- •Published, April, 1939.
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction 78-82
- •Introduction 131-135
- •Introduction 297-298
- •Introduction 400-401
- •Introduction 510-511
- •List of maps
- •Introduction to the historical study of the white race
- •Statement of aims and proposals
- •Theory and principles of the concept race
- •Materials and techniques of osteology**
- •Pleistocene white men
- •Pleistocene climate
- •Sapiens men of the middle pleistocene
- •The neanderthaloid hybrids of palestine
- •Upper palaeolithic man in europe,
- •Fig. 2. Neanderthal Man. Fig. 3. Cro-Magnon Man.
- •Aurignacian man in east africa
- •The magdalenians
- •Upper palaeolithic man in china
- •Summary and conclusions
- •Fig. 12. Fjelkinge, Skane, Sweden. Neolithic.
- •Mesolithic man in africa
- •The natufians of palestine
- •The midden-d wellers of the tagus
- •Mesolithic man in france
- •The ofnet head burials
- •Mesolithic man in the crimea
- •Palaeolithic survivals in the northwest
- •Clarke, j. G. D., op. Cit., pp. 133-136.
- •38 Fiirst, Carl m., fkva, vol. 20, 1925, pp. 274-293.
- •Aichel, Otto, Der deutsche Mensch. The specimens referred to are b 5, ks 11032, ks 11254b, b 38, b 34, b 37, b 10.
- •Clarke, j. G. D., op. Citpp. 133-136.
- •Summary and conclusions
- •The neolithic invasions
- •(1) Introduction
- •1 Childe, V. Gordon, The Dawn of European Civilization; The Most Ancient East; The Danube in Prehistory; New Light on the Most Ancient East; Man Makes Himself.
- •And chronology '
- •The neolithic and the mediterranean race
- •Vault medium to thin, muscular relief on vault as a rule slight.
- •Iran and iraq
- •Vallois, h. V., “Notes sur les Tfctes Osseuses,” in Contencau, g., and Ghirsh- man, a., Fouilles de Tepe Giyan.
- •Jordan, j., apaw, Jh. 1932, #2.
- •Keith, Sir Arthur, “Report on the Human Remains, Ur Excavations,” vol. 1: in Hall, h. R. H„ and Woolley, c. L., Al 'Ubaid,
- •10 Frankfort, h., “Oriental Institute Discoveries in Iraq, 1933-34,” Fourth Preliminary Report, coic #19, 1935,
- •Civilized men in egypt
- •11 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1925, p. 4.
- •12 This summary of climatic changes in Egypt is based on Childe, V. G., New Light
- •18 Childe, op. Cit.Y p. 35. 14 Leakey, l. S. B., Stone Age Africa, pp. 177-178.
- •Brunton, Guy, Antiquity, vol. 3, #12, Dec., 1929, pp. 456-457.
- •Menghin, o., Lecture at Harvard University, April 6, 1937.
- •Childe, V. G., op. Cit.Y p. 64.
- •Derry, Douglas, sawv, Jahrgang, 1932, #1-4, pp. 60-61. 20 Ibid., p. 306.
- •Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1927, vol. 27, pp. 293-309.
- •21 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, vol. 17, 1925, pp. 1-52.
- •Morant, op. Cit., 1925.
- •Neolithic north africa
- •(6) The neolithic in spain and portugal
- •The eastern source areas: south, central, and north
- •The danubian culture bearers
- •The corded or battle-axe people
- •The neolithic in the british isles
- •Western europe and the alpine race
- •Schlaginhaufen, o., op. Cit.
- •Schenk, a., reap, vol. 14, 1904, pp. 335-375.
- •Childe, The Danube in Prehistory, pp. 163, 174.
- •Neolithic scandinavia
- •Introduction
- •Bronze age movements and chronology
- •The bronze age in western asia
- •The minoans
- •The greeks
- •Basques, phoenicians, and etruscans
- •The bronze age in britain
- •The bronze age in central europe
- •The bronze age in the north
- •The bronze age on the eastern plains
- •The final bronze age and cremation
- •Summary and conclusions
- •Race, languages, and european peoples
- •The illyrians
- •The kelts
- •Vallois, h. V., Les Ossements Bretons de Kerne, TouUBras, et Port-Bara.
