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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [QB] No Tuareg ethnic group(s) existed until after Garama was finished. It's anachronistic to speak of ancient and pre-historic North African genetics in terms of Tuareg instead of what it really is the [i]generic[/i] genetics of a very broad region in Africa where by the late Holocene many distinct ethnies began forming up until today. To the best of my meager knowledge the Kel came into existence when people at the NW coast of what today is Libya (Tripolitania as the Greeks named this region) fled in the face of Arab intrusion. Traveling south they inhabited the Hoggar (Ahaggar after the Hawara people, themselves immigrants later in time than the Kels) mingling and mixing with its inhabitants and other incoming peoples to become "the Tuareg." At least this is the majority Euro-centered take considering only the northern or Sanhadja major phratry. Usually ignored is the southern or banu Tanamak, the other major phratry. Next to nothing cultural aligns this 11th century ethny, Tuareg (both phratries) to the Garama. Afaik, this applies to Tubu too. Thing is though, Ptolemy does mention one of the Garamas people, [URL=http://books.google.com/books?id=DDwLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA475]Tedamansii[/URL], hundreds of years before a people known as Targui are first recorded, Targa being another name for oasis Fezzan sites (though if targa simply means garden I can't see how it only applies to Fezzan oases but as far as my researching goes it does.). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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