Via Razib, here's a preprint on Ethiopian populations.
The "Discussion" isn't very well organised, but I gather from it that in the preChristian era, Ethiopia already had groups we can associate with the Cushites and Semites; mainly Amhara and Omoro, but also others. They all coexisted in a dizzying array of inbred subcastes (Negede Woyto, Shabo, Nanjo) and valleydwellers that would put India and Mesoamerica to shame.
Around 2200 BC (I think) there was an influx of "West and Central African groups". They'd have met the protoCushitic peoples there who - as I'd pointed out earlier - were probably light skinned Near Eastern farmers.
Perhaps another subSaharan portion of modern Ethiopia arrived around 500... AD; Late Antique / Byzantine / Nobadian times. These were mixed with full Nilosaharans: the true Nubians.
UPDATE 9/11: Turtle Island.
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