A Study through Skull Morphology on the Diversity of Holocene African Populations in a Historical Perspective

This volume explores through skull morphology some potential sources of biological diversity within sub-Saharan Africa, such as geography and especially history, in relation to large-scale population movements. Through various statistical analyses, it re-evaluates morphological variation within modern sub-Saharan African populations, using a very large modern human sample and a set of metric variables related to the cranium and mandible. In the same way it also traces morphological patterns through time, focusing on various Later Stone Age and Iron Age populations, originating in particular from strategic areas of various influences.