Anthropology of Romanians

[Scarface F]

They don't look very dark to me.

[MandM]

I cant say much about Romanians in Romania, only benen in Timis and black sea, but the Romanian in Serbia Banat and timok mostly they are a mix of dinard and somthing else or they are pontid, skin tone they tend to be darker then Sebs during the summer, hair color varies, but majority Brown to dark Brown

[dviz]

This will be a scientific study for the anthropology of Romanians, based on photos of late high schoolers in each geographic region. I always use them for classification because their features are least affected by aging (they look at their best), so their features are as sharp as they will ever be.

I will only exclude Dobrudja, because Romanians there are generally descendants of recent immigrants (mostly from Transylvania) that came after the region was annexed in late 1800s.

Dude, don't waste your time. Post undergraduate students, not high schoolers. Romanian male high schoolers are very neotenous looking. And don't forget to look for large resolution photos. What you posted so far is too small, the faces are tiny, there isn't much detail to see there.

Post students from Dobrudja as well. Half of the Romanians there have old roots in the region (more so in Tulcea than Constanta). Btw, most Romanians who moved there in the past 150 years were from the surrounding counties, like Braila, Galati etc, not from Transylvania.

[dviz]

For instance, these are students from Constanta - they are very average Romanian looking (maybe even average southern European looking):

[aherne]

Crisana Region

Interesting that there are no geographic barriers between Arad and Bihor counties, but phenotypes become drastically lighter and more Slavic in Bihor county then return back to Romanian average in Satu Mare and Maramures counties. I don't have an explanation for that phenomena...

Among local Romanians, Alpinid phenotype is in clear majority.

Arad city:


Ineu city:


Oradea city (young adults, some may be hungarian):

children / early teens (all romanian orthodox, plus some homegrown Indians):

very strong slavic influence (all from romanian schools):


Satu Mare (include all ethnic groups that call this region home: Romanians, Hungarians and Germans):

These ones are most likely Romanians:


Baia Mare:

[aherne]

Maramures Region

This is a fringe region that has very peculiar phenotypes, most people being unmixed Alpinids with occasional Slavic and Pontid influences.

Sighetul Marmatiei:


Borsa (transition zone towards Moldova: more Slavic & Pontid):

[Daco Celtic]

The men in my family are all around 5'11 around 180 cm including me.
But I feel younger generations here in the west are getting taller. I dont feel tall at all amongst younger males.

Are you taller than your parents ?

My parents have shrunk a little because of age but at their tallest my dad was 5'10 and my mom is 5'9. I was measured at 6'1 in high school but I'm more like 6 ft these days due to years of bad posture.

[aherne]

Southern Transylvania Region

Very similar to Romanians from Wallachia, just with more Dinaroids...

Hunedoara:



Deva:


Alba Iulia:



Sibiu:



Brasov:


Normal hair color for 19yo (there is at least one dyed woman already):

[MandM]

Southern Transylvania Region

Very similar to Romanians from Wallachia, just with more Dinaroids...

Hunedoara:



Deva:


Alba Iulia:



Sibiu:



Brasov:


Normal hair color for 19yo (there is at least one dyed woman already):

Could you post some more pic from. Alba Iulia have some Romanians at work that are from South of that city "Sebeş" just to compare them with the ones on your poctures

[aherne]

Could you post some more pic from. Alba Iulia have some Romanians at work that are from South of that city "Sebeş" just to compare them with the ones on your poctures

Sebes




Very little Slavic influence and uniformly South European looking