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true or false: It's possible some Egyptians may have Eurasian ancestry
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kalonji: [QB] [QUOTE] Originally posted by the lioness: How about North? bingo! yes that is less Nilotic and in fact the Northern neighbor to Egypt is the Middle East in Asia.[/QUOTE]You don't take into account that pre-dynastic Saharans and riverine Nubians didn't necessarily live on the same latitude. Both donated people. This could very well explain the differences in post-cranial meassurements. Whatever the case though, the researchers didn't include your speculation as a likely scenario. Quite the opposite They reject it. [i]"..sample populations available from northern Egypt from before the 1st Dynasty (Merimda, Maadi and Wadi Digla) turn out to be significantly different from sample populations from early Palestine and Byblos, [b]suggesting a lack of common ancestors over a long time.[/b] If there was a south-north cline variation along the Nile valley it did not, from this limited evidence, continue smoothly on into southern Palestine. [b]The limb-length proportions of males from the Egyptian sites group them with Africans rather than with Europeans."[/b] - Barry Kemp, "Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilisation. (2005) Routledge. p. 52-60)[/i] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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