Who were the latter Pleistocene eastern Africans?

This is a paper written in 1988 and the author was involved in the Buur Heybe excavations.

Abstract

A later Pleistocene Khoisan peopling of eastern Africa has been suggested by most researchers. The evidence cited consists of a few isolated crania, archaeological occurrences described as ‘Wilton’, rock paintings and scattered populations of present-day hunter-gatherers speaking languages with clicks and viewed as bearing some physical resemblances to living Khoisan groups. When these different lines of evidence are evaluated, it is clear that there is no strong basis for retaining the concept of later Pleistocene Khoisan populations in eastern Africa. Instead, the available data suggest that the later Pleistocene and Holocene eastern Africans were tall, linear peoples


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248094194_Who_Were_the_Later_Pleistocene_Eastern_Africans
 

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