The Highland Aethiopid variants (Robust & Gracile Aethiopid, Reduced Aethiopid & Central Aethiopid)are typical for the Semitic and Cushitic speaking inhabitants of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highland plateau. In the Eritrean highlands mostly represented by the Tigrinya and Tigray, in the Ethiopian highlands by the Gurage, Amhara, Oromo, Agew and Tigray.
The area of distribution; On the left a satellite picture of Ethiopia and on the right topographic map of the Horn of Africa:
An idyllic village in the Ethiopian highland plateau:
Classic Aethiopids as according to racial typology of Coon etc, can be divided into two categories. A more robust variant and a more gracile variant. There is however no concrete anthropological information about this kind of division into gracile and robust variants.
ROBUST AETHIOPID
Robust leptodolichomorphic Aurignacoids, in a few cases slightly arabiform(araboid) and iraniform(iranoid) inspired however still preserving a distinct morphological character:
Example according to Renato Biasutti:
GRACILE AETHIOPID
Gracile leptodolichomorphic Aurignacoids, in a few cases slightly arabiform(araboid) and iraniform(iranoid) inspired however still preserving a distinct morphological character:
Example according to Carleton S. Coon:
