Re: [tied] Indo-European Origins: The Anthropological Evidence

--- sergejus_tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> Is anybody aware of the following book:
>
> John V. Day. _Indo-European Origins: The
> Anthropological Evidence_,
>
> issued in 2001 in the monograph series of the JIES.
> The author
> reportedly argues that the Proto-Indo-Europeans were
> fair-haired blue-
> eyed brachycephals.

******GK: I've not read this book and have only
glanced at a couple of on-line blurbs about it.
Apparently it has the endorsement of V. Mair,
co-author of "The Tarim Mummies". Could you give us a
URL for the report you cite above? BTW I thought the
Nazi view was that the protos or whatever were
dolichocephals, and that brachycephalism was a marker
of untermenschen... (:=))))*******

Is that true, and if it is, how

> could such a work
> be "based on the author's Ph.D. thesis prepared
> under Professor James
> Mallory
>

(http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/jies/monographs/monojd-

> IE-Origins.html)"? What's going on in the Institute
> for the Study of
> Man, Washington DC?
>
> Sergei

******GK: Let's see what this is all about before
p***** in our pants etc.*******

>
>

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