Agrippa
12-18-2009, 10:09 AM
Swiss composite faces, the basic types of Western Central Europe
Some of the images I used were already presented on Skadi in this
http://forums.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=58376
and other threads already.
Beside the Atlantid, Nordid, Alpinid and Dinarid one can find mainly more gracile Mediterranids and Cromagnids/Dalofaelid in Switzerland, probably I'm making composite faces of those later too, though in the material I have from Dodona (Len posted it), there are not enough individuals of those types, which reflects their lower importance in this area of Europe.
Composite face from the Swiss plates: meso- to dolichocephalic, tall, dark or dark-mixed, narrow face and not too strongly deviating (from Nordoid and Mediterranoid standards) facial traits. The result being best described as Atlantid (ranging from tall [Atlanto-] Mediterranids to "dark Nordids" with limited Dinarid admixture ["Keltic"]:
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/561/atlantoidswiss2mw3.th.jpg (http://img168.imageshack.us/my.php?image=atlantoidswiss2mw3.jpg)
The next element being Nordid, tall, light, meso-dolichocephalic, narrow face:
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3373/nordidswiss3hb5.th.jpg (http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nordidswiss3hb5.jpg)
One can see, though both are different samples, especially the profile is practically the same, especially if being compared with the other two most important types.
I made one of the relatively large Alpinid sample too (short-medium, brachycephalic, broad face, not too prominent-long nose, dark or mixed:
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9079/alpinoidswisszt2.th.jpg (http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alpinoidswisszt2.jpg)
Finally Dinarid, only the more typical ones, tall, brachycephalic, narrow-long face, large-prominent nose - the Dinarid looks longer headed because they typical Dinarid short head is less balanced, with some having rather forward pushed head - typical planoccipital, whereas others, which are otherwise typical, have a rather short forehead, area before the ears, in the morph this two patterns overlap to a certain degree and produce a longer headed looking result:
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/5352/swissdinaridmo3.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=swissdinaridmo3.jpg)
If using both Nordid and Dinarid, the balanced result is closest to "Keltic", though it approaches Atlantid as well:
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3290/swissnordiddinaridwk5.th.jpg (http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=swissnordiddinaridwk5.jpg)
Some of the images I used were already presented on Skadi in this
http://forums.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=58376
and other threads already.
Beside the Atlantid, Nordid, Alpinid and Dinarid one can find mainly more gracile Mediterranids and Cromagnids/Dalofaelid in Switzerland, probably I'm making composite faces of those later too, though in the material I have from Dodona (Len posted it), there are not enough individuals of those types, which reflects their lower importance in this area of Europe.
Composite face from the Swiss plates: meso- to dolichocephalic, tall, dark or dark-mixed, narrow face and not too strongly deviating (from Nordoid and Mediterranoid standards) facial traits. The result being best described as Atlantid (ranging from tall [Atlanto-] Mediterranids to "dark Nordids" with limited Dinarid admixture ["Keltic"]:
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/561/atlantoidswiss2mw3.th.jpg (http://img168.imageshack.us/my.php?image=atlantoidswiss2mw3.jpg)
The next element being Nordid, tall, light, meso-dolichocephalic, narrow face:
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3373/nordidswiss3hb5.th.jpg (http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nordidswiss3hb5.jpg)
One can see, though both are different samples, especially the profile is practically the same, especially if being compared with the other two most important types.
I made one of the relatively large Alpinid sample too (short-medium, brachycephalic, broad face, not too prominent-long nose, dark or mixed:
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9079/alpinoidswisszt2.th.jpg (http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alpinoidswisszt2.jpg)
Finally Dinarid, only the more typical ones, tall, brachycephalic, narrow-long face, large-prominent nose - the Dinarid looks longer headed because they typical Dinarid short head is less balanced, with some having rather forward pushed head - typical planoccipital, whereas others, which are otherwise typical, have a rather short forehead, area before the ears, in the morph this two patterns overlap to a certain degree and produce a longer headed looking result:
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/5352/swissdinaridmo3.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=swissdinaridmo3.jpg)
If using both Nordid and Dinarid, the balanced result is closest to "Keltic", though it approaches Atlantid as well:
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3290/swissnordiddinaridwk5.th.jpg (http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=swissnordiddinaridwk5.jpg)