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Negritic

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Negritic [nɪˈgrɪtɪk]
adj
(Social Science / Peoples) relating to the Negroes or the Negritos


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The flowering of the Olmec Civilisation occurred between 1500 BC and 1000 BC, when over 22 colossal heads of basalt were carved representing the West African Negritic racial type.
In many parts of the Americas today, there are still people of African Negritic racial background who continue to exist either blended into the larger African-American population or are part of separate, indigenous groups living on their own lands with their own unique culture and languages.
Western historians, ethnologists, anthropologists and archaeologists, when coming across "Akricoids', have labelled them Negroid, Proto-Negroid, Proto-Australoid, Negritic, Negrito (South/ Southeast and Far East Asia) or Hamites, Eurafrikans, Mediterraneans and the Brown Race (Southwest Asia).
 
 
 
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