Turanid race

Turanid race (also Turanoid or South Siberian race) is a word from physical anthropology that no one uses any more.  In the past, anthropologists used this word to talk about people from South Siberia, called the South Siberian raceЮрий Венедиктович Кнышенко. История первобытного общества (рус.). Изд-во Рост. ун-та (1973). Page 100Георгий Никитич Румянцев. Происхождение хоринских бурят (рус.). Бурятское книжное изд-во (1962). Page 119 They did this because using old ideas about dividing humans into groups by race could make it look like Europeans colonialism was a good thing.

When anthropologists first used this word, they meant people living in Central Asia and Kazakhstan. In European books, writers called it part of the Caucasian race with some "Mongoloid" mixed in.American anthropologist, American Anthropological Association, Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C,), 1984 v. 86, nos. 3-4, p. 741. The form with strongly bronze age Andronovo characteristics is the most ancient form of the Turanid type.Ginsburg, V.V. (1966) Enstehung der mittelasiatischen zwischenstromtipus. Homo 17. 172-190, and Ismagulov, O. (1970), Naszelenyie Kazahsztana ot epochi bronzu do szovremennosti. Alma-Atay. In: International Journal of Central Asian Studies , Volume 3, 1998 . ISSN 1226-4490.

Ethnic connections and subdivision
The Turanid race was said to be connected to Turkic peoples, Mountain Tajiks of Xinjiang (Sarikoli) and the Pamir tribes. Historically, tt was characteristic of the Onogurs, Huns, Magyars, Pechenegs, Cumans, Ancient Uyghurs, Avars, Kabars, Khazars, the Volga Bulgars (8th–9th cc.) and was one of the composite elements of the ruling strata of the Hungarians at the time of the conquest. Turanoid skulls dating to the Mesolithic age were also discovered at the archaeological site of Alfalou in North Africa.

In 1952, German anthropologist Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt subdivided the Turanid type as follows:

Species: Homo sapiens Modern human
Subspecies I: Homines sapientes albi Europids
Series C: Homines s. albi brachimorphi Mountain race belt
Variety 4: H. s. eurasicus Turanid
Subvarieties:
a) H. s. eur. turanicus Aralid
b) H. s. eur. pamiriensis Pamirid

Related pages
 Eurasian Avars
 Huns
 Turkic peoples

References

 Leon Cahun L’histoire de l’Asie (1896).
 Ilse Schwidetzky, Turaniden-Studien, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur,  F. Steiner Verlag, Mainz, (1950).

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