- •Published, April, 1939.
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction 78-82
- •Introduction 131-135
- •Introduction 297-298
- •Introduction 400-401
- •Introduction 510-511
- •List of maps
- •Introduction to the historical study of the white race
- •Statement of aims and proposals
- •Theory and principles of the concept race
- •Materials and techniques of osteology**
- •Pleistocene white men
- •Pleistocene climate
- •Sapiens men of the middle pleistocene
- •The neanderthaloid hybrids of palestine
- •Upper palaeolithic man in europe,
- •Fig. 2. Neanderthal Man. Fig. 3. Cro-Magnon Man.
- •Aurignacian man in east africa
- •The magdalenians
- •Upper palaeolithic man in china
- •Summary and conclusions
- •Fig. 12. Fjelkinge, Skane, Sweden. Neolithic.
- •Mesolithic man in africa
- •The natufians of palestine
- •The midden-d wellers of the tagus
- •Mesolithic man in france
- •The ofnet head burials
- •Mesolithic man in the crimea
- •Palaeolithic survivals in the northwest
- •Clarke, j. G. D., op. Cit., pp. 133-136.
- •38 Fiirst, Carl m., fkva, vol. 20, 1925, pp. 274-293.
- •Aichel, Otto, Der deutsche Mensch. The specimens referred to are b 5, ks 11032, ks 11254b, b 38, b 34, b 37, b 10.
- •Clarke, j. G. D., op. Citpp. 133-136.
- •Summary and conclusions
- •The neolithic invasions
- •(1) Introduction
- •1 Childe, V. Gordon, The Dawn of European Civilization; The Most Ancient East; The Danube in Prehistory; New Light on the Most Ancient East; Man Makes Himself.
- •And chronology '
- •The neolithic and the mediterranean race
- •Vault medium to thin, muscular relief on vault as a rule slight.
- •Iran and iraq
- •Vallois, h. V., “Notes sur les Tfctes Osseuses,” in Contencau, g., and Ghirsh- man, a., Fouilles de Tepe Giyan.
- •Jordan, j., apaw, Jh. 1932, #2.
- •Keith, Sir Arthur, “Report on the Human Remains, Ur Excavations,” vol. 1: in Hall, h. R. H„ and Woolley, c. L., Al 'Ubaid,
- •10 Frankfort, h., “Oriental Institute Discoveries in Iraq, 1933-34,” Fourth Preliminary Report, coic #19, 1935,
- •Civilized men in egypt
- •11 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1925, p. 4.
- •12 This summary of climatic changes in Egypt is based on Childe, V. G., New Light
- •18 Childe, op. Cit.Y p. 35. 14 Leakey, l. S. B., Stone Age Africa, pp. 177-178.
- •Brunton, Guy, Antiquity, vol. 3, #12, Dec., 1929, pp. 456-457.
- •Menghin, o., Lecture at Harvard University, April 6, 1937.
- •Childe, V. G., op. Cit.Y p. 64.
- •Derry, Douglas, sawv, Jahrgang, 1932, #1-4, pp. 60-61. 20 Ibid., p. 306.
- •Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1927, vol. 27, pp. 293-309.
- •21 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, vol. 17, 1925, pp. 1-52.
- •Morant, op. Cit., 1925.
- •Neolithic north africa
- •(6) The neolithic in spain and portugal
- •The eastern source areas: south, central, and north
- •The danubian culture bearers
- •The corded or battle-axe people
- •The neolithic in the british isles
- •Western europe and the alpine race
- •Schlaginhaufen, o., op. Cit.
- •Schenk, a., reap, vol. 14, 1904, pp. 335-375.
- •Childe, The Danube in Prehistory, pp. 163, 174.
- •Neolithic scandinavia
- •Introduction
- •Bronze age movements and chronology
- •The bronze age in western asia
- •The minoans
- •The greeks
- •Basques, phoenicians, and etruscans
- •The bronze age in britain
- •The bronze age in central europe
- •The bronze age in the north
- •The bronze age on the eastern plains
- •The final bronze age and cremation
- •Summary and conclusions
- •Race, languages, and european peoples
- •The illyrians
- •The kelts
- •Vallois, h. V., Les Ossements Bretons de Kerne, TouUBras, et Port-Bara.
- •We know the stature of Kelts in the British Isles only from a small Irish group, and by inference from comparison with mediaeval English counterparts of Iron Age skeletons.
- •Greenwell, w., Archaeologia, vol. 60, part 1, pp. 251-312.
