It will be a synthesis of typological literature from 1870 to 1996. It's a more review that doesn't check the validity. But old anthropologists were usually not "wrong" in determining phenotypes. They were wrong in interpreting those types as "races" or groups with a common ancestry.
So I will not speculate on this, but you only use the old literature to illustrate regional phenotypes. The old literature
is even better than the new one here, because modern literature doesn't care so much about phenotypical differences between ethnicities and today it is geeting harder and harder to study the subject as higher mobility has blurred old regional variation.
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The old site didn't have the Armenoid component in Italy,so your right. Italy has both, Dinaro Med and Armenoid types, especially the Litorid of Lundman.
East Med was used by Lundman in many texts (but most of them are not online). He had it both as an aggregate term, but also an East Med proper type in West Asia. They are high skulled in difference to West Med. Biasutti had true Meds in West Asia, Eickstedt had it in Asia Minor. The Pontid type is the European subtype of East Med, and it appears in many publications, not only Lundman, but also those by Coon, Bunak,
What do you see as important types of Iberia besides Mediterranid? I know it has Alpine, Nordic, Dinaric and Armenoid elements in smaller fractions and they will appear.
The ones you mention: Atlanto Med and North Atlantid are both Med subtypes, the latter transitional to Nordic.
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Well there are pros and contras about if human races exist. But you cannot determine race solely by looking at the phenotype, you need genetic information.
So it would be wrong to call any phenotype "race" as old anthropologists did and the page doesn't deal with the subject "races", so the word will not really appear.
I actually discovered quite a variety of North African types in the books and it will be cool to illustrate them. Ever heard of a Targid? The specialized desert type? No? Well, they used it, but nobody every posted this on the internet
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Btw: I developed a tool as well that classifies phenotypical clusters. It would improve upon the old literature and correct things especially in places that were not sufficiently studied. But for that I would need hundreds of
mug shots with info on the ancestry of the subjects and I don't have time to do that alone.
Although the tool is ready to use from a technical point of view
For it to work properly I would have to index some ~500 more photographs.
The site will still take time. It's a big task to combine all those books. But eventually it will be a reliable source.
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