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In the United States, the term "Black Irish" was initially used in the 19th and 20th centuries by Irish Americans to describe people of Irish descent who have black or dark-colored hair, blue or dark eyes, or otherwise dark coloring.
According to David Reich, DNA analysis has shown that Western Hunter Gatherers were typically dark skinned, dark haired, and blue eyed. [42] The dark skin was due to their Out-of-Africa origin (all Homo sapiens populations having had initially dark skin), while the blue eyes were the result of a variation in their OCA2 gene, which caused iris ...
A fragment by the Greek poet Xenophanes describes the Thracians as blue-eyed and red haired: ...Men make gods in their own image; those of the Ethiopians are black and snub-nosed, those of the Thracians have blue eyes and red hair. [59] Bacchylides described Theseus as wearing a hat with red hair, which classicists believe was Thracian in ...
Of the SHGs from Motala, four were probably dark-haired, and two others were probably light-haired, and may have been blond. In addition, all of the six SHGs from Motala had high probabilities of being blue-eyed. Residual genetic ancestry of European hunter-gatherers during the European Neolithic, between 7.5 ka and 5 ka BP (c. 5,500~3,000 BC)
While most Circassian tribes were famous for abundance of fair or dark blond and red hair combined with greyish-blue or green eyes, [23] many also had the pairing of very dark hair with very light complexions, a typical feature of peoples of the Caucasus. [24]
For example, Adolf Hitler and many Nazi officials had dark hair and were still considered members of the Aryan race under Nazi racial doctrine, because the determination of an individual's racial type depended on a preponderance of many characteristics in an individual rather than on just one defining feature.
Alleged contactees describe them as being 6–7 ft (1.8–2.1 m) tall with long blond hair, blue eyes, [2] and fair skin. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] George Adamski is credited with being among the first to claim contact with Nordic aliens in the mid-1950s.
Dark skin – depicted in art using brown, black, blue, grey and sometimes purple hues – often signified negative moral and spiritual qualities distinct from physical appearance. Thus, the image of Saladin facing Richard I in the 14th century Luttrell Psalter depicts the Saracen with dark blue skin and a monstrous expression. Christian ...