- •Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1926, vol. 18, pp. 56-98.
- •The romans
- •46 Whatmouffh. J., The Foundations of Roman Italy.
- •The scythians
- •88 Browne, c. R., pria, vol. 2, ser. 3, 1899, pp. 649—654.
- •88 Whatmough is in doubt as to their linguistic affiliation. Whatmough, j., op. Cit., pp. 202-205.
- •Fig. 29. Scythians, from the Kul Oba Vase. Redrawn from Minns, e. H., Scythians and Greeks, p. 201, Fig. 94.
- •Doniti, a., Crania Scythica, mssr, ser. 3, Tomul X, Mem. 9, Bucharest, 1935.
- •The germanic peoples
- •Stoiyhwo, k., Swiatowit, vol. 6, 1905, pp. 73-80.
- •Bunak, V. V., raj, vol. 17, 1929, pp. 64-87.
- •Shetelig, h., Falk, h., and Gordon, e. V., Scandinavian Archaeology, pp. 174-175.
- •70 Hubert, h., The Rise of the Celts, pp. 50-52.
- •71 Nielsen, h. A., anoh, II Rakke, vol. 21, 1906, pp. 237-318; ibid., III Rakke, vol. 5, 1915, pp. 360-365. Reworked.
- •Retzius, g., Crania Suecica, reworked.
- •78 Schliz, a., pz, vol. 5, 1913, pp. 148-157.
- •Barras de Aragon, f. De las, msae, vol. 6, 1927, pp. 141-186.
- •78 Hauschild, m. W., zfma, vol. 25, 1925, pp. 221-242.
- •79 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, vol. 18, 1926, pp. 56-98.
- •8° Reche, o., vur, vol. 4, 1929, pp. 129-158, 193-215.
- •Kendrick, t. D., and Hawkes, c. F. C., Archaeology in England and Wales, 1914-1931.
- •Morant, Biometrika, vol. 18, 1926, pp. 56-98.
- •Lambdoid flattening is a characteristic common to Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic man, but rare in the exclusively Mediterranean group.
- •Calculated from a number of series, involving over 120 adult males. Sources:
- •Peake, h., and Hooton, e. A., jrai, vol. 45, 1915, pp. 92-130.
- •Bryce, t. H., psas, vol. 61, 1927, pp. 301-317.
- •Ecker, a., Crania Germanica.
- •Vram, u., rdar, vol. 9, 1903, pp. 151-159.
- •06 Miiller, g., loc. Cit.
- •98 Lebzelter, V., and Thalmann, g., zfrk, vol. 1, 1935, pp. 274-288.
- •97 Hamy, e. T., Anth, vol. 4, 1893, pp. 513-534; vol. 19, 1908, pp. 47-68.
- •The slavs
- •Conclusions
- •The iron age, part II Speakers of Uralic and Altaic
- •The turks and mongols
- •I® Ibid.
- •Introduction to the study of the living
- •Materials and techniques
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •2. Skin of tawny white, nose narrow,
- •Hair Flaxen
- •Gobineau, a. De, Essai sur Vinegaliti des races humaines.
- •Meyer, h., Die Insel Tenerife; Uber die Urbewohner der Canarischen Inseln.
- •46 Eickstedt, e. Von, Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit.
- •Nordenstreng, r., Europas Mdnniskoraser och Folkslag.
- •Montandon, g., La Race, Les Races.
- •Large-headed palaeolithic survivors
- •Pure and mixed palaeolithic and mesolithic survivors of moderate head size56
- •Pure and mixed unbrachtcephalized mediterranean deriva tives
- •Brachtcephauzed mediterranean derivatives, probably mixed
- •The north
- •Introduction
- •The lapps
- •I Wiklund, k. B., gb, vol. 13, 1923, pp. 223-242.
- •7 Schreiner, a., Die Nord-Norweger; Hellemo (Tysfjord Lappen).
- •8 Gjessing, r., Die Kautokeinolappen.
- •10 Kajava, y., Beitr'dge zur Kenntnis der Rasseneigenschaften der Lappen Finnlands.
- •17 For a complete bibliography of early Lappish series, see the lists of Bryn, the two Schreiners, Geyer, Kajava, and Zolotarev.
- •Schreiner, k. E., Zur Osteologie der Lappen.
- •Gjessing, r., Die Kautokeinolappen, pp. 90-95.
