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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BlessedbyHorus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by BlessedbyHorus: [qb] Yeah I already seen the past threads of you guys discussing about the Minoans, way before I even joined this site. Though I must note DJ that recent DNA studies showed the Minoans to be mostly European. http://www.livescience.com/31983-minoans-were-genetically-european.html [/qb][/QUOTE]First of all, that study the article you cited is based on was discussed before [URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=008513]here[/URL] and [URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=008579;p=1]here[/URL]. I suggest you look those threads up to see what our views our. Second of all, I will say that it was never our contention that Minoans were all or predominantly African, only that there were Africans among them. Judging by not only the earliest material culture there but also some of the skeletal remains. Lastly, I find the claims of that article or study to be suspect since it says their genetics are that of Neolithic Europeans even though we know such genetics to be heterogenous (including from Africa), but then the article says Minoan culture comes from Anatolia (something I and others have always maintained). Anatolia has traditionally been separate from Europe even by the Greeks themselves to be called 'Asia Minor'. But then the agenda of the article becomes clear when it cites the Bellwood hypothesis that associates the Anatolian agriculturalists with proto-Indo-Europeans even though the actual linguistic evidence is at best shaky especially when the languages spoken by early Anatolian folk was NOT Indo-European and neither were their offshoots the Pelasgians, and Eteo-Cretans (Minoans). Hell, even the Linear A script of the Minoans themselves remains undeciphered even though it shares many of the same features of the Linear B script that defines Mycenaean Greek language! So while nobody is saying that the entire Minoan ethnicity is African but rather Anatolian derived, I find their attempts to twist this Anatolian identity into 'European' to be [i]very[/i] questionable at best and down right erroneous at worst! [/qb][/QUOTE]Noted. So what you are saying is that the Minoan people were heavily influenced by Africans. Correct me if I'm wrong. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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