- •We know the stature of Kelts in the British Isles only from a small Irish group, and by inference from comparison with mediaeval English counterparts of Iron Age skeletons.
- •Greenwell, w., Archaeologia, vol. 60, part 1, pp. 251-312.
- •Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1926, vol. 18, pp. 56-98.
- •The romans
- •46 Whatmouffh. J., The Foundations of Roman Italy.
- •The scythians
- •88 Browne, c. R., pria, vol. 2, ser. 3, 1899, pp. 649—654.
- •88 Whatmough is in doubt as to their linguistic affiliation. Whatmough, j., op. Cit., pp. 202-205.
- •Fig. 29. Scythians, from the Kul Oba Vase. Redrawn from Minns, e. H., Scythians and Greeks, p. 201, Fig. 94.
- •Doniti, a., Crania Scythica, mssr, ser. 3, Tomul X, Mem. 9, Bucharest, 1935.
- •The germanic peoples
- •Stoiyhwo, k., Swiatowit, vol. 6, 1905, pp. 73-80.
- •Bunak, V. V., raj, vol. 17, 1929, pp. 64-87.
- •Shetelig, h., Falk, h., and Gordon, e. V., Scandinavian Archaeology, pp. 174-175.
- •70 Hubert, h., The Rise of the Celts, pp. 50-52.
- •71 Nielsen, h. A., anoh, II Rakke, vol. 21, 1906, pp. 237-318; ibid., III Rakke, vol. 5, 1915, pp. 360-365. Reworked.
- •Retzius, g., Crania Suecica, reworked.
- •78 Schliz, a., pz, vol. 5, 1913, pp. 148-157.
- •Barras de Aragon, f. De las, msae, vol. 6, 1927, pp. 141-186.
- •78 Hauschild, m. W., zfma, vol. 25, 1925, pp. 221-242.
- •79 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, vol. 18, 1926, pp. 56-98.
- •8° Reche, o., vur, vol. 4, 1929, pp. 129-158, 193-215.
- •Kendrick, t. D., and Hawkes, c. F. C., Archaeology in England and Wales, 1914-1931.
- •Morant, Biometrika, vol. 18, 1926, pp. 56-98.
- •Lambdoid flattening is a characteristic common to Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic man, but rare in the exclusively Mediterranean group.
- •Calculated from a number of series, involving over 120 adult males. Sources:
- •Peake, h., and Hooton, e. A., jrai, vol. 45, 1915, pp. 92-130.
- •Bryce, t. H., psas, vol. 61, 1927, pp. 301-317.
- •Ecker, a., Crania Germanica.
- •Vram, u., rdar, vol. 9, 1903, pp. 151-159.
- •06 Miiller, g., loc. Cit.
- •98 Lebzelter, V., and Thalmann, g., zfrk, vol. 1, 1935, pp. 274-288.
- •97 Hamy, e. T., Anth, vol. 4, 1893, pp. 513-534; vol. 19, 1908, pp. 47-68.
- •The slavs
- •Conclusions
- •The iron age, part II Speakers of Uralic and Altaic
- •The turks and mongols
- •I® Ibid.
- •Introduction to the study of the living
- •Materials and techniques
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •2. Skin of tawny white, nose narrow,
- •Hair Flaxen
- •Gobineau, a. De, Essai sur Vinegaliti des races humaines.
- •Meyer, h., Die Insel Tenerife; Uber die Urbewohner der Canarischen Inseln.
- •46 Eickstedt, e. Von, Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit.
- •Nordenstreng, r., Europas Mdnniskoraser och Folkslag.
- •Montandon, g., La Race, Les Races.
- •Large-headed palaeolithic survivors
- •Pure and mixed palaeolithic and mesolithic survivors of moderate head size56
- •Pure and mixed unbrachtcephalized mediterranean deriva tives
- •Brachtcephauzed mediterranean derivatives, probably mixed
- •The north
- •Introduction
- •The lapps
- •I Wiklund, k. B., gb, vol. 13, 1923, pp. 223-242.
- •7 Schreiner, a., Die Nord-Norweger; Hellemo (Tysfjord Lappen).
