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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Trollkillah # Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE] From 1951 to 1955 the Abb6 J. Roche excavated the Mouillian layer in Taforalt Cave, 55 km. northwest of Oujda, Morocco. From it he removed 122 skeletons which Mlle. Ferembach has studied in impressive detail, describing every bone except the hyoid which, she states, has no racial significance. These skeletons represent a single local population living there between about 10,000 B.C. and 8,500 B.C. (C-14),some 50 generations. About 700 km. (470 mi.) away is Afalou bou Rhummel, an Algerian cave with an equally large collection. We now know more about the Mouillians than about anyone else in Africa except the Ancient Egyptians. About their predecessors we knew very little until the discovery of two skulls at Jebel Ighoud, Morocco, too late for her book. The Taforalt folk were big and bony except for one dwarf. The men averaged 573 in stature (174cm.), the women 5 4 (162 cm.). They had large, craggy skulls, short, broad faces, broad noses rising deep below glabella, and massive jaws. Their trunks were not long, but the legs and forearms were, review of her book in Science, 8 May, 1964). Personally, I wish she had seen the Jebel Ighoud skulls before writing because, in my opinion, insofar as the Beni Taforalt differ from the Upper Paleolithic Europeans they do so mainly in the direction of their indigenous predecessors. She points out that this was an inbred local population, with a 75 percent incidence of spina bifida and other sacral anomalies, many wormian bones, and a high infant mortality. Two-thirds of them died during their first two years of life. Of the adults, only two may have lived past 40. Jean nastugue shows that very few bones were pathological except for arthritis, and Marie-Jeanne Poitrat-Targloma that a t least 10 percent of the teeth show calcification trouble, presumably during the weaning crisis. This book is a model of meticulous study of a most interesting prehistoric population for which the author and her colleagues are to be heartily congratulated. I know of nothing comparable in the literature of physical anthropology.[/QUOTE][URL=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1525/aa.1964.66.6.02a00640/asset/aa.1964.66.6.02a00640.pdf;jsessionid=FD5874D45EBB9C7CFD89BBDD892863D3.d04t02?v=1&t=hhu5bssz&s=d268c1ca6973bb278df1c35d6d32c75d1adf0b1e]http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1525/aa.1964.66.6.02a00640/asset/aa.1964.66.6.02a00640.pdf;jsessionid=FD5874D45EBB9C7CFD89BBDD892863D3.d04t02?v=1&t=hhu5bssz&s=d268c1ca6973b b278df1c35d6d32c75d1adf0b1e[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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