming of the Dorians from Northern Greece and central Europe (the Dorians are claimed to be one of the main groups at the origin of the ancient Greeks) may have also brought northern and central European biological elements into southern populations. Indeed, the Dorians may have migrated southward to the Peloponnese, across the southern Aegean and Create, and later reached Asia Minor."


[...]


"From the Mesolithic to the early Neolithic period different lines of evidence support an out-of-Africa Mesolithic migration to the Levant by northeastern African groups that had biological affinities with sub-Saharan populations. From a genetic point of view, several recent genetic studies have shown that sub-Saharan genetic lineages (affiliated with the Y-chromosome PN2 clade; Underhill et al. 2004) have spread through Egypt into the Near East, the Mediterranean area, and, for some lineages, as far north as Turkey(E3b-M35 Y lineage; Cinnioglu et al. 2004; Luis et al. 2004), probably during several dispersal episodes since the Mesolithic (Cinnioglu et al. 2004; King et al. 2008; Lucotte and Mercier 2003; Luis et al. 2004; Quintanna-Murci et al. 1999; Semino et al. 2004; Underhill et al. 2001). This finding is in agreement with morphological data that suggest that populations with sub-Saharan morphological elements were present in northeastern Africa, from the Paleolithic to at least the early Holocene, and diffused northward to the Levant and Anatolia beginning in the Mesolithic. Indeed, the rare and incomplete 33,000-year-old Nazlet Khater specimen (Pinhasi and Semal 2000), the Wadi Kubbaniya skeleton from the late Paleolithic site in the upper Nile Valley (Wendorf et al. 1986), the Qarunian (Faiyum) early Neolithic crania (Henneberg et al. 1989; Midant-Reynes 2000), and the Nabta specimen from the Neolithic Nabta Playa site in the western desert of Egypt (Henneberg et al. 1980)-show, with regard to the great African biological diversity, similarities with some of the sub-Saharan middle Paleolithic and modern sub-Saharan specimens. This affinity pattern between ancient Egyptians and sub-Saharans has also been noticed by several other investigators (Angel 1972; Berry and Berry 1967, 1972; Keita 1995) and has been recently reinforced by the study of Brace et al. (2005), which clearly shows that the cranial morphology of prehistoric and recent northeast African populations is linked to sub-Saharan populations (Niger-Congo populations). These results support the hypothesis that some of the Paleolithic-early Holocene populations from northeast Africa were probably descendents of sub-Saharan ancestral populations."


[...]


"Keeping in mind these three elements, if we consider the affinity of the Sagalassos population with the sub-Saharan populations from Gabon and Somalia, a recent direct contact between these populations and regions probably can be excluded because they are seperated by significant geographic distances. However, indirect contacts through geographically intermediary populations carrying "sub-Saharan"biological features in the late Pleistocene-Holocene period are discussion points."


--F. X. Ricaut
M. Waelkens
Cranial Discrete Traits in a Byzantine Population and Eastern Mediterranean Population Movements
Human Biology - Volume 80, Number 5, October 2008, pp. 535-564

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quote:
Originally posted by Son of Ra:


^^^Interesting.

quote:
The sandstone escarpment of the Dhar Tichitt in South-Central Mauritania was inhabited by Neolithic agropastoral communities for approximately one and half millennium during the Late Holocene, from ca. 4000 to 2300 BP. The absence of prior evidence of human settlement points to the influx of mobile herders moving away from the “drying” Sahara towards more humid lower latitudes.
--Augustin F.C. Holl
Volume 341, Issues 8–9, August–September 2009, Pages 703–712


Coping with uncertainty: Neolithic life in the Dhar Tichitt-Walata, Mauritania, (ca. 4000–2300 BP)


Another thread by Jari on; Tichitt-Walata Oldest Stone West African Settlement



quote:
Legend holds that Carthage was founded around 825 BC by Queen Dido who had fled from the city of Tyre to escape her murderous brother Pygmalion. Archaeological evidence confirms that Phoenician traders from Tyre founded the city of Qart-Ḥadašt—or "New City," as Carthage was known in its native language—in the second half of the ninth century BC.
--Dickinson College Commentaries


http://dcc.dickinson.edu/nepos-hannibal/carthage-early-history

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@the Lioness

Besides the fact I was posting Libyan images here
five years before you began posting to ES (many
of which you reposted) there are several things
you say I could comment on (again like for the
999th time) so instead I'll just ask this:

If Severus' mother was Italian (not merely a
Roman citizen) then why did Severus speak with
so heavy an accent that he was made fun of and
why his embarrassed for his sister who spoke it not at all?

