How do you conclude that from the fact that 1 man of the era had 20% of his genetic material from Mesopotamia?
> Our knowledge of ancient Egyptians has increased through decades of bioarchaeological analyses including dental morphological studies on their relatedness to other populations in North Africa and West Asia
There are other footsteps. The DNA is just a notable rock they’ve clambered over.
> The body was placed in a large pottery vessel inside a rock-cut tomb (Fig. 1b and Extended Data Fig. 1). This treatment would have ordinarily been reserved for individuals of a higher social class relative to others at the site
But,
> This and various activity-induced musculoskeletal indicators of stress revealed that he experienced an extended period of physical labour, seemingly in contrast to his high-status tomb burial.
> In this case, although circumstantial, they are not inconsistent with those of a potter, as depicted in ancient Egyptian imagery.
Checking the corpses of nobility would be a bad idea because they are shipped around for diplomatic reasons. I guess a potter moves around less (though, as a skilled worker, probably moved around a bit?).