- •8 Gjessing, r., Die Kautokeinolappen.
- •10 Kajava, y., Beitr'dge zur Kenntnis der Rasseneigenschaften der Lappen Finnlands.
- •17 For a complete bibliography of early Lappish series, see the lists of Bryn, the two Schreiners, Geyer, Kajava, and Zolotarev.
- •Schreiner, k. E., Zur Osteologie der Lappen.
- •Gjessing, r., Die Kautokeinolappen, pp. 90-95.
- •Hatt, g., Notes on Reindeer Nomadism, maaa, vol. 6, 1919. This is one of the few points regarding the history of reindeer husbandry upon which these two authorities agree.
- •The samoyeds26
- •Scandinavia; norway
- •Iceland
- •Sweden64
- •Denmark62
- •The finno-ugrians, introduction
- •Fig. 31. Linguistic Relationships of Finno-Ugrian Speaking Peoples.
- •Racial characters of the eastern finns
- •The baltic finns: finland
- •The baltic-speaking peoples
- •Conclusions
- •The british isles
- •R£sum£ of skeletal history
- •Ireland
- •Great britain, general survey
- •Fig. 32. Composite Silhouettes of English Men and Women.
- •The british isles, summary
- •Introduction
- •Lapps and samoyeds
- •Mongoloid influences in eastern europe and in turkestan
- •Brunn survivors in scandinavia
- •Borreby survivors in the north
- •East baltics
- •Carpathian and balkan borreby-like types
- •The alpine race in germany
- •The alpine race in western and central europe
- •Aberrant alpine forms in western and central europe
- •Alpines from central, eastern, and southeastern europe
- •Asiatic alpines
- •The mediterranean race in arabia
- •Long-faced mediterraneans of the western asiatic highlands
- •Long-faced mediterraneans of the western asiatic highlands: the irano-afghan race
- •Gypsies, dark-skinned mediterraneans, and south arabian veddoids
- •The negroid periphery of the mediterranean race
- •Mediterraneans from north africa
- •Small mediterraneans of southern europe
- •Atlanto-mediterraneans from southwestern europe
- •Blue-eyed atlanto-mediterraneans
- •The mediterranean reemergence in great britain
- •The pontic mediterraneans
- •The nordic race: examples of corded predominance
- •The nordic race: examples of danubian predominance
- •The nordic race: hallstatt and keltic iron age types
- •Exotic nordics
- •Nordics altered by northwestern european upper palaeolithic mixture: I
- •Nordics altered by northwestern european upper palaeolithic mixture: II
- •Nordics altered by mixture with southwestern borreby and alpine elements
- •The principle of dinaricization
- •European dinarics: I
- •European dinarics: II
- •European dinarics: III
- •European dinarics: IV
- •Dinarics in western asia: I
- •Dinarics in western asia: II
- •Armenoid armenians
- •Dinaricized forms from arabia and central asia
- •The jews: I
- •The jews: II
- •The jews: III
- •The mediterranean world
- •Introduction
- •The mediterranean rage in arabia
- •The mediterranean world
- •7 Lawrence, Col. T. E., The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
- •The Distribution of Iranian Languages
- •The turks as mediterraneans
- •Fig, 37. Ancient Jew.
- •North africa, introduction
- •Fig. 38. Ancient Libyan. Redrawn from
- •The tuareg
- •Eastern barbary, algeria, and tunisia
- •The iberian peninsula
- •The western mediterranean islands
- •The basques
- •The gypsies
- •Chapter XII
- •The central zone, a study in reemergence
- •Introduction
- •8 Collignon, r., msap, 1894.
- •9 Collignon, r., bsap, 1883; Anth, 1893.
- •Belgium
- •The netherlands and frisia
- •Germany
- •Switzerland and austria
- •The living slavs
- •Languages of East-Central Europe and of the Balkans
- •The magyars
- •The living slavs (Concluded)
- •Albania and the dinaric race
- •The greeks
- •Bulgaria
- •Rumania and the vlachs
- •The osmanli turks
- •Turkestan and the tajiks
- •Conclusions
- •Conclusion
- •Comments and reflections
- •The white race and the new world
- •IflnrlrH
- •Alveon (also prosthion). The most anterior point on the alveolar border of the upper jaw, on the median line between the two upper median incisors.
