Re: [tied] Guanches in the Canary Islands

It's just a guess, but I think that Nordic people are pre-Indo European.
And I think it's more likely that Neanderthals were blue-eyed blond rather
than Cro-Magnon. Neanderthals were a glacial subspecies or species.

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> What causes blond hair and blue eyes? Well, it might be helpful to
> look at the animal kingdom. One finds some red and golden hair in all
> climates, but many polar animals have white fur. Blue eyes are also
> more common in polar regions. I think huskies have blue eyes.
> Some Eskimos have light eyes. This could be due to the climate or to
> mixture with Caucasoids. Eskimo is a Eurasiatic language and is
> distantly related to Indo-European. Some Ainu in Japan had light hair
> and eyes. Some ancient mummies in North America had red hair. These
> are associated with the Cascade Culture, which probably spoke Na-Dené
> languages, which are distantly related to Basque, Ket, Tibetan, and
> Chechen. Also, Blackfoot Indians have a high incidence of blood type A,
> unlike other Indians who are all type O. Blackfoot is a Na-Dené
> language.
> The blond hair found among Aborigines in central Australia is probably
> an independent mutation. Some natives of New Guinea and Pacific islands
> have reddish or blondish hair, especially among children. This might be
> due to ancient Caucasoid sailors. This is the theory expounded by Thor
> Heyerdahl.
> Blue eyes are most common in northwestern Europe. Grey eyes are
> most common in northeastern Europe. White blond hair is common in the
> eastern Baltic. Red and golden hair is most common in northwestern
> Europe.
> The distribution of red hair seems to be correlated to the distribution
> of Cro-Magnoid skulls. Some areas where Cro-Magnoid skulls were common
> in recent times are the Canary Islands, Ireland, southwestern Norway,
> and Finland. Mallory believes that the early Indo-Europeans often had
> Cro-Magnoid features. He has photographs of sculptures based on
> prehistoric skulls believed to be early Indo-Europeans in Russia and
> Ukraine in his book IN SEARCH OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS. The caption says
> they are Cro-Magnoid. In central Europe, the Indo-European invasions
> seem to be associated with Nordic and Corded racial types.
> Harvard Professor Carleton Coon, in THE RACES OF EUROPE, expressed a
> belief that the Nordic Race was formed by a mixture of
> Corded Indo-European invaders and natives of the Upper Paleolithic type,
> which he believed to be partly descended from Neanderthals. Recent DNA
> studies have claimed that no modern humans have any Neanderthal genes,
> but these studies are badly flawed.
> During the Paleolithic, Cro-Magnoids lived in northwest Africa. The
> skulls at Afalou bou Rommel, in Algeria, are extreme Cro-Magnoids.
> They are associated with the Capsian Culture which extended into Spain,
> and is thought by some to be the ancestor of Basques and/or Berbers.
> Modern Basques are not Cro-Magnoid, however.
> http://www.delphi.com/physanthro
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