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    Posted: 20-Apr-2007 at 18:05
Also some of them players look slightly asiatic, Turkish prhaps.
 
Please clarify which players you are talking about. I am really interested in your analysis of the phenotypes of certain peoples.
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Originally posted by Alparslan

 
There are scientific researches on this subject. One of the well known of it is:
 
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, Volume 1) of Martin Bernal.
 
 
It is a quit nice and well documented book. I recommend you to read it. You will see how our perceptions can be manipulated.
 
 
 
Bernal is a linguist, not an archaeologist. His theories are based on plausibility (he admitts that himself on the opening chapter on the book), not fact.
A number of authors/scholars have countered Bernal's claims in a convincing way. Among others:
-Article by Robert L. Pounder entitled "Black Athena 2: History Without Rules" in The American Historical Review, Vol. 97, No 2 (April 1992)
-The most profound renouncement in my oppinion: "Black Athena Revisited" by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy McLean Rogers. Excellent arguments.
-Jacques Berlinerblau "Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals", 1999
 
About a dozen articles by  various authors can be found here: www.worldagesarchive.com/Indivindual%20Web%20Pages/BlackAthena.html
One of the most interesting is Mary R Lefkowitz's counter-response to Bernal's response to his critics. I like this woman!


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This isnt a very common Greek look..
http://dienekes.angeltowns.net/pictures/greekwomen/fani_drakopoulou.jpg

Hellios where are those soccer teams from ?

Also some of them players look slightly asiatic, Turkish prhaps.





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Originally posted by Alparslan

 
You will see how our perceptions can be manipulated. 
 
 
Manipulated is the key work here. Black Athena is a bad joke as a book and dismissed by most academics. Still it can manipulate someone with no knowledge of history (it can do even worse to someone who knows some history and considers himself an expoert)
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There are scientific researches on this subject. One of the well known of it is:
 
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, Volume 1) of Martin Bernal.
 
 
It is a quit nice and well documented book. I recommend you to read it. You will see how our perceptions can be manipulated.
 
 
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Originally posted by Hellios

I agree with Anton that good professionals can make bad calls.  Happens all the time.
 
And some people also believe that compromising of a scientist may compromise his results. This is obviously wrong -- every educated person see the difference between personality and what he is doing. One can find many examples.
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Originally posted by Anton

So, basic conclusion is that professor Arnaiz-Villena is respected scientist whether his conclusions are true or not. 
 
I agree with Anton that good professionals can make bad calls.  Happens all the time.
 
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I, personally, do not find Arnaiz-Villena's arguments about greeks convincing but I feel important to make some remarks about Villena himself.

This guy published up to date 221 articles (f.e. 8 in 2006) in peer-reviewed journals i.e. journals where political motivation can be refused by 2 or 3 anonymous referees. Total citation index of 10 of his best cited papers is 413. This is very good achievement for everyone working in the field of biology. This, basically, means that his colleagues have respect to his work which is obviously politically not motivated.
And here are some comments to the below:
 

Originally posted by akritas

Arnaiz-Villena was taken to court for embezzlement charges for the unauthorized use of laboratory and immunological items.
 
Science is a business like any other way of getting money. There is no political motivation in unauthorized use of laboratory items. Here is the explanation about the court stuff:
 

Spanish immunologist Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, the author of a paper on the genetic origins of Palestinians, has been suspended without pay from the Hospital Doce de Octubre in Madrid, where he heads the department of immunology and molecular biology, after being charged with embezzlement of funds.

Dr Arnaiz-Villena, president of Spain's National Commission of Immunology, was the author of a polemical paper on the genetic origins of Palestinians that was retracted and deleted from records last autumn. In it he said that some Palestinians lived in concentration camps.

The embezzlement charges refer to Dr Arnaiz's purchase of products not used in his department's healthcare activities; purchase of hospital products used in healthcare activities but in quantities much greater than needed; falsification of statistical data apparently to justify purchases; humiliating treatment of department staff; delay in healthcare activities; and transfer of department products to the university.

Pilar Notario, spokeswoman for the hospital, said the products referred to were mainly laboratory and immunological items, some of which were allegedly transferred without permission to the university for research purposes, resulting in delay in doing immunological tests for patients.

She said the health ministry's Social Security Investigation Groupa police bodyestimates the fraud may mean the hospital has lost 860000 (531000; $756000) over the past five years. The final figure may reach 3.9m.

In addition to the charges, Dr Arnaiz-Villena is facing allegations of moral harassment at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he chairs a research and teaching immunology unit.

Last October, the university started an internal inquiry after complaints by an associate professor at the unit, Mara Jos Recio-Hoyas, whose contract for the academic course 2001-2 was not renewed because Dr Arnaiz- Villena delivered a negative report against her. Among other things, she told the BMJ, Dr Arnaiz- Villena accused her of misappropriating a DNA sequence of 930 base pairs of the DMB primate gene from his personal gene registry at the university.

Dr Arnaiz-Villena told the BMJ that he discovered that Dr Recio-Hoyas had registered the sequence in the gene bank database of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, in her name without telling him. Although she acknowledged that she took the sequence (essential material for her doctoral thesis), she said that she registered it in both their names at the laboratory.

Dr Recio-Hoyas has subsequently had her contract renewed as associate professor after an investigation by the university into her complaint of moral harassment.

Dr Arnaiz-Villena denies all the charges against him. He said he is undergoing a public lynching, which may have a political background. I don't know whether it's just by chance, but problems started shortly after the Human Immunology thing, he said, referring to events surrounding publication of a paper of his last year on the genetic profile of Palestinians.

