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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [i][b][URL=http://underscore]Berbers are primarily African.[/URL][/b][/i] [/QB][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [QUOTE]From http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-8478.html The growing Arab presence pressed the Berbers, who chose not to mix with other groups, to move farther south into Mauritania, forcing out the Black inhabitants. By the 16th century, most Blacks had been pushed to the Senegal River. Those [/QUOTE]The concept being put forward with these two statements is that the berbers are primarily African but not blacks. The question that comes up is is there such thing as a deep rooted purely indigenous African berber or are berbers by definition mixed people only in part deep rooted indigenous Africans regardless of if they are primarily, i.e. 50%+, one side or the other, African/Eurasian. There is not much importants to this word "primarily". If somebody is 60% one thing and 40% another they are significantly mixed. And I suppose this also means Barack Obama is not black And although there may have been a lot of European slave input into Algeria, H, HV0 J, U DNA Haplogroups have been detected in Paleolithic remains in Morocco. That means Eurasians were in the region in prehistoric times. That is green period Maghreb before "berber" is even recognized historically. These Eurasians may have been as dark as the darker Southern Europeans, yet cold adapted in physical morphology All this effort to state the obvious, the berbers are a mixed people - and people prehistorically, of the same region This term "Moor" is interesting because of potential overlap with the term "berber" [/QB][/QUOTE]
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