Irano-Afghan race

The Irano-Afghan race (also known as the Iranid race) is an obsolete term for a physical type most common among populations native to the Iranian plateau. The Irano-Afghan type was classified as belonging to the greater Caucasian race. It was usually associated with the Mediterranean subtype, depending on the authority consulted.

Physiognomy
Carleton S. Coon in his The Races of Europe classifies the Indo-Afghans and Irano-Afghans as Nordic, describing them as being long-faced, high-headed and leptorrhine (having long and narrow noses). Bertil Lundman by contrast postulates an "Iranid" subtype of his "Eastern Mediterranean" race. Earnest Hooton in 1946 describes the "Iranian Plateau type" as distinct from the Atlanto-Mediterranean one:

According to Renato Biasutti the type was defined by:

John Lawrence Angel following Coon in 1971 discusses a "Nordic-Iranian type" in the following terms:

See also
Caspian race
Iranian peoples
Historical definitions of race

References

Literature
 Coon, Carleton S., The Races of Europe. Macmillan, New York 1939.

Category:Historical definitions of race