Baskid

### Similar types:

Atlantid, Atlanto-Mediterranean, Dinarid, Litorid, Keltic Nordid, North Atlantid

### Body:

Medium height, mesoskelic, mesomorph to ectomorph.

### Cephalic index:

Meso-brachycephalic:Mesocephalic in Spain Brachycephalic in France

### Nasal shape:

Hyperleptorrhine, straight or convex

Ancient European type associated with the Basques. Found in its purest form in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region of Southwestern France, although many modern French Basques are West Alpinid. Also present in Northern Spain, where it is rather mixed with Mediterranid and thus less brachycephalic. Sometimes along the French Atlantic coast and in Wales. Linked to North Atlantid.

## Appearance:

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Fair to light, rarely pale skin. Straight or wavy, usually brown, sometimes red or blonde hair. Mixed eyes. Medium height, mesoskelic, mesomorph to ectomorph. Meso-brachycephalic, chamae- orthocranic with a round occiput. Skull appears triangular as it is particularly wide near the temples. Nose (hyper)leptorrhine, large and long, face narrow, chin pointed.

> "The Basques are people of moderate stature, They are lightly built, ideally with broad shoulders and narrow hips, and a conical thorax. These generalizations as to body build are the result of general observation rather than of anthropometry. Nevertheless it is likely that they are, to a large extent, founded on fact. The ideal Basque type, which is not merely an artistic standard, but a reality, is chiefly identifiable by means of a combination of facial features. The forehead is straight or but slightly sloping, the browridges weak or absent, the nasion depression slight or absent, the nose thin, often aquiline, with a thin tip, sometimes depressed; the forehead is broad, the midface quite narrow, the mandible extremely slender and narrow through the bigonial region, and the chin is narrow and pointed. The Spanish Basques are mesocephalic, with a mean cephalic index of 78, while the French Basques are sub-brachycephalic, with a mean of about 82.
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> The French Basques are by no means all brunet; Collignon finds 22 per cent of blue eyes, 44 per cent of "medium," and 34 per cent of dark. Black hair is found in 7 per cent of the group, brown in 77 per cent, and light brown to blond in 16 per cent. Among the Spanish Basques the incidence of blondism is somewhat lower, but the Basques are still light when compared to most other inhabitants of Spain. The nasal profile is convex in some 49 per cent of French Basques, as compared to 43 per cent of Spanish ones.
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> The exact metrical position of the Basques may best be determined by the study of their crania. Morant, in a study of 76 male crania from Guipuzcoa, finds that the Basques are not unusual in the dimensions and morphology of the cranial vault. A length of 186 mm., and a breadth of 143 mm., are moderate in size, while the cranial index of 77 is mesocephalic. The basion-bregma height of 131 mm. is definitely low. The Basque crania closely resemble those of the British Iron Age people and of the seventeenth century Londoners. They conform metrically, in other words, to a Keltic Iron Age type, which was a mixture of Nordic with Dinaric elements.
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> Facially this resemblance to British skulls is even closer; but the Basques attain or approach several European extremes. The mean bimalar face breadth, taken between the lowest points of the malar-maxillary sutures, is 89.6 mm., a craniological minimum, and the nearest approach to it is the dimension of 90.9 mm. for the Whitechapel English crania. The mean breadth of the nasal aperture, 22.9 mm. is also an extreme, most closely approximated by a Lowland Scottish series. The bizygomatic diameter of 129 mm. is not extreme, for it is higher than that of both Sardinian and Portuguese crania. The basion-alveon diameter, 91.9 mm., is the lowest mean known, and in combination with other dimensions indicates an extremely orthognathous condition.
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> On the whole, these craniological data indicate three facts: (1) the Basques are basically Mediterranean (in the wider sense) racially, with some brachycephalic accretion. (2) This accretion is for the most part Dinaric and only to a minor extent directly Alpine. Morphologically the Basque crania show many resemblances to those of Serbo-Croats and of some South Germans. Collignon's comparison between French Basques and the southwestern French makes this distinction clear. (3) The Basques, through inbreeding, ethnic solidarity, and the possession of a recognized national ideal type, have developed a characteristic physiognomy, the essential features of which are nasal prominence and a narrowness of the median sagittal facial segment, and of the mandible.
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> Collignon believed, and Montandon follows him, that the French Basques are freer from modern mixture than are the Spanish Basques. This may perhaps be true, since neither the round-headed tendency of the French Basques nor their relatively high incidence of blondism can be wholly explained as local acquisitions. The Basques, as a whole, represent an ancient and subsequently specialized mixture of Mediterraneans and Atlanto-Mediterraneans with partially blond Dinarics, and it is just as possible that different Basque sub-groups differed originally in amount of Dinaric blood as that the modern Spanish Basques have been altered through Spanish mixture.
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> Both the Atlanto-Mediterranean and Dinaric elements mentioned were present as early as the Copper Age in North Central Spain, where they were partially identified with the early Bell Beaker culture. The Keltic Iron Age racial type of Britain, which the living Spanish Basques so closely resemble, was produced originally in southern Germany from a combination of Nordics with Bell Beaker or other Dinarics, and imported into England where Mediterranean and Atlanto-Mediterranean elements, as well as some Bronze Age Dinaric factors, were already present. The mixture of similar ingredients in different places produces similar results. Seen in the light of modern physical anthropology, the Basques are still interesting, and perhaps romantic, but no longer mysterious."
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Physical appearance and history according to Carleton S. Coon.

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## Estimates:

* France: 1% (especially in Montandon)
For more information about the Basques in France, see here.

## Famous Examples:

### Male examples

* Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits
* Vincent Cassel, French actor
* Iñaki de Pablo, Spanish Basque singer (Trigo Limpio)
* Carlos Zubiaga, Spanish Basque singer and guitarist (Mocedades)
* Serafín Zubiri, Spanish musician

#### Baskid–Atlantid(–Mediterranid)

* Sergio Blanco Rivas, Spanish Basque singer (Sergio y Estíbaliz)
* Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
* Carlos Gil, Spanish Basque singer (Trigo Limpio)
* Roberto Uranga, Spanish Basque singer (Mocedades)

### Female examples

* Finn Atkins, British actress
* Maider Unda, Spanish Basque wrestler
* Izakun Uranga, Spanish Basque singer (Mocedades)
* Marine LB, French YouTuber
* María Fernanda Aristizábal, Miss Universe Colombia 2022 (Basque descent)

#### Baskid–Atlantid(–Mediterranid)

* Bella Thorne, American actress (Cuban, Irish and Italian descent)
* Amaya Uranga, Spanish Basque singer (Mocedades)
* Coco Baldini, French model

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