MAP, 14

Languages of East-Central Europe and of the Balkans

This map illustrates in a general way the distribution of linguistic groups in the most complex section of Europe in the linguistic sense. The distribution of Germans, Poles, Rumanians or Vlachs, Turks, etc. outside their national boundaries is in each case schematic; owing to the facts that villages are interspersed, and that families within villages scattered, it is impossible to make a map of this size even approximately accu­rate without color. An added difficulty is that the sources from which it has been com­piled differ greatly, and it is impossible in many areas to obtain reliable information. For the Dobruja district of Rumania, where the racial and linguistic medley is more confusing than elsewhere, no attempt has been made at stippling. The so-called Tatar district farther north is also extremely varied and has also been left white.

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single type among them.⁸² They are little different in bodily build and in head and face dimensions from Bavarians. The mean stature of the Czechs is approximately 167 cm.; the mean cephalic index about 84. The com­monest hair color is a medium brown, which includes some 47 per cent of the population; only 17 per cent have dark brown hair, and black hair is exceptional. Of the light brown and blond shades, the golden is commoner than the ashen. Some 38 per cent of the eyes are listed as brown, but light brown is commoner than dark brown; pure blue eyes are found among 18 per cent, and the rest are mostly light-mixed. The Czechs are as fair as most southern Germans. While Alpines and Norics are common­est in Bohemia, there is a strong concentration of Dinarics in Moravia, especially among the miners, who seem to form a special group with both racial and occupational peculiarities.

The snub-nosed, broad-faced, blond type commonly associated with Slavs is occasionally seen among Czechs, but is numerically rare. It seems to be commoner among Slovaks, although the Slovak-speaking population of Moravian Wallachia, in central Czechoslovakia, being composed of the Slavicized descendants of Rumanian Vlach colonists, is partly Dinaric.⁸³ As far as one can tell, the Slovaks in general seem to be shorter than the Czechs, and smaller-headed, while equally brachycephalic. Their relation­ship seems to lie with the eastern Slavic world rather than with Bohemia.

Before turning to Poland, let us study for a moment the Slavic island of Wends who live in the Spreewald district of Mecklenburg.⁸⁴ In the period between the eighth to twelfth centuries, at the time of the maximum Slavic expansion westward, and before the Germanic counter-thrust eastward, the Wends occupied much of present-day Mecklenburg. They were a long-headed people, with a mean cranial index of 76.6, mostly Nordic, but rather short-faced and mesorrhine. They resembled the contemporary Slavs in Bohemia, West Prussia, and Pomerania, and in subsequent centuries underwent a parallel brachycephalization. The modern Wends, inhabiting but a fraction of their former territory, have now a mean cephalic index of 84, and a stature of 167 cm. They are little

⁸² Ehrich, R. B., unpublished measurements on Bohemians and Moravians.

Matiegka, J., Cl, vol. 1, 1891, pp. 429-437, 533-540. See MAGW, vol. 22, 1892, “Sitzungsberichte,” pp. 18-82.

Rehak, J., AnthPr, vol. 1, 1923, pp. 284-297.

Schneider, L., MAGW, vol. 27, 1897, pp. 45-46.

Suk, V., SPFM, #124, 1933.

Weisbach, A., MAGW, Suppl. 2, 1889.

Willoughby, R. R., HB, vol. 5, 1933, pp. 690-705.

** Suk, V., and Augusta, K., SPFM, #175, 1933.

⁸⁴ Asmus, R., AFA, vol. 27, 1902, pp. 1-36.

Merkenschlager, F., Z^ur Volks und Rassenkunde des Spreewaides. See V. Lebzelter’s re­view in MAGW, vol. 44, 1934, p. 178.

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different from the surrounding German-speaking population. Influences which have affected them have affected all in their neighborhood; the Wendish problem is no different from that of the rest of eastern Germany.

3. THE LIVING SLAVS (<Continued)

2. Poland and Russia

The study of the living Slavic-speaking peoples of Poland and Russia should, at this point, be a comparatively simple matter, since we have already reviewed early Slavic history (Chapter VI, section 7), and have studied the physical anthropology of the Finno-Ugrian peoples, whom the Slavs, in their eastward expansion, have largely absorbed, as well as that of the near relatives of the Slavs, the Balts. Although Poland and Russia between them occupy approximately half the land area of the continent of Europe, it would be difficult to deal with their Slavic-speaking popula­tions as two units divided by political boundaries, since between the two there lies no natural frontier, geographic, linguistic, or racial.

Poland, although largely Slavic, is a nation without ethnic or linguistic unity. The Poles themselves, who are the most numerous single group, occupy most of the western half of the country, interspersed by hundreds of small German islands; the eastern half is divided between Ukrainians in the southern quadrant and White Russians in the northern, with thousands of Lithuanians living in the region of Vilna. In the Ukrainian section the Poles themselves are scattered in small communities as a minority population. (See Map 14.) Poland, and especially Galicia, is the home of the largest body of Jews in Europe; these Jews will be treated in a separate section later.

From the geographical standpoint, Poland resembles Germany. The bulk of the country is a vast, low plain, for the most part exceptionally fertile, separated from the Baltic everywhere except at the Polish Corridor by East Prussia and Lithuania. Toward the south the land gradually rises, until the crest of the Carpathians forms a natural border, comparable to the Alps farther west. Thus, like Germany, Poland is blocked from the south but open to the north and to either side. From West Prussia to Poland to Russia is a natural progression, in which the racial transition is as gradual as the geographical. But from the north to the south of Poland the change is more rapid and more significant, since, while the plain is the home of typical Poles in the racial sense, the Carpathians hold an Alpine-Dinaric population comparable to that of southern Germany. This latter must derive part, at least, of its ancestry from the Bell Beaker people who wandered into the mountains in search of minerals, far to the north and east of most of their fellows.

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hindered the expansion of the earlier agriculturalists, and whose physical type was predominant there until the adoption of cremation. When burial had once more become fashionable, Poland was largely a Nordic country, as it remained until after the rise and spread of the Slavs, when the old Danubian peasant stock broke through its Corded and Nordic chrysalis and reemerged.⁸⁵ Throughout its history, however, Poland has contained minor incidences of a flat-faced brachycephalic racial type, the Ladogan, whose home lay in the forests and swamps to the north, and which was initially associated with the Kammkeramik hunting and fishing culture. In the living population of Poland, this element has assumed a position of considerable, if secondary, importance.

No nation in Europe has shown greater activity in studying the physical anthropology of its people than has Poland; detailed surveys of many thousands give accurate data on every province, including every village in the Republic. As in parts of Germany and of Russia, we are embarrassed with a plethora of information, to all of which it is impossible to do justice. Our method will be to review the general surveys, and then to study some of the regional populations, including White Russians, Ukrainians, and Carpathian Mountaineers, which overlap the Polish frontiers.

The mean stature for Poland is about 165-166 cm.,⁸⁶ medium for Europeans, and close to that of Lithuanians and Carelian Finns. It is tallest (166-167 cm.) in the west, in the provinces of Poznan and Pomorz, in the region of maximum German settlement, including the famous Polish Corridor; this relatively tall stature may not, however, be entirely due to German influence, since the Polish tribes who settled there were as tall as that in the beginning. Shortest statures (164-165 cm.), are found especially in the southeast, in Ukrainian territory; in fact, nearest the supposed Slavic home-land, and in Lodz in central Poland.

