Well, Turkey given their history of Devshirme and whatnot, has a large white legacy. Anyway, the reason why the media casts egyptian roles as white(-ish) people is quite simple. You need to hire the good actors for the role and the good actors are more often than not, have the appropriate accents for the role they are playing. For example, the series Spartacus features a completely Australian cast, the series A Game of Thrones features a completely British cast. Should Americans be angry that they are not represented in these shows? There are plenty of great American actors out there, but they have an American accent which would be deemed to modern for shows from an ancient or medieval timeframe. I really don't think that the media has any agenda when it comes to casting non-african characters for Egyptian roles. Buy why is Egypt so special? You know there were several rich and very elaborate and developed African civilizations out there? Ethiopia and various West African ones for example.
Sicilians have 10% sub-Saharan African DNA March 2, 2009 Posted by ethnicgenome in Italians and Sicilians. Tags: dna, genetics, italians, sicilians trackback I am not publishing the results of these two studies to argue to Sicilians aren't white. They do have an above average amount of black DNA, but so do all white people. All Caucausian peoples have small amounts of both African and Asian blood. Whites are in fact the most "versatile" race. For instance, there are whites who have curly hair like blacks, straight hair like Orientals and everything in between. Whites are between Africans and Asians in most qualities: IQ, athletic ability and so on. Nor am I writing this to argue that there are no races. The fact that a poodle may have 1-10% of bulldog blood somewhere does not make him a bulldog. As surprising as it may sound, I am writing this purely for academic reasons – to air out the truth. Now onto the evidence. Sicilians have 4. 4% African mtDNA (maternal). But there is a lot more total African heritage.
In Madagascar, how is it going? Although there is only one currency in Madagascar, there are two currency units used daily by Malagasy with the particularity of a value gap, a factor of 5, more clearly, the Ariary (MGA) multiplies by 5 to have the value in Malagasy franc (FMG). Here are some useful resources if you want to know more about Madagascar, a sub-Saharan African member country in the Indian Ocean region: Internet in Madagascar: Who is the best ISP in Madagascar What language is spoken in Madagascar? The discovery of Madagascar by a Portuguese captain
This is the oldest nuclear DNA from Africa ever successfully analyzed. The individuals, dating to the Late Stone Age, had a genetic heritage that was in part similar to Near Eastern populations and in part related to sub-Saharan African populations. North Africa is an important area in the history of the evolution of our species. The geography of North Africa also makes it an interesting area for studying how humans expanded out of Africa. It is part of the African continent, but the Sahara desert presents a substantial barrier to travel to and from southern regions. Similarly, it is part of the Mediterranean region, but in the past the sea could have presented a barrier to interaction with others as well. "A better understanding of the history of North Africa is critical to understanding the history of our species, " explains co-author Saaïd Amzazi of Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. In order to address this, the team looked at a burial site in Grotte des Pigeons, near Taforalt in Morocco, associated with the Later Stone Age Iberomaurusian culture.
Click here and here to learn more about this. What this means is that Mr. Cobb could have had a more recent relative who was sub Saharan African or a more distant one. Here is what the more recent one might look like: By chance, one of his parents just happened to pass more European as opposed to sub Saharan African DNA. The odds of this happening are pretty slim but it is technically possible. A more distant relative is a bit more likely but still not as likely as these others. As a final point, remember I said that the 14% should be taken with a grain of salt. We know he has some sub Saharan African DNA but the real value could be more or less. If it is less than he has a more distant sub Saharan African relative and if it is more, he has a more recent one. As you can see, this is not an exact science just yet! But whatever the true percentage, he does indeed have some sub Saharan African DNA in his. Statistically Noisy Mr. Cobb protests in the video that his result comes from statistical noise.
Richard Lynn stated in the book Race Differences in Intelligence (2006) that "The ready availability of plant foods, insects, and eggs throughout the year meant that the evolving African peoples in tropical and sub-tropical Africa did not have to hunt animals to obtain meat... the Africans had no need to develop the intelligence, skills, tools, and weapons needed for hunting large mammals. Furthermore, the temperature of equatorial Africa varies annually between approximately 32°C. in the hottest month and 17°C. in the coldest, so the African peoples did not encounter the cognitively demanding requirements of having to make needles and thread for making clothes and tents, to make fires and keep them alight, or to prepare and store food for future consumption.
"While previous studies have documented substantial West Eurasian ancestry in some sub-Saharan African populations, including Nigerians and KhoeSan from southern Africa, if the findings of this paper are right, they are important because they extend these claims to populations that were previously thought to have little or no West Eurasian ancestry, for example Mbuti hunter gatherers from central/east Africa. " The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.
Is this not a forum that discusses historical civilizations? If you are not interested in this thread then why not just I don't skip the thread? Please don't derail or troll my thread. We mostly discuss the American Civil War, Irish history, World War 1, the War Between the States, World War 2, the War of Northern Aggression, Classical history, the War of Southern Treason, and the Slavers' Rebellion. dutchfire Deity Retired Moderator Jan 5, 2006 14, 106 Location: - Also, Poland. We don't discuss Poland. We rant about Poland, we argue about Poland, we shout about Poland and we moan about Poland. But discuss? No, I've yet to see anything like that. I don't know or care if the Ancient Egyptians were black so I'm not arguing with your data but I'll just respond to the part about representations of Egyptians in modern media. First of all, you can't expect film/TV producers to have the same interest as you do in this subject. You also have to realize that, even if you read a lot of convincing data on the race of the ancient Egyptians, someone else could probably contradict that just as convincingly, like with most subjects.
However, the 4, 500-year-old remains of this hunter gatherer, known as Mota man, were found in a cave and were well preserved. Importantly, a bone that is situated just below the ear, called the petrous, was intact. Dr Manica, speaking to Science in Action on the BBC World Service, said: "The petrous bone is really hard and does a really good job of preventing bacteria getting in and degrading this DNA. "What we were able to get is some very high quality undamaged DNA from which we could reconstruct the whole genome of the individual. "We have the complete blueprint, every single gene, every single bit of information that made this individual that lived 4, 500 years ago in Ethiopia. " The genome revealed that Mota man had purely African DNA, his ancestors had never moved from Africa. But the comparison of this with modern African genomes highlighted that about 1, 500 years after his death, the make-up of the continent had changed. Genetic studies have shown that after the great migration out of Africa, which happened about 60, 000 years ago, some people later returned to the continent.