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I remember Lioness posting it. Its was a pain to read. I remember Bobs being the most popular among women, bald heads being popular among men, fros and dreadlocks making an appearance.
I could be wrong. Its been a while.
Tukuler Member # 19944
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Hope this helpful especially the image pages
site:egyptsearch.com egyptian hairstyles thelioness or site:egyptsearch.com egyptian hairstyles
"During the period of the Old and Middle Kingdom, two kinds of the wigs appeared as the most popular: the ones made of short and long hair. The hair was formed to make the forehead partly visible, with the ears and back of the neck fully covered. The most classical style of wigs is a Nubian wig, a headdress worn in many periods in history, but especially popular during the 18th Dynasty and all the New Kingdom Period. In those times, wigs with luxurious decorations were a powerful symbol of fertility related to the one wore by the goddess Hathor. The wigs, known from tombs, reliefs and statues of Kiya, Nefertiti, Tiye and other women of this period, partly resemble the modern Afro hairstyle"
And from a kiddie book The Egyptians by Jillian Powell
the lioness, Member # 17353
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2 articles here, pages 1043 - 1051
(note 1045-1046 not availbale in sample pages)
1) Hair in Egypt
2) Hair in Egypt: People and Technology used in creating Egyptian hairstyles and wigs
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures Volume 1 2008
Analysis of Hair Samples of Mummies from Semna South (Sudanese Nubia) DANIEL B. HRDY Department of Anthropology, Harvard Universrty, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 1978
Forty2Tribes Member # 21799
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Thanks all. Good info. I couldn't find that Geoffrey John Tassie thesis. That might be the best work on Predynsatic hair.
Ish Geber Member # 18264
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quote:Originally posted by Forty2Tribes: I remember Lioness posting it. Its was a pain to read. I remember Bobs being the most popular among women, bald heads being popular among men, fros and dreadlocks making an appearance.
I could be wrong. Its been a while.
"Stable Isotope Analysis of Hair from Christian Period Kulubnarti in Sudanese Nubia" ~Walaa Basha
"The Social and Ritual Contextualisation of Ancient Egyptian Hair and Hairstyles from the Protodynastic to the End of the Old Kingdom Volume 1, 2" ~Geoffrey John Tassie
Doug M Member # 7650
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The most classical style of hair in AE was the African style. (Nubian has nothing to do with it). It is the style of hair seen on Africans across the entire continent and into the present day. Basically Africans wearing African hairstyles. Afro, African locks all the same thing.
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