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[QUOTE]Originally posted by claus3600: [QB] 'My question is: Why do people use Keita to imply the Egyptians were Black, when he sees the Egyptians as a mixed group?' From what I understand there would have been different groups in Egypt,particularly from the New Kingdom onwards. That doesn't mean that the country wasn't predominantly African. Indeed, someone posted this e-mail from Keita- 'No one can say exactly what colour they were, but one might reasonably say that the typical Upper Egyptian to Nubian color would have been the modal colour in most of the country.' In another e-mail he also writes that 'Without an analysis of histology of the skin and accurate portraits one cannot say how they looked. We can extrapolate by lookng at the variability of the modern Egyptian with a focus on Upper Egyptian, considering a predictive approach based on latitude, and imagining what they would have been like without the gene flow from the Near East and Europe over thousands of years. This will help you conceptualise the variability of the Nile indigenous population...My research cannot indicate skin colour in any empirical sense.' So predominantly black African. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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