Africa during the late Palaeolithic/early Neolithic period

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@The alchemist @Shimbiris any thoughts?

 

[Rayaale]

Didn’t the Khoisan originate from East Africa

 

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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.

 

[lovelypeaches]

what is mota

 

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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.

You are mixing up different time frames by using terms such as ANA and AEA. These components in their pure form seized to exist by the time of the early Neolithic. Mota most certainly did exist as a separate distinct component during the early Neolithic period. Before the migrations associated with the spread of agriculture and animal husbandry the majority of East Africa was inhabited by a diverse set of populations that combined layers of variable proportions of ancestry linked to Central African hunter-gatherers (“pygmies”), Southern African hunter-gatherers (“Khoisans”), East African hunter-gatherers (“Mota Cave-related”) and the Nilotic/Nilo-Saharan-related East Africans.

 

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what is mota

East African hunter-gatherers

 

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Aren't Natufians and Iberomaurusians related?

They were IBM related mixed with extra West Euro-Asians and Basal Euro-Asians

 

[TheLand]

What is this trying to portray? Seems very speculative.

 

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What is this trying to portray? Seems very speculative.

Different groups of people that inhabited Africa during the Early Neolithic/Late Palaeolithic by using all the ancient samples we have so far.