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Post by Agrippa on Jul 1, 2005 9:16:22 GMT -5
Alpinoids in Central or Northern Europe are both rather similar specialisations than something genetically necessarily related. Alpinisation and Baltisation is more a trend than a fix race.
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Post by oubit on Jul 1, 2005 11:57:11 GMT -5
were pre-Indoeuropean people in central Europe (like todays Bavaria and Austria) already Alpine looking?
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Post by Liquid Len on Jul 1, 2005 12:27:31 GMT -5
were pre-Indoeuropean people in central Europe (like todays Bavaria and Austria) already Alpine looking? No, most of the Alpinisation took place in the Middle Ages, and even later in some places. Sure, there were brachycephalic individuals in prehistorical times (and in Roman times, the Gallo Romans had on average already a higher CI than the Germanics), but the cephalic indices of the whole populations tended to be quite low compared to modern times.
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Post by Agrippa on Jul 1, 2005 12:33:38 GMT -5
What I would add is that there were different times in which debrachycephalisation occured, mainly because of migrations, f.e. the Indoeuropean migrations, the Keltic and the Germanic ones. If Alpinisation stops or decreases or increases depends on the social regime, subsistence pattern and nutrition. Nutrition influences the headshape directly too, but what I mean are selective processes in this context. My opinion is that stable farmer societies with the main selective force of diseases and malnutrition produce more infantile and reduced variants = Alpinisation and Baltisation. Not all parts of Bavaria and Austria are that brachycephalic by the way...
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