Wadi hammat theory on wikipedia

[Midas]

I knew what I was saying was kinda obvious. They even talk about the importance of this wadi hammadat route for the emergence of anicent eygptian civilization. They just don't take it a step further

I mean naqadah is literally located right next to wadi hammat you cant get more on the nose then that

 

[Midas]

Although I will say that I think one important caveat for my theory about the origin of eygptian civilization. Is that while the upper eygptians who are 20% of the eygptian pouplation are mainly descended from e-v12 pastoralists . This does not apply to the 80% of lower eygptians who are mainly descended from em-81 north african farmers who arrived in lower eygpt at the same time or a bit after those e-v12 pastoralists.

These orginally pastoralists e-v12 upper eygptians then conquered the mainly em-81 north african farmers. The pouplation then adopted the language and culture of these upper eygptians. But these lower eygptians were ultimately mainly descended from north african farmers . This is why the nuseyrat sample is mostly north african.

 

[Midas]

Maybe the reason eygpt has this reputaion of alaways being conquered and ruled by foreign elite is because eygpt this how eygpt was formed
you had an upper eygptian elite of pastoral origin conquering the more numerous lower eygptian farmers. So this distinctionbetween the urban elite amd the fellahin has always existed in a way.

It would also maybe explain why ancient eygptian religion seemed so conservative and unchanging.

 

[Idilinaa]

This is actually in line with what some scholars have noted that about Ancient Egypt's origins lay in the ''Primary Pastoral Community" in southern Egyptians and Sudanese parts of the Nile valley.

Cultural convergence in the Neolithic of the Nile Valley: a prehistoric perspective on Egypt\'s place in Africa

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The African origins of Egyptian civilisation lie in an important cultural horizon, the ‘primary pastoral community’, which emerged in both the Egyptian and Sudanese parts of the Nile Valley in the fifth millennium BC.

 

[Midas]

This is actually in line with what some scholars have noted that about Ancient Egypt's origins lay in the ''Primary Pastoral Community" in southern Egyptians and Sudanese parts of the Nile valley.

Cultural convergence in the Neolithic of the Nile Valley: a prehistoric perspective on Egypt\'s place in Africa

archit.web.ox.ac.uk

I think just from how you had donkey burials in the grave of an early pharaoh as well as individuals owning huge herds of a 1000+ donkeys. Its very clear your dealing with a society whos elites were pastoralists.

 

[Midas]

Although I think they downplay the scale of change that happened in eygpt. If you rewind the clock to 6000 b.c you essentially have a pouplation of nilo-saharan aquatic hunter gathers who had been in eygpt for several millenia. Fast forward 1,000 years and you Suddenly start to find all this livestock and skeletons which have a radically different skull morphology.

Its very clear your dealing with the arrival of radically different alien pouplations from the aquatic mesolthic hunter gathers who had inhabited eygpt for several millenia or more.

 

[Idilinaa]

I think just from how you had donkey burials in the grave of an early pharaoh as well as individuals owning huge herds of a 1000+ donkeys. Its very clear your dealing with a society whos elites were pastoralists.

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Interesting. Even the pharaohs beard was an emulation of the goat and they used goat hair for it as well.

There is a lot symbolism and ritualism within Ancient Egypt that links back to pastoral roots.