Vedda

[kir]

These are Vedda, Upper Palaeolithic hunter gathers from South Asia. Many South Asians descended from them.



Vedda and Modern

[Mike the Jedi]

It would seem that there are few pure Veddoids left. They look like they've hybridized with all neighboring races and aren't as Australoid as a result. East Indian Veddoids hybridized with Caucasoid Indids, Indochinese and South Sea Veddoids hybridized with Mongoloids, etc.

[zeus21]

We can look at despite of admixture with neighboring races non caucasoids around the settlements of ancient veddas of northern of India that biometric elements similary to caucasoids they keept in those samples shown above.
Take the forehead of them,it seems me very similary to greek sculptures of classical age,or not ?
Ovoid face features appear clearly,jaw sometimes is broad.
Upperciliar massive,eyes are closed to caucasoids,some have caucasoid eyes.nasal root is closed caucasoid too.

We cannot lose of view that Vedda is the most ancient indo european language knew and ancient Sancrit derived from Vedda and most closed of ancient arcaic greek.

My theory:

Probably ancient migrations of northern of India (alpines and high lands) to Balkans could have occured by pre proto hellenics or ancient Veddas or Aryes or some tribes pre proto indo europoids there.

[oubit]

erm... those people, we know under the name Vedda have nothing to do with the Vedas, which was the sacred text of the Aryans.... (just like the Italian city Roma didn't get its name from the Roma-people).

[Agrippa]

Weddids are not the same as the ethnic group of the Veddas, again, we have to recognise the difference between ethnolinguistic and cultural and bio-racial types. Weddids, the typical racial form, has various degrees of admixture and differentiation from very primitive (similar to Australids and certain Negritids) to aleady somewhat Europid like features and mixtures of course. Thats the reason why f.e. v. Eickstedt made various subtypes of Weddids and the intermediate form (Europid-Weddid) of Melanids.

[One Humanity]

Looks like Brad Pitt:


Such 'archemorphic' features like strong facial relief can look quite good. They are just less refined in detail as well and thus can lose their effect in another combination more easily.

[jam]

Aren't vedda's indigenous people specific to Sri Lanka?
Se: vedda.org/