- •Hatt, g., Notes on Reindeer Nomadism, maaa, vol. 6, 1919. This is one of the few points regarding the history of reindeer husbandry upon which these two authorities agree.
- •The samoyeds26
- •Scandinavia; norway
- •Iceland
- •Sweden64
- •Denmark62
- •The finno-ugrians, introduction
- •Fig. 31. Linguistic Relationships of Finno-Ugrian Speaking Peoples.
- •Racial characters of the eastern finns
- •The baltic finns: finland
- •The baltic-speaking peoples
- •Conclusions
- •The british isles
- •R£sum£ of skeletal history
- •Ireland
- •Great britain, general survey
- •Fig. 32. Composite Silhouettes of English Men and Women.
- •The british isles, summary
- •Introduction
- •Lapps and samoyeds
- •Mongoloid influences in eastern europe and in turkestan
- •Brunn survivors in scandinavia
- •Borreby survivors in the north
- •East baltics
- •Carpathian and balkan borreby-like types
- •The alpine race in germany
- •The alpine race in western and central europe
- •Aberrant alpine forms in western and central europe
- •Alpines from central, eastern, and southeastern europe
- •Asiatic alpines
- •The mediterranean race in arabia
- •Long-faced mediterraneans of the western asiatic highlands
- •Long-faced mediterraneans of the western asiatic highlands: the irano-afghan race
- •Gypsies, dark-skinned mediterraneans, and south arabian veddoids
- •The negroid periphery of the mediterranean race
- •Mediterraneans from north africa
- •Small mediterraneans of southern europe
- •Atlanto-mediterraneans from southwestern europe
- •Blue-eyed atlanto-mediterraneans
- •The mediterranean reemergence in great britain
- •The pontic mediterraneans
- •The nordic race: examples of corded predominance
- •The nordic race: examples of danubian predominance
- •The nordic race: hallstatt and keltic iron age types
- •Exotic nordics
- •Nordics altered by northwestern european upper palaeolithic mixture: I
- •Nordics altered by northwestern european upper palaeolithic mixture: II
- •Nordics altered by mixture with southwestern borreby and alpine elements
- •The principle of dinaricization
- •European dinarics: I
- •European dinarics: II
- •European dinarics: III
- •European dinarics: IV
- •Dinarics in western asia: I
- •Dinarics in western asia: II
- •Armenoid armenians
- •Dinaricized forms from arabia and central asia
- •The jews: I
- •The jews: II
- •The jews: III
- •The mediterranean world
- •Introduction
- •The mediterranean rage in arabia
- •The mediterranean world
- •7 Lawrence, Col. T. E., The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
- •The Distribution of Iranian Languages
- •The turks as mediterraneans
- •Fig, 37. Ancient Jew.
- •North africa, introduction
- •Fig. 38. Ancient Libyan. Redrawn from
- •The tuareg
- •Eastern barbary, algeria, and tunisia
- •The iberian peninsula
- •The western mediterranean islands
- •The basques
- •The gypsies
- •Chapter XII
- •The central zone, a study in reemergence
- •Introduction
- •8 Collignon, r., msap, 1894.
- •9 Collignon, r., bsap, 1883; Anth, 1893.
- •Belgium
- •The netherlands and frisia
- •Germany
- •Switzerland and austria
- •The living slavs
- •Languages of East-Central Europe and of the Balkans
- •The magyars
- •The living slavs (Concluded)
- •Albania and the dinaric race
- •The greeks
- •Bulgaria
- •Rumania and the vlachs
- •The osmanli turks
- •Turkestan and the tajiks
- •Conclusions
- •Conclusion
- •Comments and reflections
- •The white race and the new world
- •IflnrlrH
- •Alveon (also prosthion). The most anterior point on the alveolar border of the upper jaw, on the median line between the two upper median incisors.
- •Length of the clavicle (collar bone) and that of the humerus (upper arm bone);
- •Incipiently mongoloid. A racial type which has evolved part way in a mongoloid direction, and which may have other, non-mongoloid specializations of its own, is called incipiently mongoloid.
- •List of books
- •Index of authors
- •54; Language distribution, 561, map; Jews in, 642; Neo-Danubian, ill., Plate 31, Jig. 4.
- •Map; classified, 577; racial characteristics, 578-79; ill., Plate 3, fig. 3.
- •Ill., Plate 6, Jigs. 1-5; survivors in Carpathians and Balkans, ill., Plate 8, figs. 1-6; Nordic blend, ill., Plate 34, figs.
- •61; Associated with large head size, 265, 266. See also Cephalic index, Cranial measurements.
