Studies of ancient crania from northern Africa

Historical sources and archaeological data predict significant population variability in mid‐Holocene northern Africa. Multivariate analyses of crania demonstrate wide variation but also suggest an indigenous craniometric pattern common to both late dynastic northern Egypt and the coastal Maghreb re...

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Published in:American journal of physical anthropology 1990-09, Vol.83 (1), p.35-48
Main Author: Keita, S. O. Y.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Africa, Northern
African Continental Ancestry Group
Africoid
Badari
Carthage
Craniology
Discriminant function
European Continental Ancestry Group
Fossil man
History of medicine
History, Ancient
Humans
Maghreb
Male
Paleontology
Predynastic Egyptian
Skull - anatomy & histology
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Summary:Historical sources and archaeological data predict significant population variability in mid‐Holocene northern Africa. Multivariate analyses of crania demonstrate wide variation but also suggest an indigenous craniometric pattern common to both late dynastic northern Egypt and the coastal Maghreb region. Both tropical African and European metric phenotypes, as well intermediate patterns, are found in mid‐Holocene Maghreb sites. Early southern predynastic Egyptian crania show tropical African affinities, displaying craniometric trends that differ notably from the coastal northern African pattern. The various craniofacial patterns discernible in northern Africa are attributable to the agents of microevolution and migration.
ISSN:0002-9483
1096-8644
DOI:10.1002/ajpa.1330830105