- •Length of the clavicle (collar bone) and that of the humerus (upper arm bone);
- •Incipiently mongoloid. A racial type which has evolved part way in a mongoloid direction, and which may have other, non-mongoloid specializations of its own, is called incipiently mongoloid.
- •List of books
- •Index of authors
- •54; Language distribution, 561, map; Jews in, 642; Neo-Danubian, ill., Plate 31, Jig. 4.
- •Map; classified, 577; racial characteristics, 578-79; ill., Plate 3, fig. 3.
- •Ill., Plate 6, Jigs. 1-5; survivors in Carpathians and Balkans, ill., Plate 8, figs. 1-6; Nordic blend, ill., Plate 34, figs.
- •61; Associated with large head size, 265, 266. See also Cephalic index, Cranial measurements.
- •Ill., Plate 36, fig. 1. See also Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland.
- •Ill., Plate 30, fig. 2.
- •85; Von Eickstedt’s, 286-88; Gzek- anowski’s system, 288-89; author’s, 289-96; schematic representation, 290, chart; geographic, 294- 95, map.
- •396; Cornishmen in France, 512, 514.
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THE
RACES OF EUROPE
of
Iranian and allied Indo-European languages. Map 12 shows the
general distribution of these Iranian-speaking peoples, and of
their neighbors.19
The
languages of Iranian type spoken in this part of the world may be
divided into three sub-groups—(a) western Iranian or Persian; (b)
eastern Iranian, which includes Pushtu and Baluchi; (c) Dardic, an
ill-defined group of Satem dialects closely related to Iranian, but
probably not to
The
Iranian languages, Persian, Afghan Pushtu, Pathan Pushtu, Baluchi,
and Tajik, as well as the closely related Dardic, including Kafiri,
have been left unstippled. One Iranian language, Ossetian, which is
spoken in the Caucasus, is not shown here. Sanskrit derivatives
are indicated by large dots, and non-Indo-European languages by
other stipples. The linguistic boundaries are not exact, since the
purpose of the map is instruction and clarity rather than technical
accuracy. The boundary between Persian and Pushtu is actually vague,
since the two languages overlap widely.
be
included as a branch of the general Iranian stock. Its relationship
is parallel to Iranian rather than derivative.
The
present kingdom of Iran, formerly called Persia, is for the most
part occupied by Persian-speaking peoples. In the northwest, the
Azerbaijani Turkish speech of the eastern Caucasus is the
commonest medium, while groups of Indo-European-speaking Armenians
and Kurds are also found in this part of Iranian territory. The
southern shore of the Caspian Sea is somewhat of a linguistic
medley, with small groups of Turkish speakers, while the whole
northeastern border country of the Iranian kingdom stretching east
of the Caspian is occupied by Turkomans, who
The Distribution of Iranian Languages
191
am indebted to Dr. Gordon T. Bowles for help in preparing both the
map and this summary.
THE
MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
417
continue
over into northern Afghanistan. The valley of the Oxus River in
northwestern Afghanistan is really Afghan Turkestan.
In
the eastern part of the Iranian kingdom, in Khorassan, one finds not
only Persians, but also Pushtu-speaking Afghans. The whole
southeastern corner of Iran is occupied by Baluchis, who reach
nearly as far west as the seaport of Bandar Abbas, which lies just
east of the Arabicspeaking town of Lenja. This southeastern
section occupied by Baluchis is called Persian Makran. These
Baluchis are part of the western Baluchi group, which also occupies
most of Baluchistan. They are separated from the eastern Baluchis by
groups of Indian speakers and by the non-Indo- European-speaking
Brahui.
In
northern Afghanistan, immediately south of the Turki area, lies the
inaccessible mountain territory of the Kafir, a curiously primitive
group of Dardic speakers, who resisted the attempts of the Afghans
to convert them to Islam until early in the present century. These
Kafirs arc divided into strictly segregated social classes,
representing conquerors and aborigines. The conquering groups speak
various Dardic dialects, while it is said that some of the
aboriginal peoples belonging to socially inferior clans and villages
speak non-Indo-European languages. The exact nature of these
languages, however, has not yet been determined. To the east of
Kafiristan is the Hunza country, north of Gilgit, where a number of
languages of apparently Gaucasic affinity are spoken. The best known
of these is Burushaski.20
Other languages spoken in the Tibetan Himalayas may be related to
this same linguistic family.
