- •Published, April, 1939.
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction 78-82
- •Introduction 131-135
- •Introduction 297-298
- •Introduction 400-401
- •Introduction 510-511
- •List of maps
- •Introduction to the historical study of the white race
- •Statement of aims and proposals
- •Theory and principles of the concept race
- •Materials and techniques of osteology**
- •Pleistocene white men
- •Pleistocene climate
- •Sapiens men of the middle pleistocene
- •The neanderthaloid hybrids of palestine
- •Upper palaeolithic man in europe,
- •Fig. 2. Neanderthal Man. Fig. 3. Cro-Magnon Man.
- •Aurignacian man in east africa
- •The magdalenians
- •Upper palaeolithic man in china
- •Summary and conclusions
- •Fig. 12. Fjelkinge, Skane, Sweden. Neolithic.
- •Mesolithic man in africa
- •The natufians of palestine
- •The midden-d wellers of the tagus
- •Mesolithic man in france
- •The ofnet head burials
- •Mesolithic man in the crimea
- •Palaeolithic survivals in the northwest
- •Clarke, j. G. D., op. Cit., pp. 133-136.
- •38 Fiirst, Carl m., fkva, vol. 20, 1925, pp. 274-293.
- •Aichel, Otto, Der deutsche Mensch. The specimens referred to are b 5, ks 11032, ks 11254b, b 38, b 34, b 37, b 10.
- •Clarke, j. G. D., op. Citpp. 133-136.
- •Summary and conclusions
- •The neolithic invasions
- •(1) Introduction
- •1 Childe, V. Gordon, The Dawn of European Civilization; The Most Ancient East; The Danube in Prehistory; New Light on the Most Ancient East; Man Makes Himself.
- •And chronology '
- •The neolithic and the mediterranean race
- •Vault medium to thin, muscular relief on vault as a rule slight.
- •Iran and iraq
- •Vallois, h. V., “Notes sur les Tfctes Osseuses,” in Contencau, g., and Ghirsh- man, a., Fouilles de Tepe Giyan.
- •Jordan, j., apaw, Jh. 1932, #2.
- •Keith, Sir Arthur, “Report on the Human Remains, Ur Excavations,” vol. 1: in Hall, h. R. H„ and Woolley, c. L., Al 'Ubaid,
- •10 Frankfort, h., “Oriental Institute Discoveries in Iraq, 1933-34,” Fourth Preliminary Report, coic #19, 1935,
- •Civilized men in egypt
- •11 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1925, p. 4.
- •12 This summary of climatic changes in Egypt is based on Childe, V. G., New Light
- •18 Childe, op. Cit.Y p. 35. 14 Leakey, l. S. B., Stone Age Africa, pp. 177-178.
- •Brunton, Guy, Antiquity, vol. 3, #12, Dec., 1929, pp. 456-457.
- •Menghin, o., Lecture at Harvard University, April 6, 1937.
- •Childe, V. G., op. Cit.Y p. 64.
- •Derry, Douglas, sawv, Jahrgang, 1932, #1-4, pp. 60-61. 20 Ibid., p. 306.
- •Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1927, vol. 27, pp. 293-309.
- •21 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, vol. 17, 1925, pp. 1-52.
- •Morant, op. Cit., 1925.
- •Neolithic north africa
- •(6) The neolithic in spain and portugal
- •The eastern source areas: south, central, and north
- •The danubian culture bearers
- •The corded or battle-axe people
- •The neolithic in the british isles
- •Western europe and the alpine race
- •Schlaginhaufen, o., op. Cit.
- •Schenk, a., reap, vol. 14, 1904, pp. 335-375.
- •Childe, The Danube in Prehistory, pp. 163, 174.
