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Phenotype

Mountain Indid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Mountain Indid 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.

Mountain Indid phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Mountain Indid phenotype is native to South 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: 22.00°, 78.00° (latitude, longitude).

Mountain Indid phenotype historical center: 22.00, 78.00 — South Asia

Physical Characteristics

Light brown skin, straight or wavy hair. Rather short, mesoskelic, endomorph, sometimes ectomorph. Dolicho- mesocephalic, ortho- hypsicranic, relatively large head. Meso- or mildly leptorrhine, large, straight nose with a depressed root. Deep eyelids, usually significant supraorbital arches, slightly receding chin. The broad face seems rhomboid due to the narrow forehead and wide jaw.

Historical Background

(Gracile) Indid variety native to the valleys south of the Western Himalaya and in the Hindu Kush. Once the principal element of the Khas and widespread in the North Indian Plains. Today common in Garhwali of Uttarakhand and Pahari, but also in Purigi, Kanets, Rajputs, Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir, Nepal, Eastern Afghanistan, even Tajikistan. Occasionally in Sikh, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Iran.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Mountain Indid

References & Literature

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

  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1926. Zur Anthropologie der Garhwali im Himalaya. Mitt. Anthr. Ges. Wien LVI. 173-183.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1926b. The races and types of the western and central Himalayas. Man in India 6 (4).
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1937. Geschichte der anthropologischen Namengebung und Klassifikation. In: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde. Band 5, 209-282, Band 6, 36-96, 151-210.
  • Herrlich, A. 1937. Beitrag zur Rassen- und Stammeskunde der Hindukush-Kafiren. In: Bericht der deutschen Hindukush-Expedition 1935 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. 168-246. Berlin.
  • Schwidetzky, I. 1950. Turaniden-Studien. Verl. d. Akademie d. Wissenschaften u.d. Literatur.
  • Janetschek, H. 1990. Als Zoologe am Dach der Welt. Universitätsverlag Wagner. Innsbruck.

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