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[QUOTE]Originally posted by cass: [QB] The supposed Neolithic Kenyan skulls with 'narrow' features (e.g. Elmenteita A) from Bromhead's site, have been re-dated. They are only 2k years old. The 7000 BP date is from Leakey (1935) and Protsch (1978). Rightmire (1984) shows it is erroneous: [IMG]http://s16.postimg.org/kbpu1l9yt/Brom.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://s14.postimg.org/6xvoja7z5/Gambles_Cave.jpg[/IMG] Bromshead is only 2500 - 2000 BP. Gamble's Cave is reliably dated to 8000 BP based on a post-cranial fragment. However the 5 skulls from Gamble's Cave are [i]not[/i] the 'narrow' featured Elmenteita skulls commonly cited. The Bromhead's site is only 4 miles from Gamble's Cave, which is why they are often confused. The two skulls (IV, V) from Gambles' Cave are damaged; in fact they're mostly speculative plaster reconstructions, and accurate measurements cannot be taken: [QUOTE]With respect to the two skulls from Gamble's Cave, the qualification must be made that they are [b]very fragmented and heavily recon-structed in plaster[/b] so that the [b]measurements are not very reliable[/b][/QUOTE]- Bräuer, G. (1980). "Human skeletal remains from Mumba rock shelter, northern Tanzania". [i]American Journal of Physical Anthropology[/i], 52(1), 71-84. [QUOTE]The skeletons were said by L. B. S. Leakey (1935) and others to show a number of non-Negroid characteristics. [b]However the evidence has never been very solid.[/b] Of five burials exhumed at Gamble's Cave, only two have crania that are even [b]partially complete[/b], and [b]neither of these have been reconstructed entirely satisfactorily[/b]. Skull number 4 has been warped, and much of the base and part of the face are present in plaster only.[/QUOTE]- Rightmire, 1984 Look here: [IMG]http://s30.postimg.org/ras65eb1d/777.jpg[/IMG] This is Skull V without the plaster. How on earth did they decide this had a narrow nasal aperture? LOL. Skull IV is even more damaged than V. Once you take these out the equation, and since Bromhead has been re-dated to 2000 BP - [b]there are no prehistoric 'narrow' featured skulls in Kenya[/b]. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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