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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rahotep101: [QB] What peer-reviewed publication makes the claim that Egyptians now have a different colour or phenotype to their ancient ancestors? I haven't seen the least evidence to suggest any change in the fundamental makeup of Egyptian society from the Old Kindom to this present day. I don't know why anyone would even try to suggest such a change, unless they were trying to link Egypt's past glory to some other group. Anthropological studies seem often to contradict. Data can be assessed by various criteria and different results can arise, as Keita himself has admitted. It all seems a bit equivocal, so I prefer to stick to historical evidence. That said, The pooled samples, on the chart Zarahan provides, (Kemp) support the idea of general continuity from ancient times to the present for Egypt in general. Modern and Ancient Egyptians are placed closer together than any other groups. (Close to Nubia, but closer to Greece than to Negroid Africa. The compilers of this study obviously think there is such a thing as a negro race, it seems! Nubians and Ethiopians are on a completely different branch to the negroids, according to that. Keita has some work to do in order to discredit the Hamitic hypothesis! Brace and Irish both broadly concluded that the population was little changed in Egypt since remote Antiquity. 'Egyptians were Egyptians'. That said Egyptianness wasn't contingent on genetics, in the first place,but culture and allegiance. The Saite pharaohs were as great as the earliest ones, and just as patriotically Egyptian whether or not they had Libyan blood too. As for adaptive context, I've yet to hear a reason why Sudanese should look different from Nigerians, or why there should be both narrow and broad featured Nubians, both inhabiting regions of identical climate. I'm not saying people manifesting either negroid or hamitic traits couldn't be closely related, but the particular genes for these features surely came from different places. I was in error using the term 'Bantu' but it somehow sounds nicer than 'negroid'. I think my meaning was cear. It seems the two Nubian statues are both usually identified as Taharqa, so woops and well spotted! I've seen the first image identified as Tanutamani, sometimes, however. You must admit the two statues have completely different features. If you came to these images blind you would be unlikely to come to the conclusion that they were of the same ethnicity, let alone that they were the same individual. [URL=http://img132.imageshack.us/i/nottanutamun.jpg/] [IMG]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4466/nottanutamun.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Uploaded with [URL=http://imageshack.us]ImageShack.us[/URL] The general point withstands that bombshell. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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