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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 .
quote: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 .
And exactly what is the 'Mekta' type???
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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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quote: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.
Sounds like it's been associated with every robust type that side of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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.
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