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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] I think that it is obvious that some areas of the coasts of Northern Africa have indeed received paler skinned populations over thousands of years. The question is how far back does this go and how extensive was it at any given point in time. Even the phenotypes of those Libyans probably didn't extend more than a few hundred miles inland into Libya. But some people like to gloss over this and make extraordinary claims like North Africa is simply the immediate coast closest to the Mediterranean or that white Eurasians have been in North Africa for over 30,000 years, which is blatant nonsense. But it is very possible that there were pockets of white Eurasians in various parts of Northern Africa before 5,000 years ago. The problem is that Egyptian art does not tell you anything about the geographic range of such pale populations and it doesn't tell you exactly how long such populations have been there. And Egyptian art certainly does not cover ALL of North Africa or go back 10,000 years. But again, this still does not stop some people from lumping all North Africans to these pale images in Egyptian art as the ancestors of all modern North Africans and the basis of the "indigenous" culture and language of North Africa. Here is a recent study that attempted to compare the traits of various populations in Europe, Asia and Africa in various phases of the Paleolithic based on a 'robusticity' index. But the African samples are quite limited to say the least. https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/llshacke/www/files/Shackelford%202007%20AJPA.pdf But that does not stop it from observing the following: [QUOTE] Individuals from the European EUP demonstrate body shapes reminiscent of modern sub-Saharan Africans (Holliday, 1997). After the LGM, LUP modern humans show a shift toward more cold-adapted body shapes that approximate modern Europeans with wide trunks, greater body mass, large femoral heads, and shorter limb segments in the arms and legs (Jacobs, 1985; Holliday,1997). In addition to a decrease in stature from the EUP to the LUP in all regions of Europe, there is an associated decrease in sex differences in stature (Jacobs, 1985; Formicola and Giannecchini, 1999). [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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