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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [b]Is Kmtian wavy and straight hair the only trait not shared with Ancient Nubians?[/b] [IMG]http://wysinger.homestead.com/tomb_308.jpg[/IMG] [i]^Skull excavated in Kerma[/i] Ok, so I've decided to stay away from ES a few months ago, but I have something to share which I think a lot of people will find valuable to have as a confirmation. I've been suspecting this for ages, but I just didn't have the hard evidence to boldly state it as fact. I had a hard time understanding why we had to look to areas distant from Ancient Egypt to find evidence of straight and wavy haired Africans. I also had a hard time understanding why their cross section index, unlike other (osteological) variables, didn't seem to change over time. For example, the Naqadans had affinity with more southern, Nile Valley Africans, in virtually all measurable respects; Nasal index, Limb length, head size, facial index, prognathism etc. Studies generally converge on the idea that a change occurred, that morphed the predynastic Egyptian Nubian-like physique, to the coastal North African mean we see already preponderant in some areas in Late Dynastic times. When those two ends of the spectrum (predynastic. vs Late dynastic) are compared, we get what Zakrezewski reported for the E-series: no continuation, and a staunch break in cranio-metric trends. This is all very logical and what one would expect, yet, for some reason, there was no similar change in their hair type and texture from whooly to wavy. Instead we get reports from several studies, about how the AE's, including the Southern ones, had cross section indices typical of coastal Northern Africans and Europeans since Predynastic times. Even Keita, an avid supporter of the idea that Ancient Northern Sudanese were ethnically the closest to AE's must've felt uncomfortable lookings as far as the distant Kanuri, Fulani and Somali people to explain away the hair type of Predynastic Egyptians. Furthermore, of the populations he mentioned, only Somali hair aproaches the hair characteristics that Strouhal obtained for his Badarian sample. I always took the absense of Nubians among the populations Keita cited, as an indication that reasonable research into Ancient Nubian hair led him to subscribe to the idea that it really was as whooly/tightly curled as the Egyptians made it out to be in so many of their tomb depictions, so I never bother to research it myself. Anyway, to make a long story short, yesterday I remembered reading from a book written by Samual Morton (yeah, that pseudoscientist), and decided to dig it up. The information in it led me to do a thorough search on available sources that deal with Nubian hair. The following is what I found, and wanted to share. Notes *In the pages that were available for viewing, there were more mentions of hair that don't talk about hair type. I left those out, because they're not relevant here. *The text makes questionable references to Egyptic types and ‘’actual’’ Egyptians, you know, same ol, same ol. They also talk about so-called "aliens" (meaning foreigners) among the interred. I took all hair data, regardless of the conjecture that accompanied it, and placed the data in the table, since all of the covered regions are south of Egypt. If you feel that that’s a problem, step up playa. Show me how Elliot Smith were able to distinguish between Egyptian and Northern Sudanese, using their early 20th century crude Methods. *The exact pages from which I lifted the quotes are listed in the table, along with the burial nr. *There are more quotes that list hair structure in the book, I only took those that were not hidden from view. If you want the remaining quotes, you can dig them up yourself. *Since I used keywords to locate the citations, I might have missed two or three citations in the instances where the author worded his hair observations in a way that was incompatible with my keyword, eg, curly ''headed’’, instead of curly ''hair’’. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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