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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Troll Patrol: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: A major group from Libya that settled Crete were the Garamante. Robert Graves in (Vol.1, pp.33-35) maintains that the Garamante who originally lived in the Fezzan fused with the inhabitants of the Upper Niger region of West Africa. [/QUOTE]the Robert Graves quote [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-23-80.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-23-80.png[/IMG][/URL] [IMG]http://www.livius.org/a/libya/zliten/dar_buc_ammera_gladiators_tripoli_mus06.JPG[/IMG] . [b]The Garamantes (probably from Berber language: igherman; meaning: cities[/b] were a Saharan people who used an elaborate underground irrigation system, and founded a prosperous Berber kingdom in the Fezzan area of modern-day Libya, in the Sahara desert. They were a local power in the Sahara between 500 BC and 700 AD. There is little textual information about the Garamantes. Even the name Garamantes was a Greek name which the Romans later adopted. Available information comes mainly from Greek and Roman sources, as well as archaeological excavations in the area, though large areas in ruins remain unexcavated. according to Herodotus, they were "a very great nation" who herded cattle, farmed dates, and hunted the "Ethiopian Troglodytes", or "cave-dwellers" who lived in the desert, from four-horse chariots. ______________________________________________________________ [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-25-70.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-25-70.png[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-24-77.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-24-77.png[/IMG][/URL] [/qb][/QUOTE] :D sure! Sahara: Barrier or corridor? Nonmetric cranial traits and biological affinities of North African late Holocene populations. Nikita E, Mattingly D, Lahr MM. Source Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, UK. Abstract "The Garamantes flourished in southwestern Libya, in the core of the Sahara Desert ~3,000 years ago and largely controlled trans-Saharan trade. Their biological affinities to other North African populations, including the Egyptian, Algerian, Tunisian and Sudanese, roughly contemporary to them, are examined by means of cranial nonmetric traits using the Mean Measure of Divergence and Mahalanobis D(2) distance. The aim is to shed light on the extent to which the Sahara Desert inhibited extensive population movements and gene flow. Our results show that the Garamantes possess distant affinities to their neighbors. This relationship may be due to the Central Sahara forming a barrier among groups, despite the archaeological evidence for extended networks of contact. The role of the Sahara as a barrier is further corroborated by the significant correlation between the Mahalanobis D(2) distance and geographic distance between the Garamantes and the other populations under study. In contrast, no clear pattern was observed when all North African populations were examined, indicating that there was no uniform gene flow in the region." And ... "Despite the difference, Gebel Ramlah [the Western Desert- Saharan region] is closest to predynastic and early dynastic samples from Abydos, Hierakonpolis, and Badari.." [the Badarians ]are a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like" --(Joel D. Irish (2006). Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Dental Affinities Among Neolithic Through Postdynastic Peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.) [IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MuP5365iYu8/TZ9iyMKDn5I/AAAAAAAAFA4/kQNcL4XYlM8/s1600/africa3t.jpg[/IMG] They've always been an indigenous African population. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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