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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Trollkillah # Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Of the five Gamble's Cave skeletons, only two could be reconstructed, and this job was carried out in England after the material had been sent there from East Africa. Results were certainly far from perfect, owing to warping and crushing of the original bone, and further insult was to follow. The Royal College of Surgeons in London and the skeletal collections housed there [b]received heavy bomb damage during World War II. So by the time that the skulls were transferred to the British Museum (Natural History) in 1948, they were scarcely in mint condition.[/b] Skull number 4 is the less well preserved of the two, and all of the base as well as a substantial portion of the facial skeleton are present only in plaster. [b]Distortion renders this specimen quite unfit for measurement.[/b] Number 5 also lacks much of the skull base, and the missing parts have been heavily reconstructed. Although these skulls have been called non-Negro in morphology, [b]the evidence is certainly far from clear cut, and any such diagnosis is questionable by virtue of the state of the material alone.[/b][/QUOTE] [QUOTE][i]The oldest remains of Homo sapiens sapiens found in East Africa were associated with an industry having similarities with the Capsian. It has been called Upper Kenyan Capsian, although its derivation from the North African Capsian is far from certain. At Gamble's Cave in Kenya, five human skeletons were associated with a late phase of the industry, Upper Kenya Capsian C, which contains pottery... The skeletons are of very tall people. [b]They had long, narrow heads, and relatively long, narrow faces. The nose was of medium width; and prognathism, when present, was restricted to the alveolar, or tooth-bearing, region... all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in a number of body proportions...[/b] From the foregoing, it is tempting to locate the area of differentiation of these people in the interior of East Africa. [b]There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to the populations of Europe and western Asia.[/b][/i][/QUOTE]--Jean Hiernaux [i]The People of Africa (Peoples of the World Series)[/i] (1975) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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