Are Greek Mediterraneans Orientalid mixed 'East Meds'?

[Arch Hades]

I wonder if I could list all he typological terms Greeks have been described of from the 19th centruy to the 1970s

Mediterraneanid
East Mediterranean
Armenoid
Semitic
Nordic
Nordic-Iranian
Alpine
Dinaric
Basic White
White
Eastern Alpine
Pontid
Pontic-Mediterranean

[Dorian]

Old thread but let me add some

[Dorian]

bump

[Dimitri159]

He forgot the Alpines. Armenids/Armenoids are very rare in Greece. By the way an Austrian will speak about racial types in Greece? That's funny, it's like having Soviets writing racial books about Nazis... Austrian even nowadays propagandize Greek Mediterraneans look more like that



They hate us.

Overall observations are leveled if you take in account Coon's (American I think) classifications of Greeks being mostly only Alpine and Atlanto-Med, completely underestimating Armenoid and even Dinarid.

I hardly trust any outdated classifications by non-Greek anthropologists anyway. I go by anecdotal evidence instead. People, just simply watch a few Youtube videos of Greeks at a celebration of some sort if you don't know any Greeks, you’ll see what they look like. No need to live by biased, outdated individual classification anymore, we have modern technology to figure things out on our own now!!

[Dimitri159]

Armenoid is rare, practically nonexistent in Greece.

“Nonexistent” is a stretch. Armenoid may not be a typical type among Greeks, but it can easily be found. At least some influence of Armenoid can be found in some Greeks, given the fact that some Greeks are Litorid.

Not to say that Armenoid is common, but it's definitely existent to some extent.

[Dimitri159]

A lot of Greeks are East-Med, but not Orientalid. Orientalid is rare among Greeks of mainland ancestry, but perhaps it's an atypical type found among some Cypriot Greeks in specific.

[Cristiano viejo]

Cretans and Greeks from Chipre do are Orientalid.