- •Ill., Plate 36, fig. 1. See also Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland.
- •Ill., Plate 30, fig. 2.
- •85; Von Eickstedt’s, 286-88; Gzek- anowski’s system, 288-89; author’s, 289-96; schematic representation, 290, chart; geographic, 294- 95, map.
- •396; Cornishmen in France, 512, 514.
THE
NORTH
355
169
cm., a cephalic index of 80.5, a lower vault, and a nasal index of
67.
Both sub-groups are equally blond, and equally ashen in
hair color. These
sub-groups may represent in the first case a
Nordic of strong Corded in-
spiration, in the second case a
more typically Finnic element. This divi-
sion serves to
emphasize the fact that in the East Baltic countries as else-
where
the predominant type of the population is not stable, but
individuals
showing older combinations are common.
As
we have seen in our review of Finno-Ugrian tribal history,
Finland
itself was the last region to be invaded and fully
colonized by Finns. At
the
same time it has always
maintained close relationships
with
Sweden, before as well as
after the Finnish migration
from
Esthonia. Skeletal re-
mains from Ostrobothnia, dat-
ing
from the Early Iron Age,
resemble closely the Iron Age
Nordic
crania from Sweden,95
while
other skulls, from the
thirteenth and fourteenth cen-
turies
onward, include a ma-
jority of brachycephalic ex-
amples,
and thus witness the
arrival of the Finns from their
ancestral
homelands in the
Middle Volga country, whence
they had
been impelled by
Slavic and Turko-Mongol pres-
sure.
Modern
Finland is divided
into nine counties (landskap)
which
are based on old tribal affiliations, and also into administra-
tive
divisions (lan) of more recent designation. The counties, in
both
Swedish and Finnish, bear the names of, and contain the
proportions
of Finnish and of Swedish speakers shown in the
table on the following
page.
MAP
11
The baltic finns: finland
86
Rctzius, G., Finska
Kranier.Westerlund,
F. W., Fcnnia, vol. 18, #2, 1900, pp. 1-31, 90-96; vol. 32, #4,
1912, pp. 1-43.
English or Swedish |
Finnish |
Per Gent Swedes |
Per Cent Finn |
Aland Islands |
Ahvenanmaa |
99.12% |
.88% |
Finland Proper |
|
|
|
(Swedish communes) |
|
87.6 |
12.4 |
(Finnish communes) |
Lansisuomi |
3.4 |
96.6 |
Satakunta |
Satakunta |
.9 |
99.1 |
Nyland |
|
|
|
(Swedish communes) |
|
69.4 |
30.6 |
(Finnish communes) |
Uusimaa |
24.4 |
75.6 |
Tavastland |
Hame |
.9 |
99.1 |
Southern Ostrobothnia |
|
|
|
(Swedish communes) |
|
95.0 |
5.0 |
(Finnish communes) |
Etela Pohjanmaa |
1.2 |
98.8 |
Savolax |
Savo |
.66 |
99.34 |
Carelia |
Karjala |
.70 |
99.30 |
Northern Ostrobothnia |
Pohjois Pohjanmaa |
.9 |
99.1 |
The
Swedish population of Finland is almost exclusively confined to the
Aland Islands, to Finland Proper, Nyland, and Southern Ostrobothnia,
being concentrated in two non-contiguous coastal areas. The old
Gothic settlement was largely located in Finland Proper and
Satakunta, between the two Swedish areas of the present day.
These
county divisions, which have their basis in tribal origins, are
marked by dialectic differences. The Suomalaiset, or southwestern
Finns, inhabit Finland Proper and Satakunta, and speak a dialect
which, although closest to the Esthonian of any in Finland, has
been influenced by the language of the Germanic people who preceded
them and whom they absorbed. The Hamalaiset or Tavastians are said
to represent, in least mixed form, the original Finnish invaders
from Esthonia. The Savo- laiset, or people of Savolax, are
linguistically a mixture between Tavastians and Carelians; the
latter are naturally identified with their tribal companions who
live over the border in the Carelian S. S. Republic, and whom we
have already studied. The Kainulaiset, or Kvaens, who live in
northern Ostrobothnia and Finnish Lappland as well as in northern
Norway and Sweden, although mixed to some extent with Lapps, are
linguistically close to the Carelians. Historically, the Kvaens
are, although partly of mixed Finnish origin, to be considered as an
early, northern Carelian offshoot. The southern Ostrobothnians speak
a dialect which is transitional between Tavastian and Kvaenish, the
latter being their earlier speech.
