The Races of Europe - Hardcover

 

The Races of Europe is a major work of physical anthropology by Carleton Stevens Coon (1904–1981), the American anthropologist who taught at Harvard University and later at the University of Pennsylvania. Invited in 1933 to prepare a new edition of William Z. Ripley’s 1899 volume of the same title, Coon produced an entirely rewritten study that was published by Macmillan in 1939. The book draws on anthropometric data, archaeological evidence, and historical sources to classify the living populations of Europe.

Coon presents the white or Caucasoid race as of dual origin: Upper Paleolithic types that he regarded as indigenous to Europe, and Mediterranean types that entered in large numbers during the Neolithic. He argues that the modern racial pattern of Europe results from the mixture of these elements, and he describes a process he called “dinaricization,” in which the blending of reduced Upper Paleolithic and Mediterranean stocks produces distinctive non-intermediate forms. The volume expands Ripley’s earlier Mediterranean–Alpine–Nordic scheme with additional regional types and surveys the racial history of Europe from the Pleistocene through the Iron Age, illustrated with extensive photographic plates.

Sovereign Archive Publishing is proud to offer this classic of mid-twentieth-century physical anthropology. The Races of Europe remains essential reading for those wanting to better understand the history of racial classification, European population history, and the anthropological literature of the 1930s.

Number of Pages: 754

Dimensions: 2.08 x 9.5 x 6.54 IN

Publication Date: November 14, 1972