Australoid Element in the Korannas
Abstract
IN a short paper which I published six years ago on the craniology of the yellow-skinned races of South Africa, I pointed out that the Hottentots and Korannas seemed to me to be very distinct from the Bushmen. The former have dolichocephalic skulls and are well-built men, often of tall stature: the latter are a small race with skulls that are nearly brachycephalic. The Hottentots of south-west Africa, and the Korannas of the Vaal River valley, while apparently branches of the same race, have certain distinguishing characters. The typical Hottentots are not improbably the primitive race contaminated by a considerable Bushman admixture; while the Korannas are apparently nearer to the primitive type, but with a considerable Australoid element.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- October 1929
- DOI:
- 10.1038/124507a0
- Bibcode:
- 1929Natur.124..507B