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[QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: [qb] That absurd "Hamiticism" position is not even remotely tenable, even though Europeans desperately want it to be so. There is no evidence of it. [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm trying to understand why you're so hostile to it, when Hamiticism argues for North African biological continuity since the Epipalaeolithic. I only thought it would be a problem for Afrocentrists if it argued there was a mass migration from the Levant much more recently. It doesn't. The so-called "Dynastic Race Theory" which proposes a migration from Levant into Egypt during the late Neolithic/pre-Dynastic never argued for large-scale gene flow; the "dynastic race" as elites were thought to be a minuscule number of the total population: "Though gradual infiltration by an alien people might well profoundly modify the culture of Egypt, it could hardly produce that terrific wave of national energy which followed close on the advent of the Dynastic Race. Such a result might however well follow the invasion and conquest by a race superior in fighting strength, though perhaps [b]far inferior numerically to the old Egyptian stock[/b]." "It is also very suggestive of the presence of a dominant race, perhaps relatively [b]few in numbers[/b] but greatly exceeding the original inhabitants in intelligence; a race which brought into Egypt the knowledge of building in stone, of sculpture, painting, reliefs, and above all writing; hence the enormous jump from the primitive Predynastic Egyptian to the advanced civilization of the Old Empire." - Derry DE. 1956. The dynastic race in Egypt. J Egypt Archaeol 42:80–85 [/qb][/QUOTE]Why would I not be hostile to it? Your ilk claimed that Northeast Africans are just "dark whites" ("Hamites") from Mesopotamia or the Arabian Peninsula and that this is why they were able to build civilizations like Egypt and Kush. It's all part of this terrible and ahistorical campaign to assert that "Eurasians" are the only people capable of civilization. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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