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Phenotype

Chukchid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Chukchid 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.

Chukchid phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Chukchid 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).

Chukchid phenotype historical center: 60.00, 100.00 — Siberia

Physical Characteristics

Light yellowish/reddish-brown skin with straight or wavy black, sometimes lighter hair. (Rather) short, endomorph, muscular, strongly macroskelic with short limbs. Mesocephalic, occasionally brachycephalic, chamae- orthocranic. Mildly leptorrhine, relatively high rooted, sometimes convex nose (especially in men). Face is short, rather narrow and high with robust features and a massive jaw. Body hair scant, eyes slanting sometimes with epicanthus.

Historical Background

Far Eastern Sibirid variety, influenced by Eskimid, adapted to one of the coldest inhabitable places on Earth: the Arctic tundra of Chukotka and Kamchatka. In its purest form in Koryak and Reindeer Chukchis. Has an Itelmen subvariety that is heavily mixed with Russian blood today. Sometimes in coastal Chukchis, Evens, Yukaghirs, Aleutians, and Native Americans of the Northern Pacific coast, e.g. Haida.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Chukchid

References & Literature

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

  • Lundman, B. 1967. Geographische Anthropologie. Rassen und Völker der Erde. G. Fischer, Stuttgart
  • Debets, G. F. 1951. Zaselenie Juznoj i Perednej Azii po dannym antropologii. Trudy Inst. Ethnograf. AN SSSR 16. 355-370.
  • Debets, G. 1974. Essay on the Graphical Presentation of the Genealogical Classification of Human Races. In: Bromley, Y. Soviet Ethnology and Anthropology Today. Mouton & Co.
  • 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.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1952. Biodynamik der Europiden. In: Historia Mundi. Band 1, Munich, 115-134.
  • Knussmann, R. 1996. Vergleichende Biologie des Menschen: Lehrbuch der Anthropologie und Humangenetik. 2ed. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
  • Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
  • Jochelson-Brodsky, D. 1906. Zur Topographie des weiblichen Körpers nordostsibirischer Völker. Braunschweig.

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