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Post by recluse on Jul 6, 2004 22:51:30 GMT -5
We need prosthetic anatolian bumps so that everyone can feel cool when they go to the barber.
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Post by rusalka on Jul 8, 2004 0:26:56 GMT -5
The Anatolian bump, or the Turkish bump as it is called in Turkey is very common in Turkish Anatolians. In fact, the Turkish nationalists had made it a point to check people's heads for the bump at some time and it's still common -albeit in a more playful manner- to run one's hand at the back of another's head to check if there's a bump. The people who identify more or less "Turkic" (which is of course not the same thing with Central Asian Turks) predominantly have this bump whereas those who are immigrants from the Balkans, the Caucasus and some other groups apparently don't. I've seen AWAR's head (profile shot, with very short hair) and no, he does NOT have that bump. It's a much more visible thing, I would have to either draw it or if I can, find a typically Turkish person here in New York City and take the bump's photo. I had been rejected many a time by the skull fetishists as a "heathen" when I lived back in Turkey as I have no bump and the back of my head is very rounded which then slopes in an angle to the neck. None of the people in my immediate family have it either. So, it is a "real" concept in Turkey at least, if this answers some of your questions.
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Post by Dienekes on Jul 8, 2004 0:50:09 GMT -5
It's a much more visible thing, I would have to either draw it or if I can, find a typically Turkish person here in New York City and take the bump's photo. Can you locate which bone of the skull this bump is supposed to be on? mywebpages.comcast.net/wnor/lesson1.htm
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Post by nevada85 on Jul 8, 2004 8:32:29 GMT -5
i think this bump is more or less about bracycephaly as turkic populations from turkey to central asia usually are. but it should not indict immediate turanid ancestry as i personally checked some pure turanid looking people from kastamonu and konya where people are said to be totally central asian ancestry and some wouldnt have it at all.
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Post by rusalka on Jul 8, 2004 10:58:42 GMT -5
I just checked it on someone who has it with my own hands. it's on the occipital bone, about right in the middle of it, going from the left to right as a linear bump and not just a circular one like nut-sized. It sort of feels (and looks) like a terrace, a barrier for want of a better word. I believe the width of it is about 5 cm. and the bump itself is probably about a centimeter and a half. It's not only a male thing either, I saw some bigger ones even in females. If it's still not explanatory, I'll save the side view of the skull and try to draw it on it. Just let me know.
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Post by One Humanity on Jul 8, 2004 13:48:01 GMT -5
Mine seems to have a shape like the back of a finger tip (little finger), starting at a more protruding part of the occiput and disappearing 2 cm below. The bump has an apex that is in the middle between start and end. The height is just some millimeters.
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Post by Aria88 on Jul 9, 2004 11:47:24 GMT -5
Polish Falcon, very cool name. Do you consider the Polish heraldic bird of prey to be a falcon and not an eagle? I usually have other Poles upset when I refer to it as a falcon. Or does your surname have falconic connotations?
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Post by PolishFalcon on Jul 17, 2004 18:32:08 GMT -5
Aria88, I don't really know exactly what the bird is supposed to be. I hear its and Eagle, then a Falcon etc. The reason I use Falcon is because theres a Polish Hall in my city called the Polish Falcons. Even though I'm not a member I've always thought it was a cool name and they use the Polish Flag with the "bird" logo.
Anyways, my Grandparents are from Poland so I'll give my Grandfather a call and see where he stands on what kind of bird it is.
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Post by Vitor on Jul 17, 2004 18:39:35 GMT -5
correction I don't have the bump! ;D
I have some dificulties to find the bump...
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Post by Elistariel on Jul 19, 2004 22:28:03 GMT -5
I have no melungeon traits. Though I do have a rather wierd line-ridge on the top of my skull. To the left of my former soft spot. (I still have one, it's just not soft anymore). It's this line going in the direction of my forehead to my back, about an inch? long. Of course that's probably from when I was 5, fell off a bridge and cracked my head on concrete, but who knows. Besides it scared the bejeebus out of my friends when I went "here, feel".
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