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Phenotype

Shanid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Shanid 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.

Shanid phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Shanid 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).

Shanid phenotype historical center: 35.00, 110.00 — East Asia

Physical Characteristics

Yellowish light to medium brown skin with straight, sometimes wavy hair. Rather short, macro- mesoskelic, ectomorph. Brachycephalic, hypsicranic. Mildly leptorrhine. Face is not as flat as in Sinid and more elongated than in Palaungid, but still round, features are more refined and gracile, skin slightly darker. Mongolian fold common.

Historical Background

Sinoid South Mongolid type, typical in the (Irrawaddy) plains and the Shan Plateau of Myanmar. The name derives from the Shan people, who migrated south from Yunnan in historic times and formed a powerful empire, soon outnumbering Palaungids and Veddoids. However, modern Shan are more mixed. Today most common in Burmese, but also in the hills of Yunnan, Southern China, and even Tibet (especially in the priest caste).

Source: Human Phenotypes — Shanid

References & Literature

The Shanid 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. 1928. Das Rassenbild des westlichen und zentralen Hinterindien. In: Anthropologischer Anzeiger (5), 176-187.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1944. Rassendynamik von Ostasien. Walter de Gruyter. Berlin.
  • Heberer, G., G. Kurth and I. Schwidetzky. 1969. Anthropologie. Das Fischer Lexikon.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1937. Geschichte der anthropologischen Namengebung und Klassifikation. In: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde. Band 5, 209-282, Band 6, 36-96, 151-210.
  • Lundman, B. 1967. Geographische Anthropologie. Rassen und Völker der Erde. G. Fischer, Stuttgart
  • Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
  • Hooton, E.A. 1946. Up from the Ape. Rev. ed. Macmillan Company . New York.
  • Montandon, G. 1933. La race, les races: mise au point d éthnologie somatique. Payot. Paris.

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