The mean weight for Polish recruits is about 140 lbs., moderately heavy for their age and stature. The heaviest live in the eastern part of the country, in White Russian and Ukrainian regions. The bodily proportions of the inhabitants of Poland are similar to those of Lithuanians; the relative span of 105 or more, and the relative sitting height of 53, indicate long arms and long bodies in relationship to leg length. Both shoulders and

86. It should be stated at the start that Czekanowski’s p or pre-Slavic type is to be iden­tified with our Neo-Danubian. Czekanowski correctly considers this to be the basic ra­cial element in Poland, and to have entered the eastern European plains in Neolithic times. Czekanowski, J., Polish Encyclopedia, vol. 2, pp. 42-59, Geneva, 1921.

⁸⁸ Mydlarski, J., Kosmos, vol. 50, #2-3, 1925.

Schwidetsky, I., ZFRK, vol. 1, 1935, pp. 76-83, 136-204, 289-314. Schwidetsky’s work contains an excellent survey of the subject of Polish anthropology, especially val­uable for those who cannot read Polish.

Talko-Hryncewicz, J., AFA, vol. 28, 1903, pp. 399-402.

Zakrzewski, A., ZWAK, vol. 15, Part 2, pp. 1-39.

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hips are, as a rule, broad. The western Poles show less of these lateral features than do the others.⁸⁷ Similarly, the northwestern Poles are the flattest chested, the Ukrainians the least so.⁸⁸

Social differences in these characters are greater than regional differ­ences, however; among the upper classes the stature rises to over 170 cm., and the relative span falls to the Nordic level of 102-103. Selection, which is responsible for this differentiation, has also played a great part in the migration of Poles to America; Polish immigrants in the United States have a mean stature of 170 cm., and a relative span of 103.⁸⁹ Since social and economic stimuli can so readily segregate different size and bodily form elements in the Polish population, it is not surprising that submerged racial types have reappeared during the course of centuries.

The cephalic index goes down to means of 80 and 81 in various sections of North and West Poland, and up to 85 in Galicia and Ruthenia. The common level for the nation is between 82 and 83. A rise of about 5 index points has taken place since the Slavic settlement, as we have also observed in Bohemia; but the brachycephalizing agents in the two countries are not entirely the same.⁹⁰

The mean head lengths of Poles are about 186 mm., and do not attain or surpass 190 mm. regionally except in selected upper class series;⁹¹ the inhabitants of the northern and western districts of Poland are absolutely longer headed than those of the south and east. The breadth means range from 154 to 157 mm., with a national mean of about 155.5 mm.; the

⁸⁷ Baranowska-Malewska, Z., MAAE, vol. 14, 1914, pp. 86-109.

Maciesza, A., ANAW, vol. 3, 1923, #1.

Mydlarski, Kosmos, 1925.

Olechnowicz, W., ZWAK, vol. 17, 1893, pp. 1-40; vol. 18, 1895, pp. 29-46; MAAE, vol. 2, 1897, pp. 1-31.

Rosinski, B., Kosmos, vol. 48, 1923, pp. 302-560.

Rutkowski, L., MAAE, vol. 8, 1904, pp. (3)-(68), vol. 13, 1914, pp. 64-95.

Talko-Hryncewicz, J., TVMA, vol. 2, 1897, pp. 259-298. Also R€sum6 in AFA, vol. 26, 1899, pp. 203-205.

Wrzosek, A., and Wrzoskowa, M., MAAE, vol. 14, 1914, pp. 29-85.

Zejmo-Zejmis, S., PAn, vol. 4, 1929-30, pp. 105-108.

⁸⁸ Mydlarski, Kosmos, 1925.

⁸⁸ Davenport, C., and Love, A , Army Anthropometry.

Hrdlifcka, A., The Old Americans.

Rosinski, B., PAn, vol. 8, 1934, pp. 42-44.

⁹⁰ Frankowska, M. z R., Czaszki z Lwowskiej Katedry Lacinskiej z XVII i XVIII w.; Kosmos, vol. 50, 1925, pp. 649-736.

Halka, S., PAn, vol. 9, 1935, pp. 47-54, 139.

Maciesza, A., ACIA, 33me sess., Amsterdam, 1927, pp. 227-231.

Olechnowicz, W., MAAE, vol. 3, 1898, pp. 3-21,

Talko-Hryncewicz, J., MAAE, vol. 7, 1904, pp. 3-43; vol. 9, 1907, pp. 87-138.

Wrzosek, A., PAn, vol. 8, 1934, pp. 56-60.

⁹¹ Rutkowski, L., MAAE, 1904, 1914.

Olechnowicz, MAAE, 1895.

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broadest are in the south, especially in Galicia. The head size of the Poles, as of the Ukrainians and White Russians, is too small to be derived in any considerable measure from an unreduced Briinn or Borreby source; it is also too small for living Nordic populations, and is about equal to that of the Danubian agriculturalists, and of the Alpines and Dinarics. It is at the same time comparable to that of non-Baltic Finns, and of most Lithuanians.

The facial breadths, minimum frontal, bizygomatic, and bigonial, are approximately 108 mm., 143 mm., and 110 mm.; too wide for Nordics or for pure Danubian survivors, and necessitating Alpine, Dinaric, or Lado- gan influences, or all three. The menton-nasion face height, with means as low as 118-120 mm. in central and eastern Poland, rises to the full Dinaric height of 127 mm. in Galicia and Ruthenia. Except for these mountainous southern regions, the facial index is uniformly eury- to mesoprosopic. The noses are leptorrhine in most of Poland but approach mesorrhiny in the south and east; there is a progression from means of about 63 in the Polish Corridor and Poznan to 68-70 on the opposite side of the country.

There is abundant evidence to show that all but the southern section of Poland, along the Carpathian foothills, falls within the blondest pigment area of Europe.⁹² The skin is almost uniformly light, except in the south; the commonest hair colors are medium to dark brown, and a dark ash- blond. The incidence of truly fair hair is as great here as in Scandinavia, while the eyes are predominantly light-mixed, with gray shades common. Brown eyes seldom exceed 10 per cent except in the very southern moun­tain sections. With these same exceptions, Poland is too blond a country for Alpines or Dinarics to be present in any numbers. The pigmentation of the population, by and large, is Nordic in shades and in intensity; the virtual absence of rufosity argues against the presence of many Palaeolithic survivors of the types found in western Europe.

Although complete sets of morphological observations on Poles are not common, there is an abundance of data on the form of the nose; the profile is most commonly straight, with a large concave minority, and few in the convex category. The nasal root is usually medium in breadth, the wings medium or slightly flaring; the tip is either horizontal or inclined upward, and, in a large minority of cases, snubbed in a manner highly suggestive of Lapps and eastern Finns. Beard and body hair growth are often on the

»² See Map 8, Chapter VIII, pp. 270-271.

Sources are those already listed and:

Bochenek, A., MAAE, vol. 7, 1904, pp. (101)—(113); vol. 8, 1906, pp. (69)-—(76).

Bryk, J., Kosmos, vol. 55, 1930, Zesz. I—II.

Dershinsky, J. E., AFA, vol. 32, 1906, pp. 234-237.

Talko-Hryncewicz, J., MAAE, vol. 13, 1914, pp. 3-63.

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light side of the European norm, which fact again precludes a strong Alpine increment.

The facial features which typify the Polish peasantry are quite different, as a rule, from those found among the nobility and the upper classes in general. The noblemen have less blond and less really dark hair; fewer dark eyes, and fewer instances of brunet skin color, than the peasants; their noses, however, present their greatest distinction; these are not only longer and narrower, but also frequently convex in profile, with concave forms reduced to a minimum. Old Corded and Nordic tendencies segre­gate themselves, at least in stature, bodily build, pigmentation, and facial features, in this superordinate class, as do Danubian and Ladogan tenden­cies among the peasantry.

