Doug M Wrote:
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> Fundamentally, the issue of concern here should be
> categorizing the phenotypes of the Egyptians at
> various times and how these have changed and why.
But that presents its own sets of issues,as many
> people confuse indigenous African phenotypical
> variation with foreign admixture. Case in point,
> there are and always have been Sudanese, Egyptian
> and other black Africans with pointy noses and
> thin lips or hooked noses and thin lips. Neither
> of these phenotypical features indicate foreign
> influence. The fact that African diversity is
> much more varied and is ancestral to most other
> populations on earth, it is often easy to mistake
> indigenous African features with foreign
> influence, at least at a nonscientific level of
> physical observation of mummified remains.
How exactly do anthropologist determine if remains found in Egypt are the remains of an Black African vs someone from outside of Africa if they share similar physical similariities?
