On the Presence of the Negro in the Nile Valley

Robertson, J. H.; Bradley, Rebecca

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“…"Africanity" has been frequently inappropriately defined. Specifically, there has been a question about the degree or presence of "Negro" influence (e.g., Diop 1974;Robertson 1978;Robertson and Bradley 1979;Bernal 1987). "Negro" has been used to mean different things.…”

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Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships

Keita

1993

Hist. Afr.

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This discussion seeks to evaluate some of the previous writings on the biological origins of the northern Nile valley population or peoples, who came to be known as “ancient Egyptians.” The subject is of interest for three reasons. The first is that Egypt lies at a geographical crossroads and would have been subject to possible colonization or migration from all directions. The second is that Egypt is in Africa and there is no scientific reason to think that Egyptians would not share some biological origins with other Africans. The third reason is that previous discussions have been misguided in focusing on “race” as opposed to biological affinity. There seems to be a problem in understanding that human genetic variation cannot always be easily described. Genetic origins can cut across ethnic (sociocultural or national) lines. At what village along the Nile valley today would one describe the “racial” transition between “Black” and “White”—assuming momentarily that these categories are real? It could not be done.

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Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships

Keita

1993

Hist. Afr.

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“…It was fairly quickly decided that "Egyptians" were Caucasoid and that Negroes had little to do with Egyptian civilization. Much of this research was built on wishful thinking that had little to do with an accurate concept of "race" or skeletal analysis (Robertson and Bradley 1978;Robertson 1979).…”

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A New Paradigm: The African Early Iron Age without Bantu Migrations

Robertson

Bradley

2000

Hist. Afr.

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Between 1000 BC and AD 1000, or so the story goes, sub-Saharan Africa was the setting for one of the all-time great population movements of antiquity—the Bantu migrations. Sweeping to and fro across the continent in a kind of grand migrationary gavotte, absorbing or brushing aside the autochthonous hunter-gatherers, the ancestral Bantu speakers carried with them on their march the seeds of a settled life fueled by food production and iron technology. Their movements are represented by large arrows scything across big blank maps of the African interior. How good is the evidence that any of it ever happened?In this paper we shall examine some of the serious methodological and practical problems that bedevil the migrationary model. We shall also present an alternative model for the prehistory of sub-Saharan Africa: in brief, that the development of the Early Iron Age in Africa was a process rather than an event; that autochthonous populations gradually adopted the suite of traits that define the Early Iron Age, without any large-scale movement of peoples; and that increasing sedentarization actually led to a population decline which was only overcome after AD 500.The model constitutes a new paradigm that emphasizes continuity and takes into account a few observations that are awkward for the migrationary paradigm: that sub-Saharan Africa has a difficult topography that may put certain constraints on population movements, and that the continent was slowly filling up on its own when events starting in the sixteenth century turned the autochthonous peoples' lives upside down.

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A brief review of studies and comments on ancient Egyptian biological relationships

Keita

1995

Int. J. Anthropol.

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On the Presence of the Negro in the Nile Valley

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Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships

Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships

A New Paradigm: The African Early Iron Age without Bantu Migrations

A brief review of studies and comments on ancient Egyptian biological relationships

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