The
Pathan group is divided into two main sub-divisions. One is that of
the western Pathans, or Afghans proper, who live in the country
which extends from beyond the Iranian border to Jallalabad, and
includes the territory of Kabul and the plains of Kandahar. The
eastern Pathans occupy the northeastern part of Baluchistan,
including the Suleiman Mountain range, and the southern two-thirds
of the Northwestern Frontier Province of India. These eastern
Pathans include the Pathans proper, the Afridis, the Mohmands, and
the Waziris.
In
the Hazarajat of central Afghanistan, southwest of Kabul and
southeast of Herat, lives an isolated body of Turkish-speaking
people who are historically and racially of Mongol origin, being a
remnant of the great Mongol expansion of the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. These Hazara have tended to be endogamous, and
have had little influence on the physical type of the
Iranian-speaking peoples.
Outside
of the area which we shall discuss in this chapter, but included on
Map 12, are the Tajiks, sedentary agricultural peoples of Iranian
speech who live in the mountains of northwesternmost Afghanistan
20
See p. 175,
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THE
RACES OF EUROPE
and
adjoining parts of Russian Turkestan. They are descended from an
early sedentary population of the Turkestan plains area, which was
driven into the mountains by the inroads of Turkish-speaking
peoples, who now occupy most of the Turkestan plain. Racially, the
Tajiks are predominantly Alpine, and therefore will be
discussed in the next chapter.
Let
us first consider the racial characters of the Persians themselves.
Very little has been published about the physical anthropology of
this people, but, with the help of unpublished material, it is
possible to make a number of reasonably accurate generalizations
about their physical type.21
In
the first place, they belong as a group to the Irano-Afghan branch
of the Mediterranean race. Their stature varies regionally from
about 164 to 169 cm., and thus ranges from medium to moderately
tall. The relative sitting height is in most groups low, indicating
that the long- legged, short-bodied condition of the Mediterraneans
seen in Arabia is also prevalent here. The cephalic index is usually
low, ranging from 73 to 76 in different groups, although one
mountain tribe, the Bakhtiari, is brachycephalic.22
The actual head dimensions are slightly greater than those among
Yemenis, but of typically Mediterranean proportions. The mean head
lengths range about the 190 mm. mark, and the head breadths about
141 or 142 mm. The faces are similar in breadth to those of Arabs,
but the bigonial diameters are greater, ranging between 105 and 110
mm.; the faces are, at the same time, variable in length, but, on
the whole, longer than those found in most parts of Arabia. Facial
indices are leptoprosopic, upper facial indices leptene, and the
noses are markedly leptorrhine, and usually convex in profile. As
photographs of these people show, the jaw is frequently deeper and
heavier than is the case among Arabs.
Although
the Persians derive their language from Nordics who entered the
Iranian plateau from the plains to the north, there is little
evidence of Nordic blood in the population except as it appears
rarely among individuals. Pigmentation is prevailingly dark. The
hair color is usually black or dark brown, with a minority of
reddish-brown and brown tints among certain isolated groups such as
the Lurs in eastern Iran. Eye color is usually dark brown, but the
usual minority of mixed eyes is characteristic, and is
especially marked among the Lurs.
In
addition to the Bakhtiari, there are small enclaves of
brachycephalic
211
am deeply indebted to Dr. Henry Field for permission to summarize
his unpublished series of 52 Lurs, 46 men from Yezd-i-Khast,
and 73 from Kinareh. Older references include
Chantre,
E., BSAP,
vol.
14, 1895, pp. 26-29.
Danilov,
N. P., IILE,
vol.
88, 1894, Cols. 1-147 Houssay, M., BSAL,
vol.
16, 1887, pp. 101-148.
KhanikofT,
N., Memoire
sur VEth.nograph.ie de la Perse.
22 Kappers,
A. C. U., The
Anthropology of the Near East.