No mama lashon in the home?

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quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:
@the Lioness

Besides the fact I was posting Libyan images here
five years before you began posting to ES (many
of which you reposted) there are several things
you say I could comment on (again like for the
999th time) so instead I'll just ask this:

If Severus' mother was Italian (not merely a
Roman citizen) then why did Severus speak with
so heavy an accent that he was made fun of and
why his embarrassed for his sister who spoke it not at all?

No mama lashon in the home?

He spoke Latin and Greek with a Punic accent which is a later form of Phoenician language.


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Arch of Septimus Severus in the Roman province Leptis Magna in Libya, where Severus was born
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https://www.facebook.com/events/155463071328147/


Breasted Hall, The Oriental Institute 1155 E 58th Street Chicago IL 60637 How did ancient Romans understand other peoples, especially Africans? This talk surveys the evidence of Roman literture, inscriptions and especially works of art, including unpublished material from current excavations. Dr. Bell investigates the creative forms of artistic expression that Africans inspired across the empire, and suggests some possible motives for their creation.


http://www.archaeological.org/events/10256


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Voyage to West Africa of 5,000 -30,000 Cartheginians 60 Ships,
Hanno
the Navigator and King of Carthage


(at bottom Hanno's own account of his voyage)

Hanno the Navigator (also known as Hanno II of Carthage) was a Carthaginian explorer c. 500 BC, best known for his naval exploration of the African coast. As Hanno II, he held the throne as nominal king of Carthage from 480 until 440 BC — although by his reign, it was already in the process of starting to become more of a republic in practical terms. The lunar crater Hanno is named after him. This Hanno is called the Navigator to distinguish him from a number of other Carthaginians with this name. The voyage of Hanno is ascribed to various dates; current thinking is that it was in the fifth century BC.
The number of thirty thousand is suspect: the ships would be very crowded. J.G. Demerliac & J. Meirat, Hannon et l' Empire Punique (1983 Paris, pp.64-67) suggest five thousand.

A number of modern scholars have commented upon Hanno's voyage. In many cases, the analysis has been to refine information and interpretation of the original account. William Smith points out that the complement of personnel totalled 30,000, and that the core mission included the intent to found Carthaginian (or in the older parlance Libyophoenician) towns.


Harden states there is general consensus that the expedition reached at least as far as Senegal.[9] There seems to be some agreement that he could have reached Gambia. However, Harden mentions lack of agreement as to precisely where to locate the farthest limit of Hanno's explorations: Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Gabon. He notes the description of Mount Cameroon, a 4,040-metre (13,250 ft) volcano, more closely matches Hanno's description than Guinea's 890-metre (2,920 ft) Mount Kakulima. Warmington prefers Mount Kakulima, considering Mount Cameroon too distant


As Warmington states,[2] Carthage dispatched Hanno at the head of a fleet of sixty ships to explore and colonize the northwestern coast of Africa. He sailed through the straits of Gibraltar, founded or repopulated seven colonies along the African coast of what is now Morocco, and explored significantly farther along the Atlantic coast of the continent. Hogan cites the visit of Hanno to Mogador, where the Phoenicians established an important dye-manufacturing plant using a marine gastropod found in the local Atlantic Ocean waters.[3] Hanno encountered various indigenous peoples on his journey and met with a variety of welcomes.

The eighteen lines of Hanno's artless account of his journey along the west coast of Africa are a unique document. It is the only known first-hand report on these regions before those of the Portuguese, which were written two thousand years later. It is the longest known text by a Phoenician author. Besides, Hanno has a fascinating story to tell: we visit a mysterious island, have to fight hostile natives, survive an erupting volcano, and encounter gorillas.
Probably, Hanno made his voyage on the outer sea in the first half of the sixth century BCE. He had orders to found several colonies on the Moroccan coast; having done so, he established a trading post on a small island off the Mauritanian coast. After completing the original mission, he ventured further south, making a reconnaissance expedition along the African coast until he reached modern Gabon, where he was forced to return because he was running out of supplies. There is some reason to doubt the truth of the latter statement, because the Roman encyclopedist Pliny the Elder says that Hanno circumnavigated Africa and reached the borders of Arabia (below).


