- •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.
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RACES OF EUROPE
of
his series, as compared to 64.8 per cent for Norway and 59.8 per
cent for Sogn og Fjordane.
Thus
although the Icelanders are still prevailingly light haired, they
are darker than any purely Norwegian population in Norway. In Norway
black hair is everywhere, except among the Lapps, in a very small
minority; in Iceland it rises to the figure of 9 per cent,
while red hair accounts for 3 per cent more. The presence of these
two colors in such quantities is an excellent indication of the
persistance of a strong Irish strain.
This
indication is strengthened by a study of Icelandic eye color. The
ratio of light- and very light-mixed eyes (Martin #13-16) rises to
76 per cent, as high as the Tr^ndelagen ratios. But in Tr^ndelagen
the majority are light-mixed eyes (Martin #13-14) while in Iceland,
as in Ireland,52 over half of all eyes are pure blue.
On
the whole, the Icelanders represent a racial population which is
most closely related to the mediaeval inhabitants of the western
Norwegian coast, from Hordaland to Tr^ndelagen; they fit
typologically into a midpoint between the two extremes of the
Tr^nder category. They show certain developments of their own,
particularly in their excessive face length, and in what seems to be
an Arctic modification of the palate and jaws. In some respects they
show perceptible Irish affinities; as in the retention of an
excessive head size, and in the disharmony between very light eyes
and hair of but intermediate blondness. In this series, even more
than in the living Norwegian material, the resemblance to Upper
Palaeolithic cranial and facial types is manifest.53
Sweden,
which occupies the more southerly, less mountainous, and larger side
of the Scandinavian Peninsula, is in area the fifth largest country
in Europe. Most of its land is of high economic utility, since the
low, well-watered slope of southern and central Sweden, dotted with
lakes, is well suited for agriculture, while in the north, large
forests and plentiful mineral deposits furnish materials for
industry. Since 1775 Sweden’s population has grown from two to six
millions, not including the million and a half who have emigrated to
the United States. Much of this increase has been fostered by the
growth of industrial life, especially in the mining areas and in the
cities. Central Sweden, in a belt reaching southwestward
Lundborg,
H., and Linders, F. J., The
Racial Characters of the Swedish Nation.
Sweden64
See
Chapter X, section 2.Seltzer,
C. C., op.
cit.
Seltzer finds a Cro-Magnon-like type in a mediaeval cranial series
from Haffiarderey, collected for the Peabody Museum by Vilhjalmur
Stefansson. His opinion as to this resemblance is substantiated by
both metrical and morphological comparisons.The
principal sources for this section are :Retzius,
G., and Furst, C. M., Anthropologia
Suecica.
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327
from
Stockholm, and the peninsula of Sk&ne, are the regions of
thickest settlement. Most of the Swedes who have gone to the United
States originated in Gotaland, the southwestern part of the kingdom.
In
prehistoric times, Sweden, although less populous than Denmark, was
far more important than Norway. From Ancylus times until the
beginning of the Iron Age, the southwestern portion opposite
the Danish Islands was a center of cultural activity, while the
central and northern parts of the country were conservative and
rustic cultural outposts. The brachycephalic Mesolithic
population so typical of the Danish islands was less firmly rooted
in Sweden, and the successive invasions of Megalithic and Corded
people passed over into Sweden relatively unaltered, and produced a
greater proportionate effect upon the racial composition of this
country than upon that of Denmark. The Corded people, especially,
moved northward into the central portions of the kingdom, and
probably entered Tr0n- delagen, where their racial type is still
important, by the Swedish route.
The
Iron Age invaders, the linguistic ancestors of the modern
Scandinavians, again chose Sweden as their especial sphere of
colonization, and settled here in greater numbers than in Denmark or
in Norway. Sweden became a great breeding ground for Nordic peoples,
chief worshippers of Odin and of Frey, and after less than a
thousand years, the country became so crowded with them that
overpopulation, coupled with the onset of an adverse climate, forced
a huge mass exodus southward.
This
movement was, in effect, the great series of Germanic migrations,
the Volkerwanderung, which spread from Schleswig-Holstein and the
Low Countries, on the west, and from the mouth of the Vistula on the
east. The Goths, the Burgundians, and the Vandals, except for the
Franks and Saxons, the most numerous and most important tribes of
Germans, all had their origins in Sweden. As a womb of peoples
Sweden was more important than Norway, and at an earlier date.
Sweden was, in fact, to the continental world what Norway was to
Britain, Iceland, and Normandy.
