Nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers of the Sahel/Savannah Belt of Africa in the light of geometric morphometrics based on facial portraits

0506801 - ARÚ 2020 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Kleisner, K. - Pokorný, Š. - Čížková, Martina - Froment, A. - Černý, Viktor
Nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers of the Sahel/Savannah Belt of Africa in the light of geometric morphometrics based on facial portraits.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Roč. 169, č. 4 (2019), s. 632-645. ISSN 0002-9483. E-ISSN 1096-8644
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-09352S
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : food-producing strategies * geometric morphometrics * Sahel/Savannah belt
OECD category: Archaeology
Impact factor: 2.414, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajpa.23845

We used geometric morphometrics to understand the past migration processes in the Sahel/Savannah belt of sub-Saharan Africa. We analyzed the facial features of three groups of pastoralists and three groups of farmers belonging to three language families (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Afro-Asiatic) and combined these data with mitochondrial DNA sequences previously obtained. We observed that pastoralists differ from farmers by many features but individuals who bear maternally inherited haplotypes of Eurasian haplotypes do not differ from those whose maternal ancestry is sub-Saharan. Our results suggest that gene flows across the area did not erase a structure established by Paleolithic populations and further shaped by the spread of the Neolithic subsistence strategies.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0297971