Contemporary Polish anthropologists have studied the population of their country by dividing it into types, and plotting the proportions of these types by regions.⁹³ These types include what would in our present terminology be Nordic, Neo-Danubian, Lappish, Ladogan, Alpine, and Dinaric, as well as Armenoid, and both tall and short Mediterraneans. The last three, however, are admittedly much in the minority, if they are present at all. The Nordic element is strongest in the Polish Corridor, where East Baltic factors, unusual in Poland in our definition of the term,⁹⁴ are also found.⁹⁶ The Nordic element is also strongest on the German border, and elsewhere it is concentrated along main water courses, the highroads of mi­gration in pre-Slavic Gothic times, as well as later. Its identity with a social and economic upper level, however, is probably stronger than its geograph­ical differentiation. The Neo-Danubian element, which has probably gained in stature through its Nordic interlude, is as blond as the Nordic, on the whole, and this fact leads one to the conclusion that the pre-Corded peasants of eastern Europe, as of the Danube Valley, were already partly blond. The combination of ash-blond hair with gray-mixed eyes seems to be a Neo-Danubian specialty.

Members of the early forest types with their ipcipiently mongoloid facial features have seeped in everywhere north of the Carpathians, but more in the east than in the west. They too were probably partly blond from the beginning, but not as blond as the Danubians with whom they have become thoroughly blended. Dinarics, commonest in the Carpathians, are found in solution throughout Poland, and the same is true of the Alpines. The rare brunet Mediterraneans noted by the Polish authors

93. Bryk, J., Kosmos, vol. 55, 1930, Zesz. I—II.

Czekanowski, J., Polish Encyclopedia, 1921.

Mydlarski, J., ATNL, vol. 3, 1924, 78 pp. R6sum6 by Sailer, K., in AAnz, vol. 2,

1925. pp. 26-27.

93. See Chapter IX, section 12, p. 292.

⁹⁶ Modrezewski, L. T., PAn, vol. 8, 1934, pp. 25-28.

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are probably related to the commoner brunet long heads of southern Rus­sia, of Bulgaria, and of the Caucasus, with whom we shall deal later.

The territory occupied by the White Russians is divided between north­western Poland and the U.S.S.R., with more than half lying on the Russian side. Here it includes not only the White Russian S. S. Republic, but also adjoining districts in the Ukraine, in Smolensk, and to the north. The White Russians have as their neighbors Great Russians, Ukrainians, Letts, Lithuanians, and Poles; although they are Slavic in speech and in tradition, they are physically almost identical with the Lithuanians.⁹⁶ They are slightly smaller headed than the Lithuanians, slightly wider in the distance between the eyes, and slightly less leptorrhine; their noses are a little more often concave in profile, up-tilted, and snubbed; their eye openings are more frequently narrow, their lips a little thicker, and their body and beard hair considerably less abundant. Their skins are a little darker, their hair and eyes less frequently blond. In hair color, the Fischer numbers 4, 5, 8, and 26 are the commonest, indicating a prevalence of dark to medium brown and dark ash-blond hair. In eye color, the White Russians have less than 20 per cent pure light, and no more than 10 per cent pure brown. The majority are light-mixed, as with most Slavs and Balts.

The identity or near identity of the White Russians with the Lithuanians makes it very possible that the former were at one time Balts who suc­cumbed to Slavic influences, just as the East Prussians were Germanicized Balts. But the fact is that all of these people, Balts who have been sub­jected to a minimum of local influences on the Baltic shore, and Slavs who have not been Germanicized, Dinaricized, or influenced by Finns, are so much alike that it is dangerous to postulate specific relationships. The White Russians, with a mean stature of 166 cm., a cephalic index of 82, a nasal index of 69, and a moderate to small head size, are simply the descendants of the Neolithic peasants, an original Mediterranean- Ladogan blend, which has reemerged through a Corded and Nordic upper crust, so that a Neo-Danubian residue is left. Among individual White Russians Nordics can be found, and semi-mongoloid-looking Ladogans, but the majority follow the Neo-Danubian pattern most closely.

The territory occupied by the Ukrainians is much larger than that of

⁹⁶ Hesch, M., Letten, Litauer, Weissrussen.

Other sources are:

Eichholz, E. R., Doctor’s dissertation in publications of the Voenno-meditsinskauk akademhZ, St. Petersburg, 1895-96. R6sum6 in AFA, vol. 26, 1899, pp. 166-170.

Rodjestvensky, A. N., RAJ, vol. 9, 1902, pp. 49-57.

Sobolski, K., Kosmos, vol. 50, 1925, pp. 1166-1225.

Talko-Hryncewicz, J., ZWAK, vol. 17, pp. 51-172; TPNW, 1926. R6sum6 in AnthPr, vol. 6, 1928, pp. 90-92.

Zdroevski, A., RAJ, vol. 6, 1905, pp. 127-151.

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the White Russians; it includes, beside the whole southwestern quadrant of Poland and the eastern end of Czechoslovakia (the Ruthenians and Goral mountaineers are linguistically Ukrainians), the large Ukrainian Republic of the U.S.S.R., which extends over much of southern Russia to the northeastern end of the Sea of Azov, and large areas outside the Republic in southeastern Russia and the foothills of the Caucasus. Next to the Great Russians, the Ukrainians are the most numerous and most important people in the Soviet Union.

The racial history of the Slavic peoples may largely be interpreted in terms of the previous inhabitants of the countries in which they have expanded. The White Russians are linked with the Balts, and the Great Russians with Scandinavians and Finns, especially the latter; the Ukrain­ians, in their eastward expansion over the plains of southern Russia, must have absorbed the remnants of the Iranian Scyths and Sarmatians, of the Black Sea Goths, of the Greek colonists of the Euxine shore, as well perhaps as of the mysterious pre-Scythic Cimmerians. It was, furthermore, the Ukrainians who, of all the Slavs, came into the closest relationship with the Turks and Tatars of southern Russia during the Middle Ages. In the Crimea and points east, Ukrainian and Tatar territories are still contiguous. Mixture between Russians and Tatars was not, however, frequent or important in the early days of the Tatar hegemony, when the Slavs kept for the most part to their own farming environment and the Asiatic nomads to their pastures; it has taken place in greater measure during the last few centuries, in consequence of the more recent Slavic expansion eastward over Tatar territory into Siberia and Turkestan.

As is to be expected of a numerous people covering a wide stretch of territory, the Ukrainians are regionally variable in a racial sense. The Ukrainian-speaking mountaineers of southern Poland and eastern Czecho­slovakia are more brachycephalic than the others; they will be dealt with presently. The southeastern Ukrainians, in the country just north of the Black Sea, are tall, with regional stature means as high as 170 cm.; while those in the Volhyn, a district lying between Lwow in Poland and Kiev in Russia, are much shorter, with a mean of 165 cm. Since these Volhynians occupy basic Slavic territory, and since they have been subjected to care­ful measurement and analysis,⁹⁷ they will be treated in some detail here.

**P6ch, H., MAGW, vol. 55, 1925, pp. 289-333; vol. 56, 1926, pp. 10-52.

Other sources on Ukrainians include:

Beloded, F. S., AFA, vol. 34, 1907, pp. 221-223.

Chubinski, P. P., TESE, vol. 1-7,1872-78. R6sum6 in AFA, vol. 12, 1880, p. 398.

