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Keita was right, when you search through a lot of old literature of ancient Egyptians you do see little gems and nuggets, even if the authors themselves are hesitant to outright state the obvious:
Most Ancient Egypt: Chapter III. The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Communities of Northern Egypt Author(s): William C. Hayes Source: Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Oct., 1964), pp. 217-272
The stone implements of Maadi South are without exception flakes and blades showing the same technique and many of the same forms seen in the settlement. Blades, knives, and scrapers of tabu flint predominate and there are also a few flakes with serrated edges. The slate cosmetic palettes are either trapezoidal with beveled edges or of the rhomboidal type which we associate with the Naqada cultures of Upper Egypt.
The skeletons of the men, women, and infant children buried in this cemetery are in many cases well preserved, but no anthropological report concerning them is as yet available. They are described in a brief resume on the site as being taller, more heavily built, and more prognathous (more negroid?) than the people of Maadi North, sharing these characteristics with the occupants of a cemetery near Heliopolis, to which we shall presently turn our attention.
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The early northern Egyptian, wherever we encounter him-Merimda, El Omari, Maadi North, Maadi South, and Heliopolis -appears to have been somewhat taller and more sturdily built than his Upper Egyptian contemporary and to have been endowed with a broader and better formed skull and a generally greater cranial capacity. The prognathism observed in the skulls from Maadi South and Heliopolis may or may not indicate the infiltration of a negroid strain into the northern region and, on the other hand, a few broad, square-jawed skulls found in a cemetery near Deir Tasa may point to the existence of an outpost of the "Northern Race" in Middle Egypt. Generally speaking, how- ever, the prehistoric northerner seems to represent a type distinct in race and physique as well as in culture from the people of the south. In him, rather than in some intrusive group of outlanders, we may perhaps recognize, with Junker, the ancestor of the so-called Dynastic Race, or Giza type, of Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom times.
Why admit "Negroid" traits then try to deny them by saying northerners must be a different? Remember this was written in the early 60s.
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What period did the people of Maadi South date to specifically? Just as Abydos recieved northern inflow, southerners could've moved north. Some might look at this and assume that there was southern Egyptian inflow to the north and that the most common phenotype to the northern Egypt was reflected in Maadi north.
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quote:Originally posted by Ase: What period did the people of Maadi South date to specifically? Just as Abydos recieved northern inflow, southerners could've moved north. Some might look at this and assume that there was southern Egyptian inflow to the north and that the most common phenotype to the northern Egypt was reflected in Maadi north.
I think its proto-Dynastic to early dynastic. I don't think its an infusion from the south at all. I believe it may be native. I can email you the full paper to analyze. The authors seem to believe that culture of predynastic Lower Egypt are African, but flip flop between Lower Egyptian type being native or alien.
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Southerners traveled north more during the mid to late predynastic, especially as they began taking over. So I'd need to be sure what time period in the predynastic this data refers to.
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C.A. Diop implied that the early Northern iKami were perhaps of a Dravidian strain as well.
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