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Not only Aegean and Ionian islanders are East Meds but also Asia Minor Greeks, a lot of southern mainland Greeks and North Eastern Thracian Greeks. Ancient Athenians considered the East Med type as representative of their race.
Classical Greeks similar to Bronze age Minoan Cretans.
Classical Greek
Minoan
A craniometric study done by French anthropologist Alain Froment from 1992 shows classical era Greek skulls to be pretty similar to Bronze age Cretan ones. See craniometric plot below by Froment for details.
www.archeonil.fr/revue/AN02-1992-Froment.pdf
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