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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [qb] [b]North African roundup[/b] Originally posted by dana Marinche: [QUOTE] King thanks. I'll be back for a while but have to finish work on my web-site celebrating the great Africanists whom I admire and am in the process of interviewing now. [/QUOTE]^^What's your site? Also below is a North African roundup. [IMG]http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/5948/northafricadefinition.jpg[/IMG] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]Nubian, and Maghreb groups ( Aflaou, Taforalt) cluster together[/b] [i]"The African Epipaleolithic (Mesolithic) sample, comprising material from Nubia (Jebel Sahaba-sites 117 and 8905 and Wadi Haifa) and the Magreb (Afalou-bou-Rhummel and Taforalt), is quite homogenous both morphologically and metrically.[/i] American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Volume 96 [b]Ancient "Asselar Man" from 'North Africa' - Mali, shows some resemblances to nearby Africans[/b] "The bones are those of a man of late middle age, tall (1.70 metres or about 5 ft. 7 in.), distinctly Homo sapiens but not of 'Mediterranean' type. From the shape of the nasal and long bones it is clear that Asselar Man was some sort of negroid. The skull is dolichocephalic and has a high vault, whereas the rather short face is broad. There is marked alveolar-dental prognathism, ansd the mental eminence is well marked. The teeth are large and the third molar well developed. There was avulsion (i.e. 'knocking out') of the upper incisors, an ancient practice. The nearest living type to Asselar Man would seen to be that of the southern African Bantu-speaking peoples." -- Alan Houghton Brodrick. Man and his ancestors (1971) ---------------------------------- [b]Data on ancient Indigenous North Africans[/b] "The Caspian population, as known from skeletal remains from the burials in middens are less robust, and more gracile than the Mechta-Afalou peoples though they are undoubtedly descended from the.. Not a litte body mutilation is to he seen. This takes the form of incisor tooth extraction (also a feature of the Iberomaurusian), skulls that were modified after death by sawing, cutting and drilling, in one instance to form a kind of mask or 'trophy skull';" --History of humanity, Volume 6 By Sigfried J. de Laet, 1994 "Almost the entire region may have been depopulated as a result of extreme aridity. The first sign of people returning dates to around 18,000 t0 20,000 years ago, Mode 5 Epiplaeolithic industries that continue into the Holocene without any abrupt change. In relation to the origins of behavioral modernity and the symbolism question, there is not a lot of direct evidence. If there was a sudden change in behavior toward the end of the Middle Palaeolithic, it corresponds with the complete disappearance of people. On the other hand, the technological norms associated with the Aterian undoubtedly point to the emergence of an ethnic identity that could be expressed in material culture. It was the first true North African "culture" in the full range of its anthropological definition." --P. Willoughby. 2006. The evolution of modern humans in Africa ---------------------------------------------------------------- [b] Aterian shows some similarities with "sub Saharan" cultures[/b] "Some researchers such as Debenath (1994) argue that the Aterian extends along the coast if Algeria and Morocco with sites decreasing in density farther inland. But Kleindienst suggests that this might be a product of the fact that most research has been done in the Maghreb. for her, there could be a link between the Aterian and the Lupemban industry of central and West Africa, where bifaces and occasional tanged pieces are present in other wise Middle Stone Age contests (Kleindienst 2001:6.9 Hawkins and Kleindienst 2002)." --P. Willoughby. 2006. The evolution of modern humans in Africa and "The Aterian appeares to be a facies of the North African Middle Paleolithic and is characterized by tanged points and oter tools; bifacial points are known from some Aterian sites, notably in the eastern and southern areas, such as Bir Tarfawi in Egypt and Adrar Bous in Niger." -- Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory. 1999. Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John A. Van Couvering. [/qb][/QUOTE]Hi Zarahan - i don't have the African history stuff up on my site yet. I am using my old site that I had for my magazine though. i will probably have some of it up there by the end of the summer. I have been guiding people to your site though and hope to link with it when I get mine together. Thanks for this great info on the connection between Capsians, Nubians, Mechtoids etc. It is more updated then what I have and shows the direct affiliation to paleolithic and early historic Nilotic people in Nubia and East Africa. I just perused your info. and will need to read through it tomorrow thoroughly as the references you have are very necessary and as usual are indispensable. :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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