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EARLY NILE VALLEY FARMERS FROM EL-BADARI: Aboriginals or "European"Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data.
- Source :
- Journal of Black Studies; Nov2005, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p191-208, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00219347
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Black Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 18897481
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934704265912