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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] Who remembers the poster Perahu? I found his blog. [b]The Elongated African fallacy[/b] https://landofpunt.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/the-elongated-african-fallacy/ I don't agree with everything he says, but glad to see he's knows the Gamble's Cave & Elmenteitan were re-dated to Iron Age: [QUOTE]Ambrose further confirms the above when he observes that the [b]chronological date proposed by R. Protsch for the cairn burials at Gamble’s Cave is grossly inaccurate[/b]. To this end, Ambrose notes that conventional charcoal dates for the older (and thus deeper) Phase 3 layer at the site range from 8,000 to 8,500 years before present. Protsch, however, had mistakenly suggested that the cairns — which were buried in a deposit above the Eburran’s final/most recent Phase 5A layer; Phase 5A was, in turn, situated around four meters above the Phase 3 layer — dated to a similar 8,020 ybp, give or take a few years. Thus, the [b]cairns are in fact chronologically more recent than even the last Eburran cultural phase, and by extension, so are the skeletons within them[/b].[/QUOTE]Thanks to Perahu, he also found another source- [QUOTE]Repeatedly in the literature the makers of the ‘Kenya Capsian’ are described as a ‘tall Caucasoid’ or ‘Afro-Mediterranean’ people, a deduction based on examination of burials which Leakey found while digging Gamble’s Cave. Whether this racial attribution is roughly correct or not is irrelevant here. For, as is plain in Leakey’s ‘diagrammatic section’ and notes of his excavation, these burials were placed in a layer well above that containing the true ‘Kenya Capsian’ materials with the fish-bones, harpoon and ‘dotted wavy-line’ potsherd. [b]The skeletons probably belong to a different population several thousand years later. There is therefore no direct evidence of the physical type of the makers of the ‘Kenya Capsian’.[/b][/QUOTE]- [URL=http://www.jstor.org/stable/180989]Sutton (1974)[/URL] So as I said, there are no narrow-nasal aperture crania in East Africa until as recent as the Iron Age c. 500 BCE. Afrocentrists are using the earlier erroneous dates (Leakey, 1935) to try to argue these "Caucasoid" traits evolved in situ in the Kenya & Horn of Africa from the Mesolithic-Neolithic. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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