tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20744229853639245592012-01-11T16:37:24.135-07:00Mitochondrial DNA, Y haplogroup, M1, U6, U5, E3b and E3a, microsatellite locus, etc.Mystery Solverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comBlogger1191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-75909865436951089092011-12-26T20:29:00.000-07:002012-01-01T08:18:16.810-07:00

Introduction:  Many observers will note that at some point in time or another, they witnessed (if not perpetrators themselves) internet inquiries around the origins of Maghrebi populations, whom as indigenous Africans (let's face it; they are not endemic to any other region outside of Africa), are notable not only for having elements among them who are relative "outliers" in terms of epidermal

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Introduction: We proceed on from the last segment, wherein we looked at how nationalism and like ideology continues to plague science. No science has infamously suffered from this more than the discipline of human palaeontology. In the "west", the venture into this field started with getting to know remains of the European Neanderthal, and the sparking thereof, the belief that Europe was the hub

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Introduction: In the previous segment, a good deal of space was dedicated to a straightforward preliminary look at the portrayal of non-European peoples, especially Africans, in "western" media not merely as a loosely connected hodgepodge of unconscious and conscious underlying motives, ranging from economic considerations to racism, but rather, as a conscious undertaking of "western"

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Introduction: In the previous segments of the this blog entry, much attention was paid to History channel documentary reenactments of the ancients of Africa, particularly the Ancient Egyptians. Ancient Egypt has been the most popular subject of 'western' fascination and romanticism, but this sort of thing has not been limited to just Egypt. It has been extended to other African complexes, from

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Carried on from the first entry. Introduction recap: The taking up of African historiography by Europeans has long been mired with disinformation, as scholars of European descent sought to accommodate imperialist designs of their governments around the African continent. This matter had been particularly brushed on briefly in an earlier entry discussing the significance of additional

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Introduction: The taking up of African historiography by Europeans has long been mired with disinformation, as scholars of European descent sought to accommodate imperialist designs of their governments around the African continent. This matter had been particularly brushed on briefly in an earlier entry discussing the significance of additional Timbuktu chronicles that were brought to light in

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This entry is the continuation of an earlier entry on the genesis of the universe, and perspectives on that issue, both from scientific standpoint and theological standpoint. Here, the main focus will be on what then science says must have happened before our universe emerged, if as science says, that there is no need to look towards God as the agent responsible for getting the universe going

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This entry is the continuation of an earlier entry on the genesis of the universe, and perspectives on that issue, both from scientific standpoint and theological standpoint. Here, the main focus will be on the "life" aspect of the universe. Read the first part of this topic: Here Introduction: Herein the age old question surrounding the creation of the Universe, including our planet Earth of

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Perhaps there were moments in humanity's social evolutionary history when religion served a progressive purpose, in the sense that it allowed humans to make that transition to begin asking questions of how they got here, how our world came to be and so forth. The turn towards burying the dead love ones by our pre-historic ancestors testifies to this abstract thought in human development, and

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Just like the other romanticized media concoctions of Africa to 'western' and/or 'western influenced' audiences around the world, another typification of Africans is the practice of 'witchcraft'. A burgeoning trend in 'western' media outlets, is the progressive building up of a narrative of "increasing witchcraft" violence on the continent, whereby 'witchcraft' may be defined as follows: "

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Introduction: Herein the age old question surrounding the creation of the Universe, including our planet Earth of course, and God's role in this will be visited and analyzed in some detail, both from the physicists' and creationists' perspectives. Discussion: Any idea that science finally has the answers to how our universe—and everything within it, including ourselves—came to be, which don't

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It has become fashionable within elements of 'western' academia, to shift traditionally African-ascribed markers unit by unit to overseas origins, while very few are open to the possibilities that markers long taken for granted as "Eurasian" could actually be of direct African origin. The drivers for such moves can be a matter of trying to shift the Out Of Africa conception of human origins

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Many of us in our formative years, or else at some point in our adulthood, have become familiar with the mythical super-human personality known as Superman, amongst a number of other fictional characters with extraordinary strength and/or supernatural powers. The character was reportedly conceived in the early 30s by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, themselves immediate descendants of Jewish