This incident, believed to be the first time a paper published in a peer reviewed biomedical journal has been retracted as a result of political comments, began when Dr Arnaiz-Villena was invited to be a guest editor of the September issue of Human Immunologythe official journal of the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. His paper examined the genetic profile of Palestinians compared with Jews and other populations in the region. The study included a summary of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which prompted ferocious complaints.

Dr Nicole Suciu-Foca, editor in chief of the journal, and Dr Robert Lewis of the society's publications committee, condemned the paper in the October issue of the journal and stated that it had been deleted from the scientific literature. At the time, Dr Arnaiz-Villena, who was fired from the journal's editorial board, apologised for any offence caused by his paper but called the unprecedented action unwise.

Both the hospital and the university say that Dr Arnaiz- Villena's current charges have nothing to do with the Human Immunology affair.

 
So the trial is clearly concerned to financial question between two laboratories and has nothing to do with the proof of this:
Which proves one thing that papers was politically motivated as
because the personality of a scientists has nothing to do with his research unless it had been proven. In the case of prof. Arnaiz-Villena the major question was in interpretation of the obtained results and political comment on Palestinian-Jewish conflict.
 
the Luca Cavalli-Sforza , Neil Risch and Alberto Piazza stated.
 
Those guys wrote a letter to Nature with disagreement of Arnaiz-Villena's results and their interpretation. They stated that using of one genetical marker for determination of the origin of a nation might lead to wrong conclusions. This was accepted by Villena in his response in the same issue of Nature where he also said that he is studying the problem using other genetical markes. Agressive tone of Cavalli-Sforza could be also explained by the fact that results obtained by Arnaiz-Villena contradict to the works of Cavalli-Sforza and company. Such wars happen in scientific community permanently and one can find them in every issue of Nature and Science.
 
 and this lab publihed and one more poltical motivated genetic paper by show that  the Japanese are nearly identical to west and south Africans  
There was no such article from his lab. If I am wrong you are very welcome to correct me. Here are all articles of Villena with "japanese" keyword. Point the article that you mentioned.
 
 
Obviously, you took this passage from Cavalli-Sforza's letter to Nature  without much understanding what it is about:
 
The limitations are made evident by the authors' extraordinary observations that Greeks are very similar to Ethiopians and east Africans but very distant from other south Europeans; and that the Japanese are nearly identical to west and south Africans. It is surprising that the authors were not puzzled by these anomalous results, which contradict history, geography, anthropology and all prior population-genetic studies of these groups. Surely the ordinary process of refereeing would have saved the field from this dispute.
 
So, this is related to a fact from the same paper of Arnaiz-Villena which indeed shows that using of one genetical marker might be dangerous. As for the agressive tone -- I already explained it.
 
So, basic conclusion is that professor Arnaiz-Villena is respected scientist whether his conclusions are true or not. And  it is bad idea for the people who obviously are far from biology to make attempts compromise this person.


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akritas, maybe you missed the post where he agrees the theory is false, here it is again:
 
Originally posted by xi_tujue

I thank you kindly HELLIOS LOTS OF INFO.
i will read it (how more I read the more i get intrested) But not all at once it's alot.
from what I have read so far the sub-saharab thing is incorrect...
 
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Was not the Afrocentrists  that started the  sub-saharan issue but the FYROMacedonian  propagandists by the Spanish lab of Villena.  Arnaiz Villena was taken to court for embezzlement charges for the unauthorized use of laboratory and immunological items. Which proves one thing that papers was politically motivated as the Luca Cavalli-Sforza , Neil Risch and Alberto Piazza stated.

And The limitations are made evident by the authors' extraordinary observations that Greeks are very similar to Ethiopians and east Africans but very distant from other south Europeans  and this lab publihed and one more poltical motivated genetic paper by show that  the Japanese are nearly identical to west and south Africans

 

xi_tujue  knows very well where he "heared" this racist "rumour".

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Originally posted by pinguin

There is a campain of the Afrocentrist to demostrate Greeks were actually Ethiopians. Afrocentrism is an international political campain to demostrate the center of the universe was Bantu.
 
There is no much substance at all in their claims, though.
 
Greeks were Greeks, and they are still Greeks. Period.
 
Pinguin
  
 
Oh,yeah the AfrocentristsAngry....
 
anyway, that which was said from isocrates doesn't match with today's standarts...(unfortunately for us Greeks).
 
"the common factors of our Greekness, blood, language, the sacntuaries of the gods and their sacrifices, the same way of life.."
 
Thats a common truth for all the nations, i agree with the second and the last one ...

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..the common factors of our Greekness, blood, language, the sacntuaries of the gods and their sacrifices, the same way of life..

Herodotus, vII, 144 (c430 bc)Smile
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Personaly,i prefer Isocrates :A Hellen/Greek is the one who has Hellenic/Greek education.



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Originally posted by xi_tujue

I heared that the greeks are a sub saharan people or have admixture. how much  of this is true?
Originally posted by akritas

Do you have any study that support your claim ?
 
He didn't "claim" anything - he just asked a question. Smile
 
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Personaly,i prefer Isocrates :A Hellen/Greek is the one who has Hellenic/Greek education.
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There is a campain of the Afrocentrist to demostrate Greeks were actually Ethiopians. Afrocentrism is an international political campain to demostrate the center of the universe was Bantu.
 
There is no much substance at all in their claims, though.
 
Greeks were Greeks, and they are still Greeks. Period.
 
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It is ,but in my personal opinion,language is one of the really few trustworthy things when we search connection with the past.I am not so fond of Genetics.


hmmm yeah I used to think so 2 but I think only in grammar & such

because I don't thrust vocabulary(loaning can happen & does happen)
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It is ,but in my personal opinion,language is one of the really few trustworthy things when we search connection with the past.I am not so fond of Genetics.
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We are Indo-Europeans,like Iranians.


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