Description: South Sinid proper subvariety, named after the Chu Khang (Xi) river in South China. Developed in the fishing and gatherer populations of southern subtropical forests of China . Today typical for Cantonese, Guangdong, Fukien, Southern Yunna, mixed in Vietnamese, Tai and Muong, rare in southern Japanese/Koreans. Millennia of colonization and trading dispersed it across Indochina and the Sunda Islands.
Description: Central Asian type that inhabits a large, sparsely populated area from the Gobi desert to the Siberian Taiga and Tundra. Developed during the Neolithic after the retreat of the ice in nomands of the steppes. Several later expansions brought it to West Asia. Bodies are thickset, limbs short, skull often short and low, face broad and roundish, very flat, Mongolian folds very strong, skin light yellowish-brown, hair straight and black, body hair sacre. The very short-skulled, flat-faced and low-skulled Gobid of the Mongolian steppes is often seen as the most typical variety In the Siberian Taiga a longer-headed, shorter and even flatter-faced Baykal variety exists Among Nivkhs of the Russian far east, a slightly higher-faced, higher-skulled Amur-Sakhalin variety with stronger body hair is found. Turanid admixture produces an Aralid variety. In Japan and Korea a predominantely Tungid Okayama type can be found.
Description: Tungid variety of the vast Central Asian deserts and steppes, e.g. the Gobi and Southern Siberia. Developed in ancient stock-farming nomads and was found in Huns, Avars and Mongols, who migrated west and produced Aralids, etc..Today most typical in the Buryat, Mongolians, Tuvins. Also in Yakut, South Altaians, even some Kazakhs, Evenk, Orochs, Japanese, Chinese, Miao and Tibetans. During the 17th century Kalmyks brought it west to the Caspian sea.
Description: South Eastern Tungid variety, influenced by Sinid. Named after the Japanese Okayama region, although an East Central Asian origin is likely. Expanded to Korea and during early iron age to Japan, may constitute to founder type of modern Japanese culture. Nowadays found in Korea, Manchuria, parts of China, in Japan common along coasts of Okayama-Kyoto regions and central Honshu.