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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] All this talk of the prehistoric presence of anatomically modern humans in North Africa and specifically the Maghreb remind me of certain populations in the area some of which are relatively isolated who exhibit robust cranio-facial features one might associate today with Australian aborigines such as large jaws and teeth and heavy brow ridges in conjunction with wavy hair. Indeed, there were some Western anthropologists who proposed that the 'Australoid' racial type was once more widespread than it is today and included North Africa and in some cases Europe! In fact some of these anthropologists proposed 'Australoids' to be the original racial type ancestral to all others. In the case of North Africans there are a few people who stand out in this, one in particular are the Ushetettas of Tunisia. In a recent google search I came across one thread posted on this issue in the Anthrocivitas forum: http://anthrocivitas.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10848 The poster even includes examples from the old literature that speaks of ‘Australoids’ in North Africa. We all know such features have nothing to do with 'Australoids' and racial groups don’t really exist, but what do you guys make of such a phenotype in the Maghreb? They surely do not conform to the 'classical Hamitic' type associated with North Africans let alone white Berbers. Do you think this to be a surviving remnant from Mesolithic or even Paleolithic times?? [IMG]http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/ic&CISOPTR=650&DMSCALE=100.00000&DMWIDTH=802&DMHEIGHT=1302.2164948454&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=5&DMTHUMB=0&DMROTATE=0[/IMG] [IMG]http://images.mediastorehouse.net/164/4408435_450_450_0_0_fit_0_6d0d26e88723d51362e1776f6d679830.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.abcdelacpa.com/18891.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.viaggiaresempre.it/Chenini3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/2925864987_2b9d564574.jpg?v=0[/IMG] [IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jmpX88iUxiI/TJlS0xs6d0I/AAAAAAAAAC0/RPIsdoydZn8/s1600/Tunisia2.jpg[/IMG] [/qb][/QUOTE]I do believe these are "aboriginal" remnants of a population that existed in Africa and eventually left to make up a significant portion of the base population that later came to dominate parts of Asia and Europe. Calling them "australoid" is just another way of saying 'archaic' or 'aboriginal' as most early Europeans called the Australian aborigines the remnants of an ancient "primitive" form of human, with the emphasis being 'primitive' as a way of downgrading them and therefore justifying subjugation. But even in that racist way of looking at things, it implies this represents a very old strain of African genes and a very old phenotype that remained intact in Australia and parts of South Asia due to the tropical environment there. I even made the same argument myself right here on ES and even used some of the same images a few years ago in one of the many threads on North African Berbers. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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