ATLANTID (
Nordo-Mediterranid)
1) With reference to partially
depigmented northern
Mediterranids, as in
von Eickstedt's 1935 publication "Die Mediterranen in Wales";
2) A generic designation, of more recent popular reference, for the entire range of
Nordid-
Atlanto-Mediterranid/
Mediterranid blends, typically of dark pigmentation, which may be found throughout western Europe, particularly along the coast. Cf.
North-Atlantid.
ATLANTO-MEDITERRANID (
Littoral European (
Deniker))
Tall, straight-nosed and strongly
dolichocephalic Mediterranid type, the living equivalent of the skeletal Megalithic type (in the typology of
Coon). It is markedly taller and more
robust than the
Gracile-Mediterranean type, by which it is outnumbered, and with which it is often mixed. The Atlanto-Mediterranid type is an important population element in the Iberian peninsula (prevailing in Catalonia and Valencia), in Italy, and northward along the western European coast, reaching the British Isles in mixed form (cf.
North-Atlantid).
Coon subsumed all tall-statured
Mediterranids (including
Pontid) in the Atlanto-Mediterranid category.
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