Classify Cumanian Facial Reconstruction

[Kess]

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Is he textbook Steppe Pontid?

[Hektor12]

Pamirid

[Kess]

Any other ideas?

[aherne]

Turanid + ???

[Beowulf]

Pontid CM + Some Turanid?

seems a good and interesting reconstruction where can i read more about it?

[Ahmet]

I don't know much about Cumans but I always thought Cuman-Kipchaks probably looked like Mongoloid-Blondes (like Bashkirs) instead, he looks very familiar you can easily find this man in western parts of Turkiye. I wonder how common that phenotype was among Cuman-Kipchaks.

[Kess]

Pontid CM + Some Turanid?

seems a good and interesting reconstruction where can i read more about it?

https://twitter.com/nrken19/status/1492974427469930502

I took it from here.

[Beowulf]

https://twitter.com/nrken19/status/1492974427469930502

I took it from here.

Thank You Kessaras!

[andrzej]

I don't know much about Cumans but I always thought Cuman-Kipchaks probably looked like Mongoloid-Blondes (like Bashkirs) instead, he looks very familiar you can easily find this man in western parts of Turkiye. I wonder how common that phenotype was among Cuman-Kipchaks.
Blondism among them was overestimated and they were probably more diverse with some looking more west Eurasian and others having more significant East Eurasian features.

[Kess]

Blondism among them was overestimated and they were probably more diverse with some looking more west Eurasian and others having more significant East Eurasian features.

Crimean Tatar[nb 1]
Karachay-Balkar (Mountain Turkic)
Kumyk
Karaim
Krymchak
Urum

These are the people who speak Kipchak-Cuman language. None of them are predominantly blondes.

An alternative etymology of Polovtsy is also possible: the Slavic root *pȍlje "field" (cf. Polish, Russian pole), which would therefore imply that Polovtsy were "men of the field" or "men of the steppe" in contrast to the Lipovtsi.

So, their name origin could be not blonde after all but I am not sure.