THE
MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
419
peoples
in Iran, particularly in the cities, but the population as a whole
is long-headed. Persian brachycephaly may have been derived from two
sources, from the Alpines and Armenoids to the north, and from the
Baluchis to the south. The Bakhtiari say that their ancestors came
from the Lebanon country in Syria.
The
published information upon the physical type of the Afghans is even
scantier than that from Persia, but again we may fortunately draw
upon unpublished information.23
These Afghans and Pathans are in most respects as similar to the
Persians as they are to each other. The Afghans, however, are
shorter than the Pathans, since the former have a mean stature of
163 cm. and the latter of 170 cm. The body build of both people is
slight to intermediate. A relative sitting height of 52.6 found
among Afghanis is close to that of Europeans, while most of the
Pathans fall a point lower. The heads of these people range in
length from 188 to 192 mm. by tribes, and in breadth from 141 to 145
mm. The cephalic indices of the Afghanis and Pathans vary between
tribal means of 72 and 75; except for the Khattak and Bangash, who
live in proximity to the Baluchis, and who have a mean of 77. The
vault height of all of these peoples is quite low, with means of 121
to 123 mm. Faces are usually long, reaching a maximum mean of 129
mm. among the Afridis, and are at the same time only moderately
narrow, with bizygomatic means of
to
137 mm. Foreheads and jaws are of moderate dimensions; 104 mm. is
the usual mean for the minimum frontal, and 103 mm. for the
bigonial.
In
the total face height and the three facial breadths, these Pathan
speakers cannot be distinguished from Nordics. The upper face
height, however, serves as a means of differentiation, since it is
extremely long; and the noses, at the same time, reach the extreme
length of 61 mm. Their mean facial index of 94 and upper facial
index of 56 place these people in an extremely long- and
narrow-faced category, while the nasal index of 61 confirms their
extreme leptorrhiny.
If
one compares these measurements with those from the Yemen on the one
hand and from the eastern provinces of Norway on the other, one sees
that the Iranian-speakers are much closer to the Nordic mean than to
that of the normal Mediterraneans. The head dimensions of the
Afghans and Pathans are slightly smaller than those of Nordics, and
the
23 Dr.
Gordon T. Bowles, who measured some 6000 adult males in the country
running between eastern Afghanistan and Burma, all of whom were
inhabitants of the Himalayan foothills and valleys, and of the
adjacent Tibetan plateau, has kindly given me his permission to draw
upon his series of 40 Afghanis from the Jillalabad plain, 40
Afridis, 42 Mohmands, and 40 Khattak and Bangash. With the addition
of 6 Gilzais, this makes a total series of 168 Pushtu speakers from
Afghanistan. Published data from this region may be found in the
Ethnographic
Survey of India,
Calcutta, 1908. (See Anonymous, Anthropometric
Data from Baluchistan.
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THE
RACES OF EUROPE
vault
height is lower,24
but the facial dimensions are essentially similar, except that the
upper face and nose heights of the Afghans and Pathans are greater.
The
Afghans and Pathans, like the Persians, are usually brunet, and at
the same time show a persistent minority of blondism, which in this
case reflects Nordic admixture. They are heavy-bearded, and possess
heavy body hair. Their facial features show a maximum of bony
relief, and, on the whole, their facial skeletons seem much heavier
and much more strongly marked than those of the more delicate
Arabian Mediterraneans. They possess, in common with the
Arabian Mediterranean group, a sharpness in definition of feature
which stands in contrast to the coarser lineaments of the average
Mesopotamian countenance.
In
respect to the Dardic group, we have a certain amount of published
and unpublished information which will be useful here.25
The
Kafirs of the Kati tribe, who live in the easternmost section of
Kafiristan, are taller and larger-headed than the Pathans, but still
essentially dolichocephalic and leptorrhine.26
They seem also to possess a high ratio of blondism. Like the
Pathans, their commonest skin color is a medium brunet white, von
Luschan #9, but in hair and eye color they seem to be lighter than
the Pushtu-speaking peoples. Thirty-four per cent have mixed or
light eyes, as opposed to 20 per cent of Pushtus. Their hair color,
according to Stein, is blond or light brown in 28 per cent of the
group.27
It
would seem that the upper class of the Kafirs contains a much larger
proportion of the invading, Indo-European-speaking Nordic type than
is found among the Persians and Afghans. This is not surprising,
since Kafiristan is essentially a refuge area. The lower classes of
the Kafiri population seem to be shorter in stature, somewhat
smaller-headed, and may perhaps be broader-nosed.28
Other
Dardic-speaking peoples, studied by Ujfalvy, are of moderate
stature, with means between 163 and 166 cm., dolicho- to
mesocephalic, with mean cephalic indices of 76, and moderately
leptorrhine, with a
Guha,
B. S., Census
of India.
