THE PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF IRELAND. By Earnest Hooton.

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THE PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF IRELAND. By Earnest Hooton and C. Wesley Dupertuis.

There are some comments about the famous Hooton's work about Ireland that can be interesting to know.


“the total male series was divided into 8 “subracial types,”
namely, Nordic Mediterranean (28.9%), Keltic (25.3%), Dinaric
(18.6%), Nordic Alpine (18.4%), Predominantly Nordic (6.8%),
East Baltic (1.1%), Pure Nordic (0.6%), Pure Mediterranean (0.3%).
These “types” are compared one with the other with regard to all
the sociological, anthropometric, and morphological observations at
hand, and in turn are correlated with archeological finds; with legendary,
historical and linguistic data ; with historical events and
conquests; and the like.”...

“As regards Ireland, the sum of the diverse analyses seems to be
that “. . . in both Ireland and Wales the proportionately strongest
morphological type is what we call Nordic Mediterranean - long-heads
with dark hair and mixed eyes. This seems to be the fundamental
type of the British Isles. It probably incorporates in both countries
the bulk of the descendants of Paleolithic settlers (present in Britain
only)? of the Mesolithic inhabitants, of the Neolithic and Megalithic
peoples, with some reinforcement from later comers. The morphological
type second in strength in both countries is what we have called
the Keltic type, long-headed with pure light eyes” (p. 235). And,
“We can be certain that the Norman conquest introduced no subracial
or morphological types that were not already represented in
the population, and the same can be said of further colonization by
the English and whoever else arrived subsequently in sufficient force
of numbers to count in the present day population of Ireland”
(p. 223). It should also perhaps be noted at this point that Doctor
Hooton takes sharp issue with Professor Carleton S. Coon’s interpretation
of the present Irish data in the latter’s book “The Races
of Man” (Coon, ’39). “The principal point at issue is Coon’s hypothesis
of the ‘survival’ or ‘reemergence of Upper Palaeolithic’
types. . . .’? in Ireland, a position which Professor Hooton finds untenable
(p. 239)”.


More in the attached file. Just a summary of the work but better that nothing.