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A thread on the Ancient Egyptian population from Cheikh Anta Diop:

"Falkenburger reopened the anthropological study of the Egyptian population in a recent work in which he discusses 1,787 male skulls varying in date from the old Pre-Dynastic to our own day. ImageImageImageImage
He distinguishes four main groups' (p.421). The sorting of the predynastic skulls into these four groups gives the following results for the whole predynastic period: '36% negroid, 33% Mediterranean, approximating either to the Cro-Magnoid or to the negroid'. ImageImageImageImage
The proportion of negroids is definitely higher than that suggested by Thomson and Randall MacIver, though Kieth considers the latter too high.

'Do Falkenberger's figures reflect the reality? It is not our task to decide this. ImageImageImageImage
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