What did the Aryans look like?

[Yamnaya]

Like me

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...e-from-1-to-10

[Hialt]

Afganistan female athlete, Shabnam Mobarez.

[Impaler]

I guess like these Nuristani and Kalash people:

[Token]

very Proto- Nordic looking (the other light types do not though- however he looks more IndoEuropean than the majority European Nordic examples posted on daily basis). Interestingly the guy next to him could have a Yamnaya look, preserved "CHG" look (since others went into some extreme brachy forms)

Seems rather low-headed though, like you would expect from an central asiatic Nordic type.

[Östsvensk]

If you by Aryan mean Yamnaya, they were tall, dark-haired and dark-eyed.

WHG ancestry linked to:
- light eyes
- brown hair
- decreased height, hip circumference, cholesterol, probability of dark eyes
- increased BMI, caffeine consumption, creatine production

EEF ancestry linked to:
- light eyes
- blond hair
- decreased waist/hip ratio, heart rate, probability of black hair

Steppe EMBA (Yamnaya) ancestry linked to:
- dark eyes
- dark hair
- strong build
- increased height, waist and hip circumference, cholesterol
- decreased caffeine consumption, heart rate

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...y-on-Estonians

The Finnish actor Lauri Tilkanen is, I think, a good reconstruction of what they might have looked like, albeit he's a bit on the lighter spectrum:

[Immanenz]

Seems rather low-headed though, like you would expect from an central asiatic Nordic type.

well, yes the Eastern Corded

since you talk about Central Asia
https://www.ucentralasia.org/Content...HU-RP3-Eng.pdf

he looks extremly Med influenced (facially not pigmentation, Paleo Euro women would have maybe wished they looked like half italians or softer Henry Cavills) , try maybe someone like Gaahl

Corded Nordic next to a Hallstatt Nordic

[Ayetooey]

[Token]

Let's stop spreading this ridiculous reconstruction that doesn't even resemble a human being, this is a professional reconstruction of the same skull by Nechvaloda:

[Östsvensk]

he looks extremly Med influenced , try maybe someone like Gaahl

Corded Nordic next to a Hallstatt Nordic

Yamnaya did not look like modern-day Nordics, except for their tall height, but their descendants later merged with the other groups that carried the genes for light hair and eyes (see Mathieson et al 2015 f.e).

[Uranous]

The concept of Aryan race is an ethno-linguistic and non-racial concept, which encompassed several ethnic groups with different racial connections, it could range from Nordic populations to populations of Armenoid types.