Baker's "Races": Ethiopid Component in Egypt's Population?

[trajan70]

In the German version of Baker's "Races" (on page 365), Baker cites Sergi who claimed that the bulk of the Egyptians since pre-dynastic times is formed by the Ethiopids.

What do you think of that ? I doubt it.

[Stríbog]

Since pre-dynastic times, hardly. The ancient Egyptians portrayed themselves as red-skinned; they portrayed their Semite slaves (Jews and other tribes) as yellow-skinned; they showed their Nubian/Sudanese and Ethiopian slaves as black, of course, and they portrayed the occasional European traveller as white.

I believe that ethnically the ancient Egyptian population was non-Negroid Hamitic, though what this entails subracially, I am not sure. Perhaps they resembled the darker-skinned but unmistakably Caucasoid Berber populations that Carletoon Coon studied. A distinct line was drawn between the ancient Egyptians and their Semite neighbors to the east. It was not until the Arabs invaded in 639 that the line became irreparably blurred. Furthermore, the Nubian and Ethiopian slave population had been growing since dynastic times, and after the decline of the aristocracy, and later, the invasion of anti-racist Islam, these elements began to be absorbed into the population. I believe Egypt today has something like 10% Negroid genes on average?

But in the glory days of Egypt, the population (excluding slaves) was not significantly Negroid.

[Louky]

In the German version of Baker's "Races" (on page 365), Baker cites Sergi who claimed that the bulk of the Egyptians since pre-dynastic times is formed by the Ethiopids.

What do you think of that ? I doubt it.

"Ethiopid," in the context of Baker, doesn't mean "Ethiopian" as such exists today. In fact, Baker also conjectures an Ethiopid origin for the ancient Britons. I think Baker's "Ethiopid" is Coon's "Megalithic."