Irano-Afghan race

The term Irano-Afghan refers to a group of humans, based upon shared physical characteristics through geographic adaptation. From the term Irano-Afghan, we may infer the intended locus of these physical similarities to be the Iranian Plateau and eastward into the highlands of Afghanistan.

Morphological uniqueness

Anthropologist Carleton S. Coon described Irano-Afghans in his book The Races of Europe, as being long-faced, high-headed and nose-hooked.

Anthropologist Earnest Hooton: [1]

"The Iranian Plateau type differes from the Upper Palaeolithic meaning Atlanto-Mediterranean type particularly in its long, high-bridged, and boldly jutting nasal promontory. It has the same huge dolichocephalic head and massive, usually long face.The great nose may be either straight or convex, more often the latter."

Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, believes that the differences are only geographically racial.[2]

Distribution

Haplogroup r1a1 are associated with Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-Iranians and the Spread of Indo-European languages.

Irano-Afghans or Nordic Iranians in anthropological terms, are Harder Mediterraneans most common and the principal element in Iran and Afghanistan north-west Pakistan and Turkmenistan. It is also a major factor in Turkey and Iraq and comprises parts of the population of India, China (West), Arabia, Middle east, Palestine north Africa and Europe, as a result of migration of Irano-Afghans. Together with Pontics and Corded-Nordics they make up the eastern branch of the Mediterranean group. Morphologically they are closer to Corded-Nordics, and the type traditionally defined as “Nordic” in Physical Anthropology. Modern Nordics are typically mesocephalic, but their ancestors were dolichocephalic. The cephalic index was defined by Swedish professor of anatomy Anders Retzius and first used in physical anthropology. A cephalic index of 80 or more is called brachycephalic, or broad, a measurement between 75 and 80 is mesocephalic, or intermediate, below 75 is considered dolicocephalic or long. Map of cephalic Index[3]

In Nordic countries they compromise 12% - 18% of the population, whilst the figure for Hallstatt Nordic is at 70% in Sweden, 30% for Norway, and 20% for Denmark. The Cordeds are metrically very similar to the Elmenteita from East Africa - the two groups could be combined without loss of homogeneity. In Mesopotamia, they may be favorably compared with the three dynastic skulls from Ur. Coon also related Irano-Afghans to the old Corded and described Sweden as a refuge area for the classic Nordic race characterized by its high incidence of blond hair and its light eye color. Blue eyes and blond hair appear most often among people whose work or social status keeps them indoors. Middle Eastern urban civilization may thus have produced artificially an environment comparable to the Baltic fog, from which the Nordic emerged.[4]

In later works Coon proposed a Nordic origin through depigmentation in the Eurasiatic grasslands, having arrived there from Iran at around –5000.

Language

Coon also proposed that nordics brought their language entering from north Iran whilst modern linguistic anthropology cites the opposite, namely that speakers of Aryan languages were involved in a migratory path with Europe as well as India as destination, rather than a source. Speakers of Indo-European languages, migrated from Iran to northwestern India at around 2000 B.C and brought an early form of Sanskrit language.[5]

Along with Hebrew, Proto-Indo-European has been traditionally regarded in Western culture to be The Adamic language. Anne Catherine Emmerich (1790), stated in her private revelations that the most direct descendants of the Adamic language were Bactrian, Persian language and Indian languages (i.e. speakers of Indo-Iranian languages),

References

• Coon, Carleton S., The Races of Europe.