5000 year old East African Pastoralist from Nakuru, Kenya

[kamek]

I find it hilarious that East African Bantus are pretending that their ancestors were always in Kenya. Is this a joke?

It's not a coincidence that an African from Kenya can have the same features as someone from West Africa. I doubt that they can even tell the difference between each other if they use only pictures.

Guess who is Kenyan and who is Nigerian?

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The top one is Kenyan lol, that’s very easy to guess, Bantu’s weren’t always in Kenya, but they still look different to Nigerians and Ghanaians and such, and like other users mentioned they are mixed with Nilotic/cushitic.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Top one is from Kenya?

Kenyans tend to have some Cushitic admixture, and she somehow gives me that vibe.

North-eastern Bantus are mixed with Cushites and nilotes, for example in central Kenya the dominant tribe is kikuyu and they are about 60% Bantu the rest is Cushitic and Nilotic you can tell them by their phenotype, the ones who live in Western Kenya are heavily mixed with nilotes

The top one is Kenyan lol, that’s very easy to guess, Bantu’s weren’t always in Kenya, but they still look different to Nigerians and Ghanaians and such, and like other users mentioned they are mixed with Nilotic/cushitic.

You're all correct, but I also think some Kenyans don't have Cushitic admixture at all. It's probably tribal and location based to some extent?

 

[iley]

I wouldnt clock him as a somali at first glance if i saw him in real life . Theres something off , maybe the face length . He looks more west eurasian shifted than somalis nowadays to me personally or maybe its just cuz how defined his facial features are.

Agree he defo looks horn african, to me he looks like how a cushite wouldve looked like, maybe before we split off from each other. 5000 bce was a long time ago

 

[Zak12]

Abayo its literally this guy that @motivation has provided, but at a different angle. for instance same jawline, same high cheekbone and same nose type and also they have she same hump on there nose . All thats missing is beard and mustache
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He sort of looks like Muse Bihi as well

 

[NidarNidar]

From Ancestral Whispers, https://www.ancestralwhispers.org/reconstructions

The Neolithic skeleton from Willey’s Kopje II showed distinct physical traits: a very long and narrow skull (ultradolichocranial), with a flattened top, broad convex forehead, weak brow ridges, and a prominent occiput. The face was broad and medium in height, with projecting cheekbones and a straight jaw structure. The orbits were extremely high and narrow (hypsiconchic), and the nose was sharply narrow with pronounced leptorrhiny. Slight alveolar prognathism, a strong lower jaw, and a prominent chin were also noted. His genetic group constitutes the majority of Cushitic ancestry and represents a significant portion of East African autosomal ancestry.


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Explains the high cheekbones of his descendants.

We need more samples from the horn and NEA in general.