Description:
Sanid variety, native to the Kalahari. Very ancient and distinct, specialised desert type with many unique features. Typical for the Northern and Central Bushmen, e.g. the !Kung (e.g. Ju/'hoansi), Naro, Khwe, Amkoe, and related people. Has lived in the region many millennia before Bantu and European arrival. Several thousand typical individuals remain, threatened by loss of culture and displacement.
Physical Traits:
Yellowish/reddish medium brown skin, wrinkled in old age, peppercorn hair (< 15 mm). Short, meso- brachyskelic, very ectomorph. Very infantile, sometimes steatopygic. Dolicho- mesocephalic, chamaecranic, rather small-headed. Platyrrhine, depressed nose and a convex upper lip. Eyes pseudo-Mongoloid, prognathy very weak, penis sub-erect, body hair rather weak.
Literature:
The northern Sanid was named Kalaharid by Lundman (1967) and described taller and darker by Eickstedt (1934), too, who called it Sanid like most others (Baker, 1981; Knussmann, 1996). So did Biasutti (1967), calling them Bosćmana. May be further divided in a Central and Northern group (Cole, 1965; Schlebusch et al., 2012). | .
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