Thread moved from Racial Classifications/Anthropology (Physical) to here ~ Milesian
I've noticed quite a few references to the ancient Picts being Atlanto-Med in sub race. If Atlanto-Med's are tall and every Pictish skeleton I've heard about measured a bit over 4' is there a correlation between the two besides darker hair/eyes? Picts were in fact the original inspiration for the Leprechaun and fairy folk myths, which included them stealing young children and raising them as their own. How do we know Celtic invaders of the British Isles didn't have Atlanto-Med's among them prior to encountering Picts? I was also under the impression that Picts only resided in the Scotland area and coastal regions.
There is another view, which claims Picts were not a short and dark people, but tall and of Germanic origins. This comes from the description Tacticus gives of the Caledonii(where they are described as tall and fair). If you subscribed to this view you would have to explain the skeleton remains of these other small people who lived in the Orkney Islands/Shetland Islands in small underground houses and passed their time making combs all day. You would also have to conclude the Atlanto-Med type existed among the Celtic invaders already when they started migrating to the British Isles.
I suppose the height factor could be diet related, but the Pictish diet as found in Orkney Islands consists of shellfish and had to be high in protein, perhaps they lacked other vitamins which stunted their growth. The confusion might lie in the fact the term “Pict” is being used to describe more than one group of indigenous people of the British Isles. It would be hard to imagine 4' invaders giving the Romans enough trouble to require them to build a wall to fend off invasions or that Scots would find such an alliance with such short people worth consideration.
I’d like to hear you folks opinions on Picts and how they relate to the Atlanto-Med sub race. Do you think they are direct descendents, possibly a hybrid race or do you feel their were Atlanto-Med’s among the original Celtic settlement of the British Isles. I’d also be interested of any DNA comparison of Picts and current British Isle residents, to my knowledge no one has done any research in this area.
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