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Title: Saharan remains may be evidence of first race war, 13,000 years ago
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The Independent (UK)
URL Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s ... r-13000-years-ago-9603632.html
Published: Jul 14, 2014
Author: David Keys
Post Date: 2014-07-15 20:23:37 by Dakmar
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Scientists are investigating what may be the oldest identified race war 13,000 years after it raged on the fringes of the Sahara. French scientists working in collaboration with the British Museum have been examining dozens of skeletons, a majority of whom appear to have been killed by archers using flint-tipped arrows. The bones – from Jebel Sahaba on the east bank of the Nile in northern Sudan – are from victims of the world’s oldest known relatively large-scale human armed conflict. Over the past two years anthropologists from Bordeaux University have discovered literally dozens of previously undetected arrow impact marks and flint arrow head fragments on and around the bones of the victims. This is in addition to many arrow heads and impact marks already found embedded in some of the bones during an earlier examination of the skeletons back in the 1960s. The remains – the contents of an entire early cemetery – were found in 1964 by the prominent American archaeologist, Fred Wendorf, but, until the current investigations, had never been examined using more modern, 21 century, technology. Archaeologists during the excavation in the 1960s Archaeologists during the excavation in the 1960s Some of the skeletal material has just gone on permanent display as part of the British Museum’s new Early Egypt gallery which opens officially today. The bones – from Jebel Sahaba on the east bank of the River Nile in northern Sudan – are from victims of the world’s oldest known relatively large-scale human armed conflict. Now British Museum scientists are planning to learn more about the victims themselves – everything from gender to disease and from diet to age at death. The discovery of dozens of previously undetected arrow impact marks and flint arrow fragments suggests that the majority of the individuals – men, women and children – in the Jebel Sahaba cemetery were killed by enemy archers, and then buried by their own people. What’s more, the new research demonstrates that the attacks – in effect a prolonged low-level war – took place over many months or years. Parallel research over recent years has also been shedding new light as to who, in ethnic and racial terms, these victims were. Work carried out at Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Alaska and New Orleans’ Tulane University indicates that they were part of the general sub-Saharan originating population – the ancestors of modern Black Africans. The identity of their killers is however less easy to determine. But it is conceivable that they were people from a totally different racial and ethnic group – part of a North African/ Levantine/European people who lived around much of the Mediterranean Basin. The two groups – although both part of our species, Homo sapiens – would have looked quite different from each other and were also almost certainly different culturally and linguistically. The sub-Saharan originating group had long limbs, relatively short torsos and projecting upper and lower jaws along with rounded foreheads and broad noses, while the North African/Levantine/European originating group had shorter limbs, longer torsos and flatter faces. Both groups were very muscular and strongly built. Certainly the northern Sudan area was a major ethnic interface between these two different groups at around this period. Indeed the remains of the North African/Levantine/European originating population group has even been found 200 miles south of Jebel Sahaba, thus suggesting that the arrow victims were slaughtered in an area where both populations operated. What’s more, the period in which they perished so violently was one of huge competition for resources – for they appear to have been killed during a severe climatic downturn in which many water sources dried up, especially in summer time. The climatic downturn – known as the Younger Dryas period – had been preceded by much lusher, wetter and warmer conditions which had allowed populations to expand. But when climatic conditions temporarily worsened during the Younger Dryas, water holes dried up, vegetation wilted and animals died or moved to the only major year-round source of water still available – the Nile. Humans of all ethnic groups in the area were forced to follow suit – and migrated to the banks (especially the eastern bank) of the great river. Competing for finite resources, human groups would have inevitably clashed – and the current investigation is demonstrating the apparent scale of this earliest known substantial human conflict . The skeletons were originally found during UNESCO-funded excavations carried out to investigate archaeological sites that were about to be inundated by the Aswan High Dam. All the Jebel Sahaba material was taken by the excavator Fred Wendorf to his laboratory in Texas, and some 30 years later was transferred to the care of the British Museum which is now working with other scientists to carry out a major new analysis of them. Archaeologists during the excavation in the 1960s Archaeologists during the excavation in the 1960s “The skeletal material is of great importance – not only because of the evidence for conflict, but also because the Jebel Sahaba cemetery is the oldest discovered in the Nile Valley so far,” said Dr. Daniel Antoine, a curator in the British Museum’s Ancient Egypt and Sudan Department. Of the 59 Jebel Sahaba victims, skeletal material from two has been included in the new Early Egypt gallery. The display includes flint arrowhead fragments and a healed forearm fracture, almost certainly sustained by a victim seeking to defend himself by raising his arm during an episode of conflict. Poster Comment: My ancestors were driven from our ancestoral homes? I demand reparations! :)
