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The high stature of HGs is a popularbelief based upon the high statured attributed to 'Cro-magnon' (1m80at first, corrected to 1m74) – all the 'cromagnon' upperpaleolithicmen was very high, about this 1m74... the upper-mesolithic men ofCombe-Capelle (9000/7000 BC) types were less high statured, about1m65-1m67 and the means for mesolithic men in western Europe werebetween 1m60 and 1m65 (we have less yet : Teviec men and Mugemmen : 1m55/1m58, around 6000/5000 BC, so the HGs giants... thehigher statured during Mesolithic were, according to someones, theeastern Europe ones (I have not the means) ; the northern oneswere rather short, like the western ones (french scholars dixit,1977) -
we still have to explain thisshortening for Cro-Magnon evident descendants in western Europe :a crossing with more 'mediterranean' people from East Mediterranea orNorth-Africa is very possible, but it seem it was limited enoughbefore plain Neolithic (even if evident for me) – a selection undernatural pressure linked to climate and food is very possible, alliedto drift (small populations as it seems), but drift here could haveplayed very early to can explain the general phenomenon ; theselittle men stayed very robust concerning bones, nevertheless – thequite evident crossings (Cr-Mn+C-C/Brünn) in some places did notcreate evident increase of stature, for I know... - the eastern ones(higher) were more on the 'capelloid-brünnoid' side -
the old believing that short staturesalways came by South is wrong ; the first ancestors of'high-statured-mediterranen', southern people from East Mediterraneamore akin for crania to 'c-c/brünnoid' types, found in North Africaat those times, were about 1m68, not dwarves like Mugemians orTeviecians ! - even the « gracile » 'mediterraneans'associated to Cardial were about 1m62 -
concerning the crania (skull AND face),the Loschbour type is very definitely on the 'c-c/brünnoid'side and there is no reason to be astonished by his likeness topresent day people (a number of them) – the reconstitution« numeric » picture concerning body skeleton seems to mea bit too gracile -the distribution of « archaic » skullschanged with time but they never disappeared – their diminution in%s in current population is more the effect of the arriving ofdifferent 'europoids' than to their evolution in situ in Europe ;by the way, the 'cromagnoids' (more especially the westernmost ones)had lateral profiles very more « evolved » concerning thefrontal, spite their anteriority in the place ! -