Coon's "Borreby race" = utter horseshit.

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Ok so Coon says there are "Borreby survivors" in Denmark and Norway. Yeah, no there aren't.


The most distinctive trait of the Borreby skulls from Denmark is that they have very flat frontal bones, like a Neanderthal, and the frontal bones of skull are lower than the parietal bone.




Note how, in the borreby skull, you can draw a nearly straight line from the ophryon to the parietal bone, while at the same time following the curvature (or lack thereof) of the skull:




The dots in this photo show how much higher the parietsl bone is than the frontal bone:




Ok so let's deconstruct Coon's Borrebies one by one:


Example 1, which Coon said was the purest Borreby. Note how his frontal bone is very much higher than his parietal bone, and also very curved and not flat. He is also too flat nosed and too long headed. Doesn't have a brow ridge. Fail.







Not Borreby.

Example 2: His forehead is bulbuous and not flat, and his frontal bones are too high relative to his parietals. His upper facial height (80mm) is way too long for any Borreby. Head too long, no brow ridge. Not a Borreby. Fail #2 for Carleton Coon.





Example 3: No comment necessary, not Borreby.






Example 4: Coon didn't include a profile shot or metrics of this man so I will not comment on him.





Example 5: Of all the people on this plate, this guy (A Finn...) comes closest to the Borreby type. His forehead is flat but not low enough, and his parietal bone isn't so low. He is also short headed enough. He also has a plano-occipital vault, like most Borreby skulls. Interesting how the only guy who is even remotely similar to a Borreby, is not from Denmark but from Finland.....



Coon's original Borreby plate is to be found here:


http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/troeplate05.htm


Metric data on this plate is found here:


http://www.friendsofsabbath.org/Furt.../Plate%205.jpg

[Voskos]

A more accurate appelation for Coon's ''Borreby'' would be ''not-a-borreby''.

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Plate 6: Borreby men in Germany and elsewherev


http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/troeplate06.htm

Metric data:

http://www.friendsofsabbath.org/Furt.../Plate%206.jpg

Example 1, Coon says:

FIG. 1 (2 views, Sailer, K., "Die Fehmaraner ," Deutsche Rassenkunde, vol. 4, 1930, Tafel 41, #H-l1, #2193). A concentration of a specialized and exaggerated Borreby type or types is found on the island of Fehmaran, between the Danish Archipelago and Germany. The individual shown has especially heavy browridges and a great nasion depression. Others are often rounder-faced and usually show less exaggerated facial profiles. The browridges on this individual recall Upper Palaeolithic prototypes.

This man's parietal bone is too low for him to be a Borreby.





Additionally seen is the fact that this man's nasal bones are too low for him to be a Borreby, like many of Coon's other examples:





Example 2: No comment, no metric data provided for this German.




Example 3: No comment necessary, this man is too high and long headed to be Borreby.



Example 4: This man has a flattened and somewhat low frontal bone. He is also plano-occipital. However his facial and nasal metrics, like many of Coon's other "Borrebies", do not match the actual Borreby skulls; this man's face is too long and his nose much too long and broad for the Borreby crania. His head is too long. However it is interesting that, yet again, the person with the closest cranial vault to a Borreby skull is found in Russia, i.e. further east, than in Denmark or Norway. How very fucking interesting.









Example 5: Coon says this man is "metrically and morphologically Borreby" but he is actually neither.

[Columella]

What about this Dutch coach?

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What about this Dutch coach?

Meh, no. His forehead is flattened but way too high. Parietal bone also lower than frontal bone.

[RN97]

I never fully grasped how Coon figured that this man was alpine

while this was a borreby

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Coon's Carpathian and Balkan "Borreby-like" Types:


http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/troeplate08.htm

http://www.friendsofsabbath.org/Furt.../Plate%208.jpg


Example 1 from Montenegro, my only comment: LOL!!!!!!




Example 2 from Montenegro, my only comment: LOL!!!!!

[Linebacker]

Of all the plates I've seen only this man looks like a true borreby,the rest have some graceful and reduced appearance in their faces,especially their jawlines.

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Of all the plates I've seen only this man looks like a true borreby,the rest have some graceful and reduced appearance in their faces,especially their jawlines.

He is actually smaller jawed than this guy:








This guy too:












As I demonstrated, he has no similarity to Borreby skulls.

[Grab the Gauge]

Everybody gather round and take a biiiiiig ass shit on Coon's terrible book!!!! HAHA!!!!