Bruenns are the most important element in the British Isles. The type is found in its highest concentration and most typical form in Ireland and the North, but derivates or reduced variants are common in the whole territory of the British Isles where it is sometimes mixed with Cordeds, Atlanto-Meds, Bell Beaker Dinarics or Keltic Nordics. Further examples of this type are given here, together with a study of the British racial composition.

 

By Carleton Coon:

 

By means of this study it is possible to reconstruct with some probability the living appearance of the Upper Palaeolithic men [in Ireland]. They were typically tall, broad-shouldered, large-chested; their heads were large, their browridges heavy to medium; their foreheads broad and high; their faces were broad and slightly flattish, the mouth large, with lips of moderated thickness and little eversion, the lines around the mouth deeply drawn, the whole lower jaw wide and deep, with a prominent chin. The nose was of moderate to large size, straight to concave-profiled, with a moderately thick, upturned tip. The hair was brown and wavy, frequently rufous, of medium abundance on beard and body; the eyes light-mixed blue. The skin was typically inclined to freckling, and very fair.

 

Bruenn

Bruenns are essentially unaltered UP survivals native to northern Europe, in particular to the British Isles. Morphologically the type is large and comparable in this regard to Phalians, while it presents otherwise similarities with other western Europan UPs. The name was coined by Carleton Coon for its alleged association with crania found in the Czech city of Brünn.

Anthropological Morphologies Online Resources

A subvariety of Unreduced UPs

The upper lip looks everted and the mouth big. The first example has a projecting mandible typical of this type.

Unlike Phalians the face is flatter, less robust and lateral while often also larger. The orbits are characteristically square.

The last four examples are partly reduced and thus somewhat approximate Borreby types.

                                                                                         Ireland                                                                                                           Steve Davis from Ireland

                                                                                         Sweden                                                                                                      Michael Palin from England

                                 Ireland                                                                           Ireland                                                     Colm Meaney from Ireland

               Rhodri Morgan from Wales                     Jeremy Clarkson from England                    Carleton Coon from USA

            Fiona Phillips from England                      J. K. Rowling from England                           Sian  Williams from Wales

 Jessica Stevenson from England                    Colin Firth from England                           Martin Freeman from England

    Steven Morrissey, Irish descent                                           part Irish                                     Robbie Williams , Irish descent

                                Wayne Rooney, Irish descent                                                      Brendan Gleeson from Ireland

                                 Emily Mortimer from England                                                          Emily Watson from England

Reduced Bruenns

           Daniel Craig from England                           Oliver Reed from England                           Rupert Grint from England