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No, Artesian, I have no objection whatsoever to "returning" IInd millenium artifacts in the Louvres to Egypt. I just find your "returning them immediately to the countries and territories of their origin" a bit vague. If you mean returning them to their original geographical location, then why not. If you imply a sort of relationship between such bronze age societies and modern-day nation states, then I don't follow you. Modern Egypt has nothing in common with Pharoah's Egypt. Neither language, nor religion, nor culture, nor self-described ethnicity (Egyptians describe themselves as Arabs). Gene flow is always working full-throttle, and 50 generations is enough to ensure that 97% of direct paternal lines have died out and have been replaced by immigrants (Berbers, Arabs, Jews, Greeks, Macedonians, Persians, Turks, ...) Which does not mean that certain genes are not prevalent within a population. Each gene has its own distinct distribution pattern. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
