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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [QB] They already knew the angle people would come with for Upper Egypt, so then there was that Siwa Oasis study. The one that genetically analyzed a later, more isolated group of southern Egyptians with ties to Libya and Bedouin. By the New Kingdom cranial data shows that even a lot of Upper Egypt started to resemble modern Egypt. Certain people who want to communicate that AE demographics were the same as Modern Egypt's are much more likely to get the desired results sampling the NK and later periods, and this has been inferred from cranial data for a long time. Official restrictions are one of the biggest problems I have had with successfully advocating the reliability of genetic data against skepticism. It's not that you technically couldn't duplicate the results which makes the use of it feel unscientific, but the red tape around the issue I've found. Most people don't have the legal liberty to sample ALL of Egypt, just the portions of Egypt where remains were taken out the country for examination or something (So I've been told). One of the things I have found a little strange (or at least have no way of explaining) about the DNA ban is how Egyptian bans on ancient DNA testing seem irrelevant to the publications of this data. Why don't these scientists releasing this research feel [b]any[/b] fear in releasing all this genetic information? Why hasn't the Egyptian government retaliated against the Abusir study (and others like it) if genetic research of ancient remains is banned? I imagine this type of confusion is the main source of mistrust for the Egyptian government and ancient genetic research. It creates the feeling among many onlookers that genetic data is only going to be allowed to be published without push back if the government is cool with what it says. I honestly can't say I know what's going on or how objective that conclusion is, but at the same time, I don't have much refutations I can offer when some people say how it looks from them to them from the outside. Modern Egyptians understandably want the vindication to have the cultural ownership of AE civilization because their ancestors lived there. It's an immense source of revenue for the country so I can only imagine what it'd mean for the world to look at the modern Egyptian people and protest that they have no right to claim AE? So I understand how information released is something that could possibly assist modern Egypt's interests over anyone else's. Can't say I know or understand everything going on, but I don't have anything to discredit it either. Genetically most Modern Egyptians don't resemble SSA. I am doubtful that AE were completely SSA in Old Kingdom times, but I don't think an Old Kingdom Egyptian in Elephantine would genetically be the same as a NK Egyptian in Abusir either. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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