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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] [b]While the CRANID anthro reference database is skewed towards Northern Egypt and downplays the tropical south (Kemp 2005), some forensic analyses of mummies on the same skewed data still indicates membership in the "Egyptian" group- with the next closest match being African. [/b] --QUOTE: "A mummy of an Egyptian priestess dating from the 22nd dynasty (c. 770 BC), completely enclosed in an anthropoid (human shaped) coffin, was scanned on a CT scanner. An accurate reconstruction of the cranium was generated from 115 × 2 mm CT images using AVS/Express on a SGI computer. Linear measurements were obtained from six orthogonal cranial views and used in a morphometric analysis software package (CRANID). The analyses carried out were both linear and nearest neighbour discriminant analysis. The results show that there is a 52.9% probability that the mummy is an Egyptian female, with a 24.5% probability that the mummy is an African female." --Hughes, Wright, and Barry (2005)Virtual reconstruction and morphological analysis of the cranium of an ancient Egyptian mummy. Australas. Phys. Eng. Sci. Med. Vol. 28, No 2, 2005 ------------------------------------------------ [b]Egyptologist Barry Kemp on the worldwide CRANID database that used northern samples near the Mediterranean as "representative" of the ancient Egyptians, and classifying them in a "European" direction, while excluding key historic sites further south..[/b] "If, on the other hand, CRANID had used one of the Elephantine populations of the same period, the geographic association would be much more with the African groups to the south." (Barry Kemp, Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation, Routledge: 2005, p. 55) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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