Asselar man

Asselar man

Asselar Man is a neolithic skeleton discovered by Theodore Monod and M.V. Besnard in 1927, in the Adrar des Ifoghas, near Essouk in what is now Mali's Kidal Region. Wickliffe Draper funded the expedition. Some scholars believe Asselar man to possibly be the oldest known skeleton of a Bantu type African human. Others claim it is more closely related to Cro-Magnon and bushmen [http://www.lesbantous.fr/histoire.html] . In any case, it is remarkably young, with most placing its age as young as 4500BC to no older than the Holocene.

More recently Peter Frost hypothesized Asselar Man, hence what most associate with black African racial type, to be the result of intense polygyny arising from women's independence due to the neolithic spread of agriculture throughout sub-Saharan Africa [http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2008/02/origins-of-black-africans.html] .

References

*This article began as a translation of the corresponding article in the French Wikipedia, accessed 17 December 2005.

External links

* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9000539 Asselar man at Encyclopedia Britannica]


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