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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by beyoku: [qb] Anyone hypothesize the Y-DNA will be equally low in PN2? If it is does that mean they are foreign? [/qb][/QUOTE]If PN2 has low margins it would be weird, since physical anthropology claimed different. But indeed it's a good question, are they deemed to be foreign when it is low? I say no, since we have people in Africa who carry A and or B and no E. [QUOTE] There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas [...] [/QUOTE]--Kathryn A. Bard (STEPHEN E. THOMPSON Egyptians, physical anthropology of Physical anthropology) (1999, 2005, 2015) [QUOTE] “Pleistocene through to the Christian periods, reveals a break in population continuity between the Pleistocene (Jebel Sahaba) and the Final Neolithic (Gebel Ramlah, dating to the first half of the fifth millennium BC) samples. The dental traits from Jebel Sahaba align more closely with modern sub-Saharan populations, while Gebel Ramlah and later align closer to Egypt specifically and to the Sahara in general.”[/QUOTE]--Michael Brass Reconsidering the emergence of social complexity in early Saharan pastoral societies, 5000 – 2500 B.C. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3786551/ [/QB][/QUOTE]
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