- •Neolithic scandinavia
- •Introduction
- •Bronze age movements and chronology
- •The bronze age in western asia
- •The minoans
- •The greeks
- •Basques, phoenicians, and etruscans
- •The bronze age in britain
- •The bronze age in central europe
- •The bronze age in the north
- •The bronze age on the eastern plains
- •The final bronze age and cremation
- •Summary and conclusions
- •Race, languages, and european peoples
- •The illyrians
- •The kelts
- •Vallois, h. V., Les Ossements Bretons de Kerne, TouUBras, et Port-Bara.
- •We know the stature of Kelts in the British Isles only from a small Irish group, and by inference from comparison with mediaeval English counterparts of Iron Age skeletons.
- •Greenwell, w., Archaeologia, vol. 60, part 1, pp. 251-312.
- •Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1926, vol. 18, pp. 56-98.
- •The romans
- •46 Whatmouffh. J., The Foundations of Roman Italy.
- •The scythians
- •88 Browne, c. R., pria, vol. 2, ser. 3, 1899, pp. 649—654.
- •88 Whatmough is in doubt as to their linguistic affiliation. Whatmough, j., op. Cit., pp. 202-205.
- •Fig. 29. Scythians, from the Kul Oba Vase. Redrawn from Minns, e. H., Scythians and Greeks, p. 201, Fig. 94.
- •Doniti, a., Crania Scythica, mssr, ser. 3, Tomul X, Mem. 9, Bucharest, 1935.
- •The germanic peoples
- •Stoiyhwo, k., Swiatowit, vol. 6, 1905, pp. 73-80.
- •Bunak, V. V., raj, vol. 17, 1929, pp. 64-87.
- •Shetelig, h., Falk, h., and Gordon, e. V., Scandinavian Archaeology, pp. 174-175.
- •70 Hubert, h., The Rise of the Celts, pp. 50-52.
- •71 Nielsen, h. A., anoh, II Rakke, vol. 21, 1906, pp. 237-318; ibid., III Rakke, vol. 5, 1915, pp. 360-365. Reworked.
- •Retzius, g., Crania Suecica, reworked.
- •78 Schliz, a., pz, vol. 5, 1913, pp. 148-157.
- •Barras de Aragon, f. De las, msae, vol. 6, 1927, pp. 141-186.
- •78 Hauschild, m. W., zfma, vol. 25, 1925, pp. 221-242.
- •79 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, vol. 18, 1926, pp. 56-98.
- •8° Reche, o., vur, vol. 4, 1929, pp. 129-158, 193-215.
- •Kendrick, t. D., and Hawkes, c. F. C., Archaeology in England and Wales, 1914-1931.
- •Morant, Biometrika, vol. 18, 1926, pp. 56-98.
- •Lambdoid flattening is a characteristic common to Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic man, but rare in the exclusively Mediterranean group.
- •Calculated from a number of series, involving over 120 adult males. Sources:
- •Peake, h., and Hooton, e. A., jrai, vol. 45, 1915, pp. 92-130.
- •Bryce, t. H., psas, vol. 61, 1927, pp. 301-317.
- •Ecker, a., Crania Germanica.
- •Vram, u., rdar, vol. 9, 1903, pp. 151-159.
- •06 Miiller, g., loc. Cit.
- •98 Lebzelter, V., and Thalmann, g., zfrk, vol. 1, 1935, pp. 274-288.
- •97 Hamy, e. T., Anth, vol. 4, 1893, pp. 513-534; vol. 19, 1908, pp. 47-68.
- •The slavs
- •Conclusions
- •The iron age, part II Speakers of Uralic and Altaic
- •The turks and mongols
- •I® Ibid.
- •Introduction to the study of the living
- •Materials and techniques
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •2. Skin of tawny white, nose narrow,
- •Hair Flaxen
- •Gobineau, a. De, Essai sur Vinegaliti des races humaines.
- •Meyer, h., Die Insel Tenerife; Uber die Urbewohner der Canarischen Inseln.
- •46 Eickstedt, e. Von, Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit.
- •Nordenstreng, r., Europas Mdnniskoraser och Folkslag.
