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Indo Iranid

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From Physical Anthropology
Indo Iranid
Similar Types Iranid, Indo Nordic, Transcaspian, Central Pamirid, Indo Brachid, Central Brachid
Group Indid, Orientalid, Turanid
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Description

Relatively recent contact type with a position intermediate between Indo Brachid and Iranid. Widespread in Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, reaching to Northern India in the East and Turkey in the West. Highest concentrations are found among the Baluchis, Brahuis, Pathans, Tarin, Dehwar, Pashto, and Yaghnobi, occasionally in Persians and Kurds, Bedouins and Samaritans. Not stabilised yet.[1]

Physical Traits

Light to medium brown skin, straight or wavy, brown-black, plentiful hair. Rather tall, mesoskelic, endomorph to ectomorph. Meso- brachycephalic, mildly orthocranic, rather small-headed. Leptorrhine, prominent and long nose. Faces relatively wide and high. Not as high-skulled as Indids and Iranids proper.



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