Although,
since the Iron Age, Sweden’s historical r61e has been that of a
feeder of peoples, she has at various times, and to a lesser extent,
acted in the opposite capacity. During the Volkerwanderung the
remnants of the Herulians and various bands of disappointed Goths
returned to the Nordic homelands, tired of wandering, and it is not
unlikely that they brought with them new racial elements picked up
in Hungary and in the lands north of the Black Sea. Later on, during
the Viking period of the ninth to eleventh centuries, Swedes, as
well as Danes and Norwegians, raided many countries and brought back
with them thralls from the British Isles, France, and the lands
across the Baltic. According to Nordenstreng 65
56
Nordenstreng, G.}
Origin,
Growth,
and
Racial Components of the Swedish Nation,
in Lundborg and Linders, pp. 41-49. Special ref. to p. 44.
328
THE
RACES OF EUROPE
these
prisoners were settled most commonly in the present county of Upp-
land, immediately north of the city of Stockholm.
The
development of cities in Sweden drew to that country large numbers
of traders and merchants, from Viking times onward, and these
commercial people were largely of Germanic origin. Frisian and
Saxon chapmen were the first, and these were followed by others, in
later times, from various parts of Germany, including the
southern principalities. During the period of Sweden’s great
military expansion (1611-1718 a.d.),
when the
kingdom extended over large parts of Germany, many Germans were made
noblemen, and went to live in Sweden. Thus the German blood in
Sweden is a factor to be reckoned with, and has influenced, chiefly,
the city population and the nobility. The latter class has also
received strong infusions from Scotland, for Scotsmen, who served
under Gustavus Adolphus in large numbers, were in many instances
rewarded for their bravery by elevation to the Swedish peerage.
Furthermore, Walloons, who represented a much darker and
rounder-headed racial element than these other immigrants, were
brought to Sweden during the seventeenth century to work in the iron
foundries. Some thirty or forty thousand of their descendants can
still be identified.
More
important than any of these absorptions, in all likelihood, has been
the influence of the Finns upon the Swedish people. In the Middle
Ages, Kvaens wandered into the northern counties, but not in great
numbers. The same Kvaenish migration which affected the
northern provinces of Norway from 1700 a.d.
onward,
also reenforced this element in northern Sweden. During the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, other Finns settled in Varmland
and Dalarne, counties bordering on the Norwegian provinces of
Ostfold and Hedmark, and the Finns of Grue 56 in Norway
came as part of this same migration. Other Finns remained in
scattered settlements between the Varmland and Dalarne nucleus and
the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, while still others penetrated as
far south as Stockholm.
Although
this migration ceased about 1700, over 13,000 Finns had come to
Sweden and to a small district in Norway. Although these Finns were
not numerous, the population of Sweden at that time was no more than
one and a half millions, and the Finns were particularly prolific.
Today only .two villages in Varmland retain Finnish speech from the
time of this migration. In Norrbotten, in the valleys of Torne and
Muonio, more recent colonies of Finns, from southwestern Finland,
still speak their own language, and form a distinct alien bloc. In
all there are, at present, about 30,000 Finnish speakers in Sweden,
in addition to whom it is estimated that well over 100,000
Swedes are at least partially of Finnish descent.
66
See p. 313.
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329
In
comparison with most European countries, Sweden has, in post-iron
Age times, been subjected to remarkably few foreign influences which
would affect her racial composition. Despite the absorptions and
immigrations noted above, Sweden remains one of the most
homogeneous nations in Europe both in race and in pedigree. This
homogeneity is largely the result of geography, for in contrast to
the rugged Norwegian landscape, with its mountains and fjords and
distinct centers of racial concentration, the flat surface of
Sweden, with its modern industrial development and fluidity of
population, has brought about a striking racial unity. In Sweden
social and occupational differences in physical type are almost as
great as regional ones. In no racial character are Swedish
sub-groups, whether geographical or social, strongly differentiated.
The
same basic Hallstatt Nordic type which found such a favorable
breeding ground in Sweden during the Iron Age is still the
predominant race in that kingdom. It has absorbed into its ethnic
body both older and newer peoples, and has spread the resultant
blend with remarkable evenness over the surface of the nation.
