Light Armenians?

[Sikeliot]

Georgians are lighter than Armenians, and have less of a Levantine kind of look.

[Trun]

Georgians are lighter than Armenians, and have less of a Levantine kind of look.

Armenians don't look Levantine, not even slightly.

[Austrvegr]

Armenians have always been swarthy.

[Wild North]

Armenians have always been swarthy.

Always you say.. That would be difficault to say, I believe. The original appearance of the so called Proto-Armenians is hardly known. They were supposedly related to the Phrygians. And this is according to one theory; that these Proto-Armenians migrated from the Balkans to eastern Anatolia. And in Anatolia they became mixed with Urartians-Hurrians, and they might inherited this "swarthyness" from these.

I think there may be some other people here that may know this much better than me..

[Musso]

Armenians are diverse. There are blond Armenians, Armenians with orange hair, Armenians with blue eyes, etc. But if you take all Armenians and average them, we have a typical med-complexion. It's not about being pure Armenian. I can assure you there were many pure Armenians that had Mediterranean complexion, dark hair, brown eyes.

A 'typical' Armenian look I would say that could represent the average Armenian look, is former President, Robert Kocharian:

[Kamal900]

Are Armenians lighter than Georgians?

No. We have plenty of Armenians living in Lebanon(Bourj Hammond in Beirut), and they look similar to the local Lebanese. Hell, i have been mistaken for an Armenian all the time. Georgians look more European than Armenians but not a whole lot.

[Kamal900]

Armenians are diverse. There are blond Armenians, Armenians with orange hair, Armenians with blue eyes, etc. But if you take all Armenians and average them, we have a typical med-complexion. It's not about being pure Armenian. I can assure you there were many pure Armenians that had Mediterranean complexion, dark hair, brown eyes.

A 'typical' Armenian look I would say that could represent the average Armenian look, is former President, Robert Kocharian:

Yes, a lot of them do have Med features, and we have a lot of Armenians living in Lebanon as well.

[Kamal900]

Armenians don't look Levantine, not even slightly.

Are you sure about that? They dont stick out in Lebanon, and i have been to that nation countless times.

[Shepherd]

Whatever look they share with Levantines is likely a coincidence, since they don't seem to cluster with them. At least not on this plot:

[Musso]

Whatever look they share with Levantines is likely a coincidence, since they don't seem to cluster with them. At least not on this plot:

Which is expected. Our ancestral homeland is not in Levantine but in the Armenian Highlands traversing Eastern Anatolia and South Caucasus. For this reason, we naturally cluster between Assyrians and Georgians. Basically we cluster as hybrid Caucasian-Anatolians. There are also similarities in phenotype between Armenians and Southern Italians, Greeks, but of course we are far from them in genetic mapping.