Early Nile Valley Farmers From El-Badari: Aboriginals or “European”AgroNostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data

Male Badarian crania were analyzed using the generalized distance of Mahalanobis in a comparative analysis with other African and European series from the Howells’s database. The study was carried out to examine the affinities of the Badarians to evaluate, in preliminary fashion, a demic diffusion h...

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Published in:Journal of black studies 2005-11, Vol.36 (2), p.191-208
Main Author: Keita, S. O. Y.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Black people
Blacks
Comparative analysis
El-Badari Egypt
Europe
Farmers
Head
Migration
Nile River
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Summary:Male Badarian crania were analyzed using the generalized distance of Mahalanobis in a comparative analysis with other African and European series from the Howells’s database. The study was carried out to examine the affinities of the Badarians to evaluate, in preliminary fashion, a demic diffusion hypothesis that postulates that horticulture and the Afro-Asiatic language family were brought ultimately from southern Europe. (The assumption was made that the southern Europeans would be more similar to the central and northern Europeans than to any indigenous African populations.) The Badarians show a greater affinity to indigenous Africans while not being identical. This suggests that the Badarians were more affiliated with local and an indigenous African population than with Europeans. It is more likely that Near Eastern/southern European domesticated animals and plants were adopted by indigenous Nile Valley people without a major immigration of non-Africans. There was more of cultural transfer.
ISSN:0021-9347
1552-4566
DOI:10.1177/0021934704265912