Aboriginal feet
My son and I were at the physio the other day and she said we must be aboriginal because of the shape of our feet. Something to do with the way it splays out at the heel instead of going up and down like most peoples. Has anyone else heard of this?
Answer:There are anthropologic studies about the angle that some bones of the foot, for with each other...The findings are quite interesting...
People of caucasian origin. have a wider space between the astragalus, and the 5 th metatarsal,,,,so that the heel seems to be more "well defined" than aboriginal people,
Also, metatarsal bones in caucasian, are larger than those of mediterranean people,. The angles between astragalus and the first cuboid bone, is different among several racial backgrounds, being more pronounced in the feet of "Ross" slavonic tribes, such as russians and eastern czekoslovakian..
Many researchers are guided by these bony differences (among others in the body) to determine the racial features and traits of very many racial varieties of the human species..
This branch of forensic anthropometrics is "comparative osteology", and exist as a subspeciality of forensic pathology in medicine.
By the way, the first comparative bony measures, were created by the Italian Anatomist Cagliostro in the late 15th Century, starting with the bones of the skull...(he found differences between Greek and Roman bones)...
Do you know your ancestry. As soon as I read your question I pictured feet as you described. Why not explore your ancestry and find out if aboriginies are in it.