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Phenotype

Bering Sea Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Bering Sea 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.

Bering Sea phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Bering Sea phenotype is native to Siberia. 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: 60.00°, 100.00° (latitude, longitude).

Bering Sea phenotype historical center: 60.00, 100.00 — Siberia

Physical Characteristics

Light yellowish/reddish-brown skin with light or wavy black hair. Rather short to medium height, (hyper-)macroskelic, short-limbed, endomorph, muscular. Mesocephalic, ortho-, sometimes chamaecranic. (Mildly) leptorrhine, straight nose. Taller, wider-nosed and wider-skulled than Inuid. Cranial capacity very large, cheekbones prominent, hairiness moderate, Mongolian folds frequent.

Historical Background

Western Eskimid variety common in Alaska and along the Bering Strait, esp. St. Lawrence Island. The result of a relatively late migration to America. Eskimids show the most extreme adaptions to Arctic climate in the world. Typified by Alaskan and Siberian Yupik, sometimes in Alutiiq, Inuit, Aleuts, and coastal Chuckis, rarer in Kutchin and Ingalik. Native from Siberia to Greenland.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Bering Sea

References & Literature

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

  • Debets, G. F. 1951. Zaselenie Juznoj i Perednej Azii po dannym antropologii. Trudy Inst. Ethnograf. AN SSSR 16. 355-370.
  • Levin, M. G. 1963. Ethnic origins of the people of Northeastern Asia. Arctic Inst. North America, Anthropology of the North. Translations from Russian sources 3. Toronto.
  • Hrdlicka, A. 1930. Anthropological Survey in Alaska. Ann. Report Bur. Am. Ethnol. 46. 19-374.
  • Shapiro, H. L. 1931. The Alaskan Eskimo. Anthrop. Papers Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 31, 6, 346-384.
  • 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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