Phenotypes of south-eastern France

[Beraud]

Thanks for posting. Average of 28:

Thanks, this is basically my phenotype.

[Beraud]

Any classifications people ?

[aherne]

We don't know if they are native, dude...

Old pictures are better, now classify.

Most people in these photos are indigenous, the usual blend of Mediterranean and Keltic elements. Phenotypes have changed a lot: faces have become longer and narrower, Alpine component is today no longer the dominant component.

[Oliver109]

Most people in these photos are indigenous, the usual blend of Mediterranean and Keltic elements. Phenotypes have changed a lot: faces have become longer and narrower, Alpine component is today no longer the dominant component.

I still see a lot of alpine influence in eastern France though some posters will claim that those alpines are immigrants from Romania etc

[Beraud]

Sorry hun it's pretty hard to classify unclear B/W photos....Most people looked the same in such photos from over a hundred years ago....Try modern pics?

They did not look all the same, proof being that the very anthropology notions we use in here were inventend and coined in these times. This is imo more interesting than modern pictures because people still had phenotypes specific to their region and even to their village in some cases whereas today with all the intra-French population movements and immigration from outside of France, both European and non-european, classification is kind of pointless

[Beraud]

From Saint-Julien-Labrousse (next to Le Cheylard), a village where some of my ancestors were from, in the same region.

[Oliver109]

They did not look all the same, proof being that the very anthropology notions we use in here were inventend and coined in these times. This is imo more interesting than modern pictures because people still had phenotypes specific to their region and even to their village in some cases whereas today with all the intra-French population movements and immigration from outside of France, both European and non-european, classification is kind of pointless

Don't you think France has local looks today? In the UK there are still very specific looks in certain regions, especially in the North of England and even parts of the south east.

[Beraud]

Don't you think France has local looks today? In the UK there are still very specific looks in certain regions, especially in the North of England and even parts of the south east.

Well there are still specific looks in some areas like the South-West or in Vendée but it's not the majority, I think overall native French people have rather homogeneous looks nowadays.

[Oliver109]

Well there are still specific looks in some areas like the South-West or in Vendée but it's not the majority, I think overall native French people have rather homogeneous looks nowadays.

The North still has that distinct robust Flemish borreby alpine mix, Brittany seems to have a strong light eyed alpine strain, Normandy has a lot of subnordics, Alsace has a lot of alpinised Bavarian looking types so regional variation is there, just don't look for it in Paris.

[hurtuv]

Make the moustache great again!