Essays & Excerpts
Physical Anthropology of Northern Europe
By language: English - Norwegian - Swedish - Danish - Dutch - German

Physical Anthropology outside of Northern Europe
By language: Spanish

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Physical Anthropology of Northern Europe

English [to the top]

Baker, John R.

Race (1974; excerpts: pp. 250 - 257 and 260 - 267)
On the origins and physical anthropology of the Celts.

Beddoe, John

The Races of Britain (1885; excerpts).

Bryn, Halfdan

The Anthropology of the Province of Møre (1920; resumé; SNPA translation from the Norwegian)

The Anthropology of the Province of Troms (1922; resumé; SNPA translation from the Norwegian)

Coon, Carleton Stevens

The Races of Europe (New York: Macmillan. 1939)
This splendid 700-page volume in its entirety, upon which many of the assumptions of the SNPA are based. Among the greatest physical-anthropological works ever composed.

"The Dead and the Living", Chapter 13 of The Origin of Races (
New York: Knopf. 1962)
The final chapter of this famous volume, in which Coon sets forth his theories on the multiregional origins of modern humans.

Kajanoja, Pauli

"
A New Theory on the Biological Roots of the Finns"
From Populations of the Nordic Countries: Human Population Biology from the Present to the Mesolithic (Proceedings of the Second Seminar of Nordic Physical Anthropology, Lund 1990. 1993)

Lundman, Bertil J.

The Races and Peoples of Europe (
New York: IAAEE. 1977; excerpts)

Nordling, Carl O.

"
The Genetic Composition of the Main Race Groups in Finland"
From Populations of the Nordic Countries: Human Population Biology from the Present to the Mesolithic (Proceedings of the Second Seminar of Nordic Physical Anthropology, Lund 1990. 1993)

Schreiner, K.E.

Crania Norvegica II (1946; several chapters)

Anthropological Studies in Sogn (
Oslo: Dybwad. 1951; excerpt: "Retrospect and conclusions")

Schwidetzky, Ilse

The Influence of The Steppe People Based On The Physical Anthropological Data
(Journal of Indo-European Studies, 8. 1980, pp. 345 - 360; excerpts: pp. 346 - 351 and 354 - 359)


Norwegian [to the top]

Arbo, C.O.E.

"
Den Blonde Brachycephal og dens Udbredningsfelt"
Article dealing with the "blond brachycephal" and it distribution in Norway (1906)

Bryn, Halfdan

Møre fylkes Antropologi (1920; resumé)

Selbu og Tydalens Antropologi (1921; resumé)

Troms fylkes Antropologi (1922; resumé)

"Det Østenfjeldske Norges Antropologi"

Resumé from Anthropologia Norwegica - 1. Det Østenfjeldske Norges Antropologi (1925)

Larsen, C.F.

"
Om Jædertypen" (1900)
"Concerning the Jæder (Jæren) type"

"
Trønderkranier og Trøndertyper" (1903)
"Trønder Crania and Trønder Types"

Schreiner, K.E.

"
Bidrag til Rogalands Antropologi" (
Oslo: Dybwad. 1941
"Contribution to the Anthropology of Rogaland"


Swedish [to the top]

Lundborg, Herman

Svenska Folk- och Rastyper (1927)
"Swedish Population- and Racial Types"; three chapters.

Lundman, Bertil

Nordens Rastyper: Geografi och Historia (1940)
"Racial Types of the Nordic Region: Geography and History"; several chapters.

Dalarnas Folk - Typer och Härstamning (1948)
"The People of Dalarne - Types and their Origins"; the entire book.



Danish
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Schütte, Gudmund

Dansk Folkekarakter (1928; excerpt:
"Race")

"En Tysk Raceforsker"
Article on Hans F.K. Günther's Rassenkunde des Deutsches Volkes. From Nationaltidende, May 9th, 1928.


Dutch [to the top]

"De Volken van het Nederlands Taalgebied"
Excerpt from Panorama van de Wereld (1966), edited by Dr. P. van Emst, from the section "De Volken van Europa", co-authored by Dr. H. Wouters.


German [to the top]

Bryn, H. and Schreiner, K.E.

Die Somatologie der Norweger
(SNVO, #1, Oslo. 1929; excerpts)


Physical Anthropology outside of Northern Europe

Spanish [to the top]

Bañuelos, Misael

Antropología actual de los Españoles (Barcelona-Madrid. 1941; excerpts: pp. 90 - 95, 98 - 103, and 106 - 111)