The races of man and their distribution / A.C. Haddon.

  • Alfred Cort Haddon
Date:
1924
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Credit: The races of man and their distribution / A.C. Haddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MAIN GROUPS OF MANKIND 25 shores of the Persian Gulf (South Persia), Sumer (?), Mesopo¬ tamia, Syria, coastal parts of Asia Minor, Anau in Turkestan, the original Nesiöts or Indonesians (both on the mainland and in the archipelago). Elliot Smith says, It is clear that we cannot call this group 'Hamitic,' because it includes such Semites as the Arabs; nor can we call it 'Mediterranean,' for its domain has been ex¬ tended far beyond the limits of the Middle Sea, and also its distribution is not that assigned by Sergi to his Mediter¬ ranean Race {The Ancient Egyptians^ 1923, p. 69).] II. MESOCEPHALS A. Tawny-white complexion^ black hair, medium stature PYRENEAN. Chestnut hair; dusky pink skin; stature 1*66 m. (65jin.), broad shoulders; essentially mesocephalic (c.i. 78-82), inclined to be platycephalic, swollen temples, supra-orbital ridges, but not glabella, usually fairly marked; cheek-bones slightly prominent, long ortho¬ gnathic, triangular face with narrow chin; nose very prominent and narrow; eyes nut- or chestnut-brown, often greenish. This may prove to be a mixture of several racial types; Telesforo de Aranzadi equates it with the Cro-Magnon race. Extending chiefly across the north of Spain. ATLANTO-MEDITERRANEAN. Very dark hair and eyes; sta¬ ture medium, 1-66-1-67 m. (65|—65f in.); mesocephalic (c.i. 79-80). According to Deniker, in the east of the Balkan peninsula, from the mouth of the Tiber to Gibraltar, thence to the mouth of the Guadalquivir, north Portugal, and on the shores of the Bay of Biscay to the lower valley of the Loire, etc. This group is of doubtful validity and has probably been arrived at by a process of averaging a mixed population com¬ posed of Mediterraneans and others.
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