Armenid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

Average Face

The Armenid 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.

Geographic Distribution

The Armenid phenotype is native to Caucasus. 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: 42.00°, 44.00° (latitude, longitude).

Physical Characteristics

Light brown skin, wavy, dark brown hair. Medium height, endomorph with broad shoulders, and often macroskelic. Hyperbrachycephalic, hypsicranic with a flat occiput. Hyperleptorrhine, long, convex, and swollen nose. Face rather broad with fleshy features. Chin weak. Lower lip full, lower eyelids heavy, mouth broad. Eyebrows strong, body hair very heavy. Sometimes mildly prognathic.

Historical Background

Widespread type, found in its most specialised form in the mountains of Asia Minor. Associated with the ancient Cypriots and the Hittite Kingdom. Common in Armenians, Turks of mountain regions (e.g. Taurus), Lebanese, and Mazanderani. Significant in Georgians, Ossetians, occasionally Azerbaijanis, Kurds, West Persians, Jews, across the Mediterranean (Crete, Southern Italy and Southwestern Spain, Crete, Tunisia), in Central Asia, Syria, traces far South to Yemen and India.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Armenid

References & Literature

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

• Petersen, E. and F v. Luschan. 1889. Reisen in Lykien. Milyas und Kibyratis. Wien.
• Hooton, E.A. 1946. Up from the Ape. Rev. ed. Macmillan Company . New York.
• Lundman, B. 1967. Geographische Anthropologie. Rassen und Völker der Erde. G. Fischer, Stuttgart
• Bernhard, W. 1993. Anthropologie von Südwestasien. In.: Schwidetzky, I.: Rassengeschichte der Menschheit 14, Asien 4. Oldenbourg.
• Günther, H. 1942. Rassenkunde Europas. München.
• Peters, H. 1940. Haustier und Mensch in Libyen: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Reise nach Nordafrika. Hohenlohesche Verlagsbuchhandlung. Oehringen.
• Eickstedt, E. von. 1961. Türken, Kurden und Iraner seit dem Altertum: Probleme einer anthropologischen Reise. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart.
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• Knussmann, R. 1996. Vergleichende Biologie des Menschen: Lehrbuch der Anthropologie und Humangenetik. 2ed. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
• Bunak, V.V. 1960. Anthropological Composition of the Population of the Caucasus. Contributions to the Physical Anlhropology of the Soviet Union. Russian Translation Series.

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