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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [qb] I wonder how probable it is that we'll ever find a "pure" Afroasiatic population in the archaeological record. African Afroasiatic samples will likely have too much admixture from other African sources, whereas Asian samples will of course have genuine Eurasian admixture. It wouldn't be so bad if we could simply point to the shared ancestry between the African and Asian samples as representing that of the original Afroasiatics, but we all know the tendency in the anthro fandom has been to call that shared ancestry "Natufian" and claim that the African Afroasiatics therefore represent Natufian/sub-Saharan mixes. I suppose that, once we identify whatever Saharan refugia the Egyptians' African ancestors were hiding in during the late Pleistocene to early Holocene, we'd find skeletal remains with aDNA that represent the population we're looking for. I don't have much confidence that they'll even keep searching for those refugia, let alone get aDNA and characterize it as anything other than yet more Natufian. [/qb][/QUOTE]Unraveling the genetic lineages present in and around various parts of Northern Africa isnt going to help with ancient language families going back 10,000 years. It wouldn't even make sense to try and assign any such lineages or skeletal traits to language groups. That can only happen with historical populations of which languages are known. There is no ancient linguistic data that would be available for 10,000 years ago or more. I would assume that identifying what lineages were present and any novel lineages that may have arisen and no longer are pesent would be a bigger revelation. Along with what lineages from what regions appeared over time in various areas, whether they be from in Africa and moving outward or outside Africa moving in. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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