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Clade M1 has been mentioned on this site quite a few times, usually in complicated molecular genetics jargon that some may be hard-pressed to understand. At times, the jargon proves to be complicated to the point that some individuals don't even realize it, when their ideological views about this clade are being refuted beyond little to no doubt. So to address this, the goal herein is to simplify

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It is a familiar name for one of the largest tectonic plates on the planet and something that primary school kids can easily place on the map. There are very few places on the globe where the name "Africa" has not been heard, yet it seems to be the most inexplicably misconstrued and misused name. Thanks to basic geography lessons in schools, kids can pretty much get the basic idea of Africa right

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The question of ancient Egyptian body proportion indexes first appeared on this site under the discussion ""Demic Diffusion" Dynastic models: R.I.P", wherein the strengths and weaknesses of certain published journals was visited upon. It appears to be a topic that recurrently finds its way into internet forum discussions, usually through the initiation of reactionary elements within Eurocentric

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There seems to be a trend amongst 'western' geneticists, to cite third party (not of their own) sources to bolster theories that cannot be sufficiently explained by their own findings. This often leads to the referencing of sources that concern samples of geographic specifics, and possibly, sample sizes that are distinct from those of the research group doing the citing [of the foreign source],

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There is an attitude of dismissal amongst personalities who are foreign to and scornful of African cultures, with regards to elements of Sahelian/Sudanic architectural traditions, as merely simple structures of mud. Never mind the multiple layers of design both in physiology and building-material that constitute the Sahelian or Sudanic architectural traditions. In an earlier posting, the

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Here, we carry-over an ongoing topic on "Getting to Know Ancient Egyptian Art". This section will deal with certain codes which artists appear to have adhered to. These are recurring themes that appear to have then been timeless, in that they spanned several Dynasties despite new artistic styles sanctioned by succeeding rulers. Kemetian art, while it did undergo changes throughout the Dynastic

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There is a perception in some quarters that few Ancient Egyptian artistic rendering tell us about reality or literal interpretation of situations as they actually appeared, especially when it came to portraiture or statuary of Egyptian figures. This perception therefore interprets Egyptian art as abstract or idealized art. How true is this perception? The answer to this will unfold as discussion

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Keita's term of "coastal northern African" in his earlier publications has been a repeat subject of inquiry over the years. Indeed Keita's terms can be confusing, thanks in no small measure to his blanket terms of "coastal northern African pattern" vs. "southern"/"Africoid" pattern, in lieu of old racial constructs, which he rejects as being restrictive such that they overlook the true

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In 1928, Charles Lambert had uncovered, during a preliminary investigation at el- Wad, the first prehistoric art object discovered in the Near East, a finely carved bone animal head. He had also discovered human, later identified as Natufian, burials. - Courtesy of the University of Cambridge, the department of archeology. The "Natufians", the reputed "first farmers" of the Neolithic "Near East

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When we hear the name "Akhenaten", more than likely for many of us, the first image of the pharaoh that comes to mind is one similar to those displayed on the statues below: The consistency with which each of the sculptures above portray the Pharaoh's face, like for example, the way the statues display a personality with a rather long slender face, obviously plays a role in image stamped into

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Image caption: Homo Erectus, Homo Floresiensis and Homo Sapiens skulls on display. Note the chin structures of the two most visible and complete skulls of the three. The well-known ideas circling out there about the human chin are pretty much in general agreement about its potential adaptive nature, they are just not in unison about what that adaptive nature is. To get a glimpse of what these

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Just another motoring report of an exclusive car, or is there more to it than meets the eye? As an illustrative example of how the aforementioned manipulation of the wage workforce by corporations and the plutocrats is at work, i.e. mass lay-offs so as to bring down wages and raise productivity with slimmer workforces [see the topic: Knowledge-base Tool Kit: Social Bargaining positions], the

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Image caption: Cartoon inspired by artwork of Scott Adams, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. In the existing interconnected global social complex, there are two main types of business entities: 1) Owners and/or overseers of profit-driven concerns that supply commodities of various forms, and 2) suppliers of labor. The former group ranges from financiers to the management of manufacturing, service

