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[QUOTE]Originally posted by tropicals redacted: [QB] Believe it or not, a bio-archaeologist presented the Sahara and cataracts as barriers argument to a lecture hall of over 200 people. It was a lecture on the population affinities of the ancient Egyptians and there was no mention of limb lengths. [QUOTE]It's a stupid argument anyway. Even if you discounted the whole "Saharan wet phase" thing in the early to middle Holocene, only a total ignoramus on ancient Egyptian history wouldn't be aware that people did pass by those cataracts (which are actually rapids rather than waterfalls as the word "cataract" originally implied). How else would the ancient Egyptians and Nubians have even known of each other's existence, much less traded, fought, and conquered each other? And since the main obstacle to traveling through any desert is the absence of fresh water, having a river right next to you, especially one with fertile floodplains and an abundance of fish and wildlife in it, would address that problem with or without cataracts. [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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