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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by anguishofbeing: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by anguishofbeing: [qb] Lioness doesn't think your analogy with North American Indians is applicable because to him there's no such thing as ancient black Africans in North Africa, the place was a melting pot from the start. He thinks this of AE too. [/qb][/QUOTE][/qb][/QUOTE]such people would have to be named by ethnic group and distinguisehd from Sahelians who entered Morroco after the defeat of the Songhai empire. But more importantly the question is what percentage of prehistoric Maghrebian is present in modern day Maghrebian? It is very difficult to answer and DNA seems to indicate it is a very low percentage. The Sahelains on the other hand are over 50% Tropical West African and that ancestry probably goes back tens of thousands of years. [QUOTE]Originally posted by For the obvious reason that people are what you might call "naive realists". They go mainly on what they see. I was recently at the airport at Casa Blanca, Morocco spending a good 10 hours there. I was able to observe the Moroccan population thusly--including cleaners working at the airport. For those who live in the Americas, Moroccans are like the people of Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic. They are easily distinguishable from European tourists and generally from the darker African populations from further South--even though they might share DNA haplogroup affinities. [/QUOTE]^^^ this seems resonable to me basic difference between the Maghreb and the Sahel. The Mahgreb has significant Arabian contribution The Sahel does not have significant Arabian contribution. The Sahelians are primarily SSA, West African. Th Maghrebians are not primarily SSA, Southern Moroccans being somewhat more SSA than other Mahgrebians. ^^^^ see all this? From this you can combine the Maghreb and the Sahel and call it "North Africa" then you have a less precise discussion that leads to the same problems over and over again. The reason is is that significant numbers of non-African migrants settled in the Maghreb but not the Sahel. Not only Arab but Phoenicians and others I think people like to use the term "North Africa" because they can then argue with any study that comes out suggesting results are flawed when in is mainly a dispute over what should be called "North Africa" I say don't even use the term, it's too broad and there's even a whole other problem with it aside from whther or not to include the Sahel in it and that is whether or not to include Egypt and Sudan in it. Forget all that. Don't even bother defining "North Africa" The definition of the Maghreb is much clearer, countries to the West of Egypt, bordering the coast. This is who the DNATribes report is talking about and in my opinion they should have called it an analysis of the Maghreb because that is the region they have outlined for sampling. So think of the results that way and proceed [/QB][/QUOTE]
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