These
tribal differences are clearly reflected in stature; the Finns of
Esthonian origin and those in districts where Gothic and Swedish
blood has been absorbed, are tall, with local means as high as 172
cm., while in the Carelian and Kvaenish provinces the mean stature
runs as low as
THE
NORTH
357
165
cm. There is no difference in this respect between the Swedish
speakers and Finnish speakers in the southern and western
counties.96
The early recruit material enlisted between 1767 and 1906 shows the
uniform stature mean of 169.6 cm., with less local variation
than is found today, and no evidence of increase. The range of
these early soldiers is from 137 cm. to 207 cm., and the latter
figure reflects the fact that Finland has furnished some of the
world’s most famous cases of giantism. Like the Livs, the Finns
have, apparently, always been tall, and have not been as much
affected by the modern increase as have their neighbors across the
Baltic. The bodily proportions of the Finns show no unusual
features; a relative span of 104.5 97
is higher than that of most Scandinavians, while a relative sitting
height of 53 98
is moderate.
The
cephalic index means of the Finns vary from 79.3 in Finland proper,
which is the same as that of the southern enclave of Swedish
speakers, to 82.2 in Finnish Carelia, and 82.6 in northern
Ostrobothnia. The distribution of this index takes the form of a
gradual rise from the southwestern corner of Finland outward, to the
east and north, until one reaches Carelian and Kvaenish country.
These differences in the cephalic index are almost entirely
differences in mean head length, ranging from
mm.
in Finland Proper, to 188.1 mm. in Carelia and 187.6 mm. in
northern Ostrobothnia. The breadth remains constant at a mean of
153 to 154 mm.99
Thus the Carelians of Finland, and their northern relatives the
Kvaens, preserve, to a large extent, the old Finnish head size and
form, while the Finns Proper keep, in varying degree, the
dimensions and proportions acquired by mixture with the descendants
of earlier Baltic peoples, and with Goths and Swedes, both in
Esthonia and in their new home. The Finnish head height mean, as
determined by Luther, is 127 mm., which agrees both with the early
Finnish condition and that to be expected from mixture with
Scandinavians.
The
faces of the Finns are large, with a constant bizygomatic diam
96 There
is an abundance of data on Finnish stature, covering roughly 150,000
individuals, from 1768 a.d.
to
the present. Principal sources:
Hilden,
K., AFA, vol. 47, 1923, pp. 36-40.
Kajava,
Y., AAnz, vol. 2,1925, pp. 228-253; AASF, ser. A, vol. 25, #5,1925;
Fennia, vol. 48 (Atlas
of Finland))
1929,
pp. 141-143.
Karvonen,
J. J., AASF, ser. A, vol. 25, #6, 1926.
Nickul,
K., AASF, ser. A, vol. 25, #4, 1925.
Westerlund,
F. W., Fennia, vol. 18, #2, 1900, pp. 1-31, 90-96; vol. 32, #4,
1912, pp. 1-43.
Wilskman,
I., Tilastollisia
tietoja Suomen kansan ruumulisesta kehityksesta,
III, Miesten
kasvutilastoa.
97 From
unpublished material collected by Mr. Martin Luther for the Peabody
Museum, and seriated by the author with the collector’s
permission.
98 Westerlund,
F. W., Fennia, 1912.
99 Westerlund,
F. W., Fennia, vol. 20, 1903, pp. 1-67. Also Luther’s material.
358
THE
RACES OF EUROPE
eter100
mean of 141
mm.,
whereas the menton-nasion heights vary pro- vincially in harmony
with the distribution of stature and of head length. The mean for
the total is 126.5
mm.,
and the longest faces are found in southwestern Finland, while the
shortest occur in the north.101
The nasal index mean for Finland is 66, which is moderately
leptorrhine and probably typical of the East Baltic group as a
whole.102
The bigonial diameter of the Finns is very broad,103
quite equal to the standards of the Livs, and gives the Finnish face
the square appearance for which it is noted.
The
pigmentation of the Finns is as abundantly documented as are their
stature and head form. Skin color, however, has been tabulated in
only one study104
of 154 males, of whom 121 were found to be “white,” presumably
in the extreme Scandinavian sense, while the others were listed as
“yellowish” or “brunet.” General observation of Finns,
however, and descriptions by various authors, lead to the
conclusion that the skin color of these people is as a rule
unusually fair, but that in many cases it lacks surface vascularity.
