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:
There are robust Cromagnoid like variants concentrated in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highland plateau which show their closest resemblance with the robust Berberid variants from Northwestafrica (Maghreb region) among the Berber people, but still however remaining a distinct look. A few individuals show certain khoisaniform tendencies which might be(?) due to a pre-neolithic khoisanid strain among the Hamites of Eastafrica. As we know today from archaeological discoveries, Khoisanid people inhabited a great area widely distributed over Eastafrica in ancient times. But this is just an assumption however. There is no concrete anthropological information about these variants of the Highland Aethiopid spectrum, however we just know that these exist and that they are more common or typical in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highland plateau.
CENTRAL AETHIOPID
Group of Central Aethiopids:
