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Phenotype

Arabian Veddoid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

The Arabian Veddoid phenotype is a north africa human phenotype documented in historical anthropology literature. This page presents the Arabian Veddoid phenotype average face composite, its geographic distribution, physical characteristics, historical background, and academic references.

Average Face

The Arabian Veddoid phenotype average face is a composite synthesized from multiple individual photographs by historical anthropologists. It represents a statistical impression of recurring facial features, not a real person.

Arabian Veddoid phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Arabian Veddoid phenotype is native to North Africa. The historical distribution below reflects approximate centers of prevalence documented roughly 1500 years ago; modern borders and population movements have since blurred these boundaries.

Approximate coordinates: 26.00°, 17.00° (latitude, longitude).

Arabian Veddoid phenotype historical center: 26.00, 17.00 — North Africa

Physical Characteristics

Dark brown skin, curly (ringlet) black hair, rather short, macroskelic, endomorph to ectomorph. Meso- brachycephalic, very small-headed, mildly hypsicranic with a mildly leptorrhine and low nose. Deep set eyes, beard strong, and prognathism only mild.

Historical Background

Ancient Vedda-like type of the Arabian Peninsula and South Iran, often heavily mixed. Found in the Mehri of South Oman, around Hadramaut in Yemen, Iranians of Susa, Makran, and Socotrans. Sometimes in Mesopotamia and even Nubia. This type could be linked to the ancestral Arabian population as well as the Dravidians of India.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Arabian Veddoid

References & Literature

The Arabian Veddoid phenotype entry above is compiled from the following academic references. Readers are encouraged to consult the original sources for verification and deeper context.

  • Coon, C.S.. 1939.. The Races of Europe. The Macmillan Company. New York.
  • Wissmann, H von. 1941. Arabien und seine kolonialen Ausstrahlungen. In: Lebensraumfragen europäischer Völker 2. 374-488. Leipzig.
  • Grohmann, A. 1963. Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft 3. Kulturgeschichte des Alten Orients, Arabien. C.H.Beck. München.
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  • Field, H. 1949. The anthropology of Iraq. The Lower Euphrates-Tigris Region, 30(1).
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1952. Biodynamik der Europiden. In: Historia Mundi. Band 1, Munich, 115-134.
  • Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.

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