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Caucasoid
Caucasoid meaning
Being a member of a human racial classification composed of several peoples inhabiting Europe, North Africa, West Asia, and parts of East Africa, South Asia and Central Asia – as well as their descendants in other world regions.
Example sentences (5)
Hundreds of excavated mummies in the Tarim Basin (West China) have Caucasoid features, revealing the presence of an ancient Caucasoid substratum in East Asia.
So if one speaks of Shemitic features, they ought to refer to those that they see in such ancient Hebraic art, not those of Caucasoid peoples which had no place in that region in times of old.
All the Turkic peoples native to Central Asia are of mixed Caucasoid and Mongoloid origin.
Hamites were regarded as Caucasoid peoples who probably originated in either Arabia or Asia on the basis of their cultural, physical and linguistic similarities with the peoples of those areas.
Pál Lipták (1955) the Turanid type is a Caucasoid type with significant Mongoloid admixture, arising from the mixture of the Andronovo type of Europoid features and the Oriental (Mongoloid).