East Bambutid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

Average Face

The East Bambutid phenotype average face is a composite synthesized from multiple individual photographs by historical anthropologists. It represents a statistical impression of recurring facial features, not a real person.

Geographic Distribution

The East Bambutid phenotype is native to Sub-Saharan Africa. The historical distribution below reflects approximate centers of prevalence documented roughly 1500 years ago; modern borders and population movements have since blurred these boundaries.

Approximate coordinates: 2.00°, 20.00° (latitude, longitude).

Physical Characteristics

Dark, sometimes medium (reddish) brown skin. Brown-black, rarely blonde peppercorn hair. Very short (males 140-145 cm), (hyper-) macroskelic, mesomorph, infantile. Mesocephalic, orthocranic. Hyperplatyrrhine. Face round, prognathy weak, receding chin, upper lip convex, lips rather thin. Relatively hairy body. Weak steatopygia.

Historical Background

Bambutid proper: shortest pygmy type in the world with an extreme rainforest adaption that has evolved since the Middle Paleolithic. Historically more widespread, still found in the Ituri forest of DR Congo, among Mbuti, Asua, Kango, and Efe. Loss of culture and forest destruction could make this unique type vanish forever soon.

Source: Human Phenotypes — East Bambutid

References & Literature

The East Bambutid phenotype entry above is compiled from the following academic references. Readers are encouraged to consult the original sources for verification and deeper context.

• Schweinfurth, G. 1878. Im Herzen von Afrika. Leipzig.
• Schebesta, P. 1952. Die Pygmäenvölker der Erde. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Forschungen Paul Schebestas unter den Pygmäen Afrikas und Asiens. 3 Bd. Wien.
• Froment, A. 1993. Adaptation biologique et variation dans l'espèce humaine : le cas des Pygmées d'Afrique. Bull. et Mémo. de la Soc. d'anthropologie de Paris, 5 (3-4), 417-448.
• Gusinde, M. 1956. Die Twiden. Pygmäen und Pygmoide im tropischen Afrika. Museum Völkerkunde, Wien.
• Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
• Lundman, B. 1967. Geographische Anthropologie. Rassen und Völker der Erde. G. Fischer, Stuttgart
• Baker, J.R.. 1981. Race. Oxford Univ. Press. London.
• Knussmann, R. 1996. Vergleichende Biologie des Menschen: Lehrbuch der Anthropologie und Humangenetik. 2ed. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
• Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
• Cole, S. 1965. Races of Man. Butler & Tanner Ltd. Frome and London.
• Patin et al. 2009. Inferring the Demographic History of African Farmers and Pygmy Hunter-Gatherers. In: Di Rienzo, A. PLoS Genetics 5 (4): e1000448.

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