Sunday, October 3, 2010

Light Hair Distribution

To locate the blond peoples of Europe, please consult this map.

File:Light hair coloration map.png

yellow - 80%+ light hair
light orange - 50-79% light hair
light brown - 20-49% light hair
dark brown - 1-19% light hair
black - no presence of light hair

Lighter hair in the heel of Italy may result from the Norman conquest of southern Italy a thousand years ago, the Normans being originally Norsemen from Scandinavia.

Source - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Light_hair_coloration_map.png, based on anthropologist Peter Frost's 2006 study on light hair color

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