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She studied at an agricultural college, she works at her family's cow farm, and she goes to cow shows.
She's from North Karelia (which is part of Finnish Karelia, and not an ethnic Karelian region):
The word Karelia ("Karjala" in Finnish and Karelian) is likely derived from a Finnic word for cattle ("karja") + a Finnic suffix for place names ("-la"). Cattle breeding was a central part of the economy of Karelia.
According to some Russian anthropologists, Karelians belong to the "White Sea Baltic" type (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Карелы, Google translation):
Most of the Karelians belong to the Caucasian peoples of the White Sea Baltic type[12]. The White Sea Baltic type is widespread in northeastern Europe from the eastern and southern coasts of the Baltic Sea to the Urals (Lithuanians, Latvians, Karelians, Vepsians, part of the Komi Republic, northern groups of Russians and Belarusians, Izhora)[13] .
The White Sea Baltic type is distinguished from the Atlanto-Baltic type (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Беломоро-балтийская_раса, Google translation):
The White Sea Baltic race[1] is a small race in the composition of the large Caucasian race. Distributed in northeastern Europe. It is characterized by medium height, light pigmentation, straight hair, average development of the tertiary hairline, short nose (a significant percentage of raised bases and concave backs), mesokephaly or brachycephaly[2]. This is the most light-pigmented race[3], especially with regard to hair color. One of the main physiognomic differences from the Atlanto-Baltic race is a shorter nose[4].
This race as a group of populations is not identical to the East Baltic type. It is distinguished under this name by N. N. Cheboksarov[5], and is present in the textbook by Ya. Ya. Roginsky and MG G. Levin (1963)[6]. V.P. Alekseev (1974) called this race the Eastern Baltic, and in the scheme of V.V. Bunak (1980) this race is called simply the Baltic[7]. According to Bunak, her symptoms are as follows:
- a large proportion of light brown hair and light colored rainbows;
- face width about 140 mm;
- medium high nose;
- middle nasal index[8].
Distributed in northeastern Europe from the eastern and southern coasts of the Baltic Sea to the Urals (northern groups of Russians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Karelians, Vepsians, part Erzya, part Komi)[9][10].
I think she is not simply East Baltid or even "White Sea Baltic". Her skull is both wide and high, like the cranial series at Kylälahti Kalmistomäki, so maybe Kylälahtic? (New craniometric evidence on the origin of the Karelians (the Kylalahti Kalmistomäki Burial Ground))
Karelians display a rather unusual trait combination, characterized by mesobrachycrany and a relatively short, wide, robust and extremely high braincase. The face is medium high and medium wide (it is wide in northern Karelia). The upper horizontal facial profile is flattened by European standards, but the midfacial profile is sharp. The nose is sharply protruding and convex. This trait combination opposes the Karelians to all modern and recent groups of Eurasia including the closest linguistic relatives of Karelians, the Baltic Finns, specifically the Suomi Finns and Estonians (Khartanovich, 1986, 1990). Among the prehistoric series, the same trait combination is observed in the Meso-Neolithic sample from Zvejnieki, Latvia (Khartanovich, 1991b).
This fact along with the slight flattening of the upper facial profile in modern Karelians once again raises the issue of the so-called "prehistoric Mongoloid admixture" in Eastern Europe which has been discussed by Russian anthropologists since the 1950s. [...]
A significant contribution to the study of the early population history of Eastern Europe and of the origins of the contradictory trait combinations distributed on that territory was made by T.I. Alekseyeva. In a joint monograph describing the Neolithic cranial series from Sakhtysh in the Upper Volga area, she notes that certain European Mesolithic groups were characterized by large dimensions of the braincase and especially by its conspicuous height. The face was wide and relatively low and a flattened upper facial profile co-occurred with a sharp midfacial profile and sharply protruding nasal bones (Alekseyeva, 1997). In Alekseyeva's words, this unusual trait combination, which was more than once revealed by multivariate statistics, was widely distributed and was typical of Mesolithic Caucasoids of the forest and forest-steppe zones of Eastern Europe as evidenced by groups such as Zvejnieki, Popovo, Southern Oleniy (Reindeer) Island, and Vasilievka I and III. In her words, there is no doubt that robustness and upper facial flatness were inherited from earlier Caucasoid populations of Eastern Europe (Ibid.: 26). In the joint monograph integrating the anthropological studies of the Eastern Slavs, Alekseyeva formulated her conclusions regarding the origin of this trait combination: "Judging by the concentration of these unusual features in Scandinavia, the Baltic and the Onega area, people displaying them had migrated to Eastern Europe from the northwest and were possibly associated with the Mesolithic cultures of the circum-Baltic region. Revisiting the long-standing issue of admixture versus evolutionary conservatism in the Mesolithic population of Eastern Europe in the light of new data, we must reject the admixture hypothesis. The location of this peculiar type and its expansion from the west to the east suggest that it should be regarded as an independent ancient type which originated in northwestern Europe" (Alekseyeva, 1999: 254–255). In the Neolithic, biological continuity with the Mesolithic population was preserved but the diversity increased. Importantly, according to Alekseyeva (Ibid.: 255), the population which in the Mesolithic had been quite Caucasoid despite the unusual combination of the two facial profiles (flattened in the upper part and sharp in the middle part; one might add that the face was very broad and the braincase was very high) began to assume a somewhat "Mongoloid" appearance.
After the Neolithic, groups marked by the trait combination noted by Alekseyeva and others seem to have disappeared from Eastern Europe. This may have been partly due to the scarcity of cranial remains from the Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, and medieval burials in the Eastern Baltic area and to the complete absence of such remains from Karelia. However, none of the large series of 11th–17th-century crania from Leningrad Oblast, Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia too, reveal the combination described above. By contrast, several large 18th–19th-century Karelian cranial samples very clearly exhibit precisely this combination, which Alekseyeva demonstrated to be peculiar to the Circum-Baltic region in the Mesolithic.
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On average, male crania from Kylalahti Kalmistomäki (Table 1) are mesobrachycranic and the braincase is long and wide. The muscular relief is rather pronounced. The vault is very high, both absolutely and relative to its length and width. The frontal bone is wide and straight. The face is high, wide, and orthognathic. It is somewhat flattened on the naso-malar level and sharply pro led on the zygo-maxillary level. The orbits are medium wide and low, both absolutely and relatively. The pyrifirm aperture is rather low and medium wide. The nasal bones are medium wide and convex. The dacryal and simotic indices are large. Due to poor preservation, the nasal protrusion angle was measured on one cranium only and turned out to be large.
The distinctive characteristics of the Kylalahti Kalmistomäki series then are general robustness, a long, wide, and extremely high vault, slight facial attening at the upper level, combined with sharp midfacial profile and convex, sharply protruding nasalia.
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