Where was The Land of Punt located, Eritrea or Somalia?

[paidmonk]

The whole thing about East African admixture with Caucasians is just a European construction b/c according to them East Africans have European features and it's distasteful to say East Africans came out and populated the Earth. Why did Caucasian admixture contribute to facial features and not skin color?

The reason I bring this up b/c this is a very racially motivated discussion and all it really amounts to is conjecture most of the time. I don't think I could have travelled 3,000 years ago and spoke Somali w/ the people who lived there. Languages and people evolve and there has been no really decent theory to describe what happened thousands of years ago.

When you read the Quran you hear about a lot of people who were completely wiped out and modern history doesn't even account for them. That to me is enough to suggest we don't even have a fraction of the real story.

DING DING DING! This is what I've been saying about races and cultures for a long time now! This is the final word.

[Niya]

What about the Tutsis and other tribes with similar features/looks living in northern Cameroon and parts of Congo?

[Murax]

the only determinant of race is your language family, and in essence race doesn't exist anymore, just vast language families.

Bingo. Today former Berbers, Nubians, Byzzantines, etc. are all considered Arabs, not because of ethnicity but language. Today if Somalis spoke Swahili and were Christians, We'd be considered the same ethnicity as Tanzanians, Kenyans etc. Actual DNA is not used as a determinant as You say When it comes to ethnicity in this day and age, but more Language.