[Varda]

I think the problem lay with the headline writer. He/she/it believes that if someone is African then they are not Caucasion. As others have said the North Africans are/were Caucasion and in anthropology that is not in dispute.

Nobody on the science side said anything about race. They are just saying the DNA shows an affinity with ancient near easterners of the same population that gave rise to later populations of europeans. Some had believed the Minoans had come from the same population that gave rise to the Egyptian civilization.

Read the paper here: A European population in Minoan Bronze Age Crete

[SunkenCiv]

Martin Bernal is responsible — his “theory”, seen in “Black Athena”, is analogous to the Face on Mars being artificial.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for that link!

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n5/pdf/ncomms2871.pdf