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Phenotype

Kham Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Kham 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.

Kham phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Kham phenotype is native to East Asia. 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: 35.00°, 110.00° (latitude, longitude).

Kham phenotype historical center: 35.00, 110.00 — East Asia

Physical Characteristics

Light, sometimes medium olive brown skin with straight, sometimes wavy hair. Medium height, mesoskelic, ectomorph to mesomorph. The head is large and robust, dolicho- mesocephalic and hypsicranic. Mesorrhine, straight or convex, sometimes low-rooted nose. Face broader than in Tibetid proper, mildly flattened. The Mongolian fold is found regularly. Mildly prognathous.

Historical Background

Robust Sinid variety, found in its highest concentration in Eastern Tibet, especially in the Kham region in nomads and warrior castes. Could be an older Sinid type, or alternatively just an adaption to the high altitude. Also in South Tibetans, Qinghai, Gansu, Szechuan, Yunnan, Northern Burma, Arunachal Pradesh, and in lower frequencies across many regions of East Asia including Indochina.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Kham

References & Literature

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

  • Turner, W. Bhils, Frontier Tribes of Burma, Pakkou Tribes. South Shan Tribes, Tibetans. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 49. 705-734.
  • Morant, G. M. 1924. A study of certain oriental series of crania. Biometrica 16. Camebridge.
  • Montandon, G. 1933. La race, les races: mise au point d éthnologie somatique. Payot. Paris.
  • Biasutti, R. and J. Gomez-Tabanera. 1967. L'Asia Centrale. In: Biasutti, R. Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
  • Michalski I. 1938.Skladniki rasowe Chinczyków,

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