- •Montandon, g., La Race, Les Races.
- •Large-headed palaeolithic survivors
- •Pure and mixed palaeolithic and mesolithic survivors of moderate head size56
- •Pure and mixed unbrachtcephalized mediterranean deriva tives
- •Brachtcephauzed mediterranean derivatives, probably mixed
- •The north
- •Introduction
- •The lapps
- •I Wiklund, k. B., gb, vol. 13, 1923, pp. 223-242.
- •7 Schreiner, a., Die Nord-Norweger; Hellemo (Tysfjord Lappen).
- •8 Gjessing, r., Die Kautokeinolappen.
- •10 Kajava, y., Beitr'dge zur Kenntnis der Rasseneigenschaften der Lappen Finnlands.
- •17 For a complete bibliography of early Lappish series, see the lists of Bryn, the two Schreiners, Geyer, Kajava, and Zolotarev.
- •Schreiner, k. E., Zur Osteologie der Lappen.
- •Gjessing, r., Die Kautokeinolappen, pp. 90-95.
- •Hatt, g., Notes on Reindeer Nomadism, maaa, vol. 6, 1919. This is one of the few points regarding the history of reindeer husbandry upon which these two authorities agree.
- •The samoyeds26
- •Scandinavia; norway
- •Iceland
- •Sweden64
- •Denmark62
- •The finno-ugrians, introduction
- •Fig. 31. Linguistic Relationships of Finno-Ugrian Speaking Peoples.
- •Racial characters of the eastern finns
- •The baltic finns: finland
- •The baltic-speaking peoples
- •Conclusions
- •The british isles
- •R£sum£ of skeletal history
- •Ireland
- •Great britain, general survey
- •Fig. 32. Composite Silhouettes of English Men and Women.
- •The british isles, summary
- •Introduction
- •Lapps and samoyeds
- •Mongoloid influences in eastern europe and in turkestan
- •Brunn survivors in scandinavia
- •Borreby survivors in the north
- •East baltics
- •Carpathian and balkan borreby-like types
- •The alpine race in germany
- •The alpine race in western and central europe
- •Aberrant alpine forms in western and central europe
- •Alpines from central, eastern, and southeastern europe
- •Asiatic alpines
- •The mediterranean race in arabia
- •Long-faced mediterraneans of the western asiatic highlands
- •Long-faced mediterraneans of the western asiatic highlands: the irano-afghan race
- •Gypsies, dark-skinned mediterraneans, and south arabian veddoids
- •The negroid periphery of the mediterranean race
- •Mediterraneans from north africa
- •Small mediterraneans of southern europe
- •Atlanto-mediterraneans from southwestern europe
- •Blue-eyed atlanto-mediterraneans
- •The mediterranean reemergence in great britain
- •The pontic mediterraneans
- •The nordic race: examples of corded predominance
- •The nordic race: examples of danubian predominance
- •The nordic race: hallstatt and keltic iron age types
- •Exotic nordics
- •Nordics altered by northwestern european upper palaeolithic mixture: I
- •Nordics altered by northwestern european upper palaeolithic mixture: II
- •Nordics altered by mixture with southwestern borreby and alpine elements
- •The principle of dinaricization
- •European dinarics: I
- •European dinarics: II
- •European dinarics: III
- •European dinarics: IV
- •Dinarics in western asia: I
- •Dinarics in western asia: II
- •Armenoid armenians
- •Dinaricized forms from arabia and central asia
- •The jews: I
- •The jews: II
- •The jews: III
- •The mediterranean world
- •Introduction
- •The mediterranean rage in arabia
- •The mediterranean world
- •7 Lawrence, Col. T. E., The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
- •The Distribution of Iranian Languages
- •The turks as mediterraneans
- •Fig, 37. Ancient Jew.