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#1. To: All (#0)
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
The identity of their killers is however less easy to determine. But it is conceivable that they were people from a totally different racial and ethnic group – part of a North African/ Levantine/European people who lived around much of the Mediterranean Basin. And yet when scientific reconstructions of King Tut were on display in Los Angeles the local niggers protested because King Tut wasn't depicted as a sub- saharan nigger - "our ancestors be kings 'n queens of Egypt....'n sheeit!!" Edit (2007): Molefi Asante, professor of African-American studies at Temple University, led a protest yesterday in front of the Franklin Institute claiming the museum’s exhibit on King Tutankhamun is racist. ”This is a crime scene,” he shouted. “This is an area of criminal theft, identity theft.” Among the grievances shared by members of the Association of Kemetic Nubian Heritage, of which Asante is president, is that the exhibit has no mention of Africa and that information within suggests that King Tut, an African, was white. Asante specifically pointed to a representation of Tut that “looks more like Boy George than the boy king.” About 50 protesters walked in front of the crowded museum stairs carrying signs bearing statements including “Nefertiti is my sister,” “Stop stealing our history” and “King Tut’s daddy was black.” Asante said the exhibit doesn’t tell visitors Egypt is in Africa, and he believes that many people leave thinking Egypt is in Europe. He claims the museum did this for “commercial reasons.” Bolden Jerry, 62, a protester from Overbrook Park, agreed. “They’re trying to make it more accessible, more appealable to white people. It’s all about making cash,” he said. Yesterday’s protesters in Philadelphia were not alone. From Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale, demonstrations have been held against the exhibit in every city it’s visited since coming to this country in June 2005. A spokeswoman for the Franklin Institute, who declined to give her name, said images of Tut vary throughout the museum. “In the exhibit, you see Tut portrayed in all skin colors,” she said. “In many of the paintings he is definitely black.” In response to the protest, the museum will hold a symposium at a yet-to-be- determined date in July. Scholars and experts will be invited to discuss forensic evidence relating to King Tut. “We present ideas to the community and let them form their own judgments,” the spokeswoman said. “We’re happy to allow the Franklin Institute to be a forum for this discussion.” When King Tut’s head was re-created by three forensic teams in 2005 using CAT scans of his skull, race was among the hardest physical features to determine, according to a National Geographic article. Tut’s race is “likely to remain forever unknown,” the article said. Asante said that ancient Egyptians were “black-skinned” and that Kemet, the name given to Egypt by ancient Egyptians, means “the black country.” card.wordpress.com/2007/0...e-king-tut-exhibition-in- us-as-racist/ Smile :)
#2. To: Dakmar (#0)
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Work carried out at Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Alaska and New Orleans’ Tulane University indicates that they were part of the general sub-Saharan originating population – the ancestors of modern Black Africans.
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
Igor Sikorsky must have been a f****g Bantu - he invented the helicopter after all.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#4. To: Dakmar (#0)
It's obvious what happened. White folks built things up; colored followed them like dogs seeking to mooch, and got skewered with arrows for their trouble.
"Have Brain, Will Travel
#5. To: Dakmar (#0)
Uuuh...
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#6. To: Dakmar (#0)
A few weeks ago I watched a Jackie Chan flick with my kids. It had this trio of black female ninjas or something in it. (Bad gals.) My daughter asked me why their faces were like that. "Honestly? Because they are closer to monkeys than we are." I replied. and projecting upper and lower jaws
A rainbow coalition against Jews doesn't require Whites or Pro-Whites. It can be just as brown or anti-white as you like.
#7. To: X-15 (#2)
Like hell. She had "good hair". “Nefertiti is my sister,”
A rainbow coalition against Jews doesn't require Whites or Pro-Whites. It can be just as brown or anti-white as you like.
#8. To: X-15 (#2)
Didn't he just admit black people don't go to museums? “They’re trying to make it more accessible, more appealable to white people. It’s all about making cash,” he said.
A rainbow coalition against Jews doesn't require Whites or Pro-Whites. It can be just as brown or anti-white as you like.
#9. To: X-15 (#2)
Because the soil was fertile ya moron! Damn monkey professor... the name given to Egypt by ancient Egyptians, means “the black country.”
A rainbow coalition against Jews doesn't require Whites or Pro-Whites. It can be just as brown or anti-white as you like.
#10. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#8)
They don't even go to free museums because they can't lay their paws on the merchandise and walk out the door with it.
-Alex Kurtagic
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