First of all i have to say that following material is not result of my own work, but a translated material from balto-slavica forum.
Antropology of Great Britain
Anthropological maps of GB
Irish people
Sample size is 10000 .
• Average age – 35 лет
• Average height (for 1st half of XX century) – 172 cm ( People on Western coast taller than on Eastern.)
• Weight – 157 pounds \ 71 kg
• Generally Irish men are well-built and have developed musculature; shoulder width – 39 cm; torso made up 53,3% from height; arms are long; arm span – 105% of total height.
By somatological data irish people are similar to west Norwegians,; Icelanders, Livs and Finns.
• Cephalic index is mesocephalic; Head height – 125 mm; length – 196 mm; Width – 154 мм. By this marks Irish are similar to Scandinavians and Balts.
• Jaw width (bigonal) – 109 mm
• Face width (Bizygomatic) – 141 mm
• Total face height – 127 mm
• Upper face height – 73 mm
• Facial index – 90 (leptomorhic); nasal index – 64-65 (leptorinne); nose heigt – 56 mm ; Nose width – 36mm
• Skin pigmentation: pale-rosy shades – 90%, light ovile (11 in Lushans scale) – 10% (on south-western coast – 4-7%, in central and south-eastern regions – 10-18%).
• Freckles are noted in 40% of Irish people (South-East - 30%, South-West – 60%).
• Beard growth is moderate.
• Hair structure: straight – 28% among catholics (44% among protestants). Generally wavy hair is predominant among Irish.
• Hair colour – black – 3%; dark brown - 40%; brown – 35%; chestnut-red – 5%; red – 4%; ash-blonde – 0,5%; rest shades (from light-brown to flaxen blonde) – 15%. Generally hair pigmentation among Irish is much darker, than in Scandinavia , but not much darker , than among Icelanders. Lightest hair colour are found among Aran islanders (light-brown shades are dominant), blonde hair is most frequent at South-West, but this are has the highest frequency of dark-brown and black hair.
• Eye colours: light - 46% (from which 42% are light-blue); mixed – 30%; dark-mixed (light-brown) - 23,5%. Irish are generally not darker in terms of eye colour than Scandinavians, but hair pigmentation is unproportional to eye pigmentation [Light eyes and dark hair combination is predominant]
• Nose shape: wavy and convex – 45%; straight – 48%; concave – 7%. Protestants have more convex noses and concavity is almost non-existant amongst them.
• Nose tip: 75% - thin; 25% - broad .
• Nose tip position: 2% - downturned; 98% - upturned or horizontal (in 20% nose tip is "upturned")
• Lips width is moderate.
• Prognathism – is noted in 8% of cases (from which 2% - is alveolar prognathism), but regional differences are strong in this trait.
In few traits protestnats (Presbyterians) are different to catholics, due to predominant Scottish ancesrty. Presbyterians are taller, have longer and thinner skulls, longer and thinner faces. In the same time Anglicans are almost same to catholic in anthropological terms.
Regional differences are not very strong with the exception of Aran island popualtion, which exibit following traits:
• Average height – 174,5 cm (highest in Ireland)
• Legs are longer, than torso
• Average skull length – 198,3 mm (extreme value)
• Average head height – 120,3 mm (extremly low value)
• Average face length – 130mm
• Average nose length – 57 mm
There is no analogues of Aran population in continental Europe.
Few examples from Anthropological books:
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