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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] .. [IMG]http://www.croqnature.com/matlasfemmew.jpg[/IMG] [b]Berbers[/b] . 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. [b] 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.[/b] [b] 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."[/b] [IMG]http://www.livius.org/a/libya/zliten/dar_buc_ammera_gladiators_tripoli_mus06.JPG[/IMG] [b]Roman Gladiators[/b] The lack of continuity between populations corresponds to the introduction of modern Europeans into North Africa 3kya e.g., Peoples of the Sea, Vandals, Greco-Romans. . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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