At the moment, there are only two copies, dating back to the ninth and the fourteenth centuries. The first of these manuscripts is known as the Palatinus Graecus 398 and can be studied in the University Library of Heidelberg. The other text is the Vatopedinus 655; parts of it are in the British Museum in London and in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.



Below is the account of Hanno, king of Carthage, about his voyage to the Libyan lands beyond the Pillars of Herakles, which he also set up in the shrine of Kronos.Hanno's remark that his translators were unable to speak with the native population suggests that they had entered the regions where Kru languages were spoken, in modern Sierra Leone.

(Libya is the Greek name for Africa
Libyphoenicians are the Phoenicians living in Africa.)


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The Carthaginians ordered Hanno to sail out of the Pillars of Herakles and found a number of Libyphoenician cities. He set sail with sixty fifty-oared ships, about thirty thousand men and women, food and other equipment.

After sailing beyond the Pillars for two days, we founded our first city, called Thymiaterion. Below it was a large plain.

Sailing westward from there, we arrived at Soloeis, a Libyan promontory, covered with trees.

Here we dedicated a temple to Poseidon. Sailing to the east for half a day, we reached a lake. It was not far from the sea, and was covered with many long reeds, from which elephants and other wild animals were eating

After our visit to the lake, we sailed on for one day. By the sea, we founded cities, called Karikon Teichos, Gytte, Akra, Melitta and Arambys

Continuing our voyage from there, we reached the Lixos, a large river flowing from Libya. The Lixites, a nomadic tribe, were pasturing their cattle beside it. We remained with them for some time and became friends.Beyond them, hostile Ethiopians occupied a land full of wild animals. It was surrounded by the great mountains from which the Lixos flows down. According to the Lixites, strange people dwell among these mountains: cave men who run faster than horses.

When we had got interpreters from the Lixites, we sailed along the desert shore for two days to the south. After sailing eastward for one day, we found in the recess of a bay a small island which had a circumference of five stades. We left settlers there and called it Kerne. We calculated from the journey that this island lay opposite Carthage, for the time sailing from Carthage to the Pillars and from there to Kerne was the same.

Sailing from there, we crossed a river called Chretes, and reached a bay, which contained three islands, bigger than Kerne. After a day's sail from here, we arrived at the end of the bay, which was overhung by some very great mountains, crowded with savages clad in animals' skins. By throwing stones, they prevented us from disembarking and drove us away.

Leaving from there, we arrived at another large, broad river teeming with crocodiles and hippopotamuses. Returning from there, we went back to Kerne.
From there we we sailed to the south for twelve days. We remained close to the coast, which was entirely inhabited by Ethiopians, who fled from us when we approached. Even to our Lixites, their language was unintelligible.

On the last day, we anchored by some big mountains. They were covered with trees whose wood was aromatic and colorful.

Sailing around the mountains for two days, we came to an immense expanse of sea beyond which, on the landward side, was a plain. During the night we observed big and small fires everywhere flaming up at intervals.

Taking on water there, we continued for five days along the coast, until we reached a great bay which according to our translators was the Horn of the West. There was a large island in it, and in it a lagoon [which was salt] like the sea, and on it another island. Here we disembarked. In daytime, we could see nothing but the forest, but during the night, we noticed many fires alight and heard the sound of flutes, the beating of cymbals and tom-toms, and the shouts of a multitude. We grew afraid and our diviners advised us to leave this island.

Quickly, we sailed away, passing along a fiery coast full of incense. Large torrents of fire emptied into the sea, and the land was inaccessible because of the heat.


Quickly and in fear, we sailed away from that place. Sailing on for four days, we saw the coast by night full of flames. In the middle was a big flame, taller than the others and apparently rising to the stars. By day, this turned out to be a very high mountain, which was called Chariot of the Gods.

Sailing thence along the torrents of fire, we arrived after three days at a bay called Horn of the South

In this gulf was an island, resembling the first, with a lagoon, within which was another island, full of savages. Most of them were women with hairy bodies, whom our interpreters called 'gorillas'. Although we chased them, we could not catch any males: they all escaped, being good climbers who defended themselves with stones. However, we caught three women, who refused to follow those who carried them off, biting and clawing them. So we killed and flayed them and brought their skins back to Carthage. For we did not sail any further, because our provisions were running short



At the below webiste on the right column is commentary on the above text, about what old places names mentioned correspond to West African place names we know today:

http://www.livius.org/ha-hd/hanno/hanno02.html

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quote:
Originally posted by Troll Patrol aka Ish Gebor:

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^^^^ can you identify these two sculptures?


