Talk:Oberkassel, Bonn

This article talks about Winfried Henke's work on the Oberkassel skull as Phrenology, which is incorrect.

From what I have translated from his work, he was doing a quantitative morphological assessment of the skull and testing to see if it had affinities to other archaeological finds.

Before ancient DNA, this was what we had to test genetic relationships. Heck it is still even done now in reputable journals like Nature when ADna is not recoverable. A relatively recent article I have read from 2021: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00295-6

It is also done in paleontology, where Adna is basically impossible to recover, albeit slightly altered and now dubbed as geometric morphometrics.

Indeed to his credit, one of his conclusions stated in this wiki was that it was " "decisive" as an ancestral role". Adna has confirmed this as their now genetically defined population of Western Hunter Gatherers are one of the classic three main ancestral components of modern native Europeans.

A working link to his work.

https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/bjb/article/view/63833/56523 Gelbom (talk) 11:59, 8 September 2024 (UTC)