...
Post A Reply
my profile
|
directory
login
|
register
|
search
|
faq
|
forum home
»
EgyptSearch Forums
»
Egyptology
»
Hair of Queen Tiye
» Post A Reply
Post A Reply
Login Name:
Password:
Message Icon:
Message:
HTML is not enabled.
UBB Code™ is enabled.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lyinass: [qb] 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?...[/qb][/QUOTE]And as Troll Patrol and others have proven what YOU say and think doesn't amount to sh*t. Especially since you know NOTHING about Africans and have never seen Africans outside the stereotypical West-Central "true negroid" look (even though you yourself once claimed to be African). :o I thought it was explained to you before in several other threads that phalomelanin the pigment in hair responsible for reddish or brownish color is most visible when eumelanin (the pigment responsible for black color) is depleted or lost. This sometimes occurs as a natural consequence of aging. Usually when a person is old and loses hair pigment, both eumelanin [i]and[/i] phaelomelanin are lost but sometimes eumelanin is lost first. And in the case of some populations phaelomelanin and lack of eumelanin occurs in youth as a paedomorphic trait among children as seen in Australian aborigines or in some Africans. Again, such biological occurances happen among black people both in Africa as well as outside of the continent. And there is also the idiotic matter of assuming the mummy's hair was the exact same color and texture as when she was alive! [QUOTE][qb]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][b]LMAO[/b] :D I'll I have to give your dumbass some credit that of all the foreign non-African populations you use for comparison, at least you used one that actually has close relations to Africans, in this case Arabians and not Indians! You speak as if Arabians and Africans are two entirely different entitites, but notice that Arabia is right next to Africa. [IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CjEjqejc-aU/TQAMcRMuBpI/AAAAAAAAMYo/YaS5sTsTl1c/s1600/ArabianPeninsula.jpg[/IMG] Considering Arabia's, especially southern Arabia's close proximity to Africa, do you really think the indigenous populations would be so different or distinct from those right next door? As Troll Patrol pointed out, you do realize that many Arabs especially Yemenis and Omanis have African ancestry right?! Have you not been exposed to all the archaeological and bio-anthropological evidence that Dana has cited about what the early Arabians looked like? And what does any of this have to do with an [b]Egyptian[/b] woman? As TP pointed out her features are not unusual for Egyptians or any northeast Africans for that matter. As usual you are grasping in the air for anything aren't you? [/QB][/QUOTE]
Instant Graemlins
Instant UBB Code™
What is UBB Code™?
Options
Disable Graemlins in this post.
*** Click here to review this topic. ***
Contact Us
|
EgyptSearch!
(c) 2015 EgyptSearch.com
Powered by UBB.classic™ 6.7.3