- •North africa, introduction
- •Fig. 38. Ancient Libyan. Redrawn from
- •The tuareg
- •Eastern barbary, algeria, and tunisia
- •The iberian peninsula
- •The western mediterranean islands
- •The basques
- •The gypsies
- •Chapter XII
- •The central zone, a study in reemergence
- •Introduction
- •8 Collignon, r., msap, 1894.
- •9 Collignon, r., bsap, 1883; Anth, 1893.
- •Belgium
- •The netherlands and frisia
- •Germany
- •Switzerland and austria
- •The living slavs
- •Languages of East-Central Europe and of the Balkans
- •The magyars
- •The living slavs (Concluded)
- •Albania and the dinaric race
- •The greeks
- •Bulgaria
- •Rumania and the vlachs
- •The osmanli turks
- •Turkestan and the tajiks
- •Conclusions
- •Conclusion
- •Comments and reflections
- •The white race and the new world
- •IflnrlrH
- •Alveon (also prosthion). The most anterior point on the alveolar border of the upper jaw, on the median line between the two upper median incisors.
- •Length of the clavicle (collar bone) and that of the humerus (upper arm bone);
- •Incipiently mongoloid. A racial type which has evolved part way in a mongoloid direction, and which may have other, non-mongoloid specializations of its own, is called incipiently mongoloid.
- •List of books
- •Index of authors
- •54; Language distribution, 561, map; Jews in, 642; Neo-Danubian, ill., Plate 31, Jig. 4.
- •Map; classified, 577; racial characteristics, 578-79; ill., Plate 3, fig. 3.
- •Ill., Plate 6, Jigs. 1-5; survivors in Carpathians and Balkans, ill., Plate 8, figs. 1-6; Nordic blend, ill., Plate 34, figs.
- •61; Associated with large head size, 265, 266. See also Cephalic index, Cranial measurements.
- •Ill., Plate 36, fig. 1. See also Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland.
- •Ill., Plate 30, fig. 2.
- •85; Von Eickstedt’s, 286-88; Gzek- anowski’s system, 288-89; author’s, 289-96; schematic representation, 290, chart; geographic, 294- 95, map.
- •396; Cornishmen in France, 512, 514.
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Atlanto-Mediterranean,
which probably goes back to the Neolithic; the Neo-Danubian is
probably of both Slavic and Ugrian introduction, although some of it
may be older; the Nordic may be of several origins, including
Thracian; the Dinaric is simply the result of Bulgarian admixture
with local elements in Macedonia; the Turkic is found mostly in
eastern Bulgaria, and then among townsmen and shepherds rather than
among agriculturalists. Of these varied elements, the first two are
the most important, and the first more than the second. The presence
of a strongly entrenched Atlanto-Mediterranean population of
Neolithic date in all of the lowland Balkans south and east of the
Iron Gate is becoming increasingly evident. In Bulgaria it is
geographically most concentrated along the southern ethnic
periphery, and among Bulgarian colonies abroad, as in the Crimea.
The
modern kingdom of Rumania consists of the provinces of Moldavia,
Wallachia, Dobruja, Bessarabia, Transylvania, part of the Banat, and
the Bukovina. The last four, while the majority of their inhabitants
are Rumanians, have been Rumanian territory only since the World
War. Moldavia is bounded on the west by the crest of the
Carpathians, on the east by the Pruth River; Wallachia is bounded on
the north by the Transylvanian Alps, and on the south by the
Danube. Dobruja is the plain lying between the northward curve of
the Danube and the Black Sea; it includes the important seaport of
Constanza.
