CHAPTER XI. THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

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1. Introduction 400-401

2. The Mediterranean Race in Arabia 401-411

3. Iraq and the Coastal Regions of the Persian Gulf . 411-415

4. The Irano-Afghan Race; Iran and Afghanistan . . 415-422

5. The Turks as Mediterraneans 422-425

6. The Veddoid Periphery, Hadhramaut to Baluchistan 425-431

7. Palestine, Jewish Origins, and the Eastern Jews . . 432-444

8. The Mediterranean Race in East Africa .... 444-458

9. The Modern Egyptians 458-462

10. North Africa, Introduction 462-468

11. The Eastern Arabo-Berbers, Libya and the Oases . 468-471

12. The Tuareg 471-474

13. Eastern Barbary, Algeria, and Tunisia .... 474-479

14. Western Barbary; Morocco and the Canary Islands 480-489

15. The Iberian Peninsula 489-498

16. The Western Mediterranean Islands 498-501

17. The Basques 501-504

18. The Gypsies 504-507

19. Conclusions 507-509

CHAPTER XII. THE CENTRAL ZONE, A STUDY IN REEMERGENCE

1. Introduction 510-511

2. France 511-522

3. Belgium 522-529

4. The Netherlands and Frisia 529-535

5. Germany 535-547

6. Switzerland and Austria 547-554

7. Italy 554-559

8. The Living Slavs:

1. Czechs and Wends 559-563

9. The Living Slavs:

2. Poland and Russia 563-576

10. Turks, Tatars, and Mongols of European Russia. . 576-584

11. The Magyars 584-586

12. The Living Slavs:

3. Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes 587-595

13. Albania and the Dinaric Race 595-604

14. The Greeks 604-609

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15. Bulgaria 609-612

16. Rumania and the Vlaghs 612-617

17. The Osmanli Turks 617-622

18. Near Eastern Brachycephals; Syria, Armenia, and

the Caucasus 622-634

19. Turkestan and the Tajiks 634-638

20. The Brachycephalized Jews: Asia and Central Europe 638-646

21. Conclusions 646-648 CHAPTER XIII. CONCLUSION

1. Comments and Reflections 649-650

2. The White Race and the New World 650-652

APPENDICES

1. Means of Principal Cranial Series Used in Chap­ters II-VII 655-665

II. Glossary .... .... 666-683

3. List of Serials and Their Abbreviations .... 684-691

4. List of Books 692-700

Indexes 701-739

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1. Mesolithic Geography of N. W. Europe 71

2. Neolithic Movements and Chronology 80-81

3. Bronze Age Movements and Chronology .... 132-133

4. Iron Age Races of Europe, before Huns and Turks . 176-177

5. Stature 252-253

6. Cephalic Index 258-259

7. Head Size 262-263

8. Pigmentation of Hair and Eyes 270-271

9. Racial Distribution 294-295

10. The Distribution of Uralic and Altaic Speech on

European Soil 338

11. County Divisions in Finland 355

12. The Distribution of Iranian Languages 416

13. Linguistic Map of the East African Hamitic Area . 446

14. Languages of East-central Europe and the Balkans . 561

15. Tribal Divisions in Northern Albania 596

16. Peoples of the Caucasus 631

Introduction to the historical study of the white race

1. Statement of aims and proposals

The present book is a textbook designed for the use of college students who have had or are taking a preliminary course in anthropology. Enough of it is, however, written in a non-technical way, so that students of allied disciplines may use it for reference. The subject matter to be studied con­sists of the body of statistical material collected by the world’s physical an­thropologists which concern the somatic character of peoples belonging to the white race. This material may be divided into (A), skeletons; and (B), metrical data and observations on the living.

By the use of this material we propose to follow the history of the white race from its Pleistocene¹ beginnings to the present, and to provide a classi­fication of sub-races which will be fully in accord with the facts as we now know them. We submit the thesis that man, as a domestic animal, is extremely variable; and that he has subjected himself, in his wanderings, to all of the environments of the earth, and hence is subject to environ­mental modification in a way unequalled by any other species. We further suggest that man, through his development of human cultures, has modi­fied his bodily form by his own devices.

During the Pleistocene period there were several species of primates which had attained some degree of human culture, by the acquisition of stone implements, of fire, and of speech. In the present post-glacial or interglacial period, in conformity with the general reduction in faunal varieties, man has been reduced to a single species, unique in a single genus. During the Pleistocene one species, at least, had developed in the manner of a foetalized terrestrial ape, and it is that species which carries today the main stem of Homo sapiens. Other species, including the fossil men of Java, of Peking, and Homo neanderthalensis, had developed at the same time into a heavier, hypermasculine endocrine form, with a luxuri­ance of jaws, teeth, and bony crests.

We propose to demonstrate that these non-foetalized species did not wholly die out, but that at least one of them was absorbed into the main

1. The term Pleistocene is used here to signify the time span which, in Europe, began with the advance of the first Quatenary glaciation and which ended with the retreat of Wurm II.

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human stem, at some time during the Middle, or the initial part of the Late, Pleistocene. From this amalgamation was produced the large, rugged, and relatively u$-foetalized group of Upper Palaeolithic men in Europe, North Africa, and northern Asia. This type of man passed over Bering Straits in early post-glacial times, if not earlier, to provide the basic ge­netic stock from which the American Indian developed, in combination with later arrivals. From a branch of this hyperborean group there evolved, in northern Asia, the ancestral strain of the entire specialized mongoloid family.

We suggest that the ancestors of the whites in their major form developed during pluvial periods of the Pleistocene in parts of what is now the arid zone reaching from the Sahara to northern India; that in post-glacial times many were forced out of these homes by desiccation, and that some of them originated agriculture and animal husbandry in northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia. From these centers agricultural pioneers followed post-glacial zones of climate into Europe, gradually encroaching upon the lands formerly glaciated. In most of the regions which they occupied they greatly outnumbered the descendants of the hunters and fishers whose ancestors had clung on since glacial times, and many of whom had followed the retreating ice toward its last melting nuclei.

The occupation of all arable lands, and those suitable for grazing, was not completed in a century, or in a millennium; the process was a gradual one, and the withdrawal of the earlier inhabitants into environmentally protected fastnesses equally gradual. The entry of food-producers from Asia and Africa did not take a single route or involve a single people; it was a complex sequence of migrations through several ports of entry. The various strains of food-producers mixed with the food-gatherers whom they encountered, and with each other, until, in our own time, not a single group of complete food-gatherers has remained in white man’s territory.

The food-producers seem to have been variants on one central racial theme, the basic Mediterranean. This basic Mediterranean stock varied in many respects, especially in stature and in pigmentation, but in its essential qualities, which segregated it from non-whites, it was remarkably uniform. We do not know that the survivors of the food-gatherers whom the Mediterranean food-producers absorbed were white in soft-part morphology, and there is some evidence that some had begun to evolve in a mongoloid, others perhaps in a negroid, direction. Such variations may be seen within the present composite white racial amalgam.

At any rate, the main conclusion of this study will be that the present races of Europe are derived from a blend of (A), food-producing peoples from Asia and Africa, of basically Mediterranean racial form, with (B), the descendants of