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The reader may recall having heard the claim that the KhoiSan are the "oldest living human populations" at some point or another. The saying may well have taken the character of something of a religious faith within some circles. When the whereabouts of the source for this "understanding" is inquired, common references have been to the National Geographic human genome project web-page and Semino

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Reviews on mtDNA studies: Haplogroups L0, L1, L2 & L3 Mitochondrial DNA M1 haplogroup: A Response To Ana M. Gonzalez et al. 2007 L1, L2 & L3 haplogroups: mtDNA Analysis of Nile River Valley Populations "Ethno-specific" markers? Correlating mtDNA Markers with The Journey of Contemporary E3a-bearers' Ancestors An Analysis of "The Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity" Looking into the study:

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While the ancient Egyptian side-lock is a familiar sight, it is also a somewhat understudied feature—that appears on mainly adolescent figures of wall murals. Perhaps the curious feature about this cultural expression, is that the youth side-lock is strictly an African custom, and the fact that the ancient Egyptians shared [with Africans south of the Sahara] this custom, is significant to this

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The present discussion takes off from the trail of a previous one posted here on the examination of the "Mechta-Afalou" and the European "Cro-Magnons" as elements of a monophyletic unit constituting a taxonomic "type". That previous discussion had put a spotlight on the futility of such a thesis, which varied quite widely in its specifics as one went from the subjective taxonomic regime of one

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On the surface, what is being discussed here may seem lighthearted and all, but we've all seen sensationalism around extraterrestrial beings at one point or another, be it from fringe cult groups who advocate personal UFO encounters or sightings, or entertainment mass media concerns. It seems that people are fascinated by the desire to find out, and some are even obsessed with the notion of 'we

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As it has become customary on this site, we will hereby examine the material specifics of work that recently came out, by Pereira et al., giving us an idea of what aspects of the journal withstands scrutiny and what doesn't. Below, is the extract, to give an indication of what we are working with: Linking the sub-Saharan and West Eurasian gene pools: maternal and paternal heritage of the

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In this segment of the topic, we will examine the other school of Arabic ideologue demic-diffusion theories—this time, revolving around certain African oral traditions or legends. Since Timbuktu is the subject of our discourse here, analysis will mostly focus on allegations made around Malian traditions, with examples from elsewhere on the continent if need be. We open the set of examples

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This an ongoing topic, carried from the first posting wherein we came across a question in Masonen's and Fisher's piece, concerning the adoption of Islam in ancient Ghana. That question was, to reiterate: Why did the ruler and people of Ghana adopt Islam in 1076? It is a warranted one, since it is generally understood that the religion wasn't widely adapted in that area, and certainly not by

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  It seems that no African heritage barely begins enjoying its belated share of limelight without outsiders [as in people who have no stake in the heritage at hand whatsoever] scrambling hysterically to strip it off its glory, and place credit where it is undue. Timbuktu has not fared any better. The glory of this historical complex has largely been put on the sidelines for quite some time now

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African architectural heritage, not too unlike the manner in which it is biologically and culturally diverse, was and is quite varied. There was no one style of urban framework. Of course, as the saying goes, a superficial issue such as "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, and so, a subjective issue. Architects though, are more likely than regular observers of different trade, to look beyond

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Here, we will conclude our journey on the trails of the Cro-Magnon from the first part (click); going straight to the point...  hg U6All eight Ethiopian U6 samples descend from the major U6a1 founder (fig. 2B), which is spread from the Near East to northwestern Africa at appreciable frequencies (Maca-Meyer et al. 2003). Their absence in Yemen suggests that these U6 lineages have likely

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The Cro-Magnon type has tacitly been invoked as the most likely forebearer of contemporary Europeans—where human paleontological record of Europe is concerned—within "Western" academic media circles, the so-called remains having been branded as being that belonging to modern anatomically modern human phylogen. Recently, the Oase 2 cranium finding in Romanian Pes¸tera cu Oase cave setting has