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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:

quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:
@the Lioness

Besides the fact I was posting Libyan images here
five years before you began posting to ES (many
of which you reposted) there are several things
you say I could comment on (again like for the
999th time) so instead I'll just ask this:

If Severus' mother was Italian (not merely a
Roman citizen) then why did Severus speak with
so heavy an accent that he was made fun of and
why his embarrassed for his sister who spoke it not at all?

No mama lashon in the home?

He spoke Latin and Greek with a Punic accent which is a later form of Phoenician language.
.
Don't get cute explaining Punic is Phoenician
to me. Who do you think you're talking to? No
way you'll make points with newbies at my
expense.

So Septimius got his Punic from growing up in
the household of an Italian mother, right,
while his sister learned no Latin from their
Italian mommy when she was growing up. You
thought you'd worm your way out of that one?
Distracting non-sequitors don't cut it.

Another point you tried to slink away from is
a - vacant post-Gafsian Maghreb
b - inhabited post-Gafsian Maghreb
which one? You know it can't be both.

Other ignorant statements that railroad your
attempt to play "forum master" and "credible
scholar" -- when actually the stuff you post
that mostly makes sense is mainly plagiarized
-- to newbies who don't know your history

* Carthage is not distinct from Phoenicia
* Angus McBrides total fantasy Tichitt Phoenicia trade
* playing ignorant of Gafsian Neolithic Tradition
(circa -5300 to -2900) after the Gafsian ended
(circa -6000) even though submitting a c -8000
to -2700 range for entire Gafsian here
* eastern Libyans are one predominant ancient Maghreb ethny
* Septimius Severus' was a Phoenician Italian hybrid


Although it's not a standard to use e instead
of i in spelling ancient Mauretania it's an old
suggestion DJ made here in the More proof of "black" Moors thread.

Got to hand it to you though, you keep interest
in ES alive where others fell by the wayside and
occasionally come up with good ****  - .

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quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:

Don't get cute explaining Punic is Phoenician
to me. Who do you think you're talking to? No
way you'll make points with newbies at my
expense.

So Septimius got his Punic from growing up in
the household of an Italian mother, right,
while his sister learned no Latin from their
Italian mommy when she was growing up. You
thought you'd worm your way out of that one?
Distracting non-sequitors don't cut it.

It's not clear what your claim is on Severus' accent.
He was born in a Roman province in Libya that had been Phoenician. His mother was Italian.
He spoke Punic and therefore had a Punic accent when he later learned Latin and Greek.
These are thought to be facts as per historians. If they are incorrect then you need to put forward an alternate conspiracy theory about his accent and ancestry.

quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:

Another point you tried to slink away from is
a - vacant post-Gafsian Maghreb
b - inhabited post-Gafsian Maghreb
which one? You know it can't be both.


^^^"All or nothing" mentality

there you go throwing in the obscure terms "post-Gafsain"
I don't know if anybody every used that before. To the people I'm going to guess great sage intellectual prophet means post wet period Sahara.
As I said before there was a long stretch over 1000 years of no eveidence of human habiation in the Maghreb. They might find some in the future.
Long haired Nomadic tribes are mentioned by the Greeks but Sea people and other foreigners had been entering the region hundreds of years before Herodotus.
Were the nomads also mixed with descendants or earlier deep rooted indigenous Africans? I don't know, there is no anthropolgical evidence yet. But there is evidence for earlier green period settlements that came to an end over 1000 years before the Geeks were talking about Libyan tribes.
We can go into West and other parts of African and find the deep roots
yeah I said geeks, the ancient geeks


quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:
Other ignorant statements that railroad your
attempt to play "forum master" and "credible
scholar" -- when actually the stuff you post
that mostly makes sense is mainly plagiarized
-- to newbies who don't know your history

* Carthage is not distinct from Phoenicia

if you mean Carthage had no relation to Phoenica you are misleading the people

Most scholariship is plagerist ideas, primary sources reworded.
However Mike does "innovate"


quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:
Other ignorant statements

* Angus McBrides total fantasy Tichitt Phoenicia trade

please follow the thead, Son of Ra introduced that picture, it's his fault, my post remark was

"The illustration portays Phoenicians traders trading with Mandé merchants of the Pre-Imperial Mali in the 10th c
I'm not sure that happened, would need to see another source verifying it."

