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Someone explain in as simple a way as possible why Natufians are African
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannohotep: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb] The other problem is we still have folks using the term "sub saharan" in discussions of ancient populations in and outside Africa. Namely because African features are not limited to Sub Saharan Africa and never were. Only confuses the issue even more especially since this term has a lot of baggage associated with it coming from the old Eurocentric racist schools of anthropology.[/qb][/QUOTE]I know how you feel. The term "sub-Saharan" often does go hand in hand with the fallacy that all the dark-skinned indigenous African people live south of the Sahara, whereas the North is all Arabs or Berbers. On the other hand, I believe that when certain people [i]here[/i] use "SSA", they're using it as a convenient and familiar catch-all label for any African ancestry that isn't pre-OOA. And I for one am too damn tired of terminological squabbling to argue with anyone about it. It's not like the underlying relationships are going to change anyway. [/qb][/QUOTE]That's fine, but to be clear it should be obvious that African ancestry going back to OOA was all black to begin with. Calling it SSA leaves open the idea that there was some "other" kind of African around at that time when there wasn't. It also doesn't clarify genetic relationships either, because ultimately it becomes a riddle. If all humans originated in Africa and that happened somewhere below the Sahara then all humans ultimately are genetically derived from SSA Africans technically. Therefore, calling it SSA doesn't clarify anything. And at best it is semantics and irrelevant and at worst it imposes the idea that genes in Africa can be meaningfully split between SSA and OOA at some point in time. This is a contradiction in terms and serves no useful purpose, especially in the racially charged context that is white dominated anthropological discourse. If we could go back in time and put two groups together (assuming some one can find those non SSA OOA genes in the first place) one with "SSA" genes and the other with "proto" OOA genes, they wouldn't look much different. Those black Arabs banging drums aren't Sub Saharan Africans either and there have always been people like that in Arabia and the Levant going all the way back to OOA. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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