Originally Posted by
Amud
That guy is supposedly a "Carpathian and Balkan Borreby-like Type". What he really seems to be is a Dinaro-Borreby, or just an overgrown (less reduced) Dinaric/Noric. He's brachycephalic, planoccipital, high vaulted and long faced. Basically Dinaric except for his wider nose and more rugged features. The people shown on that plate are basically a spectrum ranging from Borreby to rugged Dinaric.
Neo-Danubian was something different, it's a small, reduced, infantile blond type which is common in Slavic countries. Coon also created that term, and said it was a mix of Danubian and Ladogan. His Danubian type was a short, light to medium pigmented, high vaulted mesocephal with a very short nose, which he claimed was a type of Nordic or depigmented Med, but he was the only author who had such a type and it actually seems to be some kind of Alpine or just a made up type. Coon's Ladogan was a reduced Upper Paleolithic survivor ("Cro-Magnid") with slight Mongoloid admixture. It has varying pigmentation. Light pigmented Ladogans are usually what gets called "East Baltid" here, but that's made up terminology.
Ratatoskr had a morph called "East Europid" which he claimed was the equivalent of Coon's Neo-Danubian, but it had a hooked nose and looked Dinaric influenced. I don't know where he got that idea from and I don't think that's a common type anywhere.
Anyway, Coon's ideas about how all the Eastern European types were formed (ie the Danubian + Ladogan = Neo Danubian, or Nordic + Borreby + Ladogan = East Baltic) are kind of weird and I think he was just guessing for the most part. The East Baltic and Neo-Danubian do seem to be valid types, but Coon might have been wrong about how they formed.
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