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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] Originally posted by Djehuti: ^ Looks to me like an afro that's been styled to look 'bobbed'[/QUOTE]See my reply below: [QUOTE] Originally posted by HabariTess: I disagree with that observation. Out of all the hair styles/textures out there, they resemble a short fro the most. I'm an artist and I notice the Egyptians drew very simplified versions of people, hair included. If I were to create a simplified black character with a short afro,what the Egyptians depicted would be how the character would have look. You say that Hesire is the only one that look like he has an afro. Hesire hair is actually drawn with the same way as the picture you posted that you said did not look like an afro.[/QUOTE]Hey Tess. yes, I agree, the difference is slight. What I'm basing it on is the spherical shape of his hair. Its round. If you look at some of the other examples, their hair extends downward towards the bottom and the hair on top of their head is short. That is inconsistent with Afros. Another thing that makes it inconsistent with Afros, and more consistent with a bob hairstyle, is the fact that this hairstyle always has the same height on the top of their head, while their hair in their neck varies; it can be long, short, etc. Compare: [IMG]http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/2791/hairstyles.png[/IMG] [QUOTE]I have no problem with believing that they had straight to wavy hair, but some things just don't add up though. [b]I remember you saying Swenet how many North African populations have straight to wavy hair and that it would not have been so if the African population in which many of them shared blood, did not also possess such hair, because if you look at many admixed populations with Africans with kinky hair, you will see kinky hair naturally pop up in those populations.[/b][/QUOTE]Yes, I have said that in the past, but I no longer subscribe to that. I no longer believe that the people in the Maghreb are ~50% African. This is based on haplogroup analysis, but ancestry proportions in haplogroup analysis aren't necessarily reflective of ancestry proportions in the overall genome. [QUOTE]With that said, many present day Egyptians do share that curly to kinky hair that many admixed Afro Americans have, so doesn't that suggest that the Ancient Egyptians also shared that hair texture?[/QUOTE]Aside from Eurasian contributions, Egyptians also have received admixture from Sub-Saharan Africans in recent times, primarily during the slave trade. Some of what you're describing is because of this, some of it is simply because no population is ever 100% wavy-straight, not even Europeans. Almost all populations have individuals with curly hair. [QUOTE]With that said, many present day Egyptians do share that curly to kinky hair that many admixed Afro Americans have, so doesn't that suggest that the Ancient Egyptians also shared that hair texture?[/QUOTE]Ausar himself will tell you that he has a hair study of Ancient Egyptians that are inconsistent with a high prevalence of kinky/curly hair. [QUOTE]Also, the site Djehuti just posted also supports a curly to kinky Ancient Egyptian population.[/QUOTE]This is simply not true. The authors of that article created a dubious average by combining all papers. The picked a single and rare curly hair (i.e., index of Badarian sample with a cross section of 35%), and used it to bog down the average, which consisted overall of numerically much more predominant wavy hairs. That's not how you make an average. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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