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According to Rushton the Ancient Egyptians were not Black
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Dead: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Dead: Whether that's true might not even matter as much as you think. Revisit my earlier posts. Whatever deviations you find from the Wadi Sura types are exactly that: deviations. They are non-native additions to the earlier phenotypes that can be seen in the Wadi Sura caves. Also, in the predynastic, the "predynastic physical type" found at Naqada and types related to it, are found all over Egypt, including in the north. The way I see it, the sailors depicted on the predynastic linen Gebelein cloth exemplify what this predynastic type would have looked like, pigmentation wise.[/QUOTE]I don't think they lightened by gene flow, but selection. Also I don't think the reddish glow was common across Africa, but unique to the Saharan desert. I could probably explain why in some detail in later post, but it is linked to heat tolerance. Paul Baker wrote a paper on it in a compendium I used to own, "The Biological Adaptation of Man to Hot Deserts". (1958) Am. Nat. 92:33 7-357, in [i]Readings on Race[/i] (Garn ed. 1960). [/qb][/QUOTE]The field is much further now to warrant entertaining this sort of speculation. We now know that the R-V88 Y chromosome, among other lineages, entered Egypt from the north, ~7kya, which is at the same date that the Levantine domesticates entered Egypt and appear in the rock art record in north Africa, e.g. the Acacus and Jebel Quenat. At this time, styles atypical of the earlier styles appear, and these come with "new" thin-looking figures, most of which were depicted with a mixture of brown and red pigments (reddish brown), or just brown. Together both pigments overlap with the full range of brown and brown-red pigments we're familiar with in pharaonic art. Said figures were, in contrast with the earlier styles, also usually depicted with neolithic features, indicating that these figures really do represent a break from the preceding status quo and that we're not dealing with just an artistic convention used by the earlier groups. Pale figures also appear here and there in Libya, for the first time. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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