Re: linguistics, archaeology, genetics and paleoclima

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "pielewe" <wrvermeer@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ytielts" <ytielts@> wrote:
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> > What do you mean by the North European Pamela Anderson type.
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> Sorry, I was being facetious, I meant the blue-eyed, blond-haired
> easily tanning type that is concentrated in Denmark and adjacent
> areas.

Not really. You find them mostly outside the cities these days. And
they are going fast (people of other than Danish origin, mostly
Muslim: whole country 6%, Copenhagen 15%, under-18, whole country
15%, Copenhagen 30%, up from 0% in 1960). But as the newspaper
Politiken hastily added, it's not a problem.

>(It is probably for a reason that Pamela is called
> Anderson.)

Which is a Swedish name, as I believe Pamela's ancestors were.

> > Is it equivalent to the Cro-Magnon type?
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> I've no idea and I doubt it. The Pamela type is pretty localized

and

> there is no reason to assume that it was much more widespread in

the

> past. In the absence of information to the contrary its origin

will

> have to be accounted for in local terms. Of course, skeleton-wise,
> the Pamela type cannot be distinguished from other "robust" (as
> distinct from "gracile") types that are sometimes called "Cro-
> Magnon".
>

Brachycephalic skulls appear in graves in Denmark from the
Neolithic, whatever relevance that might have.


Torsten