Krasnov, A., RAJ, vol. 1, #2, 1900, pp. 12-22.

Nosov, A., ZGTK, vol. 1, #3, 1932, pp. 37-79.

Talko-Hryncewicz, J., MAAE, vol. 2, 1897, pp. 1-60; ZWAK, vol. 14, 1890, pp. 1- 61.

TkaS, M., AntrK, 1929, vol. 2, 1928, pp. 70-103.

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In general, the Volhynians resemble the White Russians closely, and differ from them in the same direction that the White Russians differ from the Lithuanians. As one moves southeastward from the Baltic to the Black Sea there is a progressive change from a most Nordic to a most Danubian extreme, within a relatively small anthropometric range. The mean stature of the Volhynians is 164.6 cm.; the relative span of 106 indicates the usual arm and body proportions. The bodily build is thick­set to medium, and corpulence, especially with the women, is not uncom­mon. The mean cephalic index is 82.2, the head length 184 mm., the breadth 151 mm., and the vault height 125 mm.⁹⁸ The bizygomatic,

139. mm., is not especially great; the bigonial, 108 mm., comparatively wide. The total face height is 120 mm.; the facial index, 86.6, or meso- prosopic; while the upper facial index is 51.1, mesene. The nasal diameters, 52.5 mm. by 35.5 mm., yield a mean index of 66.5. The moderation of the lateral diameters of the head and face indicate that the Ladogan ele­ment, which is so common in other eastern Slavic groups, is at a minimum here. The Neo-Danubian base of the Volhynians is metrically more Danubian than elsewhere.

Most of them have the expected white skin, ranging on the inner arm from von Luschan #7-12, while roughly one-eighth are darker, with brunet-white or light brown shades (von L. #13-16). Vascularity is as common as among most Nordics, and the women, working outdoors, are often red-cheeked. The hair color usually changes with age, as in all prevailingly blond populations; between the ages of 21 and 30, medium brown (Fischer #5, #8) and ash-blond (#26) shades are most frequent; later these darken in many cases. There is little or no truly black hair, and rufosity is almost absent. The beards are as a rule lighter than the head hair, and over 50 per cent of adult males have face hair which is light-blond (Fischer #12-20). About 15 per cent have pure light eyes (Martin #15-16), and 6 per cent pure brown. The commonest shades are light-mixed, however. As is usual in light-mixed eye color populations, the eyes often lose their brown pigmentation progressively with advancing age. On the whole, the Volhynians are a light-mixed pigment group, with the emphasis on ash-blondism and gray-mixed eye shades. Compared with other Ukrainians, they are blonder as well as shorter in stature.

In the morphology of the face, the Volhynians are for the most part typical Neo-Danubians. Median eyefolds, indicative of a low orbit and a heavy fatty deposit in the upper lid, are found among 38 per cent; the nose is concave in 25 per cent of the group, and snubbed in 20 per cent. A heavy deposit of fat on the malars is common, especially among the women; in this type it seems to assume the nature of a secondary sex

98. The vault height is estimated from Nosov’s data.

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character. Round faces and plump cheeks are typical. There is, however, a minority which shows Dinaric or Armenoid features; a convex nasal profile, present in 17 per cent of the group, indicates this, as do other nasal and facial characters. This minority Dinaric strain is connected geo­graphically with the population of the Carpathians immediately south­west of Volhynia.

The Ukrainians who live farther east, along the northern shore of the Black Sea, are not only taller than the Volhynians, but also darker in hair and eye color. They are longer faced, but no different in head form, except that in the region of Kiev they are more brachycephalic, with mean indices of 83 and 84. There is a strong Dinaric element in the central and eastern Ukraine, which often in combination with the Nordic and Neo- Danubian takes on a Noric or approximately similar form. Tall, moder­ately blond, brachycephalic and thin-faced men, are not uncommon here. Individual variation in southern Russia is great; it is easy to pick out, beside the western Ukrainian forms already described and the composite type mentioned, Nordics, Dinarics, and patently mongoloid Tatar hybrids. This variability increases as one proceeds eastward into what is actually Tatar territory.

Before turning to the Great Russian population, we may consider the Slavic-speaking mountaineers of the Carpathians whose territory extends from Galicia to Rumania. These people, whether they live in Poland, Czechoslovakia, or the Bukovina section of Rumania, are known as Ru- thenians, and speak dialects of Ukrainian. In southern Galicia they are known as Gorals, or “Mountaineers”; in the southeastern corner of Poland as Huzuls. These people are the descendants of Slavic pioneers who moved into the mountains from the plains to the north and northeast, as early as the eighth century; through isolation and the retention of a relatively primitive way of living they have developed a distinctive culture. Many of them are shepherds, others small farmers."

In the western part of their territory, the mountain people do not differ greatly in most metrical characters from Galicians; they have a mean stature of 164-165 cm., and cephalic indices of 83-84; they are, however,

⁹⁹ Sources on the Carpathian mountaineers include:

Demianowski, A., AN AW, vol. 1, 1922, #8.

Diebold, V., Ein Beitrag zur Anth. der Kleinrussen.

Himmel, H., MAGW, vol. 18, 1888, pp. 83-84.

Kopernicki, I., ZWAK, vol. 13, 1880, pp. 1-54.

Majer, J., and Kopernicki, I., ZWAK, vol. 9, 1885, pp. 1-92.

Suk, V., Anthropological Notes on the Peoples of Carpathian Ruthenia.

Talko-Hryncewicz, J. R6sum6 in ZBFA, vol. 16, 1911, p. 205; also AFA, vol. 24, 1896-97, pp. 380-385.

Volkov, Th., BMSA, ser. 5, vol. 6, 1905, pp. 289-294.

Weisbach, A., MAGW, vol. 33, 1903, pp. 234-251.

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leptoprosopic with a mean facial index of 90, and face heights of 126 and

127. mm. They are also considerably darker than their equally brachy- cephalic northern neighbors, with brown or dark brown hair, and eyes which are predominantly mixed, often dark-mixed, in iris pattern. Fully 40 per cent or more seem to have dark eyes, and pure light eyes are excep­tional. The skin is definitely brunet-white in over half these people.

The Huzuls differ from the others in the possession of tall stature (170 cm.) and a higher cephalic index (85). They are also noted for their long-limbed, spare bodily build, and the gaunt, high-nosed Dinaric quality of their facial features. The Ruthenians as a whole belong to the Alpine-Dinaric racial group, with the Dinaric factor predominant among the Huzuls; the Slavicization of these mountaineers was more a linguistic than a racial phenomenon. On the other hand, the mutual influences between the early Dinaric inhabitants of the Carpathians and the Slavs have tended in the opposite direction; the strong Dinaric element in the lowland Ukrainian population may be due to a northward infiltration from the mountains.

The Great Russians, the most numerous of the Slavic ethnic groups, are also the easternmost Slavs, and the most recent to spread into their present homes. It was they who pushed northward up the streams of central and eastern Russia, thrusting aside and absorbing the Finnish tribes, until they reached the White Sea; it was they who, with the Ukrainians, served as a bulwark against the invasions of Mongols and Tatars, and who later pushed eastward over Mongol and Tatar territory into Asia. The history of central Asia has been a curious one in the relationship of white and mongoloid peoples; the Turkestans, once wholly white, became partially Mongolized by Turkish and Mongol advances from the days of the Huns through to Kublai Khan. Southern Siberia, however, once sparsely inhabited by mongoloids, received the eastward thrust, first of the Ugrian Ostiaks and Voguls, then of the Great Russians of the sixteenth century, who pushed steadily onward along arable land until they reached the Pacific. Thus in central Asia the current has flowed westward in the southern level, and eastward in the northern. Farther north still, the westward advance of the Samoyeds has added another contrary stream.

