(Photographic Supplement, Plate 31)
The term Neo-Danubian has been used in this work to designate a general class of central and eastern European blond or partially blond brachycephals who seem to be derived in a racial sense from a de-Corded Nordic (and hence Danubian) prototypebrachycephalized by Ladogan admixture. This type is very prevalent among modern Slavs of Poland and Russia, and also among some eastern Germans and Austrians.
FIG. 1 (3 views).
A White Russian from the Minsk Government.
FIG. 2 (3 views).
An Ukrainian from the Volhyn, where this type is especially common. The form of the nasal tip and the upper lip are derived from the Ladogan prototype. These features come out as a rule more strongly among women than among the men.
FIG. 3 (3 views).
A German from Saxony, where the Neo-Danubian type is more prevalent than elsewhere in Germany. Note the exceptional narrowness of the interorbital distance, combined with the lowness of the nasal root and bridge, and the extreme brachycephaly. The type represented by this individual is not an intermediate Danubian-Ladogan form, but a recombination.
FIG. 4 (3 views).
A brachycephalic Austrian from the neighborhood of Linz, Upper Austria. Although definitely less Ladogan-looking than than the other individuals on this plate, this Austrian is seen, upon examination, to possess theNeo-Danubian combination of a nearly globular head form, a low nasal skeleton, a broad, elevated nasal tip, a long, convex upper lip, strong cheek furrows, and blondism. As this and the other individuals on this plate demonstrate, the Neo-Danubian is a variable racial type derived from a blending of the Danubian element in the Nordic combination with eastern European Upper Palaeolithic survivors.
