@Shimbiris recently updated me on how one Sudanese from Khartoum fell under an early sub-clade under E-Z813 and had to post here since I figured others wanted to know a few things.
Sooner or later, I expected this to appear in other places like Sudan. The clear Beja association with some of the new samples, especially the other older sub-clades that branched out of E-Z813, reveals a strong substantiation of how that entire lineage was Cushitic.
This dispels and confirms a couple of lesser hypotheses:
- That the clade was introduced toward the Middle Nile Valley through Sinai Bedouins. (debunked)
- That the Egyptian samples were indeed Ababda. (Confirmed)
My initial explanation about the early Arab appearances only makes sense if the Cushites bordered these Arabs somewhere deep into Egypt and Arabs came further south. All the Arab samples had a secondary expansion from the southern Levant-Sinai. So my thinking was, since those people descend from Beduins, it had to be in the eastern desert environment, and somewhere far north. Now that this is present, added with some historical context, it seems E-Z813 was actually a lower Nubian clade, Wawat, and not centered in the Eastern Desert.
But I might have been wrong and those clades might have appeared in the Sinai because of actions taken from the Egyptian empire.
You see, if we locate those dates ~3200 BP, we arrive at the Ramesside dynasties. A few things happened during that period, and it was namely the conflict Ancient Egypt had with the Levant and the conflict they had with Nubia, specifically, Wawat (direct descendants of C-Group).
Those Ancient Egyptians won those conflicts and had a custom of taking the captives and relocating them completely else. For example, a group they called Shasu, i.e., Levantine Bedouin Semites, they sent to Libya. And guess where they sent the Nubians? To the Delta. My theory is that they sent them not only to the Delta but also to the far eastern reaches of that region, neighboring Beduin lands. Also, this was a practice of that time, so they might have sent Nubians directly to the Sinai.
So, instead of it being the Eastern Desert clade that passed it on to peripheral Arabs, I believe it was actually a clade of Lower Nubians (who certainly had some relation to the Eastern Desert), who under defeat, were sent to the Sinai region where the process I mentioned with intermixing with the Beduins passed on the Y-DNA.
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My thinking is, as the Ramesside dynasty used to relocate captives, with clear evidence showing that it is mentioned that Merenptah, a pharaoh from 1219 BC, E-Y251832 is exactly of such consequence.
Look at the dating of the TMRCA:
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3200 years before present. This is the period we're speaking of. The Palestinian is probably descendant of Shasu Beduins who resided in the Sinai who recieved such Y chromosomal DNA from the tribal relational process I had already outlined.
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I believe some of those Nubians ended up among Shasu who were the ancestors of that very Nablus residing Palestinian, while he shares a common ancestor going back 3200 BP with the Ababda of Upper Egypt and the new sample from Khartoum. We're potentially looking at families that were broken up because of a brutal attack by Ancient Egypt.
The Nubians and the Libyans likely did the attack coordinated.
In this context, there was a big famine in the region, and because of the rebellion by Wawat, and the utter savage way the Egyptians responded, we could directly be descended from those Lower Nubians, that at that time or few centuries later, started to venture away from the region towards Punt, and later into the region that we now reside. Wheras the captives might have been sent to Western Delta coming in contact with Shasu beduins, or sent directly to Sinai for mining or other purposes, again, assimilating with the local beduins. Or less likely but worthy mention, they could have been directly sent to Canaan, again, mixing with the beduins.
I don’t think they had anything to do with the aforementioned group above other than backing each other up against the Ancient Egyptians at times of war.
