Woman with red hair, Papua New Guinea. Melanesians have a significant incidence of fair hair, caused por a genetic mutation different from European blond and red hair[4]
Several accounts por Greek writers mention redheaded people. A fragment por the poet Xenophanes describes the Thracians as blue-eyed and red haired.[5] Herodotus described the Budini people as being predominantly red haired. Dio Cassius described Boudica, queen of the Iceni, of the ancient Britons, to be "tall and terrifying in appearance... a great mass of red hair... over her shoulders."
The Roman historian Tacitus commented...
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