Saharan Ethiopid
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| Similar Types | Moorish, North Ethiopid, Fezzanid, Paleo Saharid, West Ethiopid, Central Ethiopid |
| Group | Ethiopid |
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Description
Ethiopid type that was more common during the Neolithic when the Sahara was still green. Today it extends from Chad to Niger, Northern Nigeria and even Cameroon. Found in its purest form in the Toubou of the Tibesti mountains in Northern Chad. More mixed in Hausa, Iravellans of the Tuareg, Kanembu, Buduma, Zande, Fur, even Eton.[1]
Physical Traits
Reddish brown-black skin, tight-curly hair. Rather tall, brachyskelic, ectomorph. Dolicho- mesocephalic, mildly hypsicranic. Nose mesorrhine, slightly depressed with a relatively high back. Face is broad and low with angular features. Eyelid openings are usually narrow.