Punt was a trade partner of Late Bronze Age Egypt, & was located in Eritrea & Ethiopia. The Queen of Punt in mid-1300s BC was portrayed by the Egyptians as short, having a curved spine, & steatopygous.
According to UNESCO African History series, Semites arrived in northern Ethiopia centuries after that queen lived. Not sure how well the UNESCO history holds up though - was published 1981.
In 2500 BC, Ethiopian Highlands were ruled by a race that today is perhaps half the ancestry of the Omotic-speaking Ari people. They had evolved adaptations for high altitude life. science.org/lookup/doi/10.…
50% ancestry from Mota (Ethiopian Highlands race) is a floor for the Ari - their other ancestral components have Mota-like ancestry too: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Wonder if some of the Mota-like race survived into Classical Era. Nonnosus, writing around 550 AD, saw a pygmies on an island near Ethiopia (in the Nile? In Red Sea? Indian Ocean?). Pygmies also appear in Roman art as the prey of wild beasts.

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