Caucasoid Subraces. which are you?
Alistair Sim_ Master Mason
Caucasoid Subraces
The Caucasian race is native to Europe, West Asia and North Africa,
but there exists a good deal of often regional variation among its
components, resulting from both admixture and environmental
adaptation. Below is the system of racial classification developed by
Carleton S. Coon in his seminal work, The Races of Europe. It includes
descriptions of distinctive types and examples of each from the book's
accompanying Photographic Plates. Also included are periphery types
reflecting Mongoloid and Negroid accretions.
Brünn: Cro-Magnon, to some extent, found in solution with Borreby,
Nordic, and other elements, mostly in Scandinavia and the British
Isles, also in North Africa and the Canary Islands. May appear in
comparatively pure form among individuals although nowhere as a total
population.
Borreby: Large-headed brachycephals of Ofnet-Afalou type, the
unreduced brachycephalic strain in Cro-Magnon; found in solution in
peripheral regions of northwestern Europe, and as a major population
element in most of northern and central Germany, and in Belgium. Like
the Brünn race, with which it is often associated, it occurs also in
North Africa and the Canary Islands.
Alpine: A reduced and somewhat foetalized survivor of the Upper
Palaeolithic population in Late Pleistocene France, highly
brachycephalized; seems to represent in a large measure the bearer of
the brachycephalic factor in Cro-Magnon. Close approximations to this
type appear also in the Balkans and in the highlands of western and
central Asia, suggesting that its ancestral prototype was widespread
in Late Pleistocene times. In modern races it sometimes appears in a
relatively pure form, sometimes as an element in mixed brachycephalic
populations of multiple origin. It may have served in both Pleistocene
and modern times as a bearer of the tendency toward
brachycephalization into various population.
Ladogan: The descendants of the mesocephalic and brachycephalic
forest-dwelling population of northern Europe east of the Baltic in
Kammkeramik times. This type is a blend of a partly mongoloid
brachycephalic element with a mesocephalic form of general Upper
Palaeolithic aspect; these elements are seen in crania from Lake
Ladoga and Salis Roje. Corded and/or Danubian elements are
inextricably blended here, although the mongoloid and Upper
Palaeolithic elements seem at present more important.
East Baltic: Racial type of composite nature, found chiefly in
northeastern Germany, Poland, the Baltic States, and Finland, although
it also occurs sporadically in Sweden and elsewhere. It is a partially
reduced Borreby derivative, with Ladogan and Nordic admixture.
Neo-Danubian: Central and eastern European blond or partially blond
brachycephals who seem to be derived in a racial sense from a
de-Corded Nordic (and hence Danubian) prototype brachycephalized by
Ladogan admixture. This type is very prevalent among modern Slavs of
Poland and Russia, and also among some eastern Germans and Austrians.
Lappish: A stunted, highly brachycephalized, largely brunet relative
of the Ladogan, originally living to the east of the Ladogan type
area, in the Urals and western Siberia. Has probably assimilated some
evolved mongoloid, but owes its partly mongoloid appearance more to
the retention of an early intermediate evolutionary condition. In
modern times much mixed with Ladogan and Nordic.
Mediterranean: Short-statured, dolicho- and mesocephalic form found in
Spain, Portugal, the western Mediterranean islands, and to some extent
in North Africa, southern Italy, and other Mediterranean borderlands.
Its purest present-day racial nucleus is without doubt Arabia. Most of
the Cappadocian, isolated in the skeletal material, seems to have been
absorbed into the western Mediterranean variety after its early Metal
Age migration, while that which remained in Asia Minor became
assimilated into the Dinaric and Armenoid. It still appears, however,
among individuals in its original form, and is particularly common
among Oriental Jews.
Atlanto-Mediterranean: The tall, straight-nosed Mediterranean, not
mesocephalic, as Deniker erroneously stated, but strongly
dolichocephalic. Today this race forms the principal element in the
population of North Africa, and is strong in Iraq, Palestine, parts of
Arabia, and the eastern Balkans; in solution with varying degrees of
negroid it is also the principal race in the whole of East Africa. In
Europe it is a minority element in the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and
the British Isles.
