Post by ProdigalSon on Jan 28, 2004 15:20:55 GMT -5
Armenians
The present Armenians are greatly scattered, and so great has been the exodus from their own country that series measured elsewhere should show little influence of selection.
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They belong, as is well known, to the planoccipital brachycephalic division of the white race, a division which, as we have seen, posseses only such unity as that which result from a common principle of heredity.
They are men of medium stature, with a mean of 166 cm; this varies extensively in accordance with geography; the eastern Armenians, from Van, Erivan, Bitlis and Erzerum, are considerably taller than those in the west, who come from Sivas, Kaisarie and Marash, while those geographically intermediate, from Kharput and Diarbekr, are intermediate in stature as well.
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The group as a whole is on the upper border of mesoprosopy, and mesene. Only Van is leptoprosopic and leptene.
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The skin color of Armenians has been designated as pinkish-white, brunet, swarthy, and light brown. The two middle categories share almost equally over 85 per cent of the total. Pink skin, which includes 8 per cent, is far commonest at Van, light brown at Kaisarie. The east-west division holds in skin color as in other features. The hair color mostly dark brown; 58 per cent belongs to this category while black and medium brown account for 18 per cent each. The remaining 6 per cent is almost entirely reddish brown.
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The brown and reddish hair shades are commonest in the Lake Van region, the black in the south and west, nearest Syria.
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Dark brown eyes are most numerous in the west, where they form 36 per cent of the whole, and rare in the Lake Van region, where they form 12 per cent. Mixed and light eyes, mostly green-brown, but including 2 per cent of pure blue, total 34 per cent in Van, and but 11 per cent in Kaisarie.
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In Northern and Northeastern Armenia, a strong Nordic infusion has altered the blend un a linear direction, and has infused a minority with partial blondism; in southern and western Armenia, a parallel infusion of Mediterranean factors, comparable to those found in Syria and Arabia, has reduced the stature and other linear dimensions, while increasing the brunet character of the pigmentation.
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FIG. 3 (3 views). A tall, slender Armenian from Van; typical of the eastern Armenians, who are lighter-skinned, taller, and longer in all sagittal dimensions of the body, head and face than the western Arnienians.
The present Armenians are greatly scattered, and so great has been the exodus from their own country that series measured elsewhere should show little influence of selection.
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They belong, as is well known, to the planoccipital brachycephalic division of the white race, a division which, as we have seen, posseses only such unity as that which result from a common principle of heredity.
They are men of medium stature, with a mean of 166 cm; this varies extensively in accordance with geography; the eastern Armenians, from Van, Erivan, Bitlis and Erzerum, are considerably taller than those in the west, who come from Sivas, Kaisarie and Marash, while those geographically intermediate, from Kharput and Diarbekr, are intermediate in stature as well.
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The group as a whole is on the upper border of mesoprosopy, and mesene. Only Van is leptoprosopic and leptene.
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The skin color of Armenians has been designated as pinkish-white, brunet, swarthy, and light brown. The two middle categories share almost equally over 85 per cent of the total. Pink skin, which includes 8 per cent, is far commonest at Van, light brown at Kaisarie. The east-west division holds in skin color as in other features. The hair color mostly dark brown; 58 per cent belongs to this category while black and medium brown account for 18 per cent each. The remaining 6 per cent is almost entirely reddish brown.
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The brown and reddish hair shades are commonest in the Lake Van region, the black in the south and west, nearest Syria.
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Dark brown eyes are most numerous in the west, where they form 36 per cent of the whole, and rare in the Lake Van region, where they form 12 per cent. Mixed and light eyes, mostly green-brown, but including 2 per cent of pure blue, total 34 per cent in Van, and but 11 per cent in Kaisarie.
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In Northern and Northeastern Armenia, a strong Nordic infusion has altered the blend un a linear direction, and has infused a minority with partial blondism; in southern and western Armenia, a parallel infusion of Mediterranean factors, comparable to those found in Syria and Arabia, has reduced the stature and other linear dimensions, while increasing the brunet character of the pigmentation.
The caption below the picture reads:
FIG. 3 (3 views). A tall, slender Armenian from Van; typical of the eastern Armenians, who are lighter-skinned, taller, and longer in all sagittal dimensions of the body, head and face than the western Arnienians.
