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[QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannohotep: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by .Charlie Bass.: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by beyoku: [qb] But the mtdna still is what it is. Your thoughts on it? [/qb][/QUOTE]The mtDNA is pure maternal. It could indicate that these people had foreign wives depending on the dates. [/qb][/QUOTE]I do believe this particular community that's being sampled is of mixed ancestry, rather than representing the whole indigenous AE population over time. As others have mentioned in the other thread, it would have been preferable if they had gotten some Y-DNA haplogroups along with the mtDNA and nuclear DNA data. Beyoku has told me that certain PN2 lineages appear to be native to the northeastern corner of Africa and therefore would have been abundant in AE. If a later study ends up finding a paucity of these lineages in this Abusir el-Meleq sample, it would lend credence to them representing a foreign or at least heavily admixed community. [/qb][/QUOTE]Precisely. The time in question was a period in which Egypt was completely under foreign rule, and so these could very well be the mummies of foreigners or a heavily admixed population. I will not budge until complete genetic samples are taken from the South - especially from earlier periods and it must reveal the paternal and maternal profiles. The Badarians were undoubtedly African and were representative of the dynastic Egyptians and since there is absolutely no evidence of population replacement... I will not be swayed by Northern samples sourced from a period in which foreigners ruled Egypt and actively adopted the mummificatiom practices of the ancient Egyptians. They should provide a background of who these people were, so that it may be conclusively determined if these people were actually ethnic Egyptians representative of the general population. The paternal genetic profile of these mummies is of tremendous importance; even if we assume that these are actually Egyptians, they could be derivatives of foreign mothers. Even Amenhotep II is said to have had many Asiatic concubines. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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