It is a bit strange how the article veers between ethnicity and paint. I mean both are interesting, but the fact that we came to think of the naked marble of th

It is a bit strange how the article veers between ethnicity and paint. I mean both are interesting, but the fact that we came to think of the naked marble of these statues as the canonical version seems largely unrelated to whether the greeks were, well, greek. (And to other questions, like how did their society think about these things, and how much has post-classical migration changed the makeup of the people living there. IIRC the African component of North-Africans has increased a bit.) There is one picture in TFA of an African-looking child. And interestingly they say that this effect was often conveyed by choosing to work in basalt, as well as painting with darker colors. I guess these must be fairly uncommon, I can't recall seeing any in museums?