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Phenotype

Barrinean Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Barrinean 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.

Barrinean phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Barrinean phenotype is native to Australia. 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: -25.00°, 135.00° (latitude, longitude).

Barrinean phenotype historical center: -25.00, 135.00 — Australia

Physical Characteristics

Dark brown skin with curly or tight-curly brown-black hair. Short, brachyskelic sometimes mesoskelic, endomorph. Dolichocephalic, smaller-headed than neighbouring types. Nose (hyper-)platyrrhine with a very depressed root, often concave. Faces shorter than in the taller types, eyes deep-set, chin short. Body hair relatively weak.

Historical Background

Australid subtype of the forest belt associated with the Australian pygmies. Could be the remnant of an ancient Negrito strain that once occupied large parts of Australia, or alternatively the result of a process of reduction. Shows similarities to Tasmanids as well. Practically extinct today. Around 1900, a few Barrineans still survived in the jungles of Queensland. For millennia they had been pushed back by Carpentarians, later by European colonists.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Barrinean

References & Literature

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

  • Tindale, N. B. and B. Birdsell. 1941. Tasmanoid Tribes in North Queensland. Records of the South Australian Museum 7, 1. 1-9.
  • Hooton, E.A. 1946. Up from the Ape. Rev. ed. Macmillan Company . New York.
  • Birdsell, J. B. 1949. The Racial Origin of the Extinct Tasmanians. Rec. Q. Victoria Mus., Launceston 2,3. 105-122.
  • Cole, S. 1965. Races of Man. Butler & Tanner Ltd. Frome and London.
  • Drexel, A. 1955. Die Völker der Erde. 2nd Ed. Akademie Verlag. Zürich.
  • Windschuttle K. and Gillin, T. 2002. The extinction of the Australian pygmies. Qadrant, June 2002.

Related Phenotypes

Other human phenotypes related to Barrinean by geography or typological similarity.

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  • North Australid

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    Australid type of Northern and Central Australia typical for the Gulf of Carpentaria. Shows some similarities to Paleo Melanesids. By some a...

  • Paleo Melanesid

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    Melanesid variety with very ancient features, closer to Australids. Typified by the Kanak of New Caledonia, in its purest form in the north ...

  • South Australid

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    Australid subtype with proto-Caucasiform features associated with the people of the Murray basin of Southeastern Australia. Originally the m...

  • Tasmanid

    Australia

    Insular, slightly gracilised Australid subtype of Tasmania. Similar to Barrinean, sometimes also associated with Melanesid or Negritid. Most...