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Reviewing: A Predominantly Neolithic Origin for European Paternal Lineages, by Balaresque et al., 2010.    The present study does not really challenge, nor does it appear to be the intended goal at any rate, the oft implicated recent African ancestry component in "first Neolithic farmers" of the "Near East" and "Europe", generally represented by Hg E1b1b markers, in tandem with in situ "Near

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The palette itself appears to have an alternative name given to it by contemporary researchers, perhaps underlying the uncertainty surrounding the basis on which the palette has been associated with the Tehenu and/or else "Libyans", along with other speculative explanation based on such. For instance, on one website, the following was offered as an explanation: The Tehenu palette (or Towns

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On another matter of African haplogroup R chromosomes... As of Dec 4, 2009, the following was released by Molecular Anthropology in the Genomic Era team which oversaw the 4th International conference of the series on DNA polymorphisms in human populations that took place at University La Sapienza - Rome from December 3 through to 5, 2009:  Fulvio CRUCIANI (Italy)* Human Y-chromosome

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Body proportions of circumpolar peoples as evidenced from skeletal data: Ipiutak and Tigara (Point Hope) versus Kodiak Island Inuit. Holliday TW, Hilton CE. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2009 Nov 19. ABSTRACT Given the well-documented fact that human body proportions covary with climate (presumably due to the action of selection), one would expect that the Ipiutak and Tigara Inuit samples from Point Hope

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Herein, aspects of a recent publication by E. González-Pérez et al. (2009) under the heading described above, will be revisited and examined respectively. The abstract goes as follows: González-Pérez et al. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2009 Nov 16. The variation of 18 Alu polymorphisms and 3 linked STRs was determined in 1,831 individuals from 15 Mediterranean populations to analyze the relationships

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Nation States of Africa in Antiquity: Did National—GeoPolitical—Boundaries exist Here in Antiquity? A new feature on this site will be the occasional and recurring posting of matters that come up every now and then in discussions as questions but are otherwise generally considered basic knowledge, under the "Knowledge-base Tool Kit" heading. Our first such topic here, will be on: Nation States

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At basic, one might surmise that "behaviorally modern" implies behavior that contemporary human populations can instantly relate to. However, precisely, what does it mean to be "behaviorally modern", as it relates to human prehistory; do the players in the academia use this term in the same context or apply it on the basis of a set scholarly code? For certain, "behaviorally modern" has been a

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Earlier on this year, the present author of this site had an exchange with a chat room regular and the author of a paper titled "Y Haplogroups, Archaeological Cultures and Language Families: a Review of the Possibility of Multidisciplinary Comparisons Using the Case of E-M35", going by the name of Andrew Lancaster, on issues pertaining to the origins and demic diffusion possibilities of E1b1b

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There are various aspects of academia that some of us take for granted, without critical thinking. The driving "wisdom" here, is that if an idea is an oft repeated or recited one in sections of academia, then it must certainly be accurate and doesn't call for further investigation. This almost certainly appears to have been the case in a recent personal encounter with a question dealing with "

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For those who have ever been part of a Nile Valley discussion, the word "Nehesu" is a familiar one. However, this word seems to be shrouded in a bit of mystery, as far as its precise meaning is concerned. One thing is certain about it, in that it was generally referenced towards groups beyond Kmtnwt's (Dynastic Egypt) southern boarder, particularly beyond where lower Ta Seti lay. Several

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This is a carryover from the "miscellaneous notes" of the last blog posting (The Creation of a Fake Controversy: The Fula Origins). It pertains to extracts taken from: The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans, a publication by Tishkoff et al (2009). that just came out recently. Here, we will examine the work a bit more: Sampling entailed... We studied 121 African

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From time to time, one comes across mystification of certain western African ethnic groups by certain reactionary cults and like ideologues, whether it is in terms of certain intra-regional phenotypic variation and/or origins. We've seen an example of this sort of mystification in an earlier posting right here, although in this case, the authors point to definite facets of evidence that yet again