Ujfalvy,
K. E. von, Aus
dem westihchen Himalaja.
Early
Nordic crania from Turkestan and from Armenia are low-vaulted. See
pp. 169-170, 201.26
Dixon, R. B., a series of 92 Burushaskis of Hunza, seriated by the
author and published by B. S. Guha, in Census
of India.Joyce,
T. A., JRAI,
vol.
42, 1912, pp. 450-484.Also
unpublished materal of Dr. Bowles.
Guha’s
data on the Red Kafirs presented in his 1931 Census
of India
volume
includes no exact figures, aside from observation percentages.
Guha, op.
cit.,
p.
xviii.Stein,
Sir Aurel, Serindia,
Appendix C, vol. 3, pp. 1387-1388.Joyce’s
series of 18 Kafirs has the relatively short stature mean of 167
cm., a cephalic index of 76.9. His facial measurements appear
unreliable.
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nasal
index mean of 64. The pigmentation is usually brunet, with a
minority of blondism, the beards heavy, and the hair form wavy. On
the whole, judging from present material, the Dardic-speakers seem
to be essentially the same as the Afghans and Pathans, with the
addition of a strong Nordic element among some of the Kafirs, and a
smaller, essentially Mediterranean factor among the lower
classes of the same population.
The
non-Indo-European-speaking Burushaski of Hunza, measured by Dixon,
may be compared to the Dardic-speaking peoples. The mean stature of
92 Burushaski is 168 cm., the head length 190 mm., its breadth 146
mm., and the cephalic index 77. Facially the Burushaski seem
likewise to resemble the Dardic-speakers,29
and both are essentially Irano- Afghan in racial type. This type is
apparently the autochthonous element in the southern slopes of the
western Himalayas, as well as in the plateau of Iran and
Afghanistan. The invasion of the Iranian ancestors, who brought
Indo-European speech to this plateau and mountain country, seems to
have had little lasting racial affect, except in Kafiristan.
Before
leaving the subject of Iranian-speaking peoples in the western
Asiatic highlands, let us return to the northwestern end of this
area, and consider the Kurds, who are thought to be the descendants
of the Kar- duchoi encountered by Xenophon and his ten thousand in
their march from Persia to the Black Sea.
The
present-day Kurds are partial or complete nomads who graze their
flocks in the three countries of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, and who,
owing to their warlike activities, have been periodically ejected
from each. They are tall men, with a mean stature which, although
variable by tribal groups, lies usually between 168 and 170 cm.30
The mean cephalic index of Kurdish tribesmen measured in Kurdistan
and the Caucasic region is consistently 77 or 78; the Kurds have
preserved their dolicho- cephaly intact. Their pigmentation is for
the most part brunet, although there is a distinct blond minority
which, as with the Riffians, has led travellers to describe the
Kurds, as a whole, as blond; their nasal profiles are usually convex
or straight, and their total metrical character, so far as it is
known, indicates that they are a mixture between the Irano- Afghan
racial type described earlier in this section and the ancestral
Iranian Nordics, with a larger minority of the latter factor than is
usual in
29 The
low facial and high nasal indices given by Dixon are apparently the
result of a mistake in locating nasion.
30 Chantre,
E., Rkherehes
anthropologiques dam VAsie Occidental.
Ehrich,
R. W., unpublished series in Peabody Museum.
Kappers,
C. U. A., and Parr, L. W., An
Introduction to the Anthropology oj the Near
East.
NassonofF,
N. W., IILE, vol. 68, 1890, pp. 400-401, r6sum£ in AFA,
vol.
24, 1896, pp. 646-647.