Senowsret,   First of all, Caucasoid and Mongoloid are’nt outdated anymore than Negroid, Black,  white and Oriental.  Just because some people don’t like using the terms does not speak for all people.  As far as a RACIST  U.N.E.S.C.O.denouncing the fact that ancient Egyptians were  definitely Black, that isn’t any credible than people same as you trying who debate your ignorant point of view that ancient Black Egyptians were  not themselves..  Just like I said, the ancient Egyptian book which was written by ancient EGYPTIAN SCRIBES and APPROVED by all ancient EGYPTIAN PRIESTS,and is known by the name “BOOK OF THE DEAD” states the following:  “WE CAME FROM WHERE THE NILE BEGAN, AND WHERE GOD HAPI DWELL, AT THE FOOTHILLS OF THE  MOUNTAIN OF THE MOON”…  hunefer papyrus                                         There are only two moutains in all of Africa that are referred to as “Mountains of The Moon”, and they are the Kilamanjaro located in TANZANIA, and the Rwezori which is located in UGANDA, and they are both located in the GREAT LAKES AREA where the “White Nile” which is the first of three Nile Rivers flow..  By the way a Racist white controlled idiotic organization such as the U.N.E.S.C.O. denoncing how the ancient Black Egyptians describe themselves as being  Black, and where they originated is something that appeases only the most ignorant and racist anti-Black people like yourself..

Okay, so by now there are plenty of bones which can be DNA sequenced to start putting together any familial relationship these bones all have.  We all await results.  And, while Olympias may have been known for snakes, surely she was not alone.  I think it likely that the wives of other important men in the kingdom must have followed along with her as well.

The number of six fingered (although most of the extra digits found have been toes) individuals at Chaco is pretty small, even among the elites, although much higher than the general population today.  It occurs more frequently in Native American populations even today.  And while they did seem to apply status and meaning to extra digits, there is no indication they took it to Mayan levels.

There is also no indication that they practiced ritual sacrifice in any official capacity at any time.  Or that these people were responsible for the cannibalism that was widespread throughout the region towards the end of the 13th century.

Something horrible did happen, but it was fairly sudden, and it happened all over the region.  If it isn’t quite and archaeological cover up, it is something that is downplayed.  But whatever happened was worse even then this article imples.

I feel strongly about this, because I think if you are going to call an actual deceased human being a monster and a cannibal, you had better have awfully strong evidence.  And this article is riddled with basic inaccuracies, I find that disturbing.

So I’m curious if the author included the TimeLine video into the article or was it put in by Ancient Origins. The video does seem to compliment the above article. So the Chacoan culture was thriving for generations in the 4-Corners region; but like the city-states of  ancient Greeks & Maya (& I guess the Sumerians as well) the sub-tribes were in constant conflict.  Then this wandering group of Meso-Americans  arrived  & conquered the Chacoans. These Meso-Americans set themselves up as a elite over the regional natives & proceeded to use their traditions of human sacrifice to control the conquered.  And it worked for a long time, 200 yrs. there abouts. And the elite use their advanced knowledge to force their underlings to recreate the Meso-American world the elites had left behind to the south. There was more Cannibalism of the sacrificial victims than that was done in the  sourhern homeland of the elites to secure control over the original Chacoans.  And since you mentioned that these elites were 6 fingered & toed, at least most or some of them, I can that these Polydactyl elites didn’t mix with their underlings. So, yes the 6 digits is a sign of inbreeding. And the Polydactylians also impressed  their meso-american religion on their Chacoian underlings.  But as soon as the climate changed to the more desert conditions we know today the stresses became too great & I’m sure the Polydactylians did what some of the Mayan elites did down south; increase the sacrifices. But that only brought about their downfall. Funny I kind of thought the story was different; oh well.   

Pretty big news. Large large discovery.

Hey Charles,

There you go again with the strawman. Ignorant? I'm not the one referencing Afrocentric racist talking points. One can believe in fallacies , legends, and myths. Unfortunately for you, forensic science and genetics on mummies do not lie!

Regarding “Lipombo”:

Intentional cranial deformation predates written history; it was practiced commonly in a number of cultures that are widely separated geographically and chronologically, and still occurs today in a few areas, including Vanuatu. So you see the Sub Saharan culture you’re referring to still has no links with my forebearers, let alone the phenotypic, genetic, and linguistic disimilarities. Fun fact, ancient Egyptian culture is not only the oldest it's also the ONLY non tribal one in ALL Africa whether Berber or Sub Saharan. Just like our forebearers,the never tribal Copts continue to preserve, record, and speak the ancient indigenous tongue. No other indigenous language in Africa is or has ever been directly related to ancient Egyptian.

