Gorid
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| Similar Types | West Alpinid, Neo Danubian, Pre Slavic, Carpathid, [[Alf�ld]], East Alpinid |
| Group | Alpinid |
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Description
East Alpinid variety, named after the Polish word for mountain (Gora). Metrically intermediate between West Alpinid and East Europid. The nucleus of the type lies in Southern Poland, Gorids are also important in Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, Albanians, Northern Bulgarians, Hungarians, Romanians, West Ukrainians, and their neighbours.[1]
Physical Traits
Fair to light brown skin, straight to wavy brown, sometimes blonde hair. Rather short, meso- brachyskelic, endomorph. Brachycephalic, mildly hypsicranic. Round face with soft, sometimes infantile features. Nose leptorrhine, short and often concave. In difference to West Alpinid, higher-skulled with a more Baltid-like morphology.