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The term Noric was coined by Lebzelter, and derives from Noricum, the name of an ancient Roman province centered in the mountains of modern-day Austria, where the modern Noric racial type is found in its greatest concentration. Other names:
- Sub-Adriatic (Deniker; Adriatic is Deniker's name for the Dinaric race)
Origin: Central European Nordic brachycephalized by Dinaric admixture (a varying though mostly stabilized blend).
Description: The Noric type, in most respects, takes the form of a blond Dinaric variant. It displays features which are traditionally associated with the Dinaric race - a shallow nasion depression, leptorrhiny, great nose length, height, and convexity, great brachycephaly, and moderately tall stature. Norics are not, though, as accentuated in these Dinaric features as are the Dinarics themselves, but show a slightly less exaggerated nasality, a somewhat lower cephalic index (82-85), and a smaller stature, due to the predominance of the Nordic strain, which is mainly of Keltic inspiration. Norics are, like Dinarics, planoccipital. This means that the occiput of the skull, the lower posterior bone extending from the foramen magnum to lambda, is straight rather than curved or projecting. Norics are by definition blond, and typically Nordic in pigmentation. The hair is usually medium brown to golden blond, the eyes light or light-mixed, though this varies. In areas where the Dinaric element predominates, pigmentation naturally tends in a more brunet direction.
Illustrations: The main photo section deals with the most distinct, typical cases, where there is little doubt as to the subracial classification of the individuals. Note, however, that these cases represent a minority within the racial types to which they belong; 'typical' does not mean 'common'. Examples from The Races of Europe:
(Berlin, Germany) (Galicia, Poland) (Zadrima, Albania)
Recent examples (celebrities):
.......Kurt Waldheim........-...Steffi Graf.............Celine Dion
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy ...........(USA)
[-] Less distinct Norics: The "less distinct" category applies to less typical examples of the types in question, either because they are more generalized in phenotype (and thus very often reflecting a more common racial condition), or because they are of mixed racial ancestry, yet still eligible for inclusion within the wider range of the type.
............Ross Perot .............(USA)
Geographical
distribution: The modern Noric racial
zone is centered in Austria and Switzerland, the greater
Noric territory reaching eastward and southward from
northern France - the Sub-Nordic country -
through the Swiss Alps, and into the brunet Dinaric racial
zone of northern Italy and the Balkans. In France it blends
with Alpines in the south and with Nordics in the terrirories
to the north, and is everywhere transitional to the Sub-Nordic
or Alpine-mixed Nordic type. In southern Germany it is found
in combination with Alpine, Borreby, and other elements.
Norics are found as individuals in most countries where
relatively pure Nordics and Dinarics are present. Percentage estimates of
Noric and Sub-Nordic in European populations (McCulloch):
Austria: -------------------
-..---35% Specialized
types: [-] Related
types: - A blond dinaricized Neo-Danubian, common in Yugoslavia. |
