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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb]Come on DJ. There was no term "Nubia" in ancient times going back to the early dynastic and predynastic. Period. There is no hand waving or arm waving around this. And these terms belie the fact that the Nile Valley part of a larger cultural complex stretching into prehistory involving various groups at various times from the Upper Nile and Sahara. Trying to separate one of these groups from the other when they are all related as "Africans" and part of the same cultural complex is the fundamental problem. The usage of the word "Nubia" for regions along the Nile today 5 to 10 thousand years later is irrelevant to that ancient historical chronology. Therefore, this is absolutely about making a distinction between modern cultures identified by modern geographical terms and ancient cultures using the same geographical terms. [/qb][/QUOTE]I personally have moved away from using the term "Nubian" to refer to Middle Nile peoples prior to the arrival of Nobiin-speakers after the fall of the Kushite kingdom. Modern Nubians obviously have a lot of ancestry from ethnic groups that lived in their current area before, but they're not exactly the same ethnic group. That said, I think there is utility in a term for the Middle Nile region (i.e. the region between the First Cataract and the confluence of the White and Blue Nile). All geographic regions are arbitrary social constructs to one degree or another, but humans can't help but divide and categorize things anyway. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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