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Is Kmtian wavy and straight hair the only trait not shared with Ancient Nubians?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [QUOTE]^^As noted elsewhere, it does not necessarily follow that brown or black skin and tropical limb proportions HAVE TO ALSO be accompanied by straighter hair. There are tropically adapted peoples on the Indian sub-continent, who have wavy or looser hair. No one expects that dark brown Italians MUST also have kinky hair. But when it comes to Africa too often stereotypical models reign.[/QUOTE]The point was made, clearly, from the perspective that the predynastic Egyptians were Nubian-like in all scientifically discernable manners, and since Nubians are commonly depicted as anything BUT straight/wavy haired, by both ancient Ethnographers, and Egyptian artwork, there is an obvious incongruence there. This has nothing to do with being unfair to African variability, and being more acceptive of variation when it comes to other nations. Variability has limits, and it works logically, not spastically. Two sister populations don't just diverge on one single aspect, and remain the same in all others. I was operating from that perspective. I'm not going to sit there, and turn a blind eye to inconsistencies, under the guise of ''ow, every form of variation is because of indigenous variation''. As it turns out, I was right about finding something incongruent about the picture of Nubians and Egyptians being alike in all manners aside from hair form. The thing that was inconsistent was the portrayal of the hair forms of Northern Sudanese groups, as the data in the OP's shows. [QUOTE]I am not at all sure that Keita would feel uncomfortable, by the distant peoples used as a comparison. Why? He specifically fingers obsolete stereotypical thinking as a central problem[/QUOTE]Well, because if he wasn't aware of the fact that (some) Nubians had the same hair forms, he could've been aware of the fact that he could be inadvertently reinforcing the idea that there IS something out of the ordinary about Ancient Egyptian hair, if other populations are invoked instead of their closest relatives, Nubians, to explain predynastic Egypian hair forms. I have reason to believe that Keita in fact does NOT know about research of the kind presented in this thread, one of which, is him saying that only a certain percentage of Badarian hair is African (I believe it was 80%), rather than accepting ALL of it as African, as he clearly would have done, if he was aware of the fact that the people directly below the 1st cataract had identical hair. This is not a shot at him either, I'm just stating that he likely felt uncomfortable being forced to cite examples of distant populatons as comparative examples, rather than the more appropriate Nubians. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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