Whereas the primary racial influence which acted upon the White Russians was derived from the Balts, and upon the Ukrainians from the Iranians, those which have affected the Great Russians the most have been Finnic in the north, and Iranian in the south. One must not suppose, however, that the northern Great Russians are nothing but Slavicized Volga Finns; there is considerable evidence to indicate that the Slavic colonists advanced in great numbers and reproduced with immoderate fecundity; the Great Russians have been as capable of rapid genetic expan­

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sion as of absorption. Their deviation from an ancestral Slavic type is due as much to selection within their own ranks as to the accretion of Finns.

The mean stature of the Great Russians today is about 166 cm.,¹⁰⁰ approximately the same as that of Poles, White Russians, and some Ukrainians. It varies regionally from 169 cm. in the Kuban and Don Cossack country, to about 165 cm. in the Finnish territory between the Volga and the Urals.¹⁰¹ That selective forces are strongly at play in the determination of the stature level is evidenced by the fact that the Russians who have emigrated to Siberia have attained the mean of 168 cm., while those measured at Ellis Island on their way into America as immigrants reached 170 cm.¹⁰²

Between the twelfth century and 1880 or thereabouts, the stature of the Great Russians, as exemplified by the inhabitants of the Moscow govern­ment, had not perceptibly changed, remaining at the level of 165.5 cm.¹⁰³ The same cannot, however, be said for the cranial index. A mean of 73.5 typified crania from eleventh and twelfth century Slavic kurgans; Kremlin skulls from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had reached 79.6; from then on there has been a steady rise to a mean of 81 for the recent cranial material. This change in head form parallels but does not equal that which has already been observed among Slavs in Bohemia. The brachycepha- lizing agent was not, however, the same; in Moscow it entered only in the fifteenth century, when fully brachycephalic crania appeared among examples of the older type; the former were much lower and broader faced, and broader nosed. This heterogeneity gradually decreased with the increase of the mean cranial index. There can be no question that the brachycephalizing agent was in its general character not Alpine, in the western European sense, but a separately evolved and incipiently or partially mongoloid Upper Palaeolithic derivative, whether transmitted through a Finnish or a Tatar medium, or both.

The modern Great Russians vary'in head form from a mean cephalic index of 78 to 79 in parts of the old Scythian country of South-central Russia to 83 and 84 farther north and east. The mesocephalic and low

100. Anuchin, D. N., ZIGO, vol. 7, vyp. 1, 1889.

Bunak, V., AZM, #2, 1932, pp. 1-48.

Snigirev, V. S., VMZ, vols. 146-148, 1883.

100. Bunak, V., ZfMuA, vol. 30, 1932, pp. 441-503. To readers unacquainted with Russian, Bunak’s work is perhaps the most useful single source on the physicial anthro­pology of modern Russia.

101. Baxter, J. H., Statistics, Medical and Anthropological, U. S. Army.

Hrdli£ka, A., The Old Americans.

Zeland, N. L., Anth, vol. 13, 1902, pp. 222-232.

100. Derviz, D. V., RAJ, vol. 12, 1923, pp. 24-38, French r6sum£, p. 100.

Stefko, V. H., and Shugaiev, U. S., AFA, vol. 50, 1930, pp. 44-55.

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brachycephalic index levels represent the usual Danubian reemergence with the absorption of the old forest types; in the west from an entirely Slavic and in the east from a partially Finnish source. Head dimensions among these Great Russians are medium to small, and comparable to those found among the Volhynians, White Russians, and Finns. The faces of these people are likewise similar to those of the other Slavs mentioned; although they often appear to be wide, the male bizygomatic means rarely exceed 140 mm. The nasal indices usually approach or attain mesor- rhiny.¹⁰⁴ There is a great variability in nasal profile, with at least 25 per cent of concavity in most of the country. In pigmentation the Great Russians, like all Slavs previously studied, are predominantly light-mixed, with a tendency to brown and ash-blond hair, and light-mixed eyes. The lightest pigmentation is found in the western part of the Great Russian territory, and blondism decreases gradually to the south and east. The peasants who have migrated to Siberia, however, have taken with them a greater blondism than is typical of most of Russia; over 70 per cent of hair colors lighter than dark brown, and under 30 per cent of brown eyes, characterize the subjects measured in various Siberian districts.¹⁰⁵

The Great Russians of a special area lying partly in the Tambov, Penza, and Saratov Governments, who form a mesocephalic nucleus in the country half way between Moscow and the mouth of the Volga, have been sub­jected to a detailed study,¹⁰⁶ which shows them to be essentially Nordic. A mean stature of 169 cm., a cephalic index just under 79, and a head length of 192 mm., indicate an initial resemblance to Nordics or brunet Mediterraneans. The auricular height mean of about 130 mm. is greater than that of Scandinavian Nordics, however, as are the bizygomatic of 140 mm. and the bigonial of 109 mm., while the minimum frontal of 105 mm. is more nearly Nordic than the other lateral dimensions. The face height, 125 mm., yields a facial index on the borderline of mesoprosopy and leptoprosopy; the nasal index, about 65, is derived from a mean nose length of 55 mm. and a breadth of nearly 36 mm.

Half of these Great Russians have wavy hair, the other half straight; the head hair is dark brown (Fischer #4-5) in 30 per cent of the series studied, and almost never black; it is medium brown (Fischer #6-10) in about 50 per cent, and light brown in most of the rest. Rufosity is rare,

Ivanovsky, A. L., AFA, vol. 48, 1925, pp. 1-12.

Nicolaeff, L., Anth, vol. 41, 1931, pp. 75-93.

Seeland, N., CRCA, 1892, pp. 91-154.

Worobjew, B. W., AFA, vol. 32, 1906, pp. 223, 238.

Zograf, N.J., CRCA, 1892, pp. 1-12; AFA, vol. 26,1900, pp. 860-868; IILE, vol. 76, 1892.

¹⁰⁶ Zeland, N. L., RAJ, vol. 3, 1900, pp. 75-82; Anth, vol. 13, 1902, pp. 222-232.

106. Debetz, G., AZM, 1933, pp. 34-57.

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but at the same time most of the blondism falls on the golden side. About 8 per cent have brown eyes, nearly 30 per cent light, and the rest mixed. Thus these tall, mesocephalic Great Russians are brown to dark brown­haired, and essentially mixed to light eyed. Their facial features conform in most cases to a Nordic standard; the nasal profile is straight or wavy in over 65 per cent of the group, convex in 25 per cent, and concave in the 10 per cent that is left.

Individually as well as collectively, most of these men look Nordic in either a complete or a partial sense; others, in the minority, with concave, up-tilted noses and wide faces, approximate the forest type of incipiently mongoloid trend. The facial dimensions, with their accent on the heavi­ness of the mandible, diverge from a western European Nordic standard, but conform to that of the eastern Nordic type found skeletally among Scythians and in the Minussinsk kurgans; they also conform to a brunet Mediterranean type which we shall see in other regions bordering the Black Sea. The high vault, and the prevalence of brown hair in combina­tion with light eyes, suggests a major survival of the Corded element so lacking elsewhere in most of eastern Europe; since the Slavs elsewhere have to a large extent lost this element, it seems likely that the people in question are the descendants of earlier Iranian inhabitants as much as of Slavic immigrants.

