Re: girl

Alex writes:
You can guess I share the second point of view. If so we can take the
appearence
of the cultures which definitely migrated from Asia in North Africa as a
sign of
Proto-Afroasiatic splitting. Such cultures can be surely distinguished
from
native African cultures due to such marks as goats, sheep, wheat and
barley. It
is commonly accepted by archaeologists that the species mentioned were
domesticated in Asia (sheep has no wild progenitor in Africa at all).
The
earliest sites of such kind in NE Africa I know are Haua Fteah in
Cyrenaica
(5650 BC) and Faiyum oasis (5300 BC). So we obtain the 6th millenium BC
(or some
earlier) as an estimation of the Afroasiatic disintegration.
Theoretically these
cultures could be non-Afroasiatic but I find the probability of this
rather low.
There must be several vawes of different Afroasiatic groups to form 4
ancient
branches in Africa and probably Pre-Egyptians were the last among them.
The
Badarian culture in Upper Egypt (Egyptian predynastic cultural phase)
developed
about 4000 BC and its direct predecessor - the Tasian culture - is known
since
4500 BC.


Gerry here: Please correct me if I am wrong. What you seem to be doing
is including the Near East in your definition of Asia? And where in
Africa do you draw the goat, sheep, wheat and barley line?

Do you have further information on the Tasian Culture other than it has
been around since 4500 BC?

Gerry