Map 29. The distribution of races in
Arabia (from Pavel Bělíček: The Differential Analysis of the Wordwide Human Varieties, Prague 2018, Table 28, p. 83) |
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The Ethnic Composition of the Afro-Asiatic Family Modern Arabs are regarded as
members of the large Afro-Asiatic
family without distinguishing several heterogeneous components. They all
share the heritage of their prehistoric predecessors who have merged into the
category of Orientalids.
Orientalids.
The archaeological dominant of the |
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The Ethnic and
Racial Composition of the
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Axe-tool cultures attributed to tall robust long-headed dolichocephals
(their heritage linguistically survives in the Elamitoid
subdivision tending to vocalic phonology with rich diphthongism,
three-mora vowel quantity, quantitative prosody,
voiced consonants, open syllables and disyllabic word stock): * Oldowan artefacts of Homo erectus
in Ubeidiya ( * Acheulean hand-axe industry found in
the Bizat Ruhama group
and Gesher Bnot Yaakov (1.4 mya), * Acheulo-Yabrudian industry (215,000 BP)
with hand-axes anticipating Macrolithic of Neothic period * Macrolithic of tools in the Mesolitic Hilazon Tachtit cave site (12,000 BP), * Gigantolithic industry of the Qaraoun culture in the back to in the Mesolithic or
Proto-Neolithic period, * the Ubaid culture ( Mousteroid cultures attributed to tall robust
large-headed brachycephals with a convex nasal
profile (their vestiges linguistically survive in the Berber group with
reduced vowels, abundant ejectives, dental stops, tenuis
stops, spirants and sonorants, k-plurals as
well as definite and indefinite articles): * Tabunian ( of Clactonian
and Tayacian megafauna
hunters, * * Amudian Mousterian (60,000 BP) with
retouched lancehead industry excavated in * Megalithic constructions in proto-Canaanite * Neolithic megalith constructions
in * Urukans
and Orcheni in Levalloisian and Aurignacoid cultures ascribed to Cromagnon man, Pelasgids and Meditteranids: * early flint tool industry from Yir'on,
found on the Lebanese borders of * Levalloisian technology in * Mousterian Levallois or Levalloiso-Mousterian
industry in Tabun Cave B, C, D, unit IX (250 kya), * the Levantine Ahmarian culture
(46,000 BP) with long prismatic knives, * the Dabban Leptolithic
( * Baradostian culture (Zagros
region, 36,000 BC) of Aurignacian type, probably
ancestral to Kurds, * the Antelian Leptolithic
(32,000 BP), burins and narrow
prismatic blade points, it imported points of the Font-Yves type to * Iberomaurisian Leptolithic (cca 24,000 BP),
Proto-Mediterranean and Mechta-Afalou racial
types, * the Eastern Oranian Leptolithic (Haua Fteah in * the Eburran Aurignacian
Leptolithic ( large backed blades. Microlithic cultures of Hebroid,
Punoid, Cushitic and
remote Turcoid descent (their consonantism
is notable for tenuis stops, fricatives and sonorants, apical retroflex phonemes, velar, guttural and
laryngeal consonants, back round vowels, rhotic
affricates, r-plurals and the SOV word order): * microblade cultures of Cushitic
and Azande knife-throwers (33,000 BC) with Y-DNA hg
R*-M173, * Microlithic Kebaran
culture (18,000 BC), * the early Helwan phase in the Egyptian Fayyum, affiliated to Kebaran
style, * Microlithic Natufian
industry (12,500 BC), cave dwellings, hunting antelopes and ovicaprids, * Kiamian Microlithic ( * Harifian
Microlithic (Sinai, * Capsian Microlithic ( and Tuaregian
goat-herders, Tassili petroglyphs
and cave-paintings, * Eburran
industry ( |
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Table 17. The typology of prehistoric cultures underlying
Afro-Asiatic peoples
Berberids.
The first Spanish conquistadors ofn the
Table 18. The
heterogeneous tribal layers in the Berber subdivision of Afro-Asiatic |
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1 R. Knussmann: Vergleichende
Biologie des Menschen: Lehrbuch der Anthropologie und Humangenetik. 2ed.
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag,
1996.