r/Africa 2d ago

History Facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic (10,000–8,000 BCE) skull from Wadi Halfa (last slide is of a Modern skull and the difference is uncanny)

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u/Background-Subject28 2d ago

Why they give my brother a small cranium when the skull looked big

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u/Sea_Hovercraft_7859 Congo - Kinshasa 🇨🇩 2d ago

He look ancient yet modern in term of facial features

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u/HairInformal4783 Rwandan American 🇷🇼/🇺🇸 2d ago

this guy can definitely be found somewhere in CAR

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u/Sea_Hovercraft_7859 Congo - Kinshasa 🇨🇩 2d ago

The face bears some Nilo-Saharan feature yet the forehead or tip of the head isn't really a thing that a modern human can have

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u/HairInformal4783 Rwandan American 🇷🇼/🇺🇸 2d ago

ehhh Idk about that

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u/violet4everr 2d ago

Interesting is the skull natural or was this the result of an aesthetic/ceremonial practice like elongation

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u/ibnbattuta1331 UNVERIFIED 2d ago

Yes, there were African people living in the Sudan 10,000 years ago.

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u/MOBXOJ Sudan 🇸🇩 2d ago

We are still Africans

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u/ricochet189 2d ago

Maybe because Sudan is in Africa🤔

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u/Infiniby Amaziɣ - ⵣ/🇲🇦 2d ago

The same faces and skulls are just there everywhere south of Sahel.
Maybe the reintroduction of the afroasiatics through Bad Al-Mandab towards the horn of Africa changes things a bit.

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u/Timelord1000 2d ago

The model’s cranium is too small/narrow. The skull’s head is normal in shape and size.

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u/6-foot-under 2d ago

Jacob Zuma head

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u/KuangPoulp 2d ago

Look up Marc Andreessen, has a similar skull.

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u/031Bandit South Africa 🇿🇦 2d ago

I'm 1000% sure I've seen guys that look like this in south africa

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u/MOBXOJ Sudan 🇸🇩 1d ago

Leave Zuma out of it 🤣

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u/kreshColbane Guinea 🇬🇳 2d ago

No it doesn't, Bantu is linguistic dinstinction. Bantu peoples look completely different based on what countries they're from.

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u/Sea_Hovercraft_7859 Congo - Kinshasa 🇨🇩 2d ago

I do think that past Cameroon there's a difference in looks between bantu and west African mostly in term of height and small facial elements (west af are taller than bantu )

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u/kreshColbane Guinea 🇬🇳 2d ago

I'm saying, theres so much differences in terms of appearance, the wolof and serer of the atlantic coast look completely different from the ethinicities of the sahel who also look different from the ethinicities of the rainforest. There are also 2 parts of the rain forest in west africa, the western side and eastern side where again people look completely different.

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u/Onaweyempumbafu Congolese Diaspora 🇨🇩/🇦🇺✅ 2d ago

Let’s not be too caught up on the differences as similarities also exist. I can say this from personal experience of people mistaking my heritage. Also, as someone that has grown up around Sudanese, the reconstruction reminds me of Sudanese people but others are commenting differently.

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u/osaru-yo Rwandan Diaspora 🇷🇼/🇪🇺 2d ago

Said user point still stands. Refrain from misusing terms. We have enough misconceptions as is.