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Berberid
Africanid Alpinoid
Eurafricanid
Canarid
Siwa
Description:
A Proto Atlanto Mediterranean type, originally named after Berbers and the North African Barbary. Associated with Paleolithic types that once migrated from West Asia. Present in modern Berbers like Riffians, Kabyles, Shilha, Chaoui, also other North Africans, e.g. Tuareg (Imrads) and Natives of the Canary Islands. A minority type in other parts of Europe (esp. South Iberia, Perigord) and Turkey.Physical Traits:
Light to medium brown skin, curly-wavy, brown to black hair. Rather short, mesoskelic, meso- to endomorph. Dolichocephalic, chamae- orthocranic. Mildly leptorrhine, sometimes mesorrhine nose, often with a depressed bridge. Face coarse and wide, significant zygomatic arches, interorbital distance great. Sometimes slanting / pseudo-Mongoloid eyes. Jaw heavy and angular, arches marked.Literature:
Lundman (1942 , 1967, 1988) named it Berid following Paudler (1917). Eickstedt (1943, 1951, 1952b) called it Berberid / Saharid. Peters (1940) Berber type. Some united it with Canarid to a taller, fairer Berberid (Heberer et al. 1969; Knussmann, 1996). A Proto Eurafricanid (Pace et al. 1951), Paleo Mediterrean (Briggs, 1955) or simply Atlanto Mediterranean (Coon, 1939; Cole, 1965).Africanid Alpinoid
Description:
The most brachycephalic Maghrebi type, shows close morphological similarities to Alpines and in a lower degree to Armenids and Berberids. Probably not directly related to other Alpines, but the result of a similar adaption. Common in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Tunisia. A subvariety exists on the island of Djerba. Extends in lower frequencies across Libya, Egypt, and Morocco.Physical Traits:
Light brown skin, straight or wavy brown to black hair, usually dark, sometimes mixed eyes. Medium height, mesoskelic, endomorph. Rather brachycephalic, orthocranic with a leptorrhine, straight or convex nose. Features more angular than in other Alpinids, deep set eyes.Literature:
The name "African Alpines" was coined by Briggs (1955). Vallois (1971) and Eickstedt (1934) ,who reported them especially in Berber populations, called them Alpinid. Gerhardt (1957) used the name "Brachymorph Cromagnids"and Biasutti (1967) "Brachymorphs". Bertholon and Chantre's (1913) Gerba type can be included.Eurafricanid
Description:Atlanto Mediterranid proper type. Relatively old, present in early Natufians and European as well as North African megalith builders. Spread across the Mediterranean since the Mesolithic until Antiquity. Today common in Portugal, Eastern Spain (e.g. Valencia), Liguria, Western Switzerland, Wales, Croatia, North Algeria, Morocco, and Canary Islands. In Mesopotamia more diluted and transitional to Proto Iranid.Physical Traits:Light brown skin, straight to curly, usually dark brown hair. (Rather) tall, ecto- to mesomorph, brachy- mesoskelic. Dolichocephalic, mildly hypsicranic with a straight, sometimes depressed and leptorrhine nose. Face coarse and long, deep set eyes, cheekbones often wide. Significant brow ridges, mild prognathy common.Literature:A similar type was originally described by Deniker (1900) (see Litorid). It was later regarded admixed and replaced by Eurafricanid (Haddon, 1925), using the term of Sergi (1901), who had applied it in a more generalistic way. Other names are Littoral (Biasutti, 1967), Atlantid (Škerlj, 1936) or Atlanto Mediterranid (Coon, 1939; Hooton, 1946; Cole, 1965), who included the wider-faced types like Berberid. Definition here corresponds to long-faced Eurafricanid of Eickstedt (1934, 1951), Alcobé (1936), Ara (1957) and Knussmann (1996). |
Canarid
Description:
Maghrebi type with similarities to Cromagnids and North Europeans - probably in part a result of convergent evolution of pre-Neolithic North Africans adapting to cloudy mountain regions, and partially of prehistoric migrations from Europe. Historically in some areas of the Canary Islands, especially in Gomera, Tenerife (Guanches), and Gran Canaria, heavily mixed on the islands today. Also in Berbers (Riffians, Kabyles), Tunisians, and Western Libya (Giado, Nalut).Physical Traits:
Fair skin, wavy reddish, brown or blonde hair. Mixed eyes. Tall, mesoskelic, ectomorph to mesomorph. Mesocephalic, chamae- orthocranic, relatively large-headed. Mildly leptorrhine. Face broad, sometimes a bit low, large jaw, significant supraorbital arches, occasional mild prognathy, occiput round. Body hair modest.Literature:
Named Canarid by Lundman (1943), a Paleo Atlantid subvariety (c.p. Lundman, 1951). Hooton (1925) defined it as the Guanche type, Coon (1939) as part of Brünn, Eickstedt (1934) part of Dalic. Peters (1940), Fischer (1943) and Schwidetzky (1963) as Cromagnid, Briggs (1955) as Type D. Heberer et al. (1969) and Knussmann (1996) later united it with Berberid. Michalski's (1964) Riffian is similar. Genetically, Guanches and Berbers are linked (Pino-Yanes et al. 2011).Siwa