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This is actually a spin-off from the last post [see: Demic Diffusion" Dynastic models: R.I.P], where the issue of cattle domestication came up. Being that it appears to be a subject that deserves to be the center of attention in its own right, the following presents an opportunity to dig further into the matter; here Achilli et al.'s piece, as a recent publication (2008), will be dissected and

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Although by now intellectually relegated to a fringe-status [mainly radical Eurocentrist or affiliated cults] in the face of overwhelming & mounting evidence, there is still a crowd out there that is distressed by the prospect of the Dynastic Nile Valley complex being recognized, well, as autochthonous. The very idea that "sophisticated" or "advanced" complex culture(s) does not begin in Europe,

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The purported finding of DE* paraphyletic haplotypes in only 2 Tibetan sample candidates appears to have caused hysterical excitement in certain quarters, specifically amongst sects of individuals who are psychologically and emotionally tormented by the prospect of African ancestry in their "homelands". But this excitement is emotionally driven, and just that. As such, intellectual engagement

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Many cultural complexes of antiquity encompass time lines showcasing early beginnings in the shape of pre-"centralized" social units, usually as clusters of cities or urban areas (centers) concentrated in one particular sub-region, which may not even be loosely connected via a central governing authority [pending convincing evidence to such end], to reasonably verifiable centralized-state

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Perhaps few give it little thought to the matter, given the oft spoken about Crowns of Kmt (Kemet or "ancient Egypt"), particularly the "White" (Hedjet) and "Red" (Deshret) Crowns, but access to these items as tangible relics of the past has thus far been elusive. Pictures of pharaohs seem to indicate that the king's crown was made from a variety of material, from soft-looking ones [e.g.

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The newly uncovered Y-DNA clade, given the moniker of 'IJK' at the moment, is defined by UEPs designated as S137 (L15) and S138 (L16) at rs9786139 and rs9786714 respectively. * The isogg.org site recently provided additional locus information, in the form of L69.1/S163.1: L69.1/S163.1 is shown as L69(=G) in IJK. L69/S163 appears in multiple locations. - isogg.org And adds that: The DE

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This post was drafted starting December 2008, and had since been progressively built in that mode until just recently; enough info has been compiled to warrant finally posting it here for public view by the interested parties. Abstract: The name "Pwnt", known by many in the "West" as "Punt", has come to us by Kemetic accounts and legends of journeys to this exotic land, generally given an air

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The objective here is to dissect and analyze Battaglia et al.'s study. Immediately below, we have the abstract: Battaglia et al. Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy. The debate concerning the mechanisms underlying the prehistoric spread of farming to Southeast Europe is framed around the opposing roles of population movement and cultural diffusion. To

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The sequence of events involved in the genesis of the diversity that we see today in Imazighen groups is something that not only generates a considerable degree of interest, but also one that continues to challenge even the experts who've spent a good deal of their time in unwinding the archaeological, cultural and biological developments that accompanied the development of the Imazighen.

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It has recently been proposed by several scholars/linguists that Semitic may have originated in East Africa and/or in the north eastern part of Egypt near Sinai, by proto-Afrasan or "pre-proto-Semitic" pre-agricultural migrants in the region... “A careful reading of Diakonff shows his continuing adherence to his long-held position of an exclusively Africa origin for the family. He explicitly

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This was the subject of an interesting board discussion that the present author thought would be nice to add to the collection of postings here. Molecular characterisation and population genetics of the DYS458 .2 allelic variant G. Ferri, C. Robino, M. Alu, D. Luiselli , S. Tofanellid, L. Caciaglid, V. Onofri, S. Pelotti, C. Di Gaetano, F. Crobu, G. Beduschi, C. Capelli Abstract We recently

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Lia Betti1, François Balloux2, William Amos1, Tsunehiko Hanihara3, Andrea Manica1 December 02, 2008 Abstract The relative importance of ancient demography and climate in determining worldwide patterns of human within-population phenotypic diversity is still open to debate. Several morphometric traits have been argued to be under selection by climatic factors, but it is unclear whether climate

