tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post113563898096933628..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: The questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European craniofacial form (?)Dienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-24011246515478833582009-04-14T00:03:00.000+03:002009-04-14T00:03:00.000+03:00The fact that predynastic Egyptians clustered with...The fact that predynastic Egyptians clustered with Somali in the Questionable Contriubutions of the Neolithic to European ties in with earlier studies on genetic-based non-metric discrete craniofacial traits which showed a break only by the Ptolemaic period.<BR/> In 1972 a scholar wrote, “there was a considerable degree of genetic continuity between the predynastic populations of Badari, Naqada and Hierakonpolis, and samples from dynasties I and II Abydos and Tarkha. Indeed this stability and homogeneity persisted right though the Old and Middle kingdoms and breaks down only in the New Kingdom period… page 206 the Egyptian samples are not very distinct from the Nubians sample from Jebel Moya. ” From Origins and Relationships of the Ancient Egyptians. “ Journal of Human Evolution 1, 199-206.<BR/><BR/>Elliot Smith, who found the burial traits of early megalithic builders to be quite similar to those of modern north East Africans invented the term brown race, and said, “a description of the bones of an Early Briton of that remote epoch might apply in all essential details to an inhabitant of Somaliland… The people were longheaded of small stature, skull is long, narrow and coffin shaped, brow ridges poorly developed, forehead is narrow, vertical and often slightly bulging…” p. 58 -59Dana W. Marnichehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18404707825803497653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-91867728345977698702009-04-13T23:53:00.000+03:002009-04-13T23:53:00.000+03:00The Cro-Magnons and proto Eurasiatics of Brace wer...The Cro-Magnons and proto Eurasiatics of Brace were dolichocephals and are NOT closely related to modern Europeans (including modern Eurasiatics) and were ancestral y related to the later and mainly dolichocephalic megalithic peoples of the Levant, Nabta Playa in Nubia and the Long Barrow of the British Isles. The several scientists agreed in Questionable Contribution article that, "If this analysis shows nothing else it demonstrates that the oft repeated European feeling that the Cro-Magnons are ‘us’ is more a product of anthropological folklore than the result of the metric data available from the skeletal remains." Only a few samples from prehistoric Germany turned out to have some marked connection to modern Europeans. <BR/><BR/>The modern Europeans and coastal Berbers also showed no close connection to neolithic and Bronze Age Europeans and North Africans including neolithic Algerians and Taforalt/Afalou.<BR/><BR/>And earlier scholars said things like: "The discoveries of abundant prehistoric remains all over Europe particularly France. These with one accord tended to show that European aborigines of the Stone age were not Mongoloid like the Lapps, after all but the exact opposite. In every detail they resembled rather the dolicocephalic Negroes of Africa." William Z. Ripley Races of Europe p. 436<BR/>And - from Arthur Keith <BR/>"I am glad to find that Professor Elliot and Dr. Marat agree with me in this that there is no good reason for separating the so-called Negroid from other members of the Cro-Magnon stock they have essentially the same features as that stock." in New Discoveries Relating to the Antiquity of Man <BR/><BR/>The Brace article also said of Europe and the Modern Mediterranean that the Neoltihic samples found, "...tend to tie with Neolithic samples across the entire range from east to west but do not cluster with the living people in many of the areas tested.” PNAS 2006 <BR/><BR/>North AFricans on the hand of the Bronze Age including predynastic and Eypgitans and Bronze Age North Africans tended to cluster with East Africans i.e. Somali and the dark skinned Arab fellaheen now living in Israel.Dana W. Marnichehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18404707825803497653noreply@blogger.com