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Post by Atlantid on Nov 30, 2012 20:47:41 GMT -5
What do we know on this topic?
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Post by preddinarid on Dec 2, 2012 2:04:42 GMT -5
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Post by Noah on Dec 2, 2012 4:05:48 GMT -5
Contextually, the quote alludes to the Nandi, a Nilotic tribe in East Africa. It indicates that besides their main Nilotic ancestry, they have some secondary Hamitic and Pygmy components.
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Post by Noah on Dec 2, 2012 4:06:06 GMT -5
We know that Caucasoid admixture is likely responsible for the transfer of the Hamitic haplogroup E to Paleoafricans. Negroid-type Africans would then seem to have arisen relatively recently from such contacts. Ergo, their almost sudden appearance in the archaeological record. The Paleoafricans themselves appear to have originally and exclusively belonged to the archaic paternal haplogroup A (perhaps also to haplogroup B). This is based on uniparental marker analysis of Neolithic specimens in the Sudan region, which are genetically distinct from the later haplogroup E-carrying Meroitic populations. They are also phenotypically different. Note, for example, how the dental pattern of the Meroitic pyramid builders in the study below is Caucasoid, whereas the Paleo Nubia sample instead groups with Negroid and Khoisan populations:
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Post by Atlantid on Dec 4, 2012 23:43:58 GMT -5
Interesting data as usual. Have you read Pygmy Kitabu? I've just ordered it.
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Post by Noah on Dec 6, 2012 0:53:23 GMT -5
Interesting data as usual. Have you read Pygmy Kitabu? I've just ordered it. No I haven't, but I understand it's one of the better works on the subject.
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