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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by JoshuaConnerMoon: [qb] Brace used 24 measurements, Howells used 57. See my other replies. One of the reasons CRANID was invented is so there is a moderate amount of measurements (29) as a [i]minimum[/i] - to avoid the problems with FORDISC which some anthropologists have used with too few measurements [although Howells used 57 for FORDISC's predecessor DISPOP or POPKIN and this is the standard number used in FORDISC publications, including the 3.0 manual]. Note that Brace uses less measurements (24) than CRANID's absolute minimum (29). Howell's 57 measurements reliably cover the whole crania; the problem with using fewer measurements is they don't cover the complete surface-area of the skull, or not accurately, and so won't capture [b]overall[/b] craniometric similarity. There is clear discrepancy between Howells and Brace's data based on this fact. Howell's has Natufians closest to a European population sample (Zalavar). Natufians don't show Sub-Saharan African craniometric ties - if the data is read correctly and importance of number of measurements is understood. Anyway, if you respond this is "Eurocentrism" remember that Howells used a lot more measurements on the Gamble's Cave/Elmenteita skulls to falsify earlier anthropologists like Coon that these crania are Caucasoid. Coon (1939) thought prehistoric East Africans were Caucasoid/'White' skeletally because he used less than 10 measurements. "Both of the Gamble’s Cave skulls seem to be fully or nearly “white” in the skeletal sense." - Coon, 1939 [/qb][/QUOTE]You obviously missed the point that Howells used the Giza E series of skulls which were shown to be foreigners and not native Egyptians as pointed out by Sonia Zakrzewski back in a 2002 study. As for Natufians, [i]some[/i] (though not all) do show sub-Saharan affinities like blurred margins, avleolar prognathism, and even post-bregmatic depression, all of which together are considered classic diagnostic "negroid" traits. Unless you cite the specific measurements instead of throwing out number of measurements used, you are not getting anywhere. By the way, even Coon said the Natufians had a "slight negroid tendency" which he said was common for "proto-mediterraneans" [b]LOL[/b] How very telling of him, and now the DNA evidence confirms their African/"negroid" ancestry. [/qb][/QUOTE]What on earth are you talking about? "What little we have from Palestine, mostly scraps of bone and a few teeth, is also [b]Caucasoid[/b]. For example, the Mesolithic Natufian skulls and long bones from that country are those of ancestral Mediterraneans." (Coon, 1965) DNA also says the opposite of what you are posting- "However, [b]no affinity of Natufians to sub-Saharan Africans[/b] is evident in our genome-wide analysis, as present-day sub-Saharan Africans do not share more alleles with Natufians than with other ancient Eurasians." http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/16/059311 About the Sonia Zakrzewski study, probably you mean 2004 and not 2002: I cannot find it anywhere though. Googling the paper and you just find it quote-mined, mostly by Afrocentrists. The source is: Zakrzewski, S. R. (2004). Intra-population and temporal variation in ancient Egyptian crania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement (38): 215 The Gizeh sample aka Howell's "E Series" dates 664–343 BCE., however the Sedment sample [i]dates a lot earlier[/i] and shows the same south Levant ties, so your argument doesn't really make sense. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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