Guanche Mummies and Remains

[Agrippa]

Found here

Originally Posted by NDRTHL

a) first mummy had red/light hair;
b) second and third mummies have long skulls;
c) the last one's eyes region has a strong resemblance with Cro Magnon skulls;
The Guanches are the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands:

This Guanche skull has a remarkably strong resemblance with Cro Magnon skulls (the eyes region, a distinct trait of the Cro Magnon type):
Guanche skull:

Cro Magnon skulls:

The predominantely Cromagnid character of this remains seem to be obvious.
Interesting comments in the same thread about the genetic relations:

Originally Posted by Clemo

They did leave some trace...

Actually this was an interesting read

Compare with this thread on Skadi too:
http://forum.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=43269

and

The Imazighen (Berbers)

[Señor Malo]

Originally Posted by Agrippa

Found here

The predominantely Cromagnid character of this remains seem to be obvious.
Interesting comments in the same thread about the genetic relations:

Compare with this thread on Skadi too:
http://forum.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=43269

and

The Imazighen (Berbers)

relationship between Guanches, "Blond" riffian berbers and UP Europe Cro magnonids seems to be well known from long date.
Coon said that Isolated Borreby & Brunn populations still remained in North Africa and Canary Islands.

BTW and just for info seems that the hair colour in mummies is not always the original one (though in the case of the guanche mummies it is most likely to have been the life colour).
I read in several articles that human hair contains both peoh and eumelanin but eumelanin is less stable in front of environmental, humidity and climatic canches and is the first to go, the most lingering/enduring being the melanin responsible of red hair. That would the reason why why might found redheadmummies even in places where it would be the less spected (seem that several inca mummies with andid features presented a reddish hair tone)

[Agrippa]

Originally Posted by searcher of truth

relationship between Guanches, "Blond" riffian berbers and UP Europe Cro magnonids seems to be well known from long date.
Coon said that Isolated Borreby & Brunn populations still remained in North Africa and Canary Islands.

Yes, its nothing new, but still interesting to discuss especially if such images are available which give a good impression of how the original Guanches looked like and to which racial type they belonged too.

BTW and just for info seems that the hair colour in mummies is not always the original one (though in the case of the guanche mummies it is most likely to have been the life colour).
I read in several articles that human hair contains both peoh and eumelanin but eumelanin is less stable in front of environmental, humidity and climatic canches and is the first to go, the most lingering/enduring being the melanin responsible of red hair. That would the reason why why might found redheadmummies even in places where it would be the less spected (seem that several inca mummies with andid features presented a reddish hair tone)

Thats true, the hair color can change after death depending on the circumstances.

[Señor Malo]

Originally Posted by Agrippa

Yes, its nothing new, but still interesting to discuss especially if such images are available which give a good impression of how the original Guanches looked like and to which racial type they belonged too.

Yes. Specially the genetic issue.

I assume that Guanches and riffian berberes come from Europe into N Africa at the turn of the last glaciar period.Then they sailed at a moment to Canary islands.
What I wander is if there has been any genetic drift/differenciation between W Europe cro magnonids and N AFRCAN-Canarian ones and how developped where their sailing skills when they passed through the Canary Islands; did they have a quite specialized shipping knowledge, more or less as the more recent megalithics had as it is usually assumed, or rather they come in a patera like vessel?

one must bear in mind that Australia was populated much before the Canary Islands and at a time were homo sapiens intelectual faculties were less developped for a similar distance to cross by sea, in spite of the lower sea level of the epoch (well that rather depends if the mean population stream arrived during a glaciar period or during an interglaciar one)