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x99lynx@... wrote:
> Speaking of taste, food is one of the things that
> can turn a population
> dolichocephalic in a single generation - food was
> Boas' explanation I think.
> (Franz Boas... "found significant differences in
> cranial index between
> immigrant parents and their American-born children.
> The immutable obtuseness
> of the brachycephalic southern European might veer
> toward the dolichocephalic
> Nordic norm in a single generation of altered
> environment (Boas, 1911).)
*****GK: For what it's worth, such "craniological"
measurements were extensively done by Ukrainian
archaeometrists with respect to the Scythian and
Sarmatian populations of the region (gravesites dated
from early 6th c. BC through 4th c AD). One of the
interesting results was that the Scythian contingents,
no matter what the time period, were predominantly
(over 90% if I remember correctly) though not
exclusively dolichocephalic, while the Sarmatian ones
(irrespective of the sub group, viz., Iazygi,
Roxolani, Aorsi, Alani) showed an equal unbalance of
preponderantly brachycephalic types. Except of course
where cranial deformation was practiced. Where
Scythians and Sarmatians "mikxed", like in the area of
the Lower Dnipro urban settlements of the 1rst-3rd c.
AD "mesocephalic" types also appeared.== Has any
archeometry been done on Alanic skulls in the West?
*****
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