For typologie, I was not going into details, just I wanted to show some link between body statures and old analysis not completely wrong, simplifying it in a two way opposition between types as 'alpin' and 'dinaric' which had rather opposite distributions between Southern and Northern Albania, some 70 years ago, among other less dense types IMO ('atlant mediter', you 'atlantic', seems to me more present on shores) . I knowed things are not so simple.
Sorry but I didn't understand well your point about your own height compared to Montenegro people; who is the tallest, you or the local mean?
Of course I understand, as a non local you have to rely on anthropology books like that of Coon, but even Coon’s book didn’t cover enough areas to give you a more complete idea.
For instance, it’s interesting how the Mirdite people that Coon calls the shortest and with the darkest hair are very “West-Sicilian” pulled in results and PCA maps made by someone with a big database. The same goes to the Southern North Albanians and they too display more of those Mediterranean and Alpine physical characteristics.
This seems linked to the Imperial Rome East Med influx that affected the Balkans and Italy (even up to Southern Germany but at a lower degree obviously). I personally provided the K13 coordinates of some members who are almost West Sicilian like or half way there and I have most of these members on Facebook or Instagram.
Within Albanians at least there’s definitely some correlation between their location on the PCA map and physical characteristics.
There’s a member who’s within the Italy_Romagna cluster and is 191cm tall, with a Dinaric-Altantic mixed phenotype.
I am myself Dinaroid and the ancestry from the Albanians from Montenegro have pulled me Northwards in between mountain North Albanians (the most Dinaric looking so far) and Albanians from Montenegro.
We have then South Eastern members with a Eastern pull that have more East Med genetically but also more Baltic and have an elevated level of blue eyes/fair hair, rounder features, or they’re very Mediterranean (Dinaricized) of a tall type, way taller than their fair “cousins”.
Considering this, my hypothesis is that the Dinaric Alps or Northern Balkans had a local very tall population that was further admixed with a Germanic-Celtic due to the Western pull of Montenegrins and Dalmatians on the PCA and then got Slavic admixed. Northern North Albanians seem to mostly descend from this local very tall population with less Roman East Med admixture (and of course some North Eastern pull that varies from person to person) just like the Albanians from Montenegro who have an additional Northern or North Eastern pull, with some being very North Western.
The vast majority of members in this Northern North Albanians and Alb from Montenegro are generally very tall.
So Albanians are a mix or HRV_IA + Logkas with some having additional Northern and North-Eastern and some a Sicilian-like pull, not forgetting the Eastern (East Med+Slavic) of the Eastern regions.
There’s South-Eastern Albanians and Northern Greeks that are more Northern (and Eastern) than myself and almost as Northern as Albanians from Montenegro, despite being a Southern Balkan region with a lot more East Med.
I almost forgot, I am several cm taller than the Montenegrin average.