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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [qb] Its bizarre why people here think the ancient Egyptians on average had those "broad" (i.e. "Negroid") features. They didn't. Read Baker (1974) for an accurate description of what typical dynastic Egyptians looked like: [QUOTE]In their monuments the dynastic Egyptians represented themselves as having a long face, pointed chin with scantly beard, a straight or somewhat aquiline nose, black irises, and a reddish-brown complexion. On the evidence of their mummies it would appear that the head-hair was curly, wavy, or almost straight, and very dark brown or black. Facial and body-hair was scantly apart from the chin tuft of males. The skeletons show that stature was low, and the bones are slight and suggest a rather feeble frame. The skulls stand near the dividing-line between meso-and dolicocranial, with bulging occiput; viewed from on top they appear coffin shaped or ovoid; supraciliary ridges are poorly developed or absent; the forehead is nearly vertical. The cheeks are narrow, the reliability of their images. There is some tendency towards projection of the face and jaws (mesognathy).[/QUOTE]Hence if you read most physical-anthro literature from say 1850 to 1970's, the ancient Egyptians were "Caucasoid" [i]senso lato[/i], but not "Caucasoid" [i]senso stricto[/i], meaning a small amount of mixture was always recognised in the skulls, although nowhere near the extent you could detect common "broad" features. Coon (1965) therefore described northernmost Africans such as Tunisian/Moroccan Berbers and Egyptians as "although essentially Caucasoid, they show the absorption of an indigenous element." [/qb][/QUOTE]It's bizarre a euronut keeps typing euroloons nonsense with Caucasoid claims. [IMG]http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2013-01-02-TunisianMarriageCamels.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2013-01-02-3Horsemen.jpg[/IMG] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rupert-parker/planet-appetite-sahara-fetsival-tunisia_b_2395017.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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