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Post by theutonicus on Mar 19, 2006 8:19:09 GMT -5
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Post by asdf on Mar 20, 2006 18:15:17 GMT -5
Most of the Emperors were Alpinid-Dinarid, as is he.
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Post by Liquid Len on Mar 24, 2006 16:22:03 GMT -5
What's strange since the average population was much more, even pred. Gracil Mediterranid, as at present.
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Post by Platypus on Mar 25, 2006 15:30:44 GMT -5
we cannot judge Romans on the base of the (eccellent) effigys of their rulers and intellectuals. it would be like taking your country's Politicians and industrialists and artists and base all the information on them.
Roman portraits would have also followed some stilistic standards (inevitable thinking of the mass production). Its unlikely for example that Claudius would have had a strong neck and body as above, while some elements of his morphology can be seen on other emperors, but we dont know if because of a family trait or of stilistic measures.
Besides the 'Roman' identity spans through a very large territory comprising several ethnicities which in those days would have been less mixed than today, while others weren't yet formed or settled yet.
my personal view is that Italy by the time of Augustus would have pretty much resembled the precendent state before the unification under Augustus. (excluding the large amounts of foreign and foreign Slave presence) Rome, as the largest urban centre, probably comprised many of these ethnicities, mixed them and created other ones, while some might have dissapeared.
On the whole Romans never seem to have bought much genetic influence on the rest of Italy, while the city of Rome become and its still today a magnet for peoples.
Roman skulls seem to have been on the average longheaded and low headed, a common trait of some peoles during the Iron Ages.
Through some busts one might compare the leptomorphs to some modern 'Baskid' types while the brachymorphs could be compared to Alpine-Cro Magnid-types.
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Post by Liquid Len on Mar 25, 2006 15:38:08 GMT -5
24 skulls of Rome, Roman age (Cresta, Vecchi 1969)
CI 76,5
LHI 72,5
breadth-height index 95,2
upper face index 53,0
nose index 46,8
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Post by Platypus on Mar 25, 2006 15:44:19 GMT -5
24 skulls of Rome, Roman age (Cresta, Vecchi 1969) mesocrane or sub-dolicocrane in this case |
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