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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] I just googled some of the descriptions hoping to get the other (missing) books.google pages, but with no success. The book's previews don't even seem to be available anymore. But maybe you'll have more luck, lioness. Just to address questions some may have: Most examples of the non-ulotrichous hair forms of individuals with ostensibly Nile Valley origins (i.e. excluding the so-called "alien" types [which are more common in the common era period, especially the Christian period]) seem restricted to individuals phenotypically identified as belonging to "Egyptian" and "Nubian" types, like this: p137 [list] [*]"1. Young woman: [b]hair has been black and wavy: the face is of the Nubian type.[/b] The third molar teeth are still deep in the alveolus. Three of the first molars are carious. (...)" [/list] p137 [list] [*]"Man, found in empty tomb: [b]probably modern Nubian.[/b] Skull: L. over scalp 169, B. (over scalp) 138--index 82. The beard is scanty and confined to the chin and the ramus of the mandible; the hair on the upper lip is scanty. [b]The scalp hair is wavy.[/b]" [/list] Visually speaking (and this can be gathered from descriptions in the saved book pages I still have), the "Egyptian" type described by the physical anthropologist (presumably Elliot Smith), approximates this: [IMG]http://i63.tinypic.com/2lxt553.jpg[/IMG] It's basically the most representative-looking ancient Egyptian cranium, with the least visible "negroid", Maghrebi, Levantine, etc. admixture (a common practice back then was study populations by identifying distinct looking racial types perceived to be representatives of different pure, pre-existing racial sources). I don't know what the author's "Nubian" type corresponds to, but it's at least somewhat different given the non-overlapping and deliberate use of both labels. The author acknowledges that both have a common origin in a "Hamitic" ancestral population, so they were probably just thought to be two varieties of the same "race". Aside from the aforementioned conceptual "Egyptian", "Nubian" and "Alien" types, there were apparently also visibly "negroid"-looking remains with non-ulotrichious hair forms. Here is one, for instance: p118 [list] [*]quote: "28 contained an aged woman very like No. 27 [Note: No. 27 was described as "negroid" looking in the previous paragraph], with a rounded oval cranium: nose negroid: only 6 teeth remaining and the alveolar process of the rest of the jaw absorbed: all sutures closes: [b]hair black and wavy[/b] (..)" [/list] Cautionary tale for confused individuals who see this diversity in hair forms as confirmation of their Eurocentric ideas. These are native African physiognomies and can be seen today on certain living Egyptians (although they're coupled with more non-African DNA, today). These Egyptians are clearly different from the average living Egyptian (i.e. the ones who look like Hosni Mubarak: [IMG]http://i65.tinypic.com/117skcp.jpg[/IMG] Since the preview of "The Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Report For 1907-1908" in books.google seems to be gone, I'll make the pages I have saved (>30 pages) available on request. They're mostly dry descriptions that most here would not be interested in, so I won't post them. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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