In
Moldavia and Wallachia the great majority of the population is
Rumanian; the same is true to a large extent of Bessarabia, but in
Transylvania there are large populations of Germans and of
Magyars, already discussed in previous sections. In the Banat again
there are many Hungarians, and a number of Serbs, while in the
Dobruja lives one of the most scrambled populations of Europe. Here
Bulgars, Ottoman Turks, Tatars, Gaguz, who claim to be descendants
of the Kumans, Armenians, Kurds, Caucasic peoples, and a few of
almost all the other peoples of eastern Europe and western Asia are
to be found. The Dobruja is as varied as the contents of an
ethnological museum, and like a museum, each group clings
tenaciously to everything that is its own.136
The
inhabitants of Dobruja include, of course, both Gypsies and Jews,
and Rumania is one of the greatest concentration points for both in
Europe. The Jews form 5 per cent of the population of the pre-war
section of the kingdom, and are especially numerous in northern
Moldavia and the Bukovina, where their zone of concentration forms
an extension of that in Polish Galicia. The Moldavian Jews, who are
mainly of Polish
185
Pittard, E., Les
Peuples des Balkans,
is the authority on the Dobruja.
Rumania and the vlachs
THE
CENTRAL ZONE
613
or
Russian antecedents, speak their own language, wear a separate
costume, and mix little if at all with the Rumanian population.
In
classical times Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia formed what
was known as Dacia, and the Dacians were considered to be a branch
of the Thracians. The Dacians included an upper class, distinguished
by the practice of wearing brimless felt hats, Scythian style, and a
peasantry, among whom the men went bare-headed, with their hair
long, as do the older and more conservative of the present-day
Rumanian peasants. Between 105 and 107 a.d.
Trajan
conquered Dacia, and made it a
Roman
province; the warlike inhabitants, who had long resisted the Romans,
fled in great numbers, while their villages were being plundered;
later, many are said to have returned. The Romans placed many
colonists in Dacia, and for its defense established there the
permanent headquarters of the thirteenth legion. In 256 a.d.
the
Goths arrived, and the Romans began a hasty departure; it is likely
that many of the inhabitants of the country left with them.
During
the century and a half of Roman rule, the language of Dacia became
Latin, and modern Rumanian is without doubt a descendant of that
colonial speech. During the maximum extension of the empir^, Latin
and its derivatives were spoken in a wide zone peripheral to Rome,
including the Iberian peninsula, Gaul, Switzerland, the Tyrol, and
much of the territory lying between the head of the Adriatic and the
Black Sea. Albanian, with its strong Latin infusion, must be
considered a partial product of this extension; elsewhere Ladin,
Romansch, and Rumanian must be considered survivals in the face of
the barbarian invasions which converted most of southeastern Europe
to Germanic, Slavic, Uralic, and Altaic speech.
Foreigners
designate Rumanians and Rumanian speakers by the term Vlach; the
Vlachs are the Rumanian speakers to be found throughout southeastern
Europe, whether living in Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania,
Yugoslavia, or elsewhere. 'The word Vlach, which is a derivative
from the Gothic, by way of Slavic, means “foreigner”; it is a
cognate of our own word “Welsh,” used by the Anglo-Saxons to
designate Kymric- speaking Britons, and of “Walloon.” The modern
Vlach language, while basically Latin, shares with Albanian certain
structural peculiarities which it must derive from Thracian or
Illyrian, and at the same time contains a large number of Slavic
roots.
The
use of a Romance language in Rumania today is not a simple case of a
Romanized Dacian survival; the history of Rumania is too
complicated to permit this explanation alone. After the
departure of the Romans, Dacia was overrun by Goths, by Slavs, by
Bulgars, by many kinds of Tatars, and by Ottoman Turks. It is very
likely that the Vlach survival
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RACES OF EUROPE
in
these lands was only partial until the late Middle Ages, when the
peasants who had resisted the inroads of these conquerors were
joined by their kinsmen returning from Bulgaria and Macedonia, and
from beyond the Carpathians. Since then the expansion of the Vlachs
in what is now Rumania has been constant and, east of the
Carpathians, nearly complete.
