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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Trollkillah # Ish Gebor: WHAT BONES CAN TELL: BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE HUNTER-GATHERERS OF THE MAGHREB:[/qb] [i] The extremely large skeletal samples that come from sites such as Taforalt (Fig. 8.13) and Afalou constitute an invaluable resource for understanding the makers of Iberomaurusian artifacts, and their number is unparalleled elsewhere in Africa for the early Holocene. Frequently termed Mechta-Afalou or [b]Mechtoid, these were a skeletally robust people and definitely African in origin, [/b]though attempts, such as those of Ferembach (1985), to establish similarities with much older and rarer Aterian skeletal remains are tenuous given the immense temporal separation between the two (Close and Wendorf 1990). At the opposite end of the chronological spectrum, [b]dental morphology does suggest connections with later Africans, including those responsible for the Capsian Industry (Irish 2000) and early mid-Holocene human remains from the western half of the Sahara (Dutour 1989), something that points to the Maghreb as one of the regions from which people recolonised the desert (MacDonald 1998).[/b] [/QUOTE]^^ just one writers speculation, not hard datata, again the word "suggests" is used. Suggests to him This is a unique population, a hybrid. And the skeltons of modern berbers might yeild a similar result, yet on DNA analysis show primarily Eurasian DNA Your method: DNA can be ignored if a skeleton looks kind of African to a guy Europeans have some overlap in features with some Africans. So if you are analzing a skeleton you can say it looks African. Or you can say it looks European. Both statements can be right. But to exlcude European you have to prove what you are saying with hard data of which certain traits are African exclusively African and therfore of two possibilities you can definitivley exclude one. But you can't only go by one discilipe because you like the result suggested by an Africanist author. I realize you don't use reasoning. You just find authors who make satements you agree with and post them. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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