Biometrical Studies On The Anthropology Of Russia.

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BIOMETRICAL STUDIES ON THE ANTHROPOLOGY
OF RUSSIA.
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Br ETHYME TSCHEPOURKOWSKY.


APPLYING the geographical method to measurements of nearly 50,000 Russian
peasants* I was led to the chief types given in the map, Plate L
(i) There exists in the East of European Russia (Riazan, Tambof and Penza
governments^ an island of relative dolichocephaly, namely 16 contiguous districts,
the mean cephalic index of each not exceeding 79'9. Such a low mean
index is nowhere else to be met with. The empirical distribution of those districts
is provided in the accompanying Table I (7816 men). The hair- and eye-colour in
this region is relatively dark.
(ii) In the other parts of Great Russia the watersheds are inhabited by a
much more brachycephalic type: the mean index of districts is there nearly
83—87. This type is relatively blond. The same population with much more
accentuated blondness and brachycephaly occupies the swamps of White Russia
along the rivers Pripiet and Berezina, affluents of the river Dniepr. The river
valleys in Great Russia are occupied by an intermediate or mixed type of index :
81—82.
(iii) The Little Russian population is also brachycephalic but very dark.
(iv) Along the valleys of the Nieman and West Dwina (w. Duna) and in
government Moghileff there are remnants of the Scandinavian type, blond and
relatively dolichocephalic (80—81).