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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] ^ The evidence comes from DNA analysis of the mummy along with Tut and other 18th dynasty royals. The whole hair issue has been discussed to death many times. [IMG]http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc332/kushkemet08/268_Egypt_Tiye.jpg[/IMG] The bust above shows Queen Tiye sporting what archaeologists call the 'round hair' style. This gives no indication whatsoever that such was Tiye's natural hair or a wig. Most likely it was wig as such was the custom of elite and especially royal Egyptians who wore wigs due to shaving their heads or extensions. [IMG]http://picturestack.com/921/899/LBJPicture1Uv1.png[/IMG] The mummy of Tiye above shows her own hair, but several millennia old mummified hair gives little indication of what the hair looked like when the body was alive. And even then, such type of hair is not unusual for Africans. [IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/24pxz0z.jpg[/IMG][/qb] [/QUOTE]I would say that hair such as the photo of the old woman above is not common in Africans. You may dig up five more pictures but I don't think that proves such hair is "common" in Africans. For example some Europeans/Americans have red hair but it is not common on average. Who is this woman anyway? Where is she from? Below some Omani and Yemeni women for comparison. Some might be described as "afro-arab" . Also on the Queen Tiye statuette above her lips are relatively large and the overall impression because of this is that she's pure African. However her nose gets very thin in the middle, even Mike111 noticed this and thought it meant that the head was later altered by someone much later. It seems a bit atypical for pure Africans. Why this is I don't know but there is no evidence that the nose was altered later. The mother of Tiye, Thuya: [IMG]http://anubis4_2000.tripod.com/subpics1/Tuyu2.jpg[/IMG] here we see that similar thinness in the dorsum of the nose. At the same time a similar wide mouth opening and prognathism. here is a girl from Oman [IMG]http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000jhRnMDvcKrU/s/900/900/Oman-67-894-25-Omani-Girl-Wadi-Ghul.jpg[/IMG] Omani woman [IMG]http://assetlibrary.omansail.com/_assets/images/large/DSC_3918%20Intisar.jpg[/IMG] Yemeni woman [IMG]http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/yemeni-woman-after-voting.jpg[/IMG] It is easy to notice that some people who do have Arab and and African mixture have facial features that look similar to pure Africans and the Arabs have been trading and mixing with East and North Africans for hundreds of years. Because of the crossover of features and skin tone you can't easily tell by looking who is pure African and who might live in Africa but might be mixed Arab/African. -such as in the case of the elderly woman above Is it possible a pure African can have straight hair? I'm not sure. I would say it is unproven at this time and I haven't seen a study on it. It seems unlikey to me because we would have heard about specific African tribes that have straight hair. Further straight hair seems to be an adaptation to cold and I don't mean nightime in the desert becasue the Khoisans as an example don't have anything approaching straight hair However Djehuti believes otherwise and says about the Queen Tiye mummy is choice a) below. a) she was a black woman with straight hair b) she wasn't a black woman c) she was a black woman who used chemicals or combing techniques to straigten her afro when she was alive d) she was a black woman with an afro but the chemicals used in the mummification process straightened her hair [/QB][/QUOTE]
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