The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis

Cannibalism in China

The Asian “cogelites” are not the only ones with a philoasiatic agenda. More interesting are those representing a particular tendency in racialist “thought” - a tendency which shall go nameless - who also worship at the altar of Asians, or at least, as the altar of northeast Asians.

Neolithic men were prepared to fight for their women

This is from today’s Daily Telegraph (London):

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Many archaeologists have argued that women have long motivated cycles of violence and blood feuds throughout history but there has really been no solid archaeological evidence to support this view. Now a relatively new method has been used to work out the origins of the victims tossed into a mass grave of skeletons, and so distinguish one tribe from another, revealing that neighbouring tribes were prepared to kill their male rivals to secure their women some 7000 years ago.
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Origins of Black Africans

African with his dinner.

Thus, black Africans were still absent from most of sub-Saharan Africa even within historic times. When the Egyptians began to build their pyramids, the peoples living to the south were scarcely darker in color. They were simply seen as uncivilized Egyptians. To the inhabitants of the ancient Middle East, the range of observable phenotypic differences was much narrower than it would later become, and it was this context that shaped their worldview in its early stages, including theorizing on universalism and human brotherhood. To a degree not easy to assess, we are heirs to notions of human sameness that were initially conceived ‘before Africa became black’.

See Origins of black Africans.

Blue eyes on the fringes of China

These are probably the Uighurs, a blend of Tocharians (a Nordic tribe) and Mongoloids. Nowadays, the Uighurs are Muslims.

… Sir Aurel Stein found that in the southeastern part of Sinkiang Province “fifteen percent of the population have blue eyes with wavy or curly hair. …

Vikings Filed Their Teeth, Skeleton Study Shows

No one would accuse them of being dandies, but contrary to popular belief, the Vikings took great pride in their looks.

Neanderthals speak out after 30,000 years

The image of the Neandertal reconstuction portrays a VERY fair-skinned boy!

European skin turned pale only recently, gene suggests

I’m left here wondering how old cave-dwelling Neandertal managed to retain his dark African skin color during 210,000 years of sojourning in northern latitudes while it took only 6,000 years for the newcomers to evolve their pale faces.

Australian Aboriginal Craniometrics as construed through FORDISC

Introduction

Late Pleistocene human skulls are of immense interest in reconstructing the evolutionary history of our species Homo sapiens. In the 1980s and 1990s, Kamminga and Wright (1988), Wright (1992), Stringer (1994), Howells (1995), Powell and Neves (1999), and others used multivariate statistics to compare the measurements of late Pleistocene skulls, from China, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, against modern human populations as represented by the worldwide survey of William White Howells (see map at the bottom of this page). One general result that emerged, which was then interpreted as evidence for the “Out of Africa” theory on the origins of modern humans, is that the Pleistocene crania frequently did not find their closest affinity with Howells’s recent populations in the same region. For instance, the landmark paper of Kamminga and Wright (1988) concluded that Zhoukoudien Upper Cave 1 could not be considered “Mongoloid” because its craniometrics are very different from those of recent populations in the region such as Chinese and Buriats. Therefore, one component of my The Contribution of South Asia to the Peopling of Australasia project (with Colin Groves) has involved testing Australian fossil crania with FORDISC 2.0 (Ousley and Jantz 1996), a computer program that facilitates multivariate statistical comparisons of individual crania with the 28 populations measured by Howells (1989).

See also this article here. It seems to be somewhat indicative of the effects of aboriginal peoples movements about the world. While most native American groups in the US have been rather quiet and busy making money in their casinos, many primitive groups are very busy with the help of lawyers wiping the archeological records clean of any evidence that they are even remotely less evolved than say– a German — and removing evidence of their past from the Internet and museums. Skulls and photos that could be found on the internet 5 years ago are now gone. It is, to say the least, a very vile form of censorship.

Note the map linking Australia to New Guinea during the height of the last glacial period here.

“This truly unique collection of mineralised skulls and endocasts, the results of over 30 years fieldwork, presents what can only be described as an indisputable case for the evolution of the earliest modern humans [Homo sapiens] in Australia from Homo erectus, prior to the supposed first appearance of modern humans in Africa around 100,000 years ago, and long before the appearance of the earliest Australoids [Aborigines] in Australia by hundreds of thousands of years.
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