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Alpines are easy to recognize by their infantile features and round faces. The cheeks are usually less full than those of either UPs or Mediterraneans, but the chin is still projecting in a characteristically UP way. They are often snub nosed (specially the females) like the Armenian and their vault is short. The eyes and mouth appear big for the face and their bones are smaller than those of other UP survivors. |
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Alpine types |
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Anthropological Morphologies Online Resources |
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Siria |
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Siria Siria |
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Armenia |
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Greece |
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Switzerland Spain |
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France Switzerland |
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Germany Switzerland |
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Germany Germany |
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Germany Switzerland |
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James Gandolfini from USA Germany Carlos Francino from Spain |
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Spain |
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Albania Albania |
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Hungary |
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France |
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Belgian descent, Walloon type |
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Reduced UPs from Asia |
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Reduced UPs from Europe |
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By Carleton Coon: ”Alpine: A reduced and somewhat foetalized survivor of the Upper Palaeolithic population in Late Pleistocene France, highly brachycephalized; seems to represent in a large measure the bearer of the brachycephalic factor in Crô-Magnon. Close approximations to this type appear also in the Balkans and in the highlands of western and central Asia, suggesting that its ancestral prototype was widespread in Late Pleistocene times. In modern races it sometimes appears in a relatively pure form, sometimes as an element in mixed brachycephalic populations of multiple origin. It may have served in both Pleistocene and modern times as a bearer of the tendency toward brachycephalization into various population.” ————— ”A reduced Upper Palaeolithic type, which in its pure form is a medium to short-statured, laterally built, brachycephalic, short and broad-faced, short-nosed, relatively large-jawed, human variety. The perfect Alpine looks very much like the Germanic concept of a dwarf, the small men with snub noses and long beards who live in the mountains and forest” ————— “The Alpine race is a reduced Upper Palaeolithic survivor; Alpines are as a rule of but medium stature, and lateral in bodily build; their heads of moderate size and globular; their faces characteristically round and their facial features slightly infantile.” ————— ”The Lebanese and the Druzes have a different appearance from the Arabs whose language they speak. Many, but not all, Lebanese and Druzes are stocky, long-trunked, short-legged, barrelchested people, with short necks, broad heads, and broad faces. Their hands and feet are large and particularly wide, at the opposite human pole from the tapering extremities of the Bedawin. They run to dark brown hair and light brown eyes, and are often very hairy, with the tendency of hairy men to go bald at an early age. They look more like Bavarians and Abruzzi Italians than like Arabs. They are not Mediterraneans at all but Alpines. The populations of which this extreme type is part are genetically composed of Alpine and Mediterranean elements, in varying proportions. One can, of course, find individuals of straight Mediterranean type in these populations, but the majority show some combination of traits derived from both extremes. Thousands of these people have migrated to America and have been studied both here and in their homelands. They have produced a number of distinguished anthropologists as well as historians.” |
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Alpines are reduced Upper Paleolithic survivors deriving from different Cro-Magnon forms which experimented in parallel a reduction of size in geographical areas far apart (and thus reminding of the formation of Borreby types in Northern Europe). They usually differ from other UP survivors for having rounder faces and infantile, smaller features, often lacking the excess of skeletal proportions of other UP types and being smaller and shorter headed. Originally the name was coined for its central European population distribution (near the Alps), but individuals of comparable types may actually be found in a much larger territorial area and beyond Europe. |
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By Carleton Coon “The Alpines represent a reëmergence of a brachycephalized and partially foetalized Palaeolithic survival in the central highland and forest zone of Europe and Asia, all the way from the Pyrenees to the Pamirs. Alpines are at the root of all or nearly all the brachycephalic racial types throughout this entire expanse of territory. The Alpine territorial distribution is not the result of an invasion or expansion, but of a parallel set of emergences. In Europe, southern Germany is the seat of one of the greatest Alpine concentrations in the continent” |
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The individuals below are either not as reduced or represent intermediate positions between unreduced UP types and Alpines |