North of the grasslands, in the old forested country, the Great Russians resume their expected racial character, and their resemblance to White Russians, western Ukrainians, and Poles. The difference between eastern Great Russians, living in Finnic territory, and the indigenous Finns, may be seen by a comparison between Cheremisses and Mordvins, on the one hand, and their Russian neighbors.¹⁰⁷ The Russians are taller than Cheremisses but shorter than Mordvins; hence no distinction may be made on the basis of stature. The relative sitting height is the same, as are the head length, head breadth, head height, and the total face height. The bizygomatic of the Russians, however, is 138 mm., as compared to

139. mm. for Cheremisses and 141 mm. for Mordvins; the nasal index of the Russians is 64, that of the Mordvins 65, of the Cheremisses 71. Thus the only differences that can be seen anthropometrically are those which concern the breadths of the face and nose, and these only to a slight degree.

There is a real difference, however, which appears in observational characters; only 34 per cent of Russians have weak beard growth, as compared to 64 per cent of Mordvins and 77 per cent of Cheremisses; 22 per cent of Russians have a median eyefold, which is found among

¹⁰⁷ Bunak, V., RAJ, vol. 13, 1924, pp. 178-207; also resume in AAnz, vol. 2, 1925, pp. 109-110.

Sergeev, V. I., PCZA, 1931, pp. 318-319.

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34 per cent of Mordvins, and 46 per cent of Cheremisses; only 12 per cent of the Russians have concave nasal profiles, as compared to 18 per cent of Mordvins, and 39 per cent of Cheremisses. Furthermore, only 36 per cent of Russians are brunet in total complexion type, while 50 per cent of Mordvins, and 69 per cent of Cheremisses, are so identified. The conclu­sion to this is that the Great Russians living in Finnish territory in eastern Russia, although they have absorbed much Finnish blood, have not wholly lost their Slavic character, and have acquired fewer mongoloid or in- cipiently mongoloid soft part features than have the Finns.

The traveller in Moscow, or in any other important Russian city, is struck by the diversity of racial types met not only on the street but also in any other place or circumstance. The broad-faced, snub-nosed Russian peasant, with his shoulder-length head hair and beard, has, since the revolution, lost much of his hirsute adornment; deprived of these distinc­tive properties, he ceases to look as strange or as distinctive as before. His hairiness, famous in caricature, is for the most part due to custom rather than to pilosity, since beard growth among Great Russians is no more abundant than among most other Europeans.

Beside the snub-nosed peasant type, one sees on the streets of Moscow Nordics who would be at home in Sweden or in England; Dinarics, Norics, and every variety of near and distant mongoloid. There are also occasion­ally tall, large-headed, and large-faced men who are East Baltic in our present sense, and some rare Mediterraneans other than Jews. Although many of these individuals of varied type come from far corners of the Russian Empire, there is a considerable mobility, and a juxtaposition of varied types in the same place. Russia is a new country from the stand­point of migrations and settlement, when compared to the rest of Europe; she resembles in her population phenomena rather the United States or Canada. There are still many unabsorbed or only partially absorbed peoples within her European, not to mention her Asiatic, borders.

3. TURKS, TATARS, AND MONGOLS OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA

In estimating the influence of the Turks, Tatars, and Mongols upon the Finns and Slavs of European Russia, it is customary to assume that these peoples are, or at least were, fundamentally mongoloid in race. It will therefore be useful to examine the documents concerning the living representatives of these Asiatic peoples. We have already studied the skeletal remains of their ancestors (Chapter VII), and therefore know that the early nomads of the central Asiatic plain were European in type, and that many could be classed under the term Nordic, with a strong Corded increment.

With the destruction of the Hiung-Nu empire of Mongolia by the

Chinese, the Huns began their westward migration, finally arriving in anc crossing Europe. These Huns, as we have seen, were mostly mongoloid, of the primitive Tungusic variety, but the Avars who followed them be­longed more to the Buryat-Mongol type. With the Hunnish and Aval chiefs were many followers of the old central Asiatic Nordic race, and mixed retainers of a pseudo-Armenoid or Dinaric cranial form, caused, without reasonable doubt, by a Mongol-Nordic or other Mongol-European hybridization. This medley of peoples, known as Turks or Tatars, invaded eastern Russia intermittently during the first 1500 years of the Christian era, before the tide turned, and the Slavs began the last leg of their east­ward expansion. Besides those of the Turko-Tatars there were invasions oJ full-fledged Mongols, including the Kalmucks, whose descendants still pasture their flocks on the western side of the lower Volga, just north of the Caucasus. For purposes of facility in treatment, I have divided the Altaic speakers of European Russia into four groups: (a) Turkicized Finns and Ugrians, including the Chuvash, Bashkirs, and Meshcheryaks; (b) the Tatars in general, including all of the Turkish-speaking, mostly Moslem peoples of eastern Russia, from the Perm government down to the Cau­casus; (c) the Crimean Tatars; and (d) the Kalmucks.

The Chuvash, who live in various parts of the former governments of Kazan, Simbirsk, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, and Perm, number nearly half a million,¹⁰⁸ of whom some 116,000 live in what is now their own administrative district.¹⁰⁹ These are near neighbors of the Mordvins, and like the Bashkirs, who are historically survivors of the old Bulgar Empire of the Middle Ages, are probably the results of an early Turkic-Finnic cross.

The Chuvash are metrically similar to the Mordvins, but differ from these latter in the opposite direction from that in which the Mordvins differ from the Russians; in other words, in most metrical and morpholog­ical characters, there is a progression from Russians to Mordvins to Chuvashes. Their mean stature is about 164 cm., their cephalic index 80.5, their facial index 85, and their nasal index 71. They are thus shorter, longer headed, wider faced, and wider nosed than the Mordvins, and proportionately more so than the Russians. Only 2 per cent have black hair, 50 per cent dark brown (Fischer #4-5), and the rest almost entirely medium brown (Fischer #7-9). Pure brown eyes are confined to 19 per cent, and most of these are light brown; pure light irises to 3 per cent, although predominantly light ones total 14 per cent. Thus, while darker than the Mordvins, they are almost wholly a mixed pigment group.

¹⁰⁸ Jochelson, W., Peoples of Asiatic Russia, pp. 20, 21.

¹⁰⁹ Vishnevski, B. N., Antropologicheskoe izuchenie chuvashi, K Otchetu po Issledovaniidm, 1927, pp. 229-252.

Vishnevski is the source for the anthropometric data which follow.

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The Chuvash are not simply Finns Tatarized in language, but show evidence in face form, nose form, and in the scarcity of true blondism, that the Turkish influence did bring some mongoloid traits. It is inter­esting to note, however, that the cephalic index was not elevated as a result. Individually the Chuvash are extremely variable, as their por­traits (see Plate 3) will show; complete Nordics of Corded tendency, and unmistakable mongoloids represent the end types, both of which may have been brought by the Turks.

There are two other peoples living in the general region between the Volga and the Urals, and partly on the other side, who fall into the same general Turko-Finnic class; these are the Bashkirs and the Meshcheryaks. The Bashkirs are Moslems, some of whom are settled, while others are cattle nomads; still others hunt and trap for furs in the mountains and forests. In the thirteenth century they are said to have been still speaking the same language as the Hungarians,¹¹⁰ which must have been some form of Ugric. At that time they were both enemies and rivals of the Bulgars and Petchenegs. The Meshcheryaks, who formerly inhabited the Oka basin, were probably Finns; they split into two branches one of which moved westward and became Russified, the other eastward and Turkicized. Traces of the western branch may be found among the Russian-speaking population of the Penza and Tambov regions; the eastern branch has taken over the speech, religion, and habits of the Bashkirs, with whom they live and are closely identified. For present purposes only the eastern branch will be studied; the western branch is a part of the Great Russian ethnos.