The
Vlachs have always been far wanderers; many of them are shepherds,
and the pastoral life has been as important to them, until modern
times, as agriculture. In Macedonia and northern Greece, and in
southern Albania, Vlach colonists are nomads living in black tents
like those of Arabs, and like those which one may suppose the
Scythians used before them. In Dalmatia they were during the Middle
Ages an important people; Dubrovnik (Ragusa) was originally a Vlach
town. In the peninsula of Istria, now inhabited mostly by Slovenes
and Italians, a small group of Vlach speakers, the Ci£i, has
resisted assimilation to this day. These Istrian Vlachs, early
invaders of Illyrian territory, are the remnants of a former link in
the continuity of the Roman Empire between the Atlantic and the
Black Sea.
In
view of the complex ethnic history of Rumania, the living Rumanians
may be expected to show evidence of a multiplicity of racial origin.
To native Dacian elements, which must have included a blend of
indigenous Neolithic peoples with Satem-speaking Nordics, have been
added whatever population the Romans brought and which did not run
away, and a multitude of early Slavs whom the Vlachs absorbed. Other
elements, Ugric, Tatar, and Gothic, were probably of lesser
importance.
The
Rumanians, as a whole, in the early part of the present century, had
a mean stature of roughly 167 cm., which is probably nearly
representative today.136 There is little regional
variation; what there is indicates that the mountaineers of the
northern Rumanian Carpathians may be taller than the rest, since the
villagers of Fundul Moldovii, studied by Rainer, have a mean of
nearly 170 cm.; those living on the Bessarabian plain amongst the
Ukrainians seem to be the shortest, with a mean as low as 165 cm. A
greater variation is found in the cephalic index; on the plains of
Moldavia and Wallachia, and in the Dobruja, the Rumanians
136
Besides Pittard’s book, sources on the Rumanians are:
Biasutti,
R., APA, vol. 51, 1921, pp. 154-184.
Bielskii,
P. A., RAJ, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 146-164.
Himmel,
H., MAGW, vol. 18, 1888, pp. 83-84.
Lebzelter,
V., Anth, vol. 45, 1935, pp. 65-69.
Papilian,
V., RDAP, vol. 33, 1923, pp. 337-341
Pittard,
E., and Donifci, A., BMSA, ser. 7, vol. 8, 1927, pp. 38-50; BSGA,
vol. 3, 1927, pp. 13-14; vol. 4, 1928, pp. 29-30.
Pittard,
E., and Sergent, E., RDAP, vol. 29, 1919, pp. 57-76.
Rainer,
F. I., Enquites
anthropologiques dans trois Villages Roumains des Carpathes.
THE
CENTRAL ZONE
615
are
as a rule mesocephals or sub-brachycephals, with means of 80 to 81;
they are nearly as long-headed as the Bulgarians. In the mountains,
however, they are fully Dinaric or Alpine in their brachycephaly,
with a mean of 85.4 in Fundul Moldovii in the Bukovinian highlands,
and of 86 in Bukovina in general, where they equal the brachycephaly
of the Huzuls. Within the curve of the Carpathians, they are also
completely brachycephalic; means from Rumanians in Transylvania
and in the Banat lie mostly between 84 and 85, although in the
village of Dragu§, an old and completely Rumanian settlement lying
just inside the bend in the mountain crest where the
Transylvanian Alps become the eastern Carpathians, and not far from
the Saxon city of Kronstadt, the mean is 86.6.
We
are dealing, therefore, with two kinds of Rumanians; the
mesocephalic ones of the eastern plains, and the brachycephalic
ones of the Carpathians and the lands to the west. The Carpathians
form a sharp boundary delimiting the eastward and northeastward
extension of Alpine brachycephaly in Europe. This boundary shows
little regard for language or for ethnic tradition.
The
Rumanians of the plains show a general metrical similarity to the
Neq-Danubians of the Slavic countries to the north, and at the same
time a relationship to the longer-headed Bulgarians. The village of
Nerejul Mare, some eighty miles north of Bucharest on the
southeastern slope of the Carpathians, will serve as an example of
the plains population, although the mean cephalic index of its
inhabitants, 81.5, is higher than in some districts. The mean
stature is 166.8 cm., the relative sitting height 52.7. Eighty-eight
per cent of the men have black or dark brown to brown hair, the rest
light brown or blond. Pure dark eyes are found among 54 per cent,
light eyes among 11 per cent, with the rest mixed, mostly dark-
mixed. Thus the population is prevailingly brunet, as well as
moderately tall, intermediate in body build, and sub-brachycephalic.
