Is the East Med phenotype european?

[Decius]

Is it european? what is it a mixture of?

[Mortimer]

It exists in Sicily and Greece but also in Middle East/Levant/Anatolia. So its a pan-caucasoid phenotype.

[Decius]

It exists in Sicily and Greece but also in Middle East/Levant/Anatolia. So its a pan-caucasoid phenotype.

Do you think it might have existed among the ancient greeks?

[Dick]

Subraces don't exist.

[catgeorge]

Yes - Minoan and Helladic culture was made of East Med types and Athens was built by Ionians from Asia Minor.

Dorians came later.

[Mortimer]

Do you think it might have existed among the ancient greeks?

yes it was very common i think. most common.

[Sikeliot]

It doesn't exist as a separate type -- you are going by some sort of do-it-yourself website made by someone with little knowledge of phenotypes.

Anthropologists used "East Med" to mean Pontid, not the large-eyed, prominent nose types found in places like Sicily.

[decordoba]

Eastern Mediterran is European - but there is an overlap to Orientalid or West Asian, also Pontid (Black Sea tribes).

Eastern Mediterran have high % on Alpine-Med - their ancient roots are unknown - maybe Asiatic Alpine and paleolithic immigration during Ice-age

[Decius]

It doesn't exist as a separate type -- you are going by some sort of do-it-yourself website made by someone with little knowledge of phenotypes.

Anthropologists used "East Med" to mean Pontid, not the large-eyed, prominent nose types found in places like Sicily.

So east-med is Pontid?

[Hudayar]

If you put an East Med in a Central-European or Northern European country locals would easily notice him/her. But the phenotype can pass very easily in Southern European countries. Btw one of my uncles look like this. But i'm far from that phenotype.