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how ancients (CHG , Iran N , Anatolia N etc) likely looked like

Nassbean

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Facial reconstruction of an egyptian high official called "Nebiri" (QV30) known as the Chief of Stables who lived during the reign of Tuthmose III (1479-1425 BC) from Loynes et al. 2017 :
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Ben Dover

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@Nassbean have you collected any more studies about the phenotype of natufians? It's safe to assume that they were darker arabids, darker than modern day non-ssa admixed saudis, however I would like to see more studies exploring their majestic phenos.
 

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by the way the Iran HG i posted in the previous page ....Iran N didnt look quite like that i think . because hotu gets 12% or so ssa on gedmatch which the iran N doesnt have
 

Ben Dover

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by the way the Iran HG i posted in the previous page ....Iran N didnt look quite like that i think . because hotu gets 12% or so ssa on gedmatch which the iran N doesnt have
I'll model hotu later because gedmatch isn't great at modeling ancients.
 

Nassbean

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@Nassbean have you collected any more studies about the phenotype of natufians? It's safe to assume that they were darker arabids, darker than modern day non-ssa admixed saudis, however I would like to see more studies exploring their majestic phenos.
Natufians were morphologically intermediate between Niger-Congo people and west eurasians :

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Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16371462/


As for dental morphology, Lipschultz 1997 shows that they were distinct from late pleistocene nubians who were similar to modern west africans :

All of the Natufian dental samples are significantly different from the late Pleistocene Nubian dental sample.

Joshua G. Lipschultz, Who were the natufians? A dental assessment of their biological coherency
 

Ben Dover

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Natufians were morphologically intermediate between Niger-Congo people and west eurasians :

XOIMFH0.png

ZqKdG4C.jpg


Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16371462/


As for dental morphology, Lipschultz 1997 shows that they were distinct from late pleistocene nubians who were similar to modern west africans :



Joshua G. Lipschultz, Who were the natufians? A dental assessment of their biological coherency
Fucking Natufians..
 

Nassbean

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Using genetics to assess the phenotype/morphology of prehistoric populations is useless except for a few traits. Populations like the andaman islanders, melanesians, australian aborigines, etc are all perfectly eurasian genetically and plot far from any dark-skinned african yet they look closer in appearance to africans and explain why indians are dark-skinned and morphologically plot close to east africans. As pointed out by many anthropologists, there was way more diversity among prehistoric humans than today.
 

Ben Dover

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Using genetics to assess the phenotype/morphology of prehistoric populations is useless except for a few traits. Populations like the andaman islanders, melanesians, australian aborigines, etc are all perfectly eurasian genetically and plot far from any dark-skinned african yet they look closer in appearance to africans and explain why indians are dark-skinned and morphologically plot close to east africans. As pointed out by many anthropologists, there was way more diversity among prehistoric humans than today.
That's fair.
 

Ben Dover

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bro you cant model ancients well on G25 .....

how are you gonna model a mesolithic population ....nonsense
Of course there is a possibility to model mesolithic populations ln gedmatch, albeit it's going to be slightly sketchy. Gedmatch doesn't even deserve to be discussed because it's way off and inaccurate.
 

Ponto

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Natufians were morphologically intermediate between Niger-Congo people and west eurasians :

XOIMFH0.png

ZqKdG4C.jpg


Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16371462/


As for dental morphology, Lipschultz 1997 shows that they were distinct from late pleistocene nubians who were similar to modern west africans :



Joshua G. Lipschultz, Who were the natufians? A dental assessment of their biological coherency
Those sort of studies are dated. Anyhow, Brace was an asshole, and dead. Skull shape is plastic and not a useful metric. I'ld go with genetics than skull shape, and most racial characteristics are in the face.
 
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Ben Dover

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Anyway this is LGM caucasus, the time when CHG occupied satsurblia cave and kodias klde, however that's not what CHG looked like most likely.
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