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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Child Of The KING: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by cass: [qb] Well i'm only describing the very few skeletal traits that show temperature/humidity signatures. Most cranial morphology instead is a product of neutral processes. However you can actually use the link between temperature and cephalic index (breadth x 100, divided by length) to discredit any mass influx of Eurasians into ancient Egypt. The correlation between climate and CI is lower than nasal index, but still quite high (r = 0. 59). Beals (1972) found that ethnic groups from northern latitudes have a mean cephalic index about 5 units higher than those living within or near the tropics. This is pretty significant. I took the measurements from Dart, R. A. (1939). "Population Fluctuation over 7,000 years in Egypt". Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 27. pp. 95-145. I never had the study, but found bits of it quoted online. Dart compiled the CI's of 2,861 Egyptian skulls; he even broke down their % of dolichocephaly, mesocephaly, or brachycephaly, by Dynasty/Era. There is no influx of brachycephaly (it is as low as 1 - 3 percent) until Dynasty IX, and the mesocephaly is always low or fairly low, until the late historical periods (Romans, Greeks etc). So the pre-dynastic/dynastic Egyptians were predominantly long-headed. Of course the CI has been described as being highly plastic, however with an invasion or large movement of Eurasians into Egypt you would expect to still find a higher percentage of rounder skulls during a dynasty or period, but they are absent. Anyway that's the last thing i really looked at, I more or less retired from 'race'/physical anthro having renounced all the junk i believed in before. [/qb][/QUOTE]Welcome back Cass. It seems that to get to the nitty gritty of the Skulls in Egypt and The Nile is difficult but not way out there that we cant get an heads up. Swenet and Truth posted some good studies on the Skulls found in these regions and who closely identifies with them. Thanks for your part in unravelling This. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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