The
mean head length of 186 mm., and breadth of 151 mm. show a
moderately small head size; the auricular height of 125 mm. is
relatively high. The face is of moderate size, with a height of 121
mm., and breadths of 102 mm. for the minimum frontal, 140 mm. for
the bizygomatic, and 106 mm. for the bigonial. The nose is small,
with a height of 53.2 mm. and a breadth of 34.2 mm. The face is
mesoprosopic, with a facial index of 86, and leptorrhine, with a
nasal index of 65. While these cranial and facial indices place the
inhabitants of Nerejul Mare definitely in the same class with the
peasantry of most of Russia, the intensity of hair and eye
pigmentation, and the narrowness of the forehead and nose, as
contrasted to the breadth of the jaw, suggest the brunet long-headed
element in Bulgaria and Greece. Rainer finds these moderately tall
Mediterraneans among his villagers, as well as individuals of
Neo-Danubian, Slavic-looking
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RACES OF EUROPE
type;
Alpines and Dinarics are partly responsible for the elevation of the
cephalic index, and Norics are present as a Nordic by-product. In
Moldavia as a whole, however, the Neo-Danubian and Black Sea
Mediterranean forms are the two elements of greatest importance, and
the same is true of Wallachia.
The
mountaineers of Fundul Moldovii, in the Bukovina, are taller than
the villagers just studied, with a mean stature, quoted above, of
169.5 cm.; their cephalic index mean is 85.4, while their nasal
index reaches the low mean of 60. They are somewhat lighter eyed
than the plainsmen, and darker haired. Their heads are broader, with
a mean width of 157 mm., rather than shorter, and hence larger.
Their faces are longer (124 mm.) and broader (144 mm.), while both
foreheads and jaws also exceed those of the Moldavian villagers in
breadth, and their nasal lengths (56.4 mm.) are considerably
greater. Fifteen per cent have flattened occiputs. Although only 20
per cent have convex nasal profiles, in the great majority the
forward jut of the nose, accompanied by a straight or wavy profile,
is great.
The
Fundul Moldovii people are in great majority Dinarics; a few appear
Alpine, and a few others Noric. By and large, if the inhabitants of
this village were transported to northern Albania and given a change
of costume, few anthropologists would be able to tell the difference
between the newcomers and the native tribesmen. The inhabitants of
Dragu§, farther south and on the Transylvanian side, and no farther
from Bucharest than Nerejul Mare, are just as Dinaric metrically as
the Bukovinian villagers; their heads are, in fact, shorter, with a
mean length of 182 mm., as are their faces; they resemble to a
certain extent the Dinaric form common among Serbs.
Leaving
the political boundaries of Rumania, we find two groups of Vlachs
who have been the subjects of special study; those of Macedonia137
and of Istria.138 The Vlachs of Macedonia are the tallest
of the many varied ethnic groups which compose that region, with a
mean stature of 168 cm., and have the greatest absolute head length
(188 mm.). They are low brachycephals, with a mean cephalic index of
83, are predominantly dark-haired and dark-eyed, and
straight-nosed. They show some Dinaric influences, as do all the
peoples of Macedonia; on the whole, however, their closest
affiliation is with the brunet mesocephals and dolichocephals
of the eastern Balkan area. There are, nevertheless, a few blonds
among them, and these are usually Nordic.
The
Istrian Vlachs, on the other hand, are complete Dinarics with a mean
stature of 169 cm., a cephalic index of 86, and head and facial
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M., and Morant, G. M., Biometrika, vol. 21, 1929, pp. 322-336.
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