Armenoid race

Armenoid (also known as Assyroid by Deniker [http://www.nordish.net/snpa/gloss1.htm#ASSYROID] ) is a term coined at about 1900 by an Assyriologist, the race was defined in English by Carleton S. Coon in "The Races of Europe". The borderland between Europe and Asia and the people were also called Armenoid. [- Page 444 by William Zebina Ripley] Carleton wrote that the racial type in question is very similar to the Dinaric race; the only difference is that they have a somewhat darker pigmentation, most probably due to racial mixture with the Mediterraneans and the Alpines. He described the Armenoid as a subrace of the Caucasoid race. The Armenoid people are found throughout the whole Eurasia, however the largest concentrations occur within Asia Minor. They are known as the "true" Caucasians. Armenoids are relatively tall, usually have somewhat darker skins, large round eyes usually black; a round, brachycephalic head shape with a straight backing (planocciput), high cheekbones and non-prominent chins. Lips are full usually with often hooked noses. This racial group includes the Armenians, the Assyrians, and the people from the Caucasus. It is also an element in India and Southern Europe. Armenoid is the dominant type of the indigenous Semitic groups of Syria and Mesopotamia: the ancient Amorites, the modern Assyrians and Chaldeans, the religious minorities of Lebanon and Syria, and the Lebanese and Syrians of mountainous regions have all been identified as being of the Armenoid type. [History of Syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine - page 76 by Philip Khuri Hitti] [Review: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the Near East by C. U. Ariëns Kappers, American Anthropologist, 37(35) - Pages 148-49 by W.M. Krogman] [Syria and Lebanon: A Political Essay - Page 96 by A.H. Hourani]

The Armenoid is also a member of the Caucasoid race. [Lebanon in History from the Earliest Times to the Present - Page 61 by Philip Khuri Hitti]

References

ee also

*Caucasian race
*Race (historical definitions)