Senowsret,   I can see that you are so emotionally ignorant when it comes to your attempt to refer to ancient Black Egyptians as being of a pale white “NORDIC” race ha ha.  By the way, you definitely did refer to Arabs as being a race rather than an cultural Ethnicity that has many different races which also include the BLACK RACE.  You specifically stated  that Arabs were “CAUCASIAN”, and if that comment does not prove that you stated Arabs were a race, then I assume that you are not aware of the fact that Caucasian or should I say “CAUCASOID” is one of the THREE MAJOR RACES, such as Negroid, Mongoloid, and Caucasoid.  So when your lying mouth said that Arabs were “Caucasian” you definitely placed them in a racial category, but you are too IGNORANT to acknowledge that obvious fact.  It appears that your mouth makes stupid comments which your brain cannot comprehend ha ha ha?  The origin of ancient Egyptians began in EAST CENTRAL AFRICA where the FIRST OF THREE NILE RIVERS began in the GREAT LAKES AREA, at the footnills of the “MOUNTAIN OF THE MOON” according to ancient Egyptian scribes, which was APPROVED BY ALL OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PRIESTS in their ancient historical book, also known as “BOOK OF THE DEAD”.       The ancient Egyptian historical book reads, and I quote:    “WE CAME FROM WHERE THE NILE BEGAN, AND WHERE GOD HAPI DWELL, AT THE FOOTHILLS OF THE MOUNTAIN OF THE MOON”...hunefer papyrus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    There are only TWO MOUNTAINS in all of Africa that are referred to as “Mountains of the Moon”, and they are the “KILAMANJARAO” located in Tanzania, and the RWEZORI located in Uganda, and they are both located in the GREAT LAKES AREA in East Africa where the “White Nile” also known as the FIRST NILE began.. Also, Ancient Black Egyptians practiced ‘LIPOMBO” on many of their Royal Black Rulers, which was a practice of shaping their Royal childrens heads into an “Elongated” shape almost immediately after birth, so that they would be highly differentiated from the regular Egyptian population.  There is no evidence of any Asiatic or European civilization that had its rulers utilize the practice of “Lipombo”, and I mean “NOT A ONE”… You are trying so hard to make ancient Black people a white pale “Nordic race” who had no documented civilizations prior to 1000 BCE which is like someone trying to climb a 1000 feet ice mountain buck naked while wearing nothing but high heel shoes..  

The term they try to use these days is ancestral puebloan.  Chacoan is a specific group of people, defined by location and material culture, like specific pottery types and architectural elements.  Mesa Verdean is another group.  They are the two most well known, but there are more.  These groups were all related by certain common cultural elements, but they most likely didn’t consider themselves the same people, or even speak the same language.  There are times when one group thrived, while others collapsed.  People moved around, intermingled, and invaded.  They didn’t come out of nowhere either, there is a cultural continuum in the region stretching back long before the people started building above ground structures.  And they didn’t disappear either, decentralized and simplified is probably more accurate.

Also of interest concerning Chaco itself, there was a whole complex of domestic house structures built along the cliff face connecting Pueblo Bonito and Chetro Ketl.  They were excavated in the old days, and a report was never written and nobody ever mentions them anymore.  There are also a number of smaller domestic structures built on the opposite side of the canyon from the big famous ruins.  

One final thing I find interesting to think about that doesn’t get a lot of popular attention is that Pueblo Bonito was built over the course of hundreds of years.  They didn’t maintain parts as they crumbled, they just kept adding on.  So there was never a time when it looked like it does in the reconstructions.  Parts of it were old and crumbled and full of smelly garbage at its peak.

Senowsret,  No buddy, the jokes are all on you, in that Arabs only entered Black Egypt in the 7th century A.D. which was approximately 1300 years ago,  Ancient Black Egyptians dates back prior to 3000 BCE, which is nearly 4K yrs before any Arabs entered ancient Black Egypt..   By the way, Arabs are not a race, they are an ETHNICITY when also include Black race people.  In fact the original Arabs were Black people, and if Black Muslims enslaved some Black “non Muslims” that had nothing to do with race, but rather, it had to do with religious Fanaticism.  By the way, Mixed Black race Etruscans, Romans, Greeks all had WHITE PALE NORDIC SLAVES in their empires to serve their many needs.   Also, there were more than1.5 million white slaves kidnapped and sold in Arab countries during the Barbary Coast “WHITE SLAVE TRADE”, as well as in North and West Africa to serve their Black masters, especially the white Slavic women who were used in Black Emperors/Sultans “CONCUBINES” who bore many “MULATTO” babies who would later become a large part of the North African human population..  The “WHITE BARBARY COAST SLAVE TRADE” flooded the Arab and Black African slave trade, and scientific esearch has proven that at least 60% of all mixed race north Africans has African Fathers DNA and Europan mothers DNA, which proves that the white slave mothers used for concubines contributed a lot to the racial admixture of black North Africans..