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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [qb] Some prehistoric skeletal remains in the western Sahara have been reliably identified as related to West/Central Africans. There are some cases of remains in the eastern Sahara were substantial West/Central African is likely. As far as I know they are pre-Neolithic and seem to me to be leftovers from L2a1 people who migrated north with the African ancestors of Natufians. Aside from these individuals, most of the eastern Saharan remains with SSA affiliation have a combination of traits diagnostic of prehistoric East Africans...[/qb][/QUOTE]By "West/Central African" related remains, I take it you mean those remains which display typical "negroid" morphology. Of course despite claims to the contrary by Euronuts like Oliver a.k.a. the Anglo bozo of many alises, such remains have been found in Egypt since at least the mesolithic. [By the way, I'm actually thinking of making a thread on this issue alone.] In fact, in the Fayum we have the epipaleolithic Qarunian Culture a.k.a. Fayum B (c.7000-5180 BCE) which you may recall the description of one Qarunian body by Beatrix Midant-Reynes: [i]The body was that of a forty-year old woman with a height of about 1.6 meters, who was of a more modern racial type than the classic 'Mechtoid' of the Fakhurian culture (see pp. 65-6), [b]being generally more gracile, having large teeth and thick jaws bearing some resemblance to the modern 'negroid' type.[/b] The Prehistory of Egypt[/i] Wiley-Blackwell. pg. 82 [QUOTE][qb]Most of them look like Mesolithic Nubians. And the latter, in turn, look like prehistoric equatorial East Africans:[/qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Evergreen: The Upper Pleistocene and Early Holocene Prehistory of the Horn of Africa Steven A. Brandt The African Archaeological Review, Vol. 4 (1986), pp. 41-82 [i]The early Holocene deposits at Lake Besaka and Buur Heybe have provided the earliest evidence in the Horn of intentional human burial....[b]Morphological features of the crania indicate Negroid affinities and can best be compared to the Sudanese skeletons of Jebel Sahaba and Wadi Haifa (McCown n.d.).[/i] [/b][/QUOTE][qb]So it's very obvious that most of the impact West/Central Africans had on the Sahara was on the western side. And thanks for those leads. I will look those names up soon. [/qb][/QUOTE]So what of the remains that display non-negroid features typically identified as "Mediterranean"? What do you think is their provenance?-- the Horn or Upper Nile Valley?? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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