What exactly does alpinization mean?

[Rium]

I see the word "alpinized" used alot on here.

[Benyzero]

yo head starts to get rounder until your forehead looks like a fry-pan

[lei.talk]

• ALPINIZATION
  An evolutionary process or tendency involving reduction, brachycephalization and infantilization, possibly an adaption to a low energy, sedentary existence. Some alpinized or partially alpinized Europid populations (Alpinoids), are Alpinid, Borreby and Gorid.

[billErobreren]

meh, just means rounded features, often turned up nose on the straighter side.

[PaganPoet]

As a "process" it means nothing, and very often a way to explain Asiatic features.

[renaissance12]

I see the word "alpinized" used alot on here.

Don't forget that the Germanic people were the last to arrive in the Alps and prealps area ( till Bavaria
towards north)


Before the fall of Rome in 476 A.D. the germans were forced to live beyond the LIMES.. ( the RED line from Holland to Romania )

So till the fall of Rome in the alpine regions there were only celtic people, romans-latin people, veneti, raethian people ( they were not indoeuropean )




Huge Empire.. from Scotland to Kuwait from Holland to Sudan...

2.000 year ago north-africa and Mesopotamia were much much greener..

Go to visit at least 30 villages in the ALPS area ( from the smallest one to city like Innsbruck Bozen Belluno Lugano Aosta Trento Salzburg Klagenfurt Grenoble Walduz ) and you will be able to get an idea of the physical characteristics of the Alpine dweller.


If you have time, go and visit other villages in the pre-Alpine area


More than 13 millions people live in the Alpine area and at least 7 millions in the pre-Alpine area.

The Alpine foothills, or Prealps (German: Voralpen; French: Préalpes; Italian: Prealpi; Slovene: Predalpe), may refer generally to any foothills at the base of the Alps in Europe. They are the transition zone between the High Alps and the Swiss Plateau and the Bavarian Alpine Foreland in the north, as well as to the Pannonian Basin (Alpokalja) in the east, the Padan Plain in the south and the Rhone Valley in the west.

[renaissance12]

We can say that the Germans ( the last people arringe in the alp and prealp area ) are to Bavaria what the Saxons are to the English.



In the 60-70's in many europe countries : Written on the wall = Yankee go home

Written on Bavarian walls = Germans GO HOME