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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] In my view the man in the top photo is a direct descendant of the ancient Tjehenu who have been found to have been represented similarly, but in a darker brown color in the Old Kingdom. The braided hair-style and side-lock as well as the identical designs and tattoos on the costumes of the Libyans on the tomb of Seti make it likely that they are the ancestors of the modern Fellata or Woodabe Fulani. These people were called Tjehenou in the Western delta, and in Kharga Temehou during the Old Kingdom. The Lebou were derived from them as were the Imakuhek and Kuhek. If the Maazauaza or Meshwesh did look different in New Kingdom times than that was apparently from Euro-Mediterranean infiltration after the Old Kingdom. The fact is they retained a similar appearance to earlier brown Libyans or Fellata and supposedly called themselves "Maa" which interestingly is a name for the Maasaai-Samburu group of dialects. This still probably has little to do with the Caucasian appearance of many modern coastal Berbers calling themselves Masmuda, Sanhaja, Zenata, etc. A much more recent Eurasian and European genetic impact on the coasts of modern North Africa can not be understated. As ancient and Midieval documents are quite clear on what the Berbers on the coasts looked like. Except for the Cyrene area (a place of Greek and Scythian things) and Roman settlements - the coast was still dominated by mainly Ethiopic, i.e., Berber people - Mezikes, Mucateni or Uakutameni(Ketama or Makitan), Barzu Fulitani, Sanhaja (Lamtuna, Lamta, Gazzula), Zenata (Nafusa, Iforas Pharusii), Masmuda (Ghomara, Haskura of the Riff and Atlas)- all groups referred to as "black Africans" and or Ethiopians up until the 14th century. The surprise is that even in the 19th century certain European colonialists appear not to reference fair-skinned Kabyles as part of the Berbers of Kabylia, or perhaps just weren't aware of their existence. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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