Who are the purest Slavs racially?

[Smeagol]

What I mean, is who d you think is racially most similar to the old Slavs? (Nordid (Aryan), and Baltid).

Wait for poll.

[fenix978]

I vote Belarussians and Ukrainians, because I think that early Slavs belonged mainly to Baltic race which is present in the highest percent among these two nations.

Russians on the other hand have more Nordid, Pontid and Uralic influences.

I am also not sure about Poles, what is percent of pon-Baltics among them...

[Trun]

Bulgarians.

[fenix978]

Bulgarians.

So you say that early Slavs were mainly Pontids?

[Trun]

So you say that early Slavs were mainly Pontids?

Early Slavs stronk.

[morski]

What I mean, is who d you think is racially most similar to the old Slavs? (Nordid (Aryan), and Baltid).

Wait for poll.

Source?

[fenix978]

Early Slavs stronk.

Hm... Latvians, Lithuanians and Prussians were linguistically related to Slavs but they are allmost 100% Baltid + Nordid.

[Smeagol]

Source?

From Carleton Coon's races of Europe:

''for numerous descriptions of the early Slavs, assiduously collected by Niederle, occur in the writings of Byzantines, Arabs, and Persians.101 With only one exception, these make the Slavs tall, spare, and blond or ruddy. They were often confused with Germans, and this fact strengthens the likelihood that they were predominantly of light pigmentation.''

''If the evidence of literary sources makes the early Slavs Nordic in stature and pigmentation, that of ostcology makes them the same in the metrical and morphological sense. In brief, all of the earliest Slavic skeletal material, dating mostly from the eighth to the eleventh centuries, falls, by ,groups if not as individuals, into one or more of the Nordic categories already found to be characteristic of Iron Age Indo-European speaking peoples.''

[Lemon Kush]

Sorbs

[Ultra]

I vote Belarussians and Ukrainians, because I think that early Slavs belonged mainly to Baltic race which is present in the highest percent among these two nations.

Russians on the other hand have more Nordid, Pontid and Uralic influences.

I am also not sure about Poles, what is percent of pon-Baltics among them...

Pontid and general dark complexion is much more prevalent in the Slavic population in Ukraine than the one in Russia. I'm pretty sure Baltid is more common among Russians as well.