Portrait of an Upper Paleolithic North African (Ibero-Maurusian)‚ 20‚000 B.C.
"North Africa is, for most of the time, part of a Mediterranean biogeographic zone, but during specific periods within a glacial cycle it becomes part of the range of sub-Saharan African animals, while the Middle East can be the northern or southern range of African or Eurasian bio-zones ... The Afalou and Taforalt [Morocco] remains show a more robust morphology ... the exceptional shape and size of the clavicle in the Afalou remains exceeds that of all known early populations including the Neanderthals ... the North African remains from Afalou and Taforalt indicate possible influences from sub-Saharan Africa at that time." — Marta MIRAZÓN LAHR
EPIPALEOLITHIC NATUFIANS
"The Natufians were of short to medium stature ... Their skulls were also dolicocephalic, with large cranial capacity; broad, short faces; prominent zygoma; and a tendency to alveolar prognathism." — Patricia Smith
TUTANKHAMUN
