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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Truthcentric: [qb] Should we really be using Egyptian art as an argument for their biological affinities? The skin tones aren't necessarily realistic, unless you want to argue that ancient Egypt was populated by red men and yellow women. [/qb][/QUOTE]Yes, only as long as you realize these are portraits of black Africans depicted in natural brown tones with yellow and other colors used for symbolic purposes. All women were not depicted as yellow in AE art a great many were also depicted in the same shades as the men. Does anyone question the whiteness of the Greeks even when their art depicted the men as black skinned and the women as white? First and foremost it is art and therefore it has an artistic and cultural context as well as an ethnographic context. ALL Greek art is not explicitly realistic enough to use as a basis for determining physical features. Yet some of it is. The same goes for AE art. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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