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[QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: [QB] Snowden was not a bio-anthropologist, so it's laughable referencing him. The ancient Egyptian population was concentrated in Upper Egypt, so the average Egyptian would have approximated around Queen Tiye's complexion or just slightly under -- which is in the range of other Northeast Africans; Northeast Africans that the average European has no problem identifying as black. So protestations regarding AE are dismissed. Upper Egypt thoroughly dominated ancient Egypt politically, culturally, economically, militarily and demographically. Ancient Egypt was created when the significantly more organised, wealthier, more sophisticated and undoubtedly more powerful South subdued the sparsely populated North -- one that was the diametric opposite of all these features. The vast majority of the dynasties came from the South; the powerful priestly class was situated in Waset -"Thebes"- and invaders were almost invariably expelled by Southern warrior-kings. Still, it appears that the process of state formation involved a large indigenous component. Outside influence and admixture with extraregional groups primarily occurred in Lower Egypt—perhaps during the later dynastic, but especially in Ptolmaic and Roman times (also Irish, 2006). No large-scale population replacement in the form of a foreign dynastic ‘race’ (Petrie, 1939) was indicated. Our results are generally consistent with those of Zakrzewski (2007). Using craniometric data in predynastic and early dynastic Egyptian samples, she also concluded that state formation was largely an indigenous process with some migration into the region evident. The sources of such migrants have not been identified; inclusion of additional regional and extraregional skeletal samples from various periods would be required for this purpose." --Schillaci MA, Irish JD, Wood CC. 2009 Further analysis of the population history of ancient Egyptians. The above source clearly asserts that admixture in Lower Egypt occured in later dynastic periods, especially when the Macedonian Greeks conquered Egypt -> very late into ancient Egypt's history. It's clear that the people of the Levant and other populations in "Eurasia" played no noteworthy role in the establishment of ancient Egypt. Even if one were to concede that Lower Egyptians were admixed (half black)... I very much doubt that they would have been considered anything other than black - using Western standards. Obama has very rarely been referred to as anything but black, and this has been one of the central points of angst among his detractors, so Europeans can't just overturn their standards when it suits them. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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