Malagasid
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| Similar Types | South Bantuid, Deutero Malayid, Fengu-Pondo |
| Group | Bantuid, South Mongolid |
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Description
Relatively recent Bantuid-South Mongolid contact type native to the island of Madagascar. Formed when Malay immigrants from the Sunda Islands met Bantu from East Africa some millennia ago. Arabid and Indid elements entered as well. The type shares the island with Bantuids, full South Mongolids, and even some Veddoids. Common in Sihanka, Betsileo, Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety, Sakalava, etc.[1]
Physical Traits
Medium brown skin and often (tight-)curly hair. Medium height, meso-, sometimes brachyskelic, variable body type. Mesocephalic, mildly hypsicranic. Meso- platyrrhine nose that is not very prominent. Sporadically slanting eyes, prognathy absent, hairiness weak.