Classify Lithuanians

[JeanBaMac]

Indo-Europeans mixed with Finns. They look like Northern Russians.

[JeanBaMac]

0 Baltid there.

Sub-Nordid. Nobody would bat an eye if someone claimed she was from say, the Netherlands.

Nordid+Baltid blending produce Subnordid features, Coon called this type Neo-Danubian. They look like Poles (especially Kashubians), Belarusians or North Russians.

[JeanBaMac]

I think it depends on the region as well in the Western part of Lithuania people are really light. While in Eastern part people tend to be a bit more dark and for example dark brown hair is pretty common, though the eyes are still blue/grey. Funny thing is that most of Lithuanian men tend to have brown hair and ginger beards quite odd to me.

Football teams from Western Lithuania





Utena, Anyksciai, Rokiskis the most Eastern parts - my ancestors are from there too . Teams from those areas:







I think Eastern part is more Baltid looking, the Western part more Nordid

Western part is more Polish-looking (mostly West Baltid / CroMagnid ), some men on the pics look like Pudzianowski.

[JeanBaMac]

Genetically close, but not alike. Check the haplogroup map I posted. Very far for genetically alike. French and English are more genetically alike (Celtics) than Lithuanians and Russians let's say.

The division was between languages, but not genetics. Lithuanian population composition hasn't changed much for the last 5000 years. I wrote that the wast majority of Lithuanians live in ethnically homogeneous areas (95-99%) while Slav minorities live mostly in pocketed areas in Lithuania.

I agree that some Belarussians got more Baltic genes, especially the ones closer to border. Back in 17-18th century South-Eastern Lithuanian dialect speakers were common in areas to the North from Minsk.

Not really, English people descend mostly from insular Celts (R1B-L21) since Frenchmen (with the exception of Bretons who are related to Welsh and Cornish people) descend mostly from Gauls/continental Celts (R1b-U152).
Lithuanians and Russians have more common genes than English and French people.

[Vyacheslav]

Please classify these Lithuanians, where can they pass?

https://www.opera.lt/en/about-us/people/50/orchestra-c4

[aherne]

They look like Slavs, no doubt about that, but not identical because they lack ENF influences. Few Pontids, Dinarics, Alpines...

[Sandis]

It depends on the region of Lithuania. Baltid, Nordid phenotypes more common in the North. Gorid, North Pontid more common in the South.

I created morphs by regions using 180 Lithuanian female basketball players (only Lithuanian names and surnames).





Lithuanians from regions 4 and 5 look close to Latvians, Lithuanians from regions 7 and 9 look close to Eastern Poles.

[VirilLignac]

Here are some Lithuanians I think look like outliers to other populations like Slavs or Scandinavians(meaning the quintessential Baltic look like a red-haired Keltid-Nordid is a quintessential Irish look, don't confuse with average or most common):











These Latvians also look uber Baltic:

It's due to Uralic/Finnic admixture among Balts, you can see the same phenotypes in Finland, Estonia and in NW Russia (among Votes, Karelians, Ingrians etc.)