The two peoples, Bashkirs and Meshcheryaks, are physically much alike, and not greatly different from the Chuvash.¹¹¹ The Bashkirs are the taller, with a mean stature of 166 cm.; that of the Meshcheryaks is 164-165 cm. Both are as a rule long-bodied, with a relative sitting height of over 53, well-muscled and robust, with wide shoulders. The Bashkirs are brachy­cephalic, with a mean index of 83.5, while the Meshcheryaks run between one and two points lower. The Bashkirs have heads of moderate vault dimensions, and are comparable in this sense to the Volga Finns, rather than to the larger-headed central Asiatic Turks and Mongols. Their faces, however, are larger than those of most eastern Finns; breadths of

u° On the authority of those two intrepid and observant churchmen, John Plano de Carpini and William of Rubruck.

111. Maliev, N., TKU, vol. 5, #5, 1876. R6sum6 in AFA, vol. 10, 1878, p. 434.

Nazarov, P. S., IILE, vol. 68, #9, 1890, Col. 350-367.

Nikolski, D. P., Bashkiria R6sum6 in RAJ, vol. 1, 1900, pp. 116-118.

Sommier, S., APA, vol. 11, 1881, pp. 255-296.

Weissenberg, S., ZFE, vol. 24, 1892, pp. 181-233.

Zograf, N. J., AAM, vol. 3, 1879, pp. 7-23; r£sum6 in AFA, vol. 14, 1883, p. 294.

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109 mm. for the minimum frontal, 143 mm. for the bizygomatic, and 112 mm. for the bigonial, approach a Turko-Mongol standard, especially in the excess of jaw width over that of the forehead. The total face height of 122 mm. lies closer to the Finnic and to the Mongol than to the Turkic mean. Various groups of Bashkirs have nasal index means ranging from

67. to 73; a low mesorrhiny is apparently usual. A mean interorbital dis­tance of 33.5 mm. is greater than among most Europeans. In all of these metrical characters of the head and face, the Meshcheryaks differ slightly from the Bashkirs, in each case in a Finnic direction. They have thus been less thoroughly Turkicized racially than the Bashkirs.

Over 50 per cent of the Bashkirs have black hair, and over 75 per cent dark eyes. Of the latter, a large minority are black. What blondism the Bashkirs possess seems to be of the gray-eyed ash-blond variety. Fifteen per cent have convex nasal profiles, which in this particular case implies Turkish influence; about 20 per cent have the snubbed tip typical of Finns but not of Mongols. The Meshcheryaks seem to be blonder than the Bashkirs, and consistently more Finnish in every respect. A distinction is usually made between the sedentary and forest Bashkirs, who are taller, longer faced, and more frequently aquiline-nosed, and the pastoral Bashkir, who are shorter in stature, broader faced, and more mongoloid- looking. That there may be some such regional differentiations seems likely.

Before proceeding further with the examination of Turko-Tatar peoples in eastern and southern Russia, it may be well to study their central Asiatic prototypes, as exemplified by the Kirghiz-Kazak whose home is in the Altai Mountains¹¹² but who also graze their flocks on the Aralo- Caspian plain. The Kirghiz are a pastoral nomadic nation par excellence, of Turkish antecedents but with a strong Mongol infusion; in this respect they may be considered to resemble the Turkish-speaking invaders of eastern Europe in earlier times. They are variable in stature but usually short, with group means ranging from 160 cm. to 165 cm.; they are exceptionally long-bodied and short-legged, with a relative sitting height of 54.7, higher than that of any European people whom we have studied.

They are completely brachycephalic, with a mean cephalic index of 85 for most groups, and their heads are of considerable size. A mean length of 188 mm., a breadth of 161 mm., and an auricular height of

128. mm. indicates a larger vault than those of eastern Finns or Tatarized Finns, as large as or larger than the heads of western European Alpines,

112. Baronov, S. F., Buketkhan, A. N., and Rudenko, S. I., Kazaki, Antropologicheskie ochnki.

Iarcho, A. I., SAM, #1-2, 1930, pp. 76-99.

Oshanin, L. V., ITL, vol. 10, 1927, pp. 233-270.

Roguinski, J., AZM, 1934-35, pp. 105-126.

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but smaller than the heads found in northwestern Europe among Borreby descendants. The faces are absolutely large, with a mean height of 125 mm., which is comparable to that found on Nordic groups, and a bizy­gomatic breadth mean ranging tribally from 148 to 153 mm. The last named breadth is typical of pure Central Asiatic Mongols, who are, however, shorter than the Kirghiz in absolute face height (120 mm.). Thus the Kirghiz face seems to be a hybrid one in its differential inherit­ance of dimensions, having received its breadth from a mongoloid an­cestry, its height from a white. However, since a total face height mean of 133 mm. is found among living Tungus, the Turkish face height may also be partly derived from an alternate Mongoloid source; this must be mentioned as a possibility, but, in view of the absence of other Tungusic features, it is unlikely. The Kirghiz are long-nosed, with a mean nasal height of over 55 mm., and a nasal index of 67. In this respect they differ from the shorter-nosed, messorrhine Mongols, and from some of the incipiently mongoloid Volga Finns.

Few of the Kirghiz have pinkish-white, northern European skins; the ratio of these is under 5 per cent. Brunet-white and light brown skins account for some 33 per cent of the whole, while the rest, over 60 per cent, have a yellowish tinge of varying intensity, associated with vary­ing degrees of pigmentation. No Kirghiz are really darker than light brown, however; von Luschan #15 seems to be the darkest shade on their normal range.

The hair color is black in 50 per cent of the Kirghiz; only 4 per cent are lighter than dark brown, and complete hair blondism is extremely rare. About 55 per cent have pure dark eyes, mostly dark brown with nearly 10 per cent of black; about 7 per cent or fewer are light-mixed or light, while the rest are dark-mixed. In series studied without scales, the pure darks are listed as high as 93 per cent; hence the majority of the mixed group must be dark-mixed indeed. The Kirghiz are predominantly brunet; they show no more blondism than many brunet Mediterranean peoples in Africa and Asia, but here *the blondism definitely implies a Nordic or other blond racial increment, for there is no minority incidence of blondism among fully evolved, unmixed mongoloids. The presence of a submerged blond strain among the Kirghiz is clearly shown by the presence of 14 per cent of beards lighter than dark brown, a ratio 10 per cent higher than that for head hair color. The white strains that went into the Kirghiz blend were probably predominantly blond.

The prevailingly mongoloid character of the Kirghiz in their super­ficial or soft part anatomy is clearly seen by a study of hair abundance and hair distribution. Hair is absent from the chests and abdomens of 93 per cent of adult males; in the rest it is scanty. Arm and leg hair is absent

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from 14 per cent, present in a minor degree on the shins only with 78 per cent; the remaining 8 per cent have a certain amount of hair on arms and thighs. The beard, not including the mustaches, is actually absent among 10 per cent of adult males, scanty with 56 per cent, and abundant with only 9 per cent. It is situated on the chin only with 26 per cent, on the lower jaw as well, under the jaw line, with 40 per cent more, and on the lower part of the cheek also with the remaining 34 per cent. In no instance studied did it cover the cheek profusely. The mustache is absent among 3 per cent, scanty among 55 per cent. The head hair is frequently coarse, almost always straight; the beard hair is wavy in 23 per cent of instances. The sparsity of body and beard hair is not as marked among most Kirghiz as among complete mongoloids, but it falls nearer a mongoloid than a white extreme.

