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Phenotype

South Ethiopid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The South Ethiopid 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.

South Ethiopid phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The South Ethiopid 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).

South Ethiopid phenotype historical center: 0.00, 35.00 — East Africa

Physical Characteristics

Dark brown, sometimes medium brown skin, tight-curly or kinky hair. (Very) tall, almost reaching Dinkaid standards, ectomorph, hyperbrachyskelic. Dolichocephalic, orthocranic with mildly leptorrhine or mesorrhine, sometimes convex nose. Sharp facial features. Body hair is scant, the lips relatively full. Mild prognathy possible.

Historical Background

The southernmost Ethiopid, common between Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika, especially in Rwanda, Burundi, but also Uganda, Tanzania, and Eastern DR Congo. In its purest form in Tutsi. Also common in Hema. Sometimes in various Bantu populations, especially Herero who migrated to Namibia from the Rift Valley some centuries ago, also Zulu, even Khoikhoi. Experienced a dramatic reduction in the 1990s due to the Tutsi genocide.

Source: Human Phenotypes — South Ethiopid

References & Literature

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

  • Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1943. Völkerbiologische Probleme der Sahara. In: Beiträge zur Kolonialforschung. Tagungsband I, 169-240.
  • Eickstedt, E. von 1951. Die Träger der Afrikanischen Kulturen. In: Bernatzik, H. Afrika. Handbuch der angewandten Völkerkunde. F. Bruckmann. München.
  • Baumann, H.. 1952. Die Rassen Afrikas. In: Historia Mundi. Band 1, Munich, 167-174.
  • Hirschberg, W. 1974. Die Kulturen Afrikas. Handbuch der Kulturgeschichte. Kulturen der Völker. Akademisch Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion. Frankfurt a. M.
  • Baumann, H. 1975. Die Völker Afrikas und ihre traditionellen Kulturen. Wiesbaden. 41-134.
  • Cole, S. 1965. Races of Man. Butler & Tanner Ltd. Frome and London.

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