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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [QB] [QUOTE]What tool kit is associated with the Berbers?[/QUOTE][i]According to the Historian Christopher Ehret the most probable origin of the Berbers is the Capsian culture, which entered North Africa, [b]probably from the African coast of the Red Sea about 8000 BC.[/b][/i] [i]The same archeology pattern occurs west of Egypt where domestic animals and later grains were adopted after 8000 BC. From this archeology it has been argued that pre food producing Capsian peoples spoke languages ancestral to Berber [b]and or Chadic[/b] placing proto Afrisan prior to 10,000 kya. Furthermore, there is evidence for early Holocene independant development of cattle domestication in the Eastern Sahara. A critical reading of genetic data supports hypothesis of populations moving FROM THE HORN towards the Nile Basin, Northward to the Nile Valley, NorthWest Africa, the Levant, [b]AND THE AGEAN[/b][/i] - Chrisopher Ehret, science magazine, 2004. [i]"For one, the northerly Afroasiatic languages (Semitic, Berber, Egyptian) appear together to form just one sub-branch of the family, and if relied upon to the exclusion of the other, deeper, branchings of the family, give a misleading picture of overall Afroasiatic reconstruction. In addition, Afroasiatic is a family of much greater time depth than even most of its students realize; its first divergences trace back probably at least 15,000 years ago, not just 8,000 or 9,000 as many believe. This last point imparts a final general lesson for historical linguists: the historical comparative method, in fact, works very well farther back in time than scholars have generally allowed, provided the family in question contains a sufficiently large number of languages from which evidence can still be obtained."[/i] - Professor Christopher Ehret - The Lessons of Deep-Time Historical-Comparative Reconstruction in Afroasiatic" ( [/QB][/QUOTE]
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