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dragonridr
reply to post by Spider879
i said nothing about the Turks other then the area of turkey near Elba a city near the syrian turkish border to be exact.Traveling through an area and being Turkish are to different things dont cloud the issue.As for the dawn of civilization it was in the tigress Euphrates area archaeologists have little doubt on that. It didnt originate from Africa it traveled towards it.
Spider879
dragonridr
reply to post by Spider879
i said nothing about the Turks other then the area of turkey near Elba a city near the syrian turkish border to be exact.Traveling through an area and being Turkish are to different things dont cloud the issue.As for the dawn of civilization it was in the tigress Euphrates area archaeologists have little doubt on that. It didnt originate from Africa it traveled towards it.
There were multiple dawns of civilizations occurring just about the same time within centuries of each other I am going to take a guess that you did not do any research on the development of civilization in the Nile Valley and immediate areas for if you did there is no way you could make that assumption.
gotta get some shut eyes nighty nite.
tadaman
reply to post by Hanslune
also why were the structures and level of engineering never repeated elsewhere in the African continent?
ever wonder?
edit on 9 17 2013 by tadaman because: (no reason given)
LUXUS
In the above image you see the enemy of the Egyptians being slaughtered, they have two skin tones, one is lighter then the other. This is explained by Philostratus who noted that people living near the Nubian border were lighter than Ethiopians, and that Egyptians were lighter still. So the darker skinned were the Ethiopians and the lighter from kush what we now call Nubians
Follow the pottery this is the latest method for tracking civilizations. So i suggest you look into it also tracking languages also reaffirms predynastic egypt and where they came from.
Also it really doesnt matter what color the Egyptians were since the whole argument seems to be white vs black well its not. The whole area of the middle east contained every race it was a melting pot heres what i mean lets look at a hieroglyph found in Seti the first tomb.
There's another really interesting innovation in Africa: pottery. There are two places in the world which develop pottery really early. One is Japan, where you find pottery before 10,000 BCE, going back to at least 11,000 or 12,000 BCE. And then you've got pottery by 10,500 BCE in the eastern Sahara, and it spreads widely in the southern Sahara. Unlike the Middle Eastern ceramics, where you can see the development of pottery at every stage, the stuff we find in the southern Sahara is already great pottery. So there's probably 500 years we're missing from the archaeological record. So let's say that pottery develops in the southern Sahara 2,500 years before Middle Eastern pottery. The Middle Eastern stuff does look like it was developed independently of the African, but hey, this is really interesting! Africa is not too far away; there may have been some diffusion.
WHC: You describe two other groups. One of them is the Afrasans. Can you talk about them for a moment?
Ehret: These are people who have been called Afro-Asiatic and also Afrasian. I'm saying "Afrasan" because I'm trying to get "Asia" out. There is still this idea that the Afro-Asiatic family had to come out of Asia. Once you realize that it's an African family with one little Asian offshoot, well, that itself is a very important lesson for world historians.
We actually have DNA evidence which fits very well with an intrusion of people from northwestern African into southwestern Asia. The Y-chromosome markers, associated with the male, fade out as you go deeper into the Middle East.
Hanslune
Spider879
What questions have I avoided or refused to answer??
My previous posting posted on Sep, 16 2013 @ 14:04
I am not at all concerned about the exact shade of skin the ancient kemetians had if you read my post carefully I said they were biologically African and culturally African at-least the core population were, I am in no way the flip side of the Negro phobic Luxus so stop with the comparison, I have said that academia have settled the issue for sometime now see links provided, the problem now is with pop media and culture and even then there are subtle changes.
dragonridr
reply to post by Spider879
Your miss quoting him which he warns about in the article. Hes saying its possible that pottery was developed in the middle east from Africa because of a 500 year gap. But notice he points out that middle eastern pottery developed on its own. He was simply telling the interviewer who obviously had an agenda it was possible but then made sure to stipulate pottery from middle east is unique. So Maybe some potter found his way into the middle east but there is no way to prove it. however after pottery develops in the middle east we can follow it all the way back to the Nile delta and further into North Africa.
So this means culture came from the middle east was there outside influences probably. Several archaeologist believe Asia had its influences as well he doesnt seem to like that idea. In truth doesnt matter when dealing with pre civilizations. In order for a civilization to occur archaeologists look for 3 things a writing system and farming and domestication. Thats why you can follow the pottery and the influence in pre dynastic Egypt was not Africa.edit on 9/19/13 by dragonridr because: (no reason given)
dragonridr
reply to post by Spider879
Incans had a writing system in fact had 2 of them the most interesting is knots called quipu. And as far as any civilization goes writing is a requirement. Because with a civilization planning is required which requires records. I think its obvious by looking at language and pottery where pre dynastic Egyptians came from but even if you refuse to believe that there was a major influx in the first dynasty from the middle east a war insues and the Nile valley is taken. So even if we make the argument that Nubian lived there the war in the first dynasty drove them out. well actually dynasty 0 but none the less Egypt was freed of taken over depending on your point of view by Egyptians.
There is no evidence that Egyptians were black archaeologists cant find any roots for Egypt anywhere but Syria and middle east. But really does it truly matter there a culture that developed in Africa so they are African skin color is irrelevant. Didnt matter to Egyptians in the least what color you were. Now im going to stop arguing this because it seems you have a pre conceived bias and want this to be true it seems important to you. Ill just end it by saying main stream archaeology disagrees with you.
Spider879
LUXUS
reply to post by Hanslune
I did not answer because you assume my understanding of evolution on this planet is in keeping with current ideas, it is as foolish as saying which flower developed from which flower.
There has been many types of humanoid that have developed on this planet, but to say they all were related is not correct. It would be like saying a chimp evolved from an orangutang just because there are similar features and yes even similar genetics. What colour was the skin of the neanderthal, who is to say Caucasians did not inherit their characteristics (including lighter skin) thru mating with other humanoids now extinct?
The supposedly scientific theory of skin depigmentation due to lack of sunlight is in my view stupid and I don't believe it for a second, polar bears btw have black skin!
You also ask me to answer another question I view as being somewhat foolish, at what percentage of melanin would a person become black/white...its not a question of colour, An African albino is not a Caucasian despite being white. The fact that a forensic crime investigator can determine race, age and gender by examining bones is proof that its more than skin deep!
Science so far has traced some of our genetics back to Africa but the thing that makes white people white is not to be found in Africa and no its not lack of sun but rather genetic input from another now extinct race of humans.