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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [qb] Anyone interested in what prehistoric East Africans looked like, should Google the Mumba Cave crania (Northern Tanzania). One of the crania is at least 5700 BP (Brauer, 1980), while two radiocarbon dates of burials from the same layer (III) are 4890 ± 70 / 4860 ± 100 (Mehlman, 1989). So despite continuous occupation, at least some of the Mumba skulls can be dated 3000-4000 BCE, opposed to the considerably more recent Iron Age Elmenteita, Willey's Kopje and Gamble's Cave crania (500 BCE). [URL=http://in-africa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Brauer-1980-AJPA-human-remains-from-Mumba.pdf]Brauer[/URL] (1980) includes a useful description of the Mumba skulls. They're all platyyrhine (wide nasal aperture) with strong alveolar prognathism- [QUOTE]The well-preserved cranium (Fig. 6) is long and has an ovoid vertical shape. The glabella and superciliary arch are moderately developed. The nasal bones are prominent. The [b]nasal shape is distinctively wide (NH:51 ?, NB: 30). Moreover, the skull has a distinct alveolar prognathism.[/b] [/QUOTE]- Skull 10 [QUOTE] The frontal bone is distinctly receding (frontal subtense: 21 mm); the glabella and superciliary arch are moderately developed. The [b]interorbital breadth measures a substantial 28 mm, and the angle formed between the nasal bones is wide[/b].[/QUOTE]- Skull 7 [QUOTE]Only the nasal measurements could be determined with relative certainty (NH: 51?, NB: 29?), [b]resulting in a wide nasal shape[/b]. The skull, moreover, is long, with an ovoid vertical shape. The glabella and superciliary region are developed only moderately.[/QUOTE]- Skull 8 [QUOTE]The two individuals IV and VI are on the whole well preserved; skeleton IV ( d ,5Z61 years) has an extremely large and robust cranium, which may be an extreme variant among the population. He, too, has dominating Negroid features, [b]a marked alveolar prognathism and a very wide nasal shape[/b], a distinctly receding frontal bone (frontal subtense: 25 mm), and an [b]extreme interorbital breadth[/b] (30 mm). The calvaria, moreover, is long and ovoid.[/QUOTE]- Skull 4 [QUOTE]The nasal bones are very flat, and the interorbital breadth of 27 mm is considerable... has a [b]very wide nasal aperture and a strong alveolar prognathism[/b].[/QUOTE]- Skull 6 In terms of a anthroposcopic analyse the Mumba skulls are "Negroid" and they're closest in craniometric analysis to Teita, Zulu and "South African Blacks" (see Brauer, 1980 Fig. 4 and 5), however in terms of some individual metric variables lean somewhat in a "Nilotid" direction, hence Masai are not a great distance from the Mumba sample(s) in Fig. 4. In Baker (1974), the "Nilotid" is a "Negroid" who has undergone some minor micro-evolutionary differentiation. So I'm not sure why Baker gets labelled a "racist 10 times worse than Coon" here when he argued the "Nilotid" morphotype involved no Hamitic admixture: he categorized it as a "Negroid" subtype. Anyway, I just find it bizarre that Afrocentrists are not arguing prehistoric East Africans were "Negroid", but somehow "Caucasoid". Weird stuff. But they're basically arguing the latter to try to claim "Caucasoid" features as their own. What's next blonde blue eyed Negroes… o wait Xyman is already doing that. :rolleyes: [/qb][/QUOTE]East Africa was a place where variety evolved, so your post is senseless. [IMG]http://ma.prehistoire.free.fr/omo1.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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