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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [QUOTE]For example, short mitochondrial DNA sequences have been recovered from the remains of a liver found in a canopic jar belonging to Nekht-Ankh, a priest of the Middle Kingdom.77 [b]These sequences when compared to the sequences recovered from the Delta population (Lower Egypt), it were found to be identical to four of the modern Egyptian mitochondrial lineages. Preliminary results from PCR on the Nile Delta population in the late 1980s found that “small subsets of modern Egyptian mitochondrial DNA lineages are closely related to Sub-Saharan African lineages.”78[/b] Thus PCR, although dogged by problems of contamination from human handling of material during and after excavation as well as from fungi, bacteria and other agents, is primarily aimed at studying ancient populations and their interactions within their historical context and not necessarily to label them “black” or “white.”[/QUOTE]p28 [QUOTE]Based on artistic depictions, it is true that in the Old Kingdom, “Egyptian men were depicted as reddish brown, women yellow and people living in the south black.”176 Some Afrocentrists by relating this to other African practices, convincingly propose [b]that the color symbolism was related to the ancient Egyptian religious conceptualization of the cycle of life and death. The paint consisted of red ochre, an oxide of iron and a vegetable gum binder. The paint probably signified the “blood of life” encompassed in the male and the yellow represented “fertility” encompassed in the female.[/b] The ancient Egyptian society was patriarchal and the economy was based primarily on agricultural fertility. These implications of color symbolism may then hold ground. Furthermore, [b]the goddess Hathor, who was believed to give birth to the yellow sun everyday, was considered the “patroness of women.”[/b][/QUOTE]p52-54 http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi?miami1090531381 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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