posted 17 November 2004 10:58 AM            

Many authors regard these people as physically akin to the Mediterraneans, hence the label of 'Caucasoids' (or European-like) generally attached to them. However, all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in anumber of body proportions.............

From the foregoing, it is tempting to locate the area of differentiation of these people in the interior of East Africa. Now, as mentioned in Chapter 3, the fossil record tells of tall people with long and narrow heads, faces and noses who lived a few thousand years BC in East Africa at such places as Gamble's Cave in the Kenya Rift Valley and at Olduvai in northern Tanzania. There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to Caucasoids of Europe and western Asia, as they usually are in literature.

Jean Hiernaux

The People of Africa(Peoples of the World Series)

pgs 42-43, 62-63

posted 17 November 2004 11:19 AM            

Jean Hiernaux
The People of Africa(Peoples of the World Series)

posted 17 November 2004 11:21 AM            

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Originally posted by rasol:
One of the nice things about this forum is that intelligent posts such as S Mohammad's above are always aknowledged as such. Should you ever present one, it will be so aknowledged. Until then, enjoy your [b]sour grapes.

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thanks man!! Horemheb could have had a better response.

posted 17 November 2004 02:48 PM            

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Originally posted by S.Mohammad:
As already discussed in Chapters 5 and 6, a number of African populations have an elongated body build, with narrow head, face, and nose. Their skin is dark(in varying degree), their hair is spiralled, and they have thick but everted lips. In many of these people, such as the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi and related Hima of Uganda, the Masai of the East African steppes and the Ful communities of the Western Sudanic savanna, there is no evidence of an exotic(Arabic or North African) element in their gene pool. Their physical features can best explained in terms of genetic adaptation to dry heat. Apparently they represent the result of a peculiar evolution in the semi-arid crescent which caps sub-Saharan Africa to the north and northeast.

Jean Hiernaux
The People of Africa(Peoples of the World Series)

pg 126

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Thought Writes:

You mean to tell me that the original East Africans were not caucasians as Dienekes would have us believe. LOL!

posted 17 November 2004 05:55 PM            

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Many authors regard these people as physically akin to the Mediterraneans, hence the label of 'Caucasoids' (or European-like) generally attached to them. However, all their features can be found in several living populations of East Africa, like the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi, who are very dark skinned and differ greatly from Europeans in anumber of body proportions.............

From the foregoing, it is tempting to locate the area of differentiation of these people in the interior of East Africa. Now, as mentioned in Chapter 3, the fossil record tells of tall people with long and narrow heads, faces and noses who lived a few thousand years BC in East Africa at such places as Gamble's Cave in the Kenya Rift Valley and at Olduvai in northern Tanzania. There is every reason to believe that they are ancestral to the living 'Elongated East Africans'. Neither of these populations, fossil and modern, should be considered to be closely related to Caucasoids of Europe and western Asia, as they usually are in literature.

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posted 17 November 2004 06:13 PM            

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One only has to look at the fact that "caucasians" are simply derivatives of Africans, and that their so-called "template" physical features had long been present in the continent of Homo Sapiens origin, a.k.a. Africa, even before any such race ever existed

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I think it is also important to remember that other phenotypes such as Australian aborigine (who have some broad african features), and East Asian (who have some Khoisanoid features) and South East Asian (Pygmy) who have diminuative features are also African derived.