the first reason i'd thought and mentioned before on past blogs is the genetics view that current humanity hail from a stock of a few tens of thousands originating in africa (perhaps east africa) - who thus must have fanned out onto the rest of the ma`moura. This means that they must have passage this passage mostly through Egypt.
Such movement being essentially generational and slow , most if not all of the people of the earth today have had egyptian-born ancestors who may have lived all their lives in egypt - bona fide egyptians.
now the other reason, in light of an earlier language note , would come from a proto-sinaitic script origin to the proto-canaanite->phonecian script .
Such a vector seems to agree with the genetic conjecture that modern humans have come from an original african stock that migrated through egypt.
the proto-canaanite script , via its phonecian and aramaic script descendants has led to most of the alphabets or abjads used in the world today from indochina to europe to the native americans.
this observation also lends credence to the deduction of genetic links that accompany script lineages and divergences.
thus earlier i conjectured earlier that a glyphic lineage link might exist between south arabian and ancient berber and that it might indicate a genetic or ethnic lineage also between the arabian bedouins and the berbers.
now by the same mode of the thought we can also conjecture that a glyphic lineage from proto-sinaitic to proto-canaanite corresponds to a genetic / ethnic lineage between the egyptian people (themselves a link in the genetic chain from the east african stock) and the canaanites and their descdendants who populated the fertile crescent.
Update:
3.XI.2008
It must be recognized that Egypt was not (or could not possibly be) the only route out of Africa. The close relationship between the South Arabian and Ethiopic scripts leaves little doubt as to direct contact across the strait Between Southwestern Arabia and Africa's eastern pseudopod, so-called its horn, that was as intense as that between Phonecians and Greeks. This is in addition to the much-recorded common history of both regions.
Likewise, movement across the Gibraltar strait is not inconceivable, and some suggest that
this raises questions like but whence came the felix arabs? In such trangenerationally slow processes, did south arabia first become inhabited by a population drift from the north and ultimately via sinai? Or was colonialization started by early east african seafarers?
We find that in this transgenerationally slow process of population movement and ethnolinguistic genesis ,
a. more fidelity may be found in a continuum model were movement could have reached there simultaneously or nearly so from both west and north.
b. such movement would likely be bidirectional and indeed omnidirectional. This is after all human activity accumulated over many generations.
The continuum model thus postulates movement of people pretty much in all directions, including a continuum of motion or flow closing the path geographically circumscribing the red sea into a closed cycle of population movement. Even like a vortex. This blurs the certitudes on whether the earliest south arabians came from the north or the west (or even from the east), giving instead a probability distribution. Though I wonder if this would hold up to genetic and protegenic data on the regions involved.
Just taking the physical analogy a qubit further , in its own context (which is inferred from religious text to be open), it is not insignificant historically that the continents were connected, bridged as it were, at Egypt and not in the south. And that the Sinai passage has been in the stewardship or fief of
No comments:
Post a Comment