MEDITERRANEAN - MIXTURE OF BODY TYPES
The Mediterranean racial sub grouping virtually no longer exists today - the first of the
three White racial sub-groupings
to disappear from the earth, submerged into the gene pools of surrounding races. The Mediterranean sub grouping was predominantly (but not totally) characterized by dark hair and eye color, slim (Nordic) or
solid (Alpine) body build and either long or
round skull shapes.
MEDITERRANEANS VIRTUALLY EXTINCT
It is worth stating again, as it is of great significance in more ways than one, that there are
very few of these original Mediterranean racial types left in the world today. They were known as the "Old Europeans" and inhabited large parts of Europe, Egypt, the Middle and Near East and Egypt at the dawn of history.
These Mediterranean types bear almost no resemblance to the present day inhabitants of the Mediterranean basin: the original Old Europeans have been absorbed almost completely into either the Nordic/Alpine stock in Europe itself, or the African/Semitic/Asian stock of North Africa, the Near and Middle East.
The
only place in Europe where
occasional glimpses of this original Mediterranean racial sub grouping can still be seen,
is in the Celtic fringes of Britain, most notably in Wales and Devonshire, and in the Basque territory of Spain. In these regions there exists a short dark strain - remnants of the original inhabitants of Europe.
Pure examples of this Mediterranean type are however still
fairly rare, as even
they have for the largest degree had some Nordic or Alpine admixture over the years.
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