Subject: Re: [baidarka] Aleut Physiology...
From: Peter Chopelas (pac@premier1.net)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 22:52:55 EDT
Aaron wrote:
> Does anyone have any nformation on the physiological characteristics of
the
> builders? Average height, foot size, etc?
I could not tell you about Aleuts from 300+ years ago, but the few modern
ones I have met were quite small is size, with a somewhat stocky frame (i.e.
broad of shoulder relative to their size). They were in the 5 foot size and
below range and I would guess about 120 lb, and nothing unusual in terms of
proportion. Not all, but unfortunately many can be quite overweight today
(particularly the women but common enough in both men and women), though I
doubt that was typical of the ones who used kayaks daily for hunting and
survival.
Consider they are Asian in ancestry from perhaps mainland China, who tend to
be smallish. And those that stored a lot of body fat would better servived
times of food shortages, so natually slim ones would have been weeded out of
the gene pool in only a few generaterations.
Peter
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