Africa during the late Palaeolithic/early Neolithic period

[Step a side]

 

[Step a side]

@The alchemist @Shimbiris any thoughts?

 

[Rayaale]

Didn’t the Khoisan originate from East Africa

 

[Step a side]

Didn’t the Khoisan originate from East Africa

On the map the Khoisan cluster reaches as far as Kenya.

 

[Rayaale]

On the map the Khoisan cluster reaches as far as Kenya.

How comes we don’t have any mota dna

 

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How comes we don’t have any mota dna

I think Mota was confined to the Ethiopian highlands. Proto-Somalis must have used to the coastal low land route to get to where we are now.

 

[Northern Swordsman]

I guess at that time frame we were Natufians, right?

 

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I guess at that time frame we were Natufians, right?

Difficult to say but a mix of Natufian related and Nilo-Saharan related would be my best geuss

 

[Zak12]

Aren't Natufians and Iberomaurusians related?

 

[Xareen]

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People give too much damn weight to Mota. Mota represents an Ethiopian mulatto race of a SAHG and AEA mix, somewhat closer to AEA on the cline where SAHG increases the further south one is. This kinda reflects in the tool kits of the mid-Holocene HG populations of East Africa. Nilo-Saharan, whatever that is, should be way more central than east, and most definitely shouldn't penetrate the Nile into Eastern Desert. Pygmies should extend past Bight of Biafra. ANA population separate to IBM should be present to some extent too depending on when exactly this is.

Not ideal.