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I spent part of my Xmas holidays reading some old anthropology stuff. I was pretty ignorant about this matter.
It was all based on the physical appearance of people - it makes sense, since scholars back then had no, or a little, genetic material to study. I think we could identify two "poles" of physical variability within Europe: a mesolithic european type and a neolithic/mediterranean type (well, "derivative" types, not the same as them back them). Most europeans are probably a "combo" of these features. Visually, this is mesolithic, in my opinion:
These people are fair haired, but I think there are darker types, too.
Neolithic/mediterranean:
All that in between these types, which "disorderdly" and heavily mixed in the past, represents the 70-80% of nowadays europeans, IMHO.
It was all based on the physical appearance of people - it makes sense, since scholars back then had no, or a little, genetic material to study. I think we could identify two "poles" of physical variability within Europe: a mesolithic european type and a neolithic/mediterranean type (well, "derivative" types, not the same as them back them). Most europeans are probably a "combo" of these features. Visually, this is mesolithic, in my opinion:
These people are fair haired, but I think there are darker types, too.
Neolithic/mediterranean:
All that in between these types, which "disorderdly" and heavily mixed in the past, represents the 70-80% of nowadays europeans, IMHO.