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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] Speaking of reconstructions, why is it whenever a medieval or ancient African's skeletal remains are discovered in Europe, and especially if it exhibits typical "negroid" features the individual is automatically labeled "sub-Saharan". How do they know the individual in question is not "North African" instead if one were to ascribe to the divisive if not specific descriptions of North African or Sub-Saharan. This especially should be the case as obviously North Africa is closer in proximity to Europe than Sub-Sahara.[/QUOTE]Why deny the obvious? North Africans have a lower frequency of "Negroid" traits; their morphology is intermediate between "Negroid" and "Caucasoid" with the latter predominate in the northernmost North Africa populations, while those in the south, are visibly more towards "Negroid". Physical anthropologists have always recognised this from Blumenbach, to Seligman, to Angel. There's a North African population sample [Egyptian, 664-343 BCE] in the FORDISC worldwide database (Howells). A small number of Roman British skulls have been identified as North African. The "Negroid"/Sub-Saharan African samples in FORDISC are Zulu, Dogon and Teita; a small number of Roman British skulls also match those. These are though as noted a small percentage of the total, and as expected the overwhelming majority of Roman British crania resemble the Norse, Zalavar and Berg population samples from Europe. Of those, Roman British crania show the strongest ties to the Norse, which again is expected since Britain is closer to Norway than the other two samples from Europe (Zalavar is Hungary and Berg, Austria). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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