Arvistro, I agree that Riku Kiri looks very EHG and Mesolithic but in my opinion Mika is Finnic and not so much Uralic. Fnns have quite a lot of European Neolithic farmer ancestry (c. 33-35%) and Volga Ural people are more Yamnaya like.
Krefter, you are free to believe it or not, but according to Fig 4 this new paper hunter gatherers were taller than farmers:
http://i.imgur.com/iXf0b7z.png
Also Michael Hermanussen claims that “Late Upper Palaeolithic males (8000-6600 BC) were of medium stature and robusticity while stature further decreased to below 165 cm with estimated average body weight of 64 kg in Neolithic males of the Linear Band Pottery Culture”
http://www.hormones.gr/127/article/article.html
As for broadness of face, on Dienekes’ blog it is posted that “the major shape differences separating hunter-gatherer Mesolithic populations and farming Neolithic populations are coded by PC1 with Neolithic specimens having longer and taller vaults, and Mesolithic specimens having larger, and broader faces. … How the robust, low-skulled, broad-faced hunter-gatherers became more high-skulled, narrow-faced and gracile?”
http://dienekes.blogspot.lu/2012/03/cranial-variation-and-transition-to.html
and in
The Most Ancient Population of Latvia, it is said that “differences in facial width in Europe became particularly distinctive at the beginning of the Atlantic period, when farming was begun in Europe. At this time, facial width distinctly separated morphological forms in Northern Europe from those in the Mediterranean region -- two distinct geographic regions. Massive, broad-faced morphological forms dominated in northern and northeastern Europe, while gracile, narrow-faced forms are found most often in Middle Europe and the continent's southeastern reaches. During the Atlantic period, narrow-faced populations gradually moved in the northerly and northeasterly direction. They reached the Baltic region only during the Bronze Age. For this reason, during the Mesolithic and Neolithic period, people in the Baltic region (and surrounding regions) had broad faces, a fact which affirms their links to the late Paleolithic populations of Europe.”
Of course, there is a difference between looking like an angel and behaving like a bull and looking like a bull and behaving like a human.
I have always been more attracted by a man's brain than sheer physical power but I respect Riku Kiri's dimensions: height - 194 cm
weight - 150 kg, breast width - 150 cm.
Oetzi was 5'5", yes? I thought I read that the steppe people were about 5' 7 or 8". What's the big wups?