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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Truthcentric: [qb] Excuse me, but doesn't the majority of the Maghrebi population live alongside the Mediterranean coast? Of course there are Black African groups scattered around the Sahara (albeit most are probably mixed with Arabs and northern Berbers by now), but the phenotypically "Mediterranean" people might outnumber these simply by virtue of occupying the most habitable space. While I can understand why Black African people might want Hannibal Barca and the Moors as part of their collective heritage, in truth coastal Northwest Africa isn't the best place to look if you're interested in indigenous African urban cultures (or "civilizations"). Carthage started out as a Phoenician colony and the Moors were champions of Arabian Islamic culture more than anything else. Before these strong Eurasian influences, I'm not aware of any urban cultures or monumental architecture in Mediterranean North Africa. If anything, the sub-Saharan peoples have a better track record of indigenous urban developments than the Berbers. It's primarily due to colonization and influences from Punic, Greco-Roman, and Arab cultures that coastal Northwest Africa has any urban heritage at all. [/qb][/QUOTE]What's interesting is that the recent discovery of derived SLC24A5 having come from the Middle East during the Neolithic, comes with new conceptual implications regarding what it means to be "black" in prehistory. It would seem that Ibero-Maurusians, even with European mtDNA H1, H3, V and U5 having become a part of their haplogroup composition at a later stage, would have been dark skinned. But this goes both ways and is equally applicable to Middle Easterns and Europeans. Due to their light skin alleles having become (almost) fixed, people for centuries assumed that Europeans, Jews and (light skinned) Middle Easterners don't have much African ancestry. What we're now beginning to see is that the (near) fixation of light skin alleles (which, in Europe's case, seems to have happened during the metal ages), obscures any visual cues of significant African admixture in these populations, in the eye of the public. The popular lay idea that skin colour is necessarily directly proportionate to how much ancestry one has from a light or dark skinned source has been shown to be a fallacy: [QUOTE]The overall contributions from Asia and Africa were estimated to be around two-thirds and one-third, respectively[/QUOTE]--Cavalli-Sforza BTW, I did not introduce that Kefi 2005 image to this forum. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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