@ancestralwhispersdotorg: Facial reconstruction of a 4,700-year-old man from Kenya ancestralwhispers.org The Neolithic skeleton from Willey’s Kopje II exhibited a combination of unique anatomical characteristics: a very long and narrow skull shape (ultradolichocranial), with a flattened crown, a broad and rounded forehead, reduced brow ridges, and a pronounced back of the head. The face was broad and of medium height, with forward-projecting cheekbones and a straight jawline. The eye sockets were exceptionally tall and narrow (hypsiconchic), and the nasal opening was sharp and narrow, consistent with what anthropologists classify as leptorrhine morphology. There was slight alveolar prognathism, a robust mandible, and a well-defined chin. Genetically this individual belonged to a population ancestral to many groups in East Africa, particularly those contributing to Cushitic-speaking peoples and related autosomal lineages found across the Horn of Africa today. #phenotype #ancientdna #genetics #ancestry #anthropology #skull #kenya #pastoralist #cushitic #looksmax #looksmaxx

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