In the form of the external eye, however, the Kirghiz are not notably mongoloid; only 15 per cent have the epicanthic fold, as compared to 83 per cent of Buryat-Mongols. Eye obliquity is found in 38 per cent, however, and the eye slit is characteristically narrow. Straight or vertical foreheads, common among Buryats and Mongols, are uncommon among Kirghiz; the slope is as great as that among Nordics and other Europeans. Browridges, usually but slightly developed among Mongols, are often medium to heavy among Kirghiz. In malar form, however, the Kirghiz tend in a mongoloid direction, since over 80 per cent protrude promi­nently forward. Lips are usually thin or medium.

The greatest morphological difference between Kirghiz and Mongols lies in the architecture of the nose; while the root is only of moderate height, and frequently broad, the bridge is often quite high, and the nasal profile is convex in 50 per cent of cases; the rest are almost entirely straight. Thus the lightly concave mongoloid profile is notably rare, except among women and children. The nasal tip is often thick, and is inclined down­ward in some 30 per cent of cases; the wings are moderate to flaring, the nostrils often highly excavated, and'set usually at an oblique angle to the axis of the septum.

This pseudo-Armenoid or Armenoid-looking nose, typical of the Kir­ghiz if by no means found among all of them, differs from the true Dinaric or Armenoid organ in the fact that its root is usually low, while its bridge height is frequently great only by comparison. It is obviously a hybrid nose, just as the dimensions of the Kirghiz face suggest a hybrid origin. The pseudo-Armenoid skulls of the Medieval Avar and Turkish cemeteries of eastern Europe and Hungary are thus explained as a consequence of the mixture of the Buryat-Mongol mongoloid variety with white men presumably to a large extent Nordic, on the central Asiatic grasslands. This Kirghiz Turkish hybrid form is* furthermore, a phenomenon parallel

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to the formation of Norics in central Europe, and of Dinarics and Arme­noids themselves elsewhere.

Let us return to the Tatars of eastern and southern Russia, other than the Tatar-Finnish and Tatar-Ugric mixtures whom we have already studied. These include numerous scattered peoples from the Bashkir country down to the foothills of the Caucasus, and living, in its southern reaches, on the western side of the Volga. With the exception of the Kassimov Tatars in the government of Rjasan, who are said to be Tatar- ized Finns, like the Chuvash and Bashkirs,¹¹³ and who resemble the latter closely, most of these Tatar groups conform fairly well to the Tatar stand­ard as exemplified by the Kirghiz. As a whole, however, they are less frequently yellow-skinned; their eyes are pure brown in only 53 per cent of a composite group studied; the hair is black or dark brown in only half the total, while medium brown shades account for most of the rest. Deviations from a Kirghiz standard result from the absorption not of Finns, but of the remnants of Iranian tribes, and of other early occupants of the southern steppe country. This will be made clear when we come to study the Turkomans and other Turkish-speaking nomads of former Iranian territory in what is now Russian central Asia.

The peninsula of Crimea, which lies immediately south of Ukrainian territory, represents the most distant outpost of the Tatars in a south­western direction, except for their colonies in Rumania and Bulgaria. The history of the Crimea is one of many radical changes of ownership; the Cimmerians were driven to the mountains by the Scythians in the seventh century B.C.; subsequently Greeks colonized the peninsula in large numbers, and it remained largely Greek until overrun by Goths in 250 a.d. We have already seen (Chapter VI, p. 206) that these Goths faithfully preserved their Germanic skeletal character as long as they kept their ethnic identity. Huns and Khazars followed the Goths, and later Byzantines, Kipchak Turks, Mongols, and Italian merchants, all had their share in the possession and exploitation of the Crimea. The Tatars began their settlement in the thirteenth century, and became the principal inhabitants, flourishing especially under Ottoman Turkish domination. When the Crimea became Russian territory in 1783, many of the Tatars migrated to Turkey.

There are still Greeks in the Crimea, as well as some Bulgarians, Ger­mans, Albanians, Karaite Jews, and, of course, Russians. The Tatars, however, still make up the bulk of the population. These are divided into

¹¹⁸ Benzengre, B., RDAP, ser. 2, vol. 2, 1881, pp. 211-221.

Nefedov, J. W., AAM, vol. 1, 1879, pp. 200-201, 320-322. R6sum6 in AFA, vol. 14, 1883, p. 291.

Talko-Hryncewicz, J, AFA, vol. 34, 1907, p. 224.

Wilier, O., PAn, vol. 1, 1926, pp. 84-91.

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the Coastal Tatars, who have been very much mixed with other peoples, the Mountain Tatars, and the Tatars of the steppe regions, away from the southeastern coastal highlands.

In some respects there is a considerable difference between these groups; the Steppe Tatars are the shortest, with a stature mean of about 164 cm., and are brachycephalic (C. I. = 85); they resemble closely their relatives the Nogai Tatars, many of whom live near the Kalmucks in the territory north of the Caucasus.¹¹⁴ (See Map 16.) On the whole, they seem to be more frequently mongoloid than the rest of the Crimean Tatars. The coastal and mountain groups are both taller, with regional means rising as high as 170 cm., but with the general level situated at 167-168 cm. All, however, are brachycephalic, with cephalic index means of 84 and 85; the facial dimensions are moderate, and white rather than mongoloid. They are predominantly brunet, with over 50 per cent of dark eyes, and 65 per cent or more of black and dark brown hair color. This brunet pigmentation, however, may have been derived from a number of sources, as may the brachycephaly of this people. They are a very mixed group, and show little morphological evidence of their partially mongoloid ancestry.

The Kalmucks, who pasture their cattle on the Astrakhan steppe to the west of the mouth of the Volga, are a relatively pure Mongol people, transplanted from central Asia, who have retained their original speech and manner of living in their new home. They have preserved the moder­ately short stature, 164 cm., of the native Mongolians, but are less brachy­cephalic, since their cephalic index mean is 83, while that of the Mongols at home is about 85.¹¹⁶ In their facial dimensions, including a mean bizygomatic diameter of over 150 mm., they are fully Mongolian, as they are likewise in skin color, in hair form and texture, and in hair pigmenta­tion. Their noses, whether concave, straight, or convex in profile, are usually low-bridged; their malars prominent, their eyes frequently bor­dered by epicanthic folds. Although some mixture with Russians and Tatars must inevitably have taken place, this cannot have been extensive, and has not sufficed to deprive them of their essentially Mongol racial character.

¹¹⁴ Kharusin, A. N., IILE, vol. 68, 1890, fasc. 7, col. 249-288; fasc. 8, pp. 303-322. R£sum6 in Anth, vol. 3, 1892, pp. 481-482; also AFA, vol. 26, 1900, p. 831,

Nosov, A., Antrk, 1929, vol. 2, 1928, pp. 9-69.

Poschen, P., RAJ, vol. 8, 1912, pp. 36-42. Rev. in ZBFA, vol. 17, 1912, pp. 274- 275.

Talko-Hryncewicz, J., MAAE, vol. 7, 1904, pp. 3-100.

Tebebinskaia-Schenger, N., RAJ, vol. 17, 1928, pp. 12-53. R6sum6 in Anth, vol. 39, 1929, p. 408.

«« Korolev, S. R., AFA, vol. 32, 1906, pp. 90-92.

Vorobiev, V. V., AFA, vol. 32, 1906, pp. 87-90.