It does look pretty damn close to the painting there. But the reconstruction they made his eyes and neck region very weak..not sure why they chose to make him so old for.
Crimson Guard | 01.15.07 - 1:01 pm | #

The welsh are of a predominantly meditteranean appearance. Most people in wales have black hair and brown eyes with white skin (some have dark skin like ruth madoc, imogen thomas and catherine zeta jones (whos mum is only 1/4 irish btw)). some welsh people have blonde hair or red hair with blue eyes too (about 5-7% at most).

In population genetics on y-chromosomesthe welsh are in haplogroup markers 88% r1b, 5% I, 4% e3b, 2% r1a and 1% j2.

Haplogroup r1b averages 90-95% amongst the basques
of northern spain and south-western france. The basques speak a language isolate and are descended from the people that lived there some 35000 years ago.

genetic marker r1b is 70% in spain , northern italy and 65% in portugal. R1b is only 22% in sweden and 1% in finland. r1b is 40% in germany.
R1b is found highest in atlantic britain, western ireland, western france, northern span and western portugal. Genetic marker r1b is found in greatest diversity in northern spain indicating it originated there.

The basques have no relationship with the celts or any north european ethnic group. None of the peoples of spain or southwestern france do.

Most welsh people are descened from people who arrived from the iberian refuge in the paleolithic and mesolithic. The celtic languages did not originate in central europe, they originated in north western spain and came to britain via the atlantic coast fo france. A roman general mistakedly located a river in the pyrenees for being the danube and the home of the celts hence the myth started.

Language spareading only requires a minority elite and most geneticists and historians agree that populations have changed very little in the last 7000-5000 years despite languages spreading very fast.

The welsh along with the people of western ireland, cornwall and scotland have significant middle eastern influences on maternal dna (from north africa via spain) that arrived in the mesolithic.

Evidence for welsh genetics:
http://www.prospect- magazine.co....e.co....ils.php? id=7817
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales...les/ 1256894.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wel...ki/ Welsh_People
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cg...g...22/10/1964/ TBL1
http://www.geocities.com/littled...ect/ Cavalli.htm



Evidence for Welsh phenotype:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki...ace_- _Map_4.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima...e: Pobolycwm.jpg
http://www.misswales.co.uk/ hallo...halloffame.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/pobol...cwm/characters/
http://www.rhosjudokwai.co.uk/7)...)% 20PHOTOS.html

Youtube video of welsh tv programs spoken in welsh
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PslYcjWFNNU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dnuHaUhWqNY
Genographic | 01.21.07 - 10:04 am | #

Obviously a dinaricized type.
AMORSITE | Homepage | 04.08.07 - 1:45 pm | #