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The name "Pwnt", known by many in the "West" as "Punt", has come to us by Kemetic accounts and legends of journeys to this exotic land, generally given an air of veneration, i.e. ancestral veneration, one perhaps predicated on the idea of distant ancestors coming from the south. One sees recurring themes of this air of respect in both wall reliefs depicting journeys to and descriptions invoked

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From watching "Western" mass media day in and out, one could swear that there is no other image of the African, other than being that of the needy and submissive type. It's either that, or the needy or savage type that goes around killing fellow Africans. One form of imperialism and perhaps a stealthy one at that [with 'stealth' naturally accounting for success here], is psychological

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This is essentially a revival of an interesting discussion-board topic several years back, that proved to be instructive in highlighting the complexity of ancient Egyptian religious and spiritual thought. Some tend to have a rather monotypic sense of what constitutes ancient Egyptian religious concepts, usually dismissing it as merely "polytheistic", and by extension, one which remained unchanged

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The goal here is to highlight cultural parallelism or similarities between Dynastic Egypt and elsewhere in Africa from various sources; mind you, not to argue for or against cultural diffusion between communities in the said regions. Let's start this compilation of cultural parallels between ancient Egypt and other parts of Africa with the "Rainmaker King", neatly described in the following 2004

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Herein we will look at various Nile Valley influences in contemporaneous cultures around the Mediterranean sea and its spread thereof. For instance, given the Egyptian incursions into the Levant, Canaan in particular, their cultural impact in that area should really come as no surprise. In this regard, Egyptian involvement in the said region had taken a noticeably resolute turn under Rameses II;

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Several months back, in a forum discussion, the present author came across something quite interesting on the website of the owner of the said forum—going by the name of F. W. Sweet, and this is what it says/said: "It seems that Dr. Shriver’s maternal grandfather moved from Pennsylvania to Iowa, then to California, leaving behind in the process most of his ties with his relatives.23 Dr. Shriver,

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What is the point of learning our history? Well, for one, it is the ability to relate to our ancestors, and perhaps learn from their experiences along the way. Since our historic ancestors—as opposed to distant prehistoric hominid forebearers—were obviously human like ourselves, we can psychologically and emotionally relate to many of the underlying subjective and objective forces of the accounts

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NY Times [italicized extract below] — On the findings that Sarah Tishkoff and her team found, as have others too, showing that the C−13.9kbT allele which is determined to be a predictor of lactose tolerance in Europe, has not been effective in predicting lactose tolerance in Africa, even though this is a continent where lactose tolerance amongst various groups, particularly those that practice

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Earlier here, the issue of R1*-M173 ancestry was examined by way of distribution patterns, and other areas of the genome outside of the Y chromosome, like in say an allele on the X chromosome [See R1*-M173 bearing chromosomes in Cameroon (clickable) - for review]. Well, now we will look at another correlation made between Y haplotype and lactose tolerance [which will be revisited here in the

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The Sinai junction has at times been the subject of geopolitical gymnastics in anthropology, wherein any archaeological findings is given an non-African interpretation. In fact, many anthropological findings have exemplified just how this region is an extension of the Nile Valley, and hence, Africa since antiquity, as it is today. Take for instance the 'Proto-Sinaitic' script, which had been

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Based on extracts from Yamaguchi et al. 2006, we have the following: — DNA damage in the upper epidermis immediately after UV exposure was similar among racial/ethnic groups but levels of DNA damage in the lower concentration of the epidermis was inversely proportional to the melanin content. Courtesy of Yamaguchi et al. 2006: Figure 1. A) Representative images of CPD DNA damage in fair,

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Often times, people discuss how lower Nile Valley polities united with the Upper Nile Valley ones, with the initiative coming largely from upper Nile Valley ruling elites; yet, it almost never comes up or crosses the mind, that these discrete polities might have well very likely spoke distinctive dialects, if not language types altogether, as well. This would mean that there would have been a

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Regardless of the ultimate origins of the term "Berber", it seems pretty clear that the term became particularly synonymous with contemporary Imazighen speakers from the Medieval era onwards, specifically during "Moorish" rule in Europe. And of course today, within the scholarly world of the so-called 'West', the application of this term is justified on the condition that it is strictly a

