Originally Posted by
The Black Prince
A reduced/paedomorphized Irish Cromagnid type is metrically Alpinoid, though not Alpinid. Alpinids are the typical reduced/paedomorphized 'cromagnid' people form Central-Europe. According to some Anthropologists they can be divided in a western and eastern subtype.
The East-Alpinid (Gorid type) is characterized by a reduction of headlength what is somewhat compensated by a higher head. While the western subtype keeps the (relative) low vault and the reduction in headlength is to some degree compensated with a broader head.
Some posters here like Agrippa (et moi, to some degree) also see a Southern Alpinid(Berid) and Northern Alpinid (Borreby) type. The first is reduced and paedomorphized but still meso-dolichocephalic. While the last is a somewhat paedomorphized version of the large-vaulted original Faelid (the stereotype Cromagnid) with less headlength and a broader/higher vault.
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