An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c20.s2.6

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Of the Chalcolithic [4.14.6-8] sites of the Deccan, BRAHMAGIRI had a mesobrachycephalic, broad-nosed, medium-statured, robustly constituted population. Sarkar, 1960, has affiliated it to the Scytho-Iranian stock and to an autochthonous Proto-Australoid race. Erhardt, 1960, has compared the skeletons from NEVASA with those of the primitive people of the Deccan jungles. The skeletons from CHANDOLI have some similarities with those from LANGHNAJ and NEVASA. In the lower Ganga valley [4.6.4], at PANDU-RAJAR-DHIBI, the people varied in stature from medium to tall, with long head but narrow nose. MASKI in the Deccan had three physical types: (1) mesobrachycranic (Scytho-Iranian?); (2) long-headed, large-brained and stoutly built; and (3) long-headed and broad-nosed, similar to the autochthonous Australian.