Small-headed:Small-headed groups are charcterised by a sum of head length and head breadth of less than 330 mm. This sum reaches only 316 mm in the Kurumba, a pred. Malid group of South India. It is only slightly higher in several groups of South Arabia and groups of the Indus plain and South India. Several pygmies like the Andamanese, Bambutids, Aeta, Semang, and New Guinean Pygmies reach only a small head size. In Africa small heads are also present in some taller groups of North Angola as well as South Sudan and South Egypt. It appears in several desert groups of the Near East, and among Australian Aborigines of Arnhem Land and some New Guineans. It is typical for Veddoids of Sri Lanka, India, and even Indonesia. The mountain forests of Cambodia and Vietnam contain some Veddoid small-headed groups as well. In America some people of the Andes, Southern Mexico, and North Venezuela / Colombia are small-headed. |