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Post by Agrippa on Nov 6, 2005 9:29:17 GMT -5
I see...so..Ibra...how do you explain the caucasoid look that so many Indians have if the caucasian blood represents such a diminute percentage? Parallel evolution? Of course...I might be sucumbing to stereotypes and misinformation when I claim the caucasoidness of many Indians... Southern and SEA-Asian were to a high degree undifferentiated protomorphic, but not really that primitive groups which could be seen as Protoeuropoid largely, especially in the West. It was recognised by anthropologists even before the genetic tests that those S- and SEA Asians were people apart but morphologically partly closer to Europids than to other groups (especially the more progressive, not that Australo-Melanesid variants of Weddoids). After the mixture with "real Caucasoids" the look turned out to be even more Europid/Caucasoid looking and we can assume a selection towards this more progressive appearance afterwards as well. In some groups even small admixture is enough if the selection goes in the direction of the new group - than the features will soon dominate the whole population without a strong genetical dominance - since just certain allels were selected primarily.
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Post by Don on Nov 6, 2005 10:49:56 GMT -5
So it sounds like you think that while Dravidians may be a Caucasian mix, the amount of Caucasian could be small.
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Post by Agrippa on Nov 6, 2005 11:11:37 GMT -5
So it sounds like you think that while Dravidians may be a Caucasian mix, the amount of Caucasian could be small. The amount of direct, Westeurasian, genetical influence could be small even in groups which are racially clearly Europid in terms of specialisation (anatomy).
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Post by $$$ FD $$$ on Nov 6, 2005 11:33:20 GMT -5
weddid-combe capellid-caucasid-cro magnid like hunting and gathering populations were extremely ancient in south asia - dating to the pleistocene - mesolithicene periods. in places such as in sri lanka and in the gangetic valleys.
they were basically proto-europid, capellid - cromagnid like hunters with a stature similar to that of western europids of similar date.
they were long headed, mesognathous or variable, mesorrhine or variable, tall as mentioned, powerfully built, cro magnid or capellid like faces( either very euryproscopoid or rather letoproscopic faces) , variable looking orbits higher or mesoconchic, heavy brows with prominent parietal and frontal eminences etc, etc.
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Post by $$$ FD $$$ on Nov 6, 2005 11:37:36 GMT -5
if you wan't detailed info check this book, 'paleoanthropology of south asia' by kenneth a. r. kennedy - www.amazon.com/ - book search.
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Post by Agrippa on Nov 6, 2005 12:00:49 GMT -5
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Post by Platypus on Nov 6, 2005 15:51:50 GMT -5
Kodavas. from South West India are Dravidan (Coorgi) Speakers: according to this page: www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20011118/spectrum/main7.htm'COORG is a tiny district tucked away in the southwest corner of the state of Karnataka, and its 1500 square miles are almost entirely covered with coffee and spice plantations. The region is now known as Kodagu, and its people are called the Kodavas. Physically, the Kodavas look different from the others in Karnataka. They are tall with sharp features, and according to anthropologists, of Aryan descent. It is also said that they are descendants of soldiers of Alexander the Great, who invaded India in 327 BC.' The second lady especially looks very Europoid These Dravidan speakers are then more Aryan or original Dravidan?
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Post by $$$ FD $$$ on Nov 6, 2005 17:03:05 GMT -5
they are kannadigas; kannadiga is a south indian dravidian language. karnataka state.
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Post by $$$ FD $$$ on Nov 6, 2005 17:05:08 GMT -5
as you can see from those three pics - the two ladies are gracil dravidid indids; the male is rater indo melanid and macromorphic - leptomorph.
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Post by $$$ FD $$$ on Nov 6, 2005 17:11:16 GMT -5
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Post by Agrippa on Nov 6, 2005 17:20:11 GMT -5
Todas are usually considered being pred. Nordindid with many fully typical individuals like this one.
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Post by $$$ FD $$$ on Nov 6, 2005 17:27:16 GMT -5
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Post by $$$ FD $$$ on Nov 6, 2005 17:32:09 GMT -5
Todas are usually considered being pred. Nordindid with many fully typical individuals like this one. they are not reminiscent of a nord indid group in the narrow sense - like rajathanis for example. these southerners are typically gracil dravidid indids - the sex dimorphism, the texture of the hair, the moister looking features, etc.
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Post by $$$ FD $$$ on Nov 6, 2005 17:33:26 GMT -5
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Post by Agrippa on Nov 6, 2005 17:41:34 GMT -5
They are Nordindid mostly, but interesting, you seem to know about what you are speaking, v. Eickstedt wrote similar things about a type looking "moister" and another "dryer", did you read v. Eickstedt yourself? There is obvious variation in this group.
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