Olsztyn : Warmia (Poland)

The first traces of human settlement in the region come from roughly 14 to 15 thousand years ago: traces of settlements made by the Lusatian culture (thirteenth—fifth century BC), including above-ground water housings and artificially created islands. By the early Middle Ages, the area was inhabited by the Warmians, an Old Prussian tribe. In 1346 the old Prussian Warmian forest in the vicinity was cleared and a place was selected on the Alle now Łyna River for a new settlement. It became known to Polish settlers as Olsztyn. The descendants of the German settlers of Allensteinwere expelled in 1945 : only local Poles remain.

* : I use former administrative divisions which matched better cultural and ethnic areas of Poland.

Sample :

Brief anthropological analysis :
- Type 1 : Light complexion (from medium dark-brown to blonde hair), brachymorphic, large square-box head, little and distanced oblique eyes, low orbits, broad and rather straight or concave nose, weak browridges, large fronthead, large jaw, receding chin
~ Alpinoid/Baltid


This is a very common type on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in the whole of Poland.

- Type 2 : Light complexion (blonde or red hair, light eyes, ...), leptomorphic, rather leptoprosopic, narrow eyes, long and narrow straight nose, high forehead, large jaw, pointy chin
~ Nordid



Those individuals belong to a well-identified type in West Slavic areas. Funnily enough, it seems that most women do fall in that category contrary to men. Still, these individuals are not as as leptoprosopic as their Polish counterparts in Red Ruthenia. Some individuals are actually rather large-faced and exhibit puffier features (particularly in the nose area).

• Final morphotypes :

http://anthroeurope.blogspot.ru/2010/08/olsztyn-warmia-poland.html