East African: In the deserts and highlands of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and
the Somalilands is found a concentration of several related
Mediterranean types, mixed in varying degrees with negroes. To the
west these partial whites border on Sudanese negroes; to the southwest
the partially Hamitic tribes of Kenya and Uganda form art extension of
the peripheral Mediterranean racial area. To the north, the
Beja-Bisharin group of Hamitic-speaking nomads connect the East
African Hamitic-speaking peoples with their wholly white Egyptian and
Berber relatives of North Africa.
Irano-Afghan: The long-faced, high-headed, hook-nosed type, usually of
tall stature, which forms the principal element in the population of
Iran, Afghanistan, and the Turkoman country, and which is also present
in Palestine, parts of Arabia, and North Africa. It is probably
related to the old Corded type of the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
Nordic: The basic Nordic is the Corded-Danubian blend of the Aunjetitz
and of the Early Iron Age in central Europe. This type includes some
Bell Beaker Dinaric absorbed in early Metal Age times. Although
Danubian and Corded types may appear as individuals, they may nowhere
be isolated as populations.
Hallstatt: This is the type associated with the Hallstatt Iron Age
remains in central Europe, and which probably did not enter
Scandinavia much before the middle of the first millennium B.C. It has
since been largely replaced in central Europe, but has found a refuge
in Sweden and in the eastern valleys of southern Norway. In England
this type is largely of Anglo-Saxon and Danish inspiration.
Keltic: The Keltic sub-type, mesocephalic and low-vaulted, with a
prominent nose. Commonest in the British Isles where in places it
forms the principal element in the population. Also a major element in
Flanders and the Frankish country in southwestern Germany.
Tronder: A hybrid type of Nordic with Corded and Brünn elements,
frequent in the central coastal provinces of Norway, north of the
Dovre Mountains; the principal form in Iceland, and among the
Frisians, and common in the British Isles.
Dinaric: A tall, brachycephalic type of intermediate pigmentation,
usually planoccipital, and showing the facial and nasal prominence of
Near Eastern peoples. The basic population of the whole Dinaric-Alpine
highlands from Switzerland to Epirus, also in the Carpathians and
Caucasus, as well as Syria and Asia Minor. Apparently a
brachycephalized blend in which Atlanto-Mediterranean and Cappadocian
strains are important, with Alpine acting as the brachycephalizing
agent in mixture. Borreby and Corded elements, also Nordic, appear to
be involved in some regions.
Noric: A blond, planoccipital brachycephal frequently encountered in
South Germany and elsewhere in central Europe. This is apparently an
Iron Age Nordic brachycephalized by Dinaric mixture and seems in most
respects to take the form of a blond Dinaric variant. Both Deniker and
Czekanowski have recognized this type, and it is a standard race,
under various names, in most Russian studies. The name Noric was gived
it by Lebzelter. A brachycephalized Neo-Danubian, common in
Yugoslavia, is a parallel or variant form.
Armenoid: A similar brachycephalic composite type, with the same head
form as the Dinaric, but a larger face and nose. The pigmentation is
almost entirely brunet, the pilous development of beard and body
abundant, the nose high rooted, convex, and the tip depressed,
especially in advanced age. The difference between the Armenoid and
the Dinaric is that here it is the Irano-Afghan race which furnishes
the Mediterranean element, brachycephalized by Alpine mixture.
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Alistair Sim
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> Caucasoid Subraces
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> The Caucasian race is native to Europe, West Asia and North Africa,
> but there exists a good deal of often regional variation among its
> components, resulting from both admixture and environmental
> adaptation. Below is the system of racial classification developed by
> Carleton S. Coon in his seminal work, The Races of Europe.
Carleton S. Coon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Carleton Stevens Coon, (23 June 1904-3 June 1981) was an American physical
anthropologist best remembered for his books on race, often cited as
definitive examples of "scientific racism", and the academic scandal that
followed him later on in life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_S._Coon
Scientific racism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Scientific racism refers to research which promotes or appears to promote a
racist ideology while forgoing the ideals of scientific objectivity. Often
when works purporting to be scientific examinations of racial or cultural
questions are put forth, there is debate over whether or not they are works
of legitimate science or are simply racist dogma attempting to disguise
itself as science.
The term "scientific racism" has been applied retroactively to works
relating to race and social development from the 18th century through the
early 20th century. Similarly, a number of more recent controversial works
have been denounced as racist pseudoscience.