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Title: | The Hadza and the Iraqw in Northern Tanzania: Dermatological, Anthropometrical, Odontometrical and Osteological Approaches |
Authors: | Ikeda, Jiro Hayama, Sugio |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs |
Volume: | 2 |
Pages: | 1-26 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | Hadza Iraqw physical anthropology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Anthropology and Archaeology |
External link: | https://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/ASM%20%20Vol.2%201982/Jiro%20IKEDA%20%20and%20%20Sugio%20HAYAMA.pdf |
Abstract: | There are many tribes in Mangola village on the northern shore of Lake Eyasi, northern Tanzania. In the early 1900s the village was inhabited by the Hadza and Masai. Settlement by other tribes began around 1930, beginning with the Bantu-speaking people, who were followed by the Datoga, and subsequently by the Iraqw. The present study elucidates the racial affinities of the Mangola peoples, particularly of the Hadza and Iraqw, deduced from dermatographical, anthropometrical and odontometrical aspects, and based on osteological studies of human skeletal remains excavated at the prehistoric sites of Gishimangeda cave and Sechikuencho cairns. Since the Hadza, Iraqw, and the Datoga predominate among the respective linguistic groups, these tribes were investigated as representing the Khoisan, Hamitic and the Nilotic-speaking people. However, since there is no trace of early Khoisanoid in the region, the Hadza has not been attached linguistically and physically to any definite people. The Iraqw and Datoga both bear a close resemblance in physical features to the Hamitic or Caucasians. Fig., ref., tab., abstr. |