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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nodnarb: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [qb]I said that to say this: when thinking about dynastic AE population affinity, we should work from here. Dynastic AE ratio of SSA to North African may or may not be larger than what we see in the Natufians. However, if it's larger it will largely depend on post-Natufian SSA migration to the ancestors of ancient Egyptians. And it also has to be ongoing and substantial to continually counteract ongoing small Eurasian and Maghrebi influences during the dynastic era. I have seen no one here who has been able to provide evidence for this. In my view, those who take DNA Tribes literally, their priorities should lie here before using less certain data (i.e. data that is not based on ancient DNA). [/qb][/QUOTE]You've pointed out in the past that SSA-like remains from the Holocene epoch have been found in coastal NW Africa, including some Carthaginian sites. I presume some of these would represent West Africans who colonized the north during the Green Sahara period, since they contrast with the Eurasian-affiliated late Pleistocene inhabitants of that region. If West (as well as Northeast) Africans in the mid-Holocene could make it past the Atlas Mountains to settle the Maghrebi coast, logic would dictate that a few South Sudanese types would have been able to move down the Nile and assimilate into the eastern Saharan populations during that same time frame. Even if this Sudanic ancestry never became the majority component in AE, I would expect it to still be significant just as West African and Nile Valley ancestry would remain detectable in the Maghreb as recently as Carthaginian times. If that turns out not to be the case, I'd like to know why. Why would we find all this visible SSA ancestry in ancient Maghrebi remains, but not so much in AE? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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