The Races of Europe (Coon)

The Races of Europe is a popular work of physical anthropology by Carleton S. Coon. It was first published in 1939 by Macmillan.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

Distribution of the races after the Pleistocene according to Carleton Coon.  | Caucasoid race

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| Congoid race
| Capoid race
| Mongoloid race
| Australoid race

In 1933, the Harvard anthropologist Carleton S. Coon was invited to write a new edition of William Z. Ripley's 1899 The Races of Europe, which Coon dedicated to Ripley.

Coon's entirely rewritten version of the book was published in 1939. At the time, he explicitly avoided the discussion of either blood groups or race and intelligence, the latter of which he claimed to know "next to nothing about" at the time.[1]

The conclusions from the book entail the following:

1. The Caucasoid race is of dual origin consisting of Upper Paleolithic (mixture of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals) types and Mediterranean (purely Homo sapiens) types.
2. The Upper Paleolithic peoples are the truly indigenous peoples of Europe.
3. Mediterraneans invaded Europe in large numbers during the Neolithic and settled there.
4. The racial situation in Europe today may be explained as a mixture of Upper Paleolithic survivors and Mediterraneans.
5. When reduced Upper Paleolithic survivors and Mediterraneans mix a process of "dinaricization" occurs which produces a hybrid with non-intermediate features, epitomized by the Dinaric race.
6. The Caucasoid race extends well beyond Europe into the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa.[2]
7. "The Nordic race in the strict sense is merely a pigment phase of the Mediterranean",[3] created by the combination of Corded and Danubian elements.

In The Races of Europe, Coon classified Caucasoids into racial sub-groups named after regions or archaeological sites, expanding the tripartite system Mediterranean-Alpine-Nordic of Ripley (1899) by types such as Brünn, Borreby, Ladogan, East Baltic, Neo-Danubian, Lappish, Atlanto-Mediterranean, Iranid, Hallstatt, Keltic, Tronder, Dinaric, Noric and Armenoid.

## See also

* The Races of Europe (Ripley)

## References

1. ↑ Carleton S. Coon, The Origin of Races (New York: Knopf, 1962), pp. vii and ix.
2. ↑ Carleton S. Coon, "The Races of Europe". Archived from the original on April 15, 2008. https://archive.is/20080415191750/http://www.snpa.nordish.net/chapter-XI8.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-13. , Chapter XI, section 1.
3. ↑ Coon, Carleton Stevens (1975). The races of Europe.. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-8371-6328-5.

## External links

* The Races of Europe (1939) by Carleton Stevens Coon.
* The Races of Europe (1939) at the Internet Archive

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Race

Historical race concepts|Historical racial categories

Anthropological|

* Australoid
* Caucasoid
* Mongoloid
* Amerindian
* Negroid
* Capoid

Color terminology|

* Black (Negroid)
* Bronze
* Brown
* Red (Amerindian)
* White (Caucasoid)
* Yellow (Mongoloid)

Sub-types (anthropological)|

* Caucasoid
* Alpine
* Arabid
* Armenoid
* Atlantid
* Caspian
* Dinaric
* East Baltic
* Irano-Afghan
* Mediterranean
* Nordic
* Northcaucasian
* Pamirid
* Mongoloid
* Sinodonty and Sundadonty
* Mixture
* Ethiopid
* Malay
* Turanid

Diachronic (Archaeogenetics)|

* Non-African
* Proto-Australoid
* Ancestral South Indian
* Proto-Mongoloid
* Ancient North Eurasian
* Early Modern European
* Ancestral Native American

Noahide|

* Semitic
* Hamitic
* Japhetic

Sociological|

* By region
* in India
* in Latin America
* in Brazil
* in Colombia
* in Singapore
* in the United States
* Passing
* Racial discrimination
* Racism
* Scientific racism
* Racial stereotypes
* Colorism
* Master race
* Nazism and race
* Racial hygiene
* Whiteness studies
* Négritude

Publications|

* An Essay upon the Causes of the Different Colours of People in Different Climates (1744)
* The Outline of History of Mankind (1785)
* Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question (1849)
* An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1855)
* The Races of Europe (Ripley, 1899)
* The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899)
* Race Life of the Aryan Peoples (1907)
* Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911)
* Castes in India (1916)
* The Passing of the Great Race (1916)
* The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920)
* The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930)
* Annihilation of Caste (1936)
* The Races of Europe (Coon, 1939)
* An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus (1943)
* The Race Question (1950)

Related|

* Multiracial
* Miscegenation
* Ethnogenesis
* Eugenics
* Great chain of being
* Monogenism
* Polygenism
* Pre-Adamite
* History of anthropometry

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