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Irano-Afghan race

Obsolete racial classification term

Summary

Obsolete racial classification term

The Irano-Afghan race or Iranid race is an obsolete racial classification of human beings based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. Some anthropologists of the 20th century classified the populations native to the Iranian plateau as belonging to this race, which was usually seen as a subrace of the Caucasian race or the Mediterranean racial subtype of that race, depending on the authority consulted.

Physiognomy

American anthropologist Carleton S. Coon described the Irano-Afghan race as a branch of the Mediterranean race, describing them as being long-faced, high-headed and leptorrhine (having long and narrow noses). By contrast, Swedish anthropologist Bertil Lundman postulates an "Iranid" subtype of his "Eastern Mediterranean" race. American anthropologist Earnest Hooton in 1946 describes the "Iranian Plateau type" as distinct from the Atlanto-Mediterranean one:

According to Italian anthropologist Renato Biasutti the type was defined by:

British anthropologist John Lawrence Angel, following Coon in 1971, discusses a "Nordic-Iranian type" in the following terms:

D1 lies between Anglo-Saxon and [[Celts

Keltic]] area norms, and D2 is the earlier pre-[[Bronze Age]] Corded form which Coon identifies. Type D3, lighter and more hawk-nosed, is transitional to the Mediterranean type B4 and to type D4 (Iranian), which is the Proto-Iranian of Vallois, Irano-Afghan of others, and Proto-Nordic of Krogman, and which is more linear and more rugged than D3 and has a more tilted chewing plane, more [[aquiline nose

References

References

  1. Templeton, A.. (2016). "How Evolution Shapes Our Lives: Essays on Biology and Society". Princeton University Press.
  2. (February 2017). "Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics". American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
  3. American Association of Physical Anthropologists. (27 March 2019). "AAPA Statement on Race and Racism".
  4. S. M. Garn, ''Human races'', Thomas, 1971, 3rd ed., University of Michigan, p. 196
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  6. [http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/racesofeurope.htm The Races of Europe] by Carleton S. Coon
  7. Coon, Carleton Stevens. (1939). "The Races of Europe". The Macmillan Company.
  8. "Earnest Hooton on the Mediterranean Subrace (from E. A. Hooton, Up from the Ape, 1946)".
  9. Biasutti, Renato. "Renato Biasutti on Caucasoid Subraces: from Le Razze e i popoli della terra".
  10. J. Lawrence Angel, ''The people of Lerna; analysis of a prehistoric Aegean population'', Princeton, N.J., American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1971, pp. 36–38 [http://dienekes.awardspace.com/texts/angeltypes/]
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