Tulio writes:
Is this the reason some Afrocentrists claim the first Chinese were black? Did the original Chinese look anything like Australoids?
Up in the North, they may have looked like Ainuids, who are Australoids. Down in the South, they may well have looked like Negritos or even better Melanesians. There are many written reports describing events of ~3-5,000 YBP in Southern China reporting dark-skinned people, possibly short in size, who seemed to be populating the place.
In other parts like Yunnan, they may have looked like Veddoids.
All Asians, including Chinese, were Australoid IMHO prior to 9,000 YBP. Specimens from a cave in Northern China look like Aborigines before 9,000 YBP. After that, they transition to Neomongoloid. I assume that “looked like Aborigines” means they were Ainuids because these are the only Australoid people that far north.
