Originally Posted by
cosmoo
Borreby phenotype was present in Mesolithic already.
Anyways, your logic is extremely flawed. All UP Europeans tested so far had either dark or red hair.
Even in Norse mythology (Rigsthula) we find segregation between CM and Nordid types, and their pigmentation mentioned. Karl ("freeman") represents CM aborigines, he is big, strong, with reddish hair and vascular skin, while Jarl ("nobleman") represents new IE Nordid arrivals, he is more leaner and with blonde hair.
I'm just saying what all present evidence says.
Why would I want to "darkify CM"? I said many times that CM types have fairest skin of all European phenotypes, and we have very fair unexposed skin ourselves (according to anthropological data, fairer than even some northern Euros).
On contrary, Nordids have skin which is extremely capable of tanning, and which rarely burns like CM skin.
On the other hand, CM hair is dark or reddish, and is totally unrelated to skin.
Now that you're talking about us, according to measurements from Coon's time, Montenegrins have widest faces (biggest bizygomatic width) in whole Europe, as well as being tallest and most robust. And you're saying that our CM is not pure? Pffffff.
Are you Adolfo from Anthroscape? Do you seriously consider yourself looking Faelid? Or you just want to make original CMs blonde because you're Nordid yourself?
Borrebies were well-established as type in Mesolithic. Alpines are Neolithic type. Nice red herring.
Fehmarn Islanders are closest to Mesolithic Borrebies, and 54 percent of them have dark brown hair, while 80 percent of all non-gray adults is dark-brown haired.
And Borrebies are fully CM type. Brachycephaly was present in UP Europe.
Wherever we go in Europe to high CM areas, we will find high concentration of brown, reddish-brown, and red hair. Western Ireland, Fehmarn, pockets of western Norway, Montenegro... you name it. Blond hair will usually be result of sojourn with Nordids.
It is fact that blond hair came with IE Nordids. First occurence of blond hair is among EHGs of proto-Nordid type from Russia.
By means of this study it is possible to reconstruct with some probability the living appearance of the Upper Palaeolithic men. [...] The hair was brown and wavy, frequently rufous, of medium abundance on beard and body; the eyes light-mixed blue. The skin was typically inclined to freckling, and very fair.
(TRoE, chapter X, section 2)
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