[Menydh]

As I keep seeing individuals from areas as far North as Scandinavia being classified as something-Alpinid, I wonder how this is possible so far from the kernel areas of the Alpinid types, if it is more some kind of especialiazation, or if something else.

Doing some searching I've found this on Dieneke's site, from Earnest A. Hooton's Up from the Ape (chapter on the Mediterranean Race):

A variant of this Upper Palaeolithic type in which the face is short and broad with laterally jutting cheek bones and square, flaring gonial (hinder jaw) angles is often identified as a modern Cro Magnon type. It was first thus designated by Collignon in the Dordogne region of central France, where Upper Palaeolithic man and the original Cro Magnon skeletons were found. Even here it seems probable that we are dealing with recombinations rather than pure line descendants. Other writers have recognized these so-called Cro Magnons in Scandinavia, central Europe, and elsewhere. The present writer still inclines to the belief, set forth in connection with a study of the Guanches of the Canary Islans (other alleged modern Cro Magnons), that this long-headed, short, broad-faced type orginarily arises as a ubstable hybridization product, the result of a cross between long-heads and brachycephals with short, broad faces, which latter are sometimes hafted to the long, narrow skulls of the Upper Palaeolithic type. A Mongoloid admixture often produces this combination. It may be seen in American Indians and also in the skulls of mediaeval Icelanders who are not without suspicion of having acquired a dash of Eksimo blood in connection with their colonization of Greenland. Lappish admixture might produce this type in Scandinavia.

http://dienekes.angeltowns.net/texts/hootonmed/

Interesting that this perceived Alpinoids could in fact be the result of admixture from Inuits and Saamis.

Also interesting that I usually perceive many real Alpinids as something Asian to my untrained eyes.

Any thoughts?