Year: 1939
Author: Carleton Stevens Coon
Genre: anthropology, history of Europe, paleoanthropology
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Language: English + parts in Russian
Format: PDF, DjVu
Number of pages: 875.
The well-known American scientist Carlton Kuhn sets out in this book the history of Europe from the point of view of anthropology.
According to the views expressed in Kuhn's book The Races of Europe, the history of the Caucasian ("white") race can be represented as follows: the ancient population of Europe of the Upper Paleolithic Mesolithic, basically belonging to the species Homo sapiens, but with the Neanderthal impurity, met the Neolithic a powerful flow of the population of the Mediterranean type (pure Homo sapiens) from North Africa and the Middle East. As a result of the confusion, the "pure" Mediterranean remained only in the south of Europe, and in Central Europe the paleolithic types as a substratum reappeared in the form of an anthropological type, which Kun calls "the Alpine race". Only in Northern Europe, the Mediterranean conquerors retained to a large extent their physical type. At the same time, by selection, they acquired light pigmentation, which was present in rudimentary form among all Mediterranean people.
On with. 569 the author notes (like Alekseeva TI) that the modern Slavic peoples are primarily the previous population of the respective regions (to which a certain number of alien Slavs have been layered). So, Ukrainians, in his opinion, were to absorb Scythians, Sarmatians, Black Sea Goths, Greek colonists and pre-Scythian Cimmerians.
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The racial history of the Slavic peoples may largely be interpreted in terms of the previous inhabitants of the countries in which they have expanded. The White Russians are linked with the Balts, and the Great Russians with Scandinavians and Finns, especially the latter; the Ukrain-ians, in their eastward expansion over the plains of southern Russia, must have absorbed the remnants of the Iranian Scyths and Sarmatians, of the Black Sea Goths, of the Greek colonists of the Euxine shore, as well perhaps as of the mysterious pre-Scythic Cimmerians.
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The Ukrainians who live farther east, along the northern shore of the Black Sea, are not only taller than the Volhynians, but also darker in hair and eye color. They are longer faced, but no different in head form, except that in the region of Kiev they are more brachycephalic, with mean indices of 83 and 84. There is a strong Dinaric element in the central and eastern Ukraine, which often in combination with the Nordic and Neo- Danubian takes on a Noric or approximately similar form.
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The Huzuls differ from the others in the possession of tall stature (170 cm.) and a higher cephalic index (85). They are also noted for their long-limbed, spare bodily build, and the gaunt, high-nosed Dinaric quality of their facial features. The Ruthenians as a whole belong to the Alpine-Dinaric racial group, with the Dinaric factor predominant among the Huzuls; the Slavicization of these mountaineers was more a linguistic than a racial phenomenon. On the other hand, the mutual influences between the early Dinaric inhabitants of the Carpathians and the Slavs have tended in the opposite direction; the strong Dinaric element in the lowland Ukrainian population may be due to a northward infiltration from the mountains.
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In the grasslands of European Russia, south of the forest belt, a racial continuity with Anau extends westward into the Ukraine. One of the earliest sites which show this connection is located at Mariupol near the mouth of the Kalmins River on the shore of the Sea of Azov.42 Here, an unstated number of skeletons, lying in rows and covered with red ochre, was found in association with apparently Early Neolithic implements, and a quantity of bone, shell, and tusk objects. Although the typology of the artefacts is early, we do not know the date, but the absence of pottery would presumably argue against a late assignment.
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