Over 80% of Moroccan Berbers and Cushitic Eritreans belong to the same paternal lineage, E1b1b. This level of purity reveals that the first men to migrate to North Africa from the Horn were successful in establishing a monopolized breeding regime which persists to this day.
Nafris are Hamites
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These men who migrated to North Africa and the Middle East from the Horn were proto-Afroasiatic speakers.
So why the great phenotypic diversity between Horners and Nafris despite such great homogeneity in paternal ancestry? Their maternal ancestry is the source. The men that the migrating East Africans copulation with were of a very different lineage than those of their homeland.
The term Hamite has a high degree of baggage but its history shows that many people have been aware of the relationship between Horners and Nafris.
>pic related: German racial theorists grouped them together under the Hamitic branch of the Caucasian race.
Many European racial theorists have believed that the Hamites are foreigners to Africa. More related to Caucasians than to other Africans.
These theories were constructed from their understanding of skeletal morphology and craniometrics. Modern genetics however has revealed that the E1b1b Hamititc lineage is most closely related to the E1b1a Bantu.
The male ancestors of both the E1b1b and E1b1a lineages are thought to have migrated back to Africa about 24kya (14k years before the advent of agriculture). Therefore Hamites are just as indigenous or Caucasian as Bantus when it comes to their paternal ancestry.
As the horse was for the early Aryans, so was the ship for the Hamitic peoples.
From the times of Ancient Egypt and its trade with lands of Punt, the Hamites would operate of vast maritime trade network that connected Europe, Asia, and Africa.
>Relations between Somalia and China long predate the Middle Ages. Through trade, the peoples of both areas established good relations. Giraffes, zebras and incense were exported to the Ming Empire of China, which established Somali merchants as leaders in the commerce between Asia and Africa,[2] and in the process influenced the Chinese language with the Somali language and vice versa. The prominent Hui-Chinese explorer, mariner, diplomat and fleet admiral, Zheng He, arrived in his fourth and fifth voyage to the Somali cities of Mogadishu, Zeila, Merca and Berbera.[3] Sa'id of Mogadishu, a Somali explorer, travelled to China in the 14th century, when China was ruled by the Yuan Dynasty, and noted the trading communities of the Chinese ports and cities.
>"Long-distance seafaring between Egypt and Punt, two sovereign entities, was a major milestone in human history because it drove the evolution of maritime technology," says lead author Nathaniel Dominy of Dartmouth College. "Trade in exotic luxury goods, including baboons, was the engine behind early nautical innovations.