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The bulk of hominid skeletons uncovered in sub-Saharan East Africa has tremendously enhanced our insights into humanity's bio-evolutionary history, but in doing so, may have also created some sort of a researcher tunnel vision, wherein other places in the content are overlooked for the uncovering of other pieces of the hominid evolutionary index — where the prospect of uncovering both other "

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Quick chronological bits on Anatomically modern human specimens: East Africa: Omo I ~ 195, 000 years ago. Other views of the Omo I specimen: These below give a very good indication of the scope of the missing sections of the actual skull, the remaining fragments of which have been mated to a carefully moulded piece—emulating the contours of the skull fragments where they are fitted—to hold

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Within 'Medi-centrist' circles, ideologues have sought psychological refuge in this anthropological catchword, in relation to cranial morphology; however, what is this term really a code word for? Well, let's examine from the language of a few anthropological publications, what this really boils down to... The reactionary and outdated anthropological work of Colin Groves naturally comes to mind

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Though a minority clique, there are a few who attribute the Aksumite complex and urbanization in the African Horn to migrants from the Arabian peninsula, rather than a long history of social processes leading to development of distinctive urban centers at different time frames, influenced by both local processes and prevailing environmental and/or external socio-political pressures or influences.

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Cranio-facial variation is perhaps the most overrated phenotypic aspect of human body in societies, aside from skin tone. Not surprising, considering that it is the most regularly exposed part of the body that noticeably sports considerable variation, and goes without saying, forms a biological basis around which an individual's unique identity is established. Socio-ethnic identification is

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It is a lineage that spans west and east Africa, and spilling over to portions of southern Europe and "southwest Asia". In looking at the following diagram... For those with inadequate screen size, view the above image in full with: here ...it is apparent that at the least, U5 and U6 diverge into respective branches independent from that of the rest of U macro-haplogroup. Similar observation

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Carried on from Part 3; also see: Part 1 and Part 2 Today, “Cold War-like” proxy battlegrounds are being prepared in Africa against emerging opportunistic bourgeois rivals from the East, notably China, to the big business interests of the major capitalist colonial economies. Earlier elsewhere (clickable), the present author said: “With the growth of local industry through "protectionism" [and

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Continued from Part 2 Recalling on the Monbiot reform ideas that were recommended here, vis-à-vis proper and fair African integration into the global economy, via democratization of international institutions like UN and WTO, while doing away with debt creating & collecting regimes like the World Bank and IMF; well, these would obviously be short term measures, which would have been done in the

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Carried from Social Democracy for Africa? Continuing with the question of the introduction of systematic political consciousness of the working proletariat, as opposed to merely waiting for some spontaneous coherent conscious across the proletariat, of a comprehensive understanding of the workings of the complex socio-economic order they are a part of, Lenin says: “We have said that there

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This is the first of a four-parts topic... Social Democracy in Africa: Communism as we generally know it, hasn’t done Africa much good, and certainly, the present capitalist dominated environment of African nations hasn’t gotten Africans anywhere. What about ‘social democracy’ in Africa; can it work for Africans? — a question well worth pondering. To do so, it may be necessary to examine

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It has become a tradition within Eurocentric ideological circles, the idea that European "Dark Ages" of the medieval era was the expression of "lost classical Greek thought" in all European life. This loss of intellectual development was largely attributed to the reactionary practices of the Church, wherein religious doctrine was not to be challenged by free and objective thinking. Perhaps there

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Carried from Part 1 Peust’s chart overviews the strong compatibility restrictions of pairs of consonants with an asterisk (*) and absolutely no occurrences with (x). His strong restriction means that these pairs of consonants are clearly disfavoured, although they may appear occasionally. I take the occasional appearance of these consonants to mean that they are nonadjacent, again, however,

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Revisiting a case put forth by a forum discussant about language relationship between ancient Egyptian [generally placed in the Afrasan language phylum] and Dagara [generally placed in the Niger-Congo language phylum]: Asar Imhotep puts forth: In egyptian, some words are formed from this primitive i, all having an affirmative content of "to be". We have: i: "to be" i+w: iw: "is", "are" i+pw,

