LEGEND: Tribal markings of totems (protective entities ancients believed to watch over kings and their tribes) are found on the abdomen of Eurasian women. They appear in variations of an incised, concentric diamond of 4th through 6th millennium Central European women in Hungary (1), Bulgaria (2, 3), Yugoslavia (4), Moldavia, and Romania (6, 7). And also Japan (8). From predynastic Egypt in North Africa (Afrigypt) were found totems who were called by names such as Stork, Catfish, Scorpion. The one that subdued the others to become known as the ancient Egyptians had as their totem Horus, the hawk – an African acronym warriors still call themselves today. Are the women on this page African? First. As a people, Africans alone actually incise the body in intricate designs. Africans (typically, long-headed people with full facial features) are found as sculptures (see the 4 corners) from Predionica, a 5th - 6th millennium settlement in Bosnia-Herzegovine of the former Yugosla- via. Their scalps and faces are also incised. Second. The archeologist reporting these sculptures describes them as, in his words, “African Negro sculpture.” Third, 8000 years after the first incised abdomen were found, the Efe Pygmy woman (9) also has a variation of the double concentric dia- mond on her abdomen. Is she a remnant of a race of people who first travelled from Africa and spread throughout ancient Central Europe with this tribal marking and a single tribe? If so, it was simultaneous with the spread of agriculture in Europe.art, art history, Paul Marc Washington, paleoneolithic@yahoo.com

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