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About the article "Great Sphinx of Giza", section "Racial characteristics".

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Skin pigmentation in Negroid populations varies from very dark brown to light brown.
As dark skin is also relatively common in human groups that have historically not been defined as "Negroid", including many populations in both Africa and Asia, it is only when present with other typical Negroid physical traits such as broad facial features, Negroid cranial and dental characteristics, prognathism, afro-textured hair and neoteny, that it has been used in Negroid classification.
Populations with frequently dark skin yet on the whole lacking the suite of Negroid physical traits were thus usually not regarded as "Negroid", but instead as either "dark Caucasoid" (e.g.
Hamitic/Ethiopid and Arabid) or "Australoid" depending on their other salient physical attributes.
By contrast, populations with relatively light skin yet generally possessing typical Negroid physical characteristics, such as the Khoisan, were still regarded as "Negroid."
Over the years several authors have commented on what they perceive as "Negroid" characteristics in the face of the Sphinx.
This issue has become part of the Ancient Egyptian race controversy, with respect to the ancient population as a whole.
The face of the Sphinx has been damaged over the millennia.
"Negroid" has both Greek and Latin etymological roots.
It literally translates as "black resemblance" from "negro"/niger (black), and -oeidēs, equivalent to -o- -o- + -eidēs having the form of, derivative of eîdos form.
The earliest recorded use of the term "Negroid" came in 1859.
In modern usage, it is associated with populations that on the whole possess the suite of typical Negroid physical characteristics. 
The term "Negroid" is still used in certain disciplines such as forensic and physical anthropology.
In a medical context, some scholars have recommended that the term Negroid be avoided in scientific writings because of its association with racism and race science.
This mirrors the decline in usage of the term Negro, which fell out of favor following the campaigns of the American civil rights movement — the term Negro became associated with periods of legalized discrimination, and was rejected by African Americans during the 1960s for "black".C.S.
Coon's evolutionary approach was criticized on the basis that such "sorting criteria" do not (in general) produce meaningful results, and that evolutionary divergence was extremely improbable over the given time-frames.
As Monatagu (1963) said, 
The adolescent had all his teeth, but these were manipulated by the anthropologists M. Boule and R. Verneau, when trying to reconstruct the skull and the face.
M. Boule drilled the maxillaries in order to release the wisdom teeth that were still inside them.
By doing this, he changed the face, as the natural growth of the wisdom teeth would have remodeled the dental arc in a natural way.
Having then too many teeth to fit the jawline, he reconstructed a very prognathic jaw, possibly bearing in mind the jaw of the woman.
The diagnosis of "prognathism" in the adolescent is hence speculative - artificial and possibly intentionally created.
Based on these characteristics, Boule and Verneau concluded that the two specimen were "negroid".
Other non-negroïd characteristics were disregarded.
The fact that no similar finds were known from Europe did not raise any concern, as it was believed that more were to follow.