GENETICS Ethiopian aDNA (Axum n so n so)

[Xareen]

I’m not of the opinion that those were Cushites nor do I believe modern Horners have any Early PN ancestry

I agree. Still, they were of our stock. We all descend from agropastoral migrants into Middle Nile c. 5000BC, and so racially they were Cushites. Their burial practises even share overlap with ours, ultimately derived from some PPN funerary stela tradition prolly.

 

[Midas]

I agree. Still, they were of our stock. We all descend from agropastoral migrants into Middle Nile c. 5000BC, and so racially they were Cushites. Their burial practises even share overlap with ours, ultimately derived from some PPN funerary stela tradition prolly.

I have never quite understood what the argument that early ppn weren't cushites.
Its one thing to say that were not descended from the same group. But the idea they fall within the same timeline and share our funerary traditions but are not cushites but some group we have no other evidence for strikes as me as a bit of stretch.

 

[Xareen]

I have never quite understood what the argument that early ppn weren't cushites.
Its one thing to say that were not descended from the same group. But the idea they fall within the same timeline and share our funerary traditions but are not cushites but some group we have no other evidence for strikes as me as a bit of stretch.

All comes down to confusion surrounding the ethnonym/metaethnicity/race that is "Cushites". Same thing with Nubia, where if Kermans spoke a NS language, apparently that makes it so we are completely unrelated. It's a shame, and sometimes I think almost intentionally made this way (why are we 'Cushitic' brah, what a shit name, bring back Erythraic) to obfuscate and muddy the waters so detractors can say silly shit while well-meaning hobbyists get confused too.