posted 28 September 2005 04:05 PM            

pg. 12

"Again, there are no immediate local predecessors of this type of site, and a diffusion from the eastern Mediterranean has been proposed. It has been suggested by the prehistorian Gabriel Camps that we can see in the new types associated with the Capsian a sort of proto-Berber population which would have migrated to the Maghreb during this period. However, skeletal material shows that many of the people associated with these sites belong to the original 'Mekta' type, and thus it is hard to postualte an entirely new group of people .

posted 28 September 2005 08:25 PM            

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Originally posted by Charlie_Bass:
From Michael Brett's and Elizabeth Fentress' book, "The Berbers", Blackwell Publishing

pg. 12

"Again, there are no immediate local predecessors of this type of site, and a diffusion from the eastern Mediterranean has been proposed. It has been suggested by the prehistorian Gabriel Camps that we can see in the new types associated with the Capsian a sort of proto-Berber population which would have migrated to the Maghreb during this period. However, skeletal material shows that many of the people associated with these sites belong to the original 'Mekta' type, and thus it is hard to postualte an entirely new group of people .

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posted 28 September 2005 08:37 PM            

Metcha-Afalou is a skeltal remain found in Morocco and other coastal Northern African countries. Been called anything from Cro-Magnoids to Khoisanoids.

posted 28 September 2005 08:39 PM            

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Originally posted by ausar:
Metcha-Afalou is a skeltal remain found in Morocco and other coastal Northern African countries. Been called anything from Cro-Magnoids to Khoisanoids.

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posted 05 October 2005 07:08 PM            

Mansa Musa, here is the book I am talking about. A poster here named Charlie Bass has provided some information about the early inhabitants of Magrebian Africa.