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Phenotype

Pre Nilotid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

The Pre Nilotid phenotype is a east africa human phenotype documented in historical anthropology literature. This page presents the Pre Nilotid phenotype average face composite, its geographic distribution, physical characteristics, historical background, and academic references.

Average Face

The Pre Nilotid 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.

Pre Nilotid phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Pre Nilotid phenotype is native to East 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: 0.00°, 35.00° (latitude, longitude).

Pre Nilotid phenotype historical center: 0.00, 35.00 — East Africa

Physical Characteristics

Black skin and kinky, sometimes tight-curly hair. Medium height, brachyskelic, but with a longer torso than Nilotids proper, ectomorph to mesomorph. Mesocephalic with a very wide, flat face, and a great interorbital distance. Mildly platyrrhine nose. The nasal root is depressed and wide, the forehead steep, the chin marked. Prognathy is moderate.

Historical Background

Ancient type with Proto Nilotid traits, today still found in the border region of Sudan and Ethiopia. Common in Kwama, Uduk, Gumuz, Mao, and related people. More mixed in Berta and other Nilotics. A link to early Ethiopids is possible. Many of these tribes have suffered war and displacement and are now dispersed all over the world.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Pre Nilotid

References & Literature

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

  • Grottanelli, V.L. 1940. Missione etnografica nel Uollega occidentale: I, I Mao, Rome.
  • Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
  • Cipriani, L. 1942. Sui Berta, Coma e Mao dell'ovest etiopico. Riv. studi etiopici 2.
  • Pagani et al. 2012. Ethiopian Genetic Diversity Reveals Linguistic Stratification and Complex Influences on the Ethiopian Gene Pool. The American Journal of Human Genetics 91, 1, 83-96.

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