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"Anti-Semitism" as a term, seems to have become a word too loosely used in the mass media and possibly everyday language, especially in the so-called "West", wherein not much thought is given to the literal lingual basis of the word. A little bit of historical perspective on this term: Wilhelm Marr coined the term “anti-Semitism” in 1879 in his The Victory of the Jews over the Germans, which

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Part of this topic is a carry over from the earlier topic of 12-repeat allele at DYS392 microsatellite of certain PN2 clades, including E-M78 [clickable link] Argument #1 about the 12-repeat all at DYS392 : Characteristic of homoplasy... — seems to reappear in different subclades of M78, particularly in regions where M78 appears to be fairly frequent [Cruciani et al.'s emphasis, 2008], but

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The authors of the recent study titled "The Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity" suggest that the divergence of the immediate ancestors of contemporary KhoiSan groups from a common ancestral maternal gene pool—shared with "non-KhoiSan" African groups—couldn't have occurred later than 90,000 years bp, and place the upper bound of this 'split' at a time range of 140,000-210,000 years bp. The goal

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In the last posting, the Meroitic Graffito from Musawwarat was briefly looked at, and this is what it looks like: And this is what it is supposed to read, according to Mr. Rilly: In Meroitic Wle qo phn 3 tlt Netror-se-l-o In English « this dog was bought (???) three talents, it is Netarura's ». The above statement was reconstructed

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Revisiting: ...for translation: With regards to the image in the piece above, wherein the figures "" & "" (together—meaning Km.t[feminine]) are followed by the figures of a seated male and female, and then a vertical line of three dotted figures [an ensemble of figures representing the determinative for "rmt"—to denote "people"], we are told... In French C’est le term le plus fort et le plus

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Some in the so-called western nations and possibly elsewhere, where mass media dissemination is influenced by information fed from big business mass media in so-called western nations, instantly think of a small village sporting a mix of fully dressed or semi dressed-up people who are largely spared the visible symbols of modern essentials like cars, electricity, paved roads, recreational

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The goal of the present posting is precisely that, to find out if the assumptive premise of the question at hand can withstand linguistic scrutiny. Ancient Egyptian, like any other language, has grammatic rules that have to be adhered to; there is no reason to assume that this underlying logic doesn't take hold in Egyptian, and hence, warrants dropping all commonsense when it comes to treating

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mtDNA may paint a somewhat more complex picture than their Y counterparts, in no small part due to the far much deeper root [taking us back to the earliest traceable MRCA] of the maternal line of contemporary human populations, and hence much greater time depths in which complex patterns of demic processes would have taken place than those of the Y chromosome counterpart, leaving room for

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Is it possible to trace a marker to a single specific designated ethnic group, by DNA motifs alone? Well, it is plausible that certain markers can be relatively more frequent in some highly culturally-"conservative" and relatively socially-isolated ethnic group—that just so happens to have marital customs which generally discourage exogamy with other ethnic groups—but rarer in other groups

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Recapitulation: 23,000 BP ~ 21,050 BC — The Ogolian aridity hits the North-to-equator section of Africa; much of North Africa and the Sahara are characterized by adverse weather conditions, with much of the region turning arid. The Sahara at this time, extends south beyond its current boundaries to a certain point, possibly a little beyond the Niger bend. Arid conditions extend all the way to

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Continued from: Revisiting exchanges with Clyde Winters on the Meroitic script Pt. 2 As noted in the last posting on this topic, the basic questions that come up time and again about Clyde's Tocharian-Meroitic link, but never addressed by him: Meroitic script is much older than Tocharian script according most sources. How does that square with Meroitic developing from a script younger than

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Continued from Part 1 of this topic, here: Revisiting exchanges with Clyde Winters on the Meroitic script Clyde is convinced that Meroitic must belong to the Niger-Congo superphylum, as put forth in his own words below: I would classify Meroitic as Niger-Congo langauge. The great savant Cheikh Anta Diop (1974,1981) was convinced that many West African groups had formerly lived in the

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