Classify Wolf Dieter Storl

[Elessar]

The Bavarian ethnobotanist.




There isn't much in lieu of younger pictures of him, so I guess we'll just have to make-do.


(From Wikipedia)
Wolf Storl, a trained professional anthropologist, has concerned himself with shamanism and healing in traditional societies. Over the years, he was confronted with the fact that in all cultures plants play an overriding role in all aspects of life, including sacred symbolism, magic, medicine, foods and poisons. This shamanistic and ethnobotanic focus is, so to speak, the recurrent theme of his work. Storl was born in Saxony, Germany. When he was eleven years old, his family emigrated to rural Ohio, where he grew up, spending most of his free time exploring nature. 1966 he received a BA in Anthropology from the Ohio State University. Storl is a frequent guest on German, Swiss and Austrian television, and has appeared on the BBC. He lives with his family and a number of pets in the forested foothills of the Alps in southern Germany, where he gardens, collects herbs, conducts ethnobotanic studies and writes his books.

[Fyrgenholt]

Storl is a frequent guest on German, Swiss and Austrian television, and has appeared on the BBC.

He appeared, too, in a show titled 'Pagans' for Channel 4, which focused primarily on the British Isles (it pretty much covered all of Britain. Paleolithic tombs in Ireland, megaliths in Scotland, bronze age mining in Wales, shamanism in iron age England and the survival of this through to the Christian), but also put emphasis on Sweden and Denmark, Germany and even, briefly, Estonia. Wolf appeared in an episode named "Magic Moments" in which he, very passionately, and incredibly influentially, speaks of shamanism and it's significance to European prehistory.

The program can be found here for anyone interested: Magic Moments

As for his classification, it's hard to tell with that truly mighty beard of his, but I'm going to go with mostly CroMag (Falid), but I don't know, I could just be saying that because of his age and robust features.

[Hammer of Thor]

It's hard to say considering his age in these photos (not to mention his beard). I would say that he is predominantly Alpine, but there could be other influences as well, but it is difficult to determine using these pictures.

Hammer of Thor

[Elessar]

I think we can all agree on Alpine.
But yes, I've seen him on the "Pagans" program before, quite an exceptional series. He's inspired me to pursue the field of Ethnobotany and Shamanism. An interesting and wise man

[Jäger]

I think we can all agree on Alpine.

Why? His straight nose, and sloping forehead would point more towards faelid.
Alpinid might be possible as an admixture, but this is all difficult to tell, due to all the head hair, and his age.

[Hammer of Thor]

Everyone is correct in pinning Stohl as a Cro Magnon variation, whether it is Alpine or Faelid is debatable. His age and excessive facial hair obstruct a clear classification. The simple fact is without pictures of him as a young man without facial hair, a clear classification cannot be made.

Hammer of Thor

[Waldstein]

In my opinion, he is a good example of what we could call "Cromagno-Alpinid", i.e. a robust Alpinid variant closer to unreduced Cromagnids (Faelids) than Alpinids proper are.

However, some slight Nordid influence is possible.