On the whole, Sweden is the most Nordic nation in Europe in the Iron
Age sense, and it is much more Nordic than Norway. At the same time,
owing to geographical factors again, the valleys of southeastern
Norway contain as unaltered an Iron Age Nordic population as any in
Sweden. The metrical characters of the recruit material for the
entire Swedish nation are very similar, in fact, to those of the
southeastern Norwegians.67 The stature mean of the Swedes
is
cm.,
and their characteristic bodily proportions are equally close to
the Norwegian standard. Regional variation in stature stretches
only from 169.9 cm. in the northeastern manufacturing districts to
172.5 cm. in the central provinces contiguous with Tr^ndelag. In
the far north, where Finnish influence is common, and in the south,
where the older, more brachycephalic populations of the Neolithic
and Bronze Ages were seated, the length of the trunk is relatively
greater, and of the legs smaller, than in the central parts of the
kingdom, but these regional differences are less pronounced than
those between social and occupational groups in the nation as a
whole. As in Norway, the population drawn to the cities is notably
shorter-armed than that which remains upon the land.
The
mean head length of Swedish recruits is 193.8 mm., and the breadth
152.3 mm., yielding a cephalic index of 77.7. The longest heads,
with regional means running up to 195 mm., are found in the west,
over against Norway, and the shortest in the north. The lowest
cephalic index mean is 76.7, and the highest, concentrated in the
north, are all below 80. The three principal breadth diameters of
the face, minimum frontal, bizygomatic, and bigonial, have national
means of 104.6 mm., 136.0 mm.,
Lundborg
and Linders, op.
cit.
Fischer Nos. |
Designation |
Sweden |
Norway |
12-25 |
flaxen |
6.9% |
27.9% |
7-11, 26 |
light brown |
62.5 |
50.0 |
5-6 |
brown (medium) |
25.1 |
17.2 |
4 |
brownish black |
2.0 |
3.7 |
27-28 |
black |
.2 |
.1 |
1-3 |
red |
3.3 |
1.3 |
The
Swedish recruits were observed for hair color by means of a local
chart, which was later correlated with the Fischer standard. (L. &
L., p. 10.) The comparison between the Swedish and Norwegian results
was made by recombining the total Norwegian series according to the
Swedish divisions. The difference in amounts of red is undoubtedly
due to a difference of standards, as Conitzer has previously stated.
(Co- nitzer, H„ ZFMA, vol. 19, 1931, pp. 83-147.)
THE
NORTH
331
and
4 per cent of dark. In the first category were presumably included
light eyes with a slight spotting, as in the Martin numbers 13 and
14. The Lundborg and Linders study, made with a different
observational scheme,61 raised the first category to 87
per cent, and the third to 5 per cent. In any case, there can be no
doubt that the eye colors of the Swedish people are predominantly
light mixed and light, as in Norway; and that the lightest eyes in
the kingdom are found in western Sweden, and the darkest in the
north.
Correlations
within the Lundborg and Linders series of 47,000 men show certain
slight linkages, which could be dismissed as insignificant if found
on smaller samples. The cephalic index decreases slightly, and the
facial index rises, with an increase in stature; similarly, the
tallest statures have a tendency to go with brown hair and light
eyes. It is not unreasonable to suppose that this combination may be
a faint reflection of the absorption of a Corded racial element into
the population of Sweden. In the same way an association of flaxen
hair, moderate stature, mesocephalic head form, and convexity of
nasal profile, makes it unlikely that all high cephalic indices in
Sweden are due to East Baltic influence, and suggests rather a
survival of mesocephalic and brachycephalic elements in southern
Sweden, comparable to those in western Norway. Truly short stature,
linked with dark pigmentation and round head form, furnishes an
infrequent combination, but one which may imply a Lappish
strain in the far north, submerged Alpine elements, or both.
The
Swedish material, and especially the correlations, confirms the
opinion formed in Norway, that the Nordic race as such is not and
was never wholly blond. The characteristic eye color is blue or
gray, and the presence or absence of a small amount of superficial
iris pigment seems racially irrelevant. At the same time, it is
likely that all hair color shades from a light medium brown to the
lightest, whether on the ashen or golden side, should be considered
as “pure” lights, since, as the Swedish material shows, persons
having these shades on the head have, as a rule, the same colored
pubic hair. In Sweden, as in Norway, what linkages there are which
point to the survival or resegregation of a Corded type indicate
that this type was characterized by exceptionally light eyes, but a
predominantly brown shade of hair.
Abundant
anthropometric data from Sweden make it clear that the basic, and by
far the most numerous element in the population is, as in eastern
Norway, an Iron Age Nordic one, transferred from its central and
eastern European home; earlier elements have survived less here than
in
6i “
#i s=s light iris (blue, gray, pale yellow, or green), also light
iris with insignificant brown spots, points, or patches; 2 = mixed
iris and light iris with brown aureole;
=
light brown or dark iris.** L. & L., p. 10.