01-24-2006, 03:12 PM
Quote:What did the Dorians look like? More fair haired and skinned than most other Greeks..?
Johnny
Cavalli Sforcha genetic tables give for ancient Greeks the same percentage in color like modern Greeks:
10-15 percent ranging from straw blond to brown-blond with light coloured eyes (no platinum blond was identified) the rest of the percentage ranges from brown red to dark brown and black hair and the eyes star from gray to dark brown. Doreans of central Greece possibly have more fair paople than Spartans and Argives.
A collective study that analysed the colour of statues of antique collections in germany seem to agree with that.
Well i feel that influx of easteuropean brides that happened the last decade might increase the fair colours percentage.
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HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
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