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Old Sunday, December 11th, 2005
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Default Re: Variation inside the Osteuropid type and its description

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1. Furthermore Osteuropid is a rather wide term and I can quote what German anthropologists say about the variation:
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"The Wepsen in the Balticum have a low height, have light hair and a concave noses with high roots, whereas the Karelians are dark pigmented. The Finns in the South West of the land have a mesocephalic head and are lighter than Norwegians or and Swedes; the nose root is to 40 percent high, 37 percent of the noses are concave, and on the upper eye lid is in the most cases a small fold. Letts and Ests have few pigment too, but brachycephalic individuals can be seen more often.
The Lithuanians are close to the Letts, but have an even rounder skull and darker pigmentation. All the mentioned tribes and nations experienced the "Baltisation": Even in the Proto-Neolithikum the Balticum was inhabited by narrow faced long skulls, but even in the Neolithicum round skulls showed up which had similarities to Asiatic forms with a flattened facial bone structure. From this time on begins the brachycephalisation in this areas, the Baltisation.
Some people suggest that the neolithic brachycephalic form, the Danic Borreby-typus influenced the Baltic people.
The West Baltic people differ from the Eastern Balts with their higher stature.

The appearance of the Osteuropids in the Russian areas is basically defined by 3 types:
A side form of the North Western Osteuropids is the Waldai-type. He can be distinguished as a moderately brachycephalic type from the mesocephalic Riasaner type. Both types, which are named as the "Eastern European type" by Bunak, have a weaker face profile in the direction of the Mongolids with a deeper nose root.
Whereas in White Russia lives a higher statured, taller human type with a smaller head length and higher head breadth, with a low, broad face and less light eyes and hair.

Everything is from Georg Glowatzki, Die Rassen der Menschheit - Entstehung und Ausbreitung
So CEEs, Valdaics (Russian and Belarussian), West-Baltids and East-Baltids are all of the same "Ost-Europid" racial type? :-)))

I think it's pretty out-dated... not that it ever was up-to-date, evidently it's all is not based on actual anthropometrical data and research
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: I have to admit, though, that my eyes are peculiar. In my brother and sisters the "slant" is not so pronounced. And I have a skew nose. :-) Bodily hair is light brown to reddish brown, and sometimes blondish. I had golden blond hair as a young boy.
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