Who are the most attractive on average, Neolithics or Upper-Paleolithics?

[finþaų]

Europeans are largely descended from Upper-Paleolithic/Mesolithic Cromagnoid/Cromagnoid derivative elements and Neolithic peoples who originally came from regions such as West Asia, South West Asia and North Africa.

Do you find the former or the latter more attractive?

Speciments of mainly Upper-Paleolithic morphologies:

















Specimens of mainly Neolithic morphologies:















I did my best to select decent representatives, but please try and vote for your favourite general type, and not for the exemplars listed.

[Mordid]

Upper-Paleolithic + Neolithic and vice versa = nice and harmonious combination:

[Stefan]

I'd say the most attractive people tend to have symmetric features, and hence would be some type of intermediate. I find Alpino-Meds, Sub-nordid + Faelid, and Atlantid + West Alpinid to be the most harmonious and therefore metrically intermediate types, in women, for example. So I suppose a reduced Upper Paleolithic + Neolithic + non-reduced Upper Paleolithic is a nice combination that tends to even out. Although, mixtures could not be harmonious as well.

Usually extremes tend to look asymmetric in comparison though.

If I must choose between Neolithic and UP, I'd probably choose the first though, predominately because they aren't prone to the diversity and extreme adaptations that UPs are, they're more generalized than specialized.

[1810-2010]

It is a very subjective question, depending too much on personnal preferences and tastes and as they say, На вкус и цвет товарищей нет .
My personnal preferences been similar for both derivatives, I cannot vote.
PS: well not sure how "Neolithic" the leptoprosopic forms are givent that they were already present in late Plesitocene (Combe-Capelle; Przedmost; some Brno crania) so I'd say that Atlanto-Pontid and Nordids derivate from UP prototypes while the gracilest forms would indeed be neolithic (both from ME migration + some robust leptomorfs reduced locally by neolitisation ....)

[member]

I'm not used to such faces:



Looks totally foreign and I must say quite unharmonious to my eye.

[Sikeliot]

Neolithic.

[gold_fenix]

i would say neolithic for women , paleolithic for men and mix for both

[rashka]

I don't see a difference between the two sets of pics except that the first set has wider noses and the second set has higher bridges.

[Ozzy]

I don't see a difference between the two sets of pics except that the first set has wider noses and the second set has higher bridges.

You don't notice a difference in head shape?

[Arbërori]

The Upper-Paleolithic ones seem to be the more attractive ones in
general, but she is absolutely stunning, even more than Catherine!