ANA/Aterian facial reconstruction

[Nassbean]

Don't know the company behind this but it might be accurate :

About these people :

This adult man (dead at more than 50 years judging by the degree of synostosis of the sutures), is unquestionably a Homo sapiens sapiens and both morphologically and metrically, nothing opposes seeing in this fossil a possible ancestor of the Iberomaurusians, i.e. of the Men of Mechta el-Arbi, from which it differs only by the accentuation of certain characters (transverse dimensions, superciliary arches) and a more archaic, more robust aspect. By its stratigraphic position in the brown-red (Soltanian) layer, the Dar es-Soltane 5 Man is the representative of the human type of the Aterian, in an intermediate position between the Man of Jebel Irhoud which is Mousterian and the Man of Mechta el-Arbi which appears in the Iberomaurusian.

The hypothesis of a sapiens sapiens ancestry, for the Aterian cultured Man of Témara, seems conceivable, in the absence of another argument, since many of his traits bring him closer to "modern Men or to those of the Mechta-Afalou type" (Férembach 1976: 180). As for the Man of Dar-Es-Soltane 2, also in an Aterian1 cultural context (layer 7, Debénath 1976: 182, and oral communication of 17-4-2004), it differs from the Mechta-Afalou Men only by "the accentuation of certain morphological details or dimensions" (Férembach 1979: 191).

According to Carleton S. Coon :

But the earlier Mouillians, who occupied the coastal regions of Morocco and Algeria, were different. The many skeletons found in the caves of Afalou Bou Rhummel, Algeria, and Taforalt, Morocco, and individual ones from other sites, indicate the presence of a tall, heavy-boned people with massive skulls, wide faces, craggy jaws, and wide nasal openings. Although essentially Caucasoid, they clearly show the absorption of an indigenous element, which can only have comme from the previous inhabitants, the Aterians. The Aterian people were derived from the local Ternefine-Tangier line and, according to our interpretation of the evidence, were unreduced ancestral Bushmen. Traces of this indigenous element may still be seen in living populations of North Africa.

So physically they weren't exactly "SSA" like some pretended and they might also be a sister branch of the Basal eurasians but who didn't participated in the OOA migration.

 

[ENIGMA]

i wanted to post it too

looks strongly ssa influenced

 

[Nassbean]

i wanted to post it too

looks strongly ssa influenced

People talked about them as if they were going to look like this :

While they were physically very close to IBM, clearly a different type of humans and people should stop comparing them to west africans.