Where were you when he first posted that?

please explain about the total fantasy, I don't know much about it. I suppose there are timeline issue ?


quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:
Other ignorant statements

* playing ignorant of Gafsian Neolithic Tradition
(circa -5300 to -2900) after the Gafsian ended
(circa -6000) even though submitting a c -8000
to -2700 range for entire Gafsian


no more egghead terminology please, nobody in the forum is using "Gafsian"
thats a gaffe

quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:
Other ignorant statements

here
* eastern Libyans are one predominant ancient Maghreb ethny

follow the thread my posted remark was:

"Heodotus described two main regions of Libyans and this breaks down further into tribes"

quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:
Other ignorant statements


* Septimius Severus' was a Phoenician Italian hybrid


Severus came from a wealthy, distinguished family of equestrian rank. He was of Italian Roman ancestry on his mother's side

see
Birley, Anthony R. (1999) [1971]. Septimius Severus: The African Emperor.

Tell us great sage, your evidence that Severus mother was not Italian

Here is the detail of the Tondo you mentioned>

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Septimus Severus (aka Raw Dogg)

^^ tell us your alternative theory about how this was actually a deep rooted indignenous African maternally and paternally




quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:


Got to hand it to you though, you keep interest
in ES alive where others fell by the wayside and
occasionally come up with good shit

in the building

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2013>2014

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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:

quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:

As far as I can make things out Carthage's
people over time became more of African
ancestry than Levantine and identified
themselves strictly as Carthaginian by
cultural ethnic identity but not Canaani.

As an example, self identified Carthaginian
Severus his tondo shows different phenotypes
for himself and his Syrian (Syria => Ssur =>
Tyre) wife.


^^Here is the Tondo>

[replaced by al~Takruri

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Berlin, Antikensammlung, inv. nr. 31329. Photograph: Ursula Kampmann.


]

. . . .

You can disregard anything I said but you still have to have stronger proof than brown skin to prove that Carthage was primarily comprised of deep rooted indigenous North Africans.

Build a straw man knock it down.
Absolutely nothing I ever said
or anything to do with anything
I ever said.

Now if I call you a disengenious
photo spammin' twit don't run to
Sammy again and have him wipe what
you don't like the way you did last
month behind me puttin' fire up under
yr ass in the Who These People and
the Kefti threads. Ya hear?

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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:

quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:


So Septimius got his Punic from growing up in
the household of an Italian mother, right,
while his sister learned no Latin from their
Italian mommy when she was growing up. You
thought you'd worm your way out of that one?
Distracting non-sequitors don't cut it.

. . . .

His mother was Italian.
He spoke Punic and therefore had a Punic accent when he later learned Latin and Greek.
These are thought to be facts as per historians.
. . . .

So where's your primary documental evidence
from the Latin Roman authors that his moms
was Italian not just a Roman citizen?

Use a little logic. If he was raised by
a 'Tally mommi he would not have
a nearly unintelligible accent that
Romans made fun of when he spoke Latin would he?

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quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:

quote:
Originally posted by Tukuler:

Another point you tried to slink away from is
a - vacant post-Gafsian Maghreb
b - inhabited post-Gafsian Maghreb
which one? You know it can't be both.


^^^"All or nothing" mentality


Yes, outlining your all or nothing submentality

Direct quote

quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:

After North African Capsian culture there is 1-2000 year gap of no evidence of human habitation settlements in the Maghreb
Possibly there were some nomads around.
The Capsians were the last hunter gatherer culture about 10,000 to 6,000 BCE.

Fact is, you know bupkis about the Gafsian.

Compare what you wrote yesterday to what you
wrote in July
quote:
Originally posted by the lioness,:

Capsian cultutre 8000 bc – 2,700 BC.
(other sources 8000-4000 BC)

.

Proof positive you don't know what you
talkin bout just frontin frauds as you
go along with newbies getting sucked in
by your one day this next day that bullshit.

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