If
one may judge by a series of 176 hair samples from various parts of
Finland,105
then the Finns, like the Livs, are blonder than the Norwegian total,
but less blond than Bryn’s selected Eastern Valley farmers. The
ash-blond series (Fischer #20-26) accounts for $6
per cent of the whole, while brown (Fischer #6-8)
totals 47 per cent, and dark brown and black amount to less than 2
per cent. Reds are negligible, and black and really dark hair less
frequent than in Scandinavia. Westerlund’s recruit material 106
on a series of 6000 agrees with that of Luther, and yields less than
one per cent of red. The Finns and Swedes of the western and
southern provinces are almost identical in hair color proportions,
although the Finns have a little more ash-blond, and the Swedes a
little more brown. The distribution of hair color shows the greatest
degree of blondism among the Finns living in Nyland, Finland Proper,
and Satakunta—these have over 60 per cent of ash-blond and golden
shades, more than the Swedish speakers; while in Carelia and the two
Ostrobothnias the lesser blondism already determined for Carelians
is found.
The
eye color of the Finns is, as one would expect, prevailingly light,
100 Kolmogorov,
A. J., AFA, vol. 34, 1907, pp. 228-231. Also, Luther’s data.
Retzius,
A., CRCA, 8me sess., Budapest, 1876, vol. 2, pp. 740-771.
101 Luther.
Retzius, whose means are 14 mm. lower, obviously located nasion too
low.
Westerlund,
F. W., Fennia,
1912.
m
Retzius, op*
cit.
Mean ==114 mm.
104
Eliseev, A. V., r6sum£ in AFA,
vol.
26, 1900, pp. 803-807; from a Russian source.
106
Collected by Luther, matched to the Fischer scale by the author.
106 Westerlund,
F. W., Fennia,
vol.
21, 1904, pp. 1-58.
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NORTH
359
with
blue commoner than gray. Westerlund finds but 7 per cent of brown
eyes, and 15 per cent of mixed, while Luther’s mixed group
comprises 15 per cent. Since the eye color of the Finns and of the
Swedes in the coastal regions is equally distributed, it is
reasonable to suppose that Finland, in this respect, is about equal
to Scandinavia. Blue eyes, with a regional maximum of 53 per cent,
are commonest in southern Ostrobothnia; while gray eyes,
attaining 37 per cent, are concentrated in Finland Proper. In
four-fold correlation tables blue eyes go especially with brown, and
gray eyes with ash-blond hair. The regional distribution of eye
color, while following faithfully that of stature, head form, and
hair color, is not as strongly marked as is the case with the
metrical characters; the maximum of Westerlund’s blue -f gray
classes combined is 83 per cent in Finland Proper, the minimum 71.8
per cent in northern Ostrobothnia; dark eyes vary only from 5.7 per
cent to 9.1 per cent, in the same counties.
Morphological
observations on modern Finns are rare. Those which are available
indicate that the foreheads are usually high, broad, and only
slightly sloping, and that, in general, the total facial profile
resembles that of the eastern Finns rather than of Scandinavian
Nordics. The nose is most often straight or slightly concave, and
the nasion region smoothly curved over glabella, so that it is
difficult to locate nasion. Browridges are usually only slightly
developed. The nasal wings are usually of moderate spread, and as
often flaring as compressed. Heavy mandibles, with powerful
chins, are as typical of these as of other Finns. Within any random
Finnish gathering, it is possible to pick out Nordic individuals of
ordinary Iron Age type, as well as broad-faced, snub-nosed
individuals who are exaggeratedly East Baltic. There is a
considerable individual range, although the regional trends are
well marked and constant.
On
the whole the Finns are physically just what one would expect from
their history; an amalgamation between an intrusive eastern Finnish
population, Scandinavian Nordics, and' earlier elements local to the
eastern Baltic shores. The Finnish invaders seem, here as in
Esthonia and among the Livs, to have preserved in many instances
their characteristic cranial and facial morphology, while at the
same time undergoing a great increase in size, and some increase in
blondism, through the absorption of the other racial factors. The
various component elements have not, in Finland, been completely
absorbed and fused; correlations between stature, head form,
face form, and pigmentation show that a tall, mesocephalic,
brown-haired, and blue-eyed strain, which probably represents a
Nordic element in a sense, but to a greater extent the old
Corded race, may be contrasted with a shorter, rounder-headed type,
with ash-blond hair and gray eyes, which is the original Finnic.