01-09-2024, 06:27 PM
why is it that south asians and middle easterners have orthocranic skulls, while baltic and people of the Caucasus have hypsicranic
hypsicranic:
orthocranic
hypsicranic:
Quote:Hypsicranic skulls are characterised by the skull height reaching at least 75 percent of the skull length. This is also called high-skulled. Hypsicranic individuals often have a flat occiput (planoccipital). Although rare in prehistoric times, hypsicrany is widespread today and occurs in most East and South East Asians. It is particularly strong in some Indochinese and Malay groups. Another centre of hypsicrany lies in the Caucasus, Anatolia, and the Balkans. In a somewhat less pronounced form it extends through Russia. Some African savannah groups and populations at the Gulf of Guinea show hypsicrany as well, but usually not in a very pronounced form. In America hypsicrany is strong in some groups native to the Southern US states and in peoples of the Andes. In milder forms it extends through Amazonia, Patagonia, and many parts of Central America.
orthocranic
Quote:Orthocranic skulls are characterised by the skull height reaching more than 70 percent of the skull length, but less than 75 percent. This is also called medium high-skulled. Orthocrany today is widespread on all continents. It dominates throughout Africa, in the western half of Europe, and large parts of South and Central Asia. Much of Australia is orthocranic as well. In North America most groups of temperate and cold climate show orthocrany. In South America it is often transitional to mild hypsicrany, but dominates around the Caribbean.

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