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Aisto Nordid

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From Physical Anthropology
Aisto Nordid
Similar Types Hallstatt, Fenno Nordid, [[Tr�nder]], Proto Nordid, Tavastid
Group Nordid
Distribution Map

Description

East Nordid subvariety, common in coastal regions of Baltic countries. One of the last strongholds of East Nordids that are only a minority type in most of their distribution today. Played a role in the formation of Tavastid and Tr�nder. Purest in Western Finns and West Estonians, also Latvians, Lithuanians, Russians, Poles, Belarusians, and in Sweden, where it has a H�lsingland subvariety.[1]

Physical Traits

Pale skin, straight, usually blonde hair with blue or grey eyes. Tall, mesoskelic, rarely brachyskelic, mesomorph. Mesocephalic, mildly hypsicranic with a higher and larger skull than Hallstatt Nordid. The face and head appear a little wider, noses tend to be long, high, prominent, straight, and hyperleptorrhine, forehead high, chin sturdy. Overall marked features.



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