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“The Phoenicians had nothing in common with the official Jewish type: brachycephal, aquiline or Hittite nose, and so on skulls presumably Phoenician, have been found west of Syracuse but these skulls are dolichocephalic and proganthous, with Negroid affinities. Other bones discovered in Punic Carthage, and housed in the Lavigerie Museum, come from personages found in special sarcophagi and probably belonging to the Carthaginian elite. Almost all the skulls are dolichocephalic.”
“The anthropological examination of skeletons found in tombs in Carthage proves that there is no racial unity; the so-called Semitic type, characterized by the long, perfectly oval face, the thin aquiline nose and the lengthened cranium, enlarged over the nape of the neck, has not been found in Carthage nor for that matter in Sidon. On the other hand, another cranial form, with a fairly short face, prominent parietal bumps, farther forward and lower down than is usual is common in Lebanese burial-grounds and in those of the new Tyre: perhaps it belonged to the real Phoenicians. But most of the Punic population in Carthage seem to have had African, and even Negro ancestors. The skeletons are generally fairly slender…”
“The race which gave birth to the Moroccans can be no other than the African negroes because the same black type is found all the way to Senegal upon the right bank of the river without counting that it has been recognized in various parts of the Sahara and from there comes black Moors who still have thick lips as a result of negro descent and not from intermixture. As to the white, bronze, or dark Moors, they are no other than the near relations of black Moors with whom they form the varieties of the same race; and as one can also see among the Europeans, blondes, brunettes, and chestnuts, in the midst of the same population so one may see Moroccans of every color in the same agglomeration without it being a question of their being real mulattos.”
Adolph Bloch, “Sur des races noires indigènes qui existaient anciennement dans l’afrique septentrionale,” Anthropologie (11), Association Francaise Pour L’Avancement Des Sciences (AFAS) Tome 2, Actes de l’AFAS de 1896: pp. 511-523.
