Ancient Europe

SCANDINAVIA: is also called the Scandinavian Peninsula: i.e. the peninsula of North Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden. These are referred to as the countries of North Europe, especially considered as a cultural unit and including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and often Finland, Iceland, and the Faeroe Islands.
Yet, this cultural-geographic identity over-laps with the Nordic: of, relating to, or belonging to a subdivision of the Caucasoid race typified by the tall blond blue-eyed long-headed inhabitants of North Britain, Scandinavia, North Germany, and the Netherlands.
NORDISH: Europe's northern region is inhabited by the Nordish racial group who entered the area primarily during the time of the Germanic Migration Period from 500 AD through 1500 AD. Nordish can be divided into two subgroups: an Inner or Central subgroup consisting of the Nordic, Borreby, Brunn, Falish, Tronder and Anglo-Saxon subraces and subtypes of the British Isles, Scandinavia, northern Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium; and an Outer or Periphery subgroup, which includes the Atlantid subtypes of the British Isles, and the Noric, East Baltic and Neo-Danubian subtypes which predominate in northern France, southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and northwestern Russia. The term Nordish is here used to refer to the indigenous peoples of northern Europe as a whole, including both Central and Periphery types, and also those peoples in North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and elsewhere whose ancestors were of Northern European racial origin.
1)... To see map of European region click here.

2)... VIKINGS 1: In Saharan rock art is a boat etchings 9,000 years old. From Nubian-Egypt is a two-strand beaded head-band with innumerable perpendicular beaded strands between them. Both of these items are found in identical form in Scandinavia (and Northern Europe). Part 1 of this series, thus, looks at a prehistoric North-African-Egyptian people as the prehistoric Viking / Nordic / Scandinavian / Northern European populations until (primarily) the European Dark and Medieval Ages. In keeping with this conclusion, Mark Stoneking -- director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany -- states that the result of his institute's studies of skin pigmentation "probably suggest that early Eurasians were dark and evolved their light skin pigmentation separately with different genes contributing to the depigmentation of Caucasoids and Mongoloids." SEE: Mark Stoneking and co-authors, Human pigmentation genes in Africans, Europeans, and Chinese, September 21, 2006.
3)... VIKINGS 2: Used by African populations in the Mediterranean, and predating the influx of people from the Steppes making today's Nordic / Scandinavian population, is the so-called Viking bull-horn helmet or crown (4, 5) and the four-axel chariot (pics. 9, 10). Made by prehistoric populations in Africa are charcoal rim-burned red-and-black ware (pics. 22, 23); an African Viking Thor (the earliest Thor) in Scandinavia with balls of wooly hair had prototypes found in predynastic Egypt (pics. 6, 7). Part II of this series continues its looks at prehistoric Viking / Nordic / Scandinavian / Northern European populations as once wholly African. Africans formed the population of Scandinavia and the Vikings before European involvement.

RELATED LINKS. RELATED INFORMATION.
3).. Alexeev Harvard Lectures on African remains in Russia from 27,000 years ago. Alexeev Backup. INDEX TO ALL LECTURES: Alexeev Harvard Lectures.

4).. A Brief History of the Circumpolar North - Aboriginal Peoples; and movements into the American continent from the North and, anthropologists propose, Africa. North Polar Site backup here.

5).. Africans once lived in the Russian-Finland area. These countries sharing a common border. The mile high ice sheets which covered Finland for thousands of years began to melt near 10,000 BC (animation below). As they melted, African populations in Russia could "move next door" to Finland into areas freed by the ice. These peoples were the Lapp or Saami - one of humanities' oldest peoples. Through intermarriage with the Germanics after their arrival near 500 AD, the original indigenous people of 500 years ago and earlier have long vanished. Some among the newly immigrant Germanic people carry on the tribal name of the earlier Lapp / Saami; i.e. when the Germanic tribes arrived near 500 AD, they became a part of Lapp culture. Today, while the African "look" is gone, Lapp / Saami skiing, ship-building, seafaring and deep sea-fishing, winter culture and language (Finnish) survives in the new arrivals, today's Finns. See the retreating ice sheet that enabled the ancient African people to move slowly west.

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