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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Morpheus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: That's the thing about Keita is that he uses scientific terminology to describe as accurately as he can about who the Egyptians were and what they looked like which is nothing more than beating around the bush when it comes to laymen terms. He just needs to come right out and say that 'race' is a purely sociological and cultural concept, but judging by Western and many other social and cultural standards the Egyptians would be called 'black'. That's all he's gotta say.[/QUOTE]I think the reason he doesn't say that is because he doesn't believe it is appropriate to define an ancient people by modern socio-political labels. Since the criteria for 'racial' labeling varies from region to region and country to country resulting in the same term having different standards of classification he doesn't feel the need to even talk about what they would be considered according to the various cultural standards. I think if he were asked the right questions he would provide explanations that can be better understood by laymen. If I were to ask him what the Ancient Egyptians looked like, based on the biological evidence, I would ask him to reference modern people and populations as well as the distinctive features the Ancient Egyptians would have had. One thing that I did find interesting is his belief that the light-skin and strait hair of many Northwest African populations evolved in Africa. This is notable because in one of his earlier studies he says that the cranial patterns of Lower Egyptians resembled those of ancient Northwest Africans. I find it curious that Keita makes a distinction between Lower Egyptian variation and Upper Egyptian variation (who he groups with tropical Africans). If he believes that the Lower Egyptians had light-skin and hair then that would dispel the belief that ALL indigenious Ancient Egyptians could be generalized as "Black" in complexion though they would still be Biologically African. I would like to write him to ask this question but his yahoo email account is disabled. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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