Originally Posted by
Frater Taciturnus
Most MENAs aren't *very* mixed to the point they can't be considered caucasian anymore. There is residual/archaic admixture in Europeans as well.
Let me state some things:
Until 6AD century most of Eurasia was 'white' (predominantly caucasoid) and there was a great amount of intermediate Euro-MENA phenotypes dominating the landscape from Scandinavia through India and from Portugal to Eastern Central Asia. Turks and Mongols, starting their cultural and linguistical expansion some centuries earlier through discrete migrations started to mix with this Central Asian populations, i go far even to say that CA was some kind of bulk of the caucasian race and intermediate place between phenotypes like Nordid, Mediterranid, NordoMediterranid, Irano-Nordoid and Iranid. If you look at ancient Tocharians they were inhabiting the actual Chinese province of Xinjiang and were perfectly 'white' and Indo-European speakers until Turks (the original and more mongoloid ones, not the actual mixed CA and Anatolians) and Mongols started their migrations. This 'erradication' of pure caucasoid types have ended around 12 AD, when linguistically Turko-Mongol languages have suplanted IE languages in Central Asia, cutting an ancient route of comunication between Europe and the East.
Arabia was a place where mixing with East Africans always existed to some degree, they are very close btw... Nonetheless, the original Arabs were whites and of the Mediterranid variant but they started to import African slaves massively with the expansion of their empire, they imported those Africans even to places far as Iran or Southern Anatolia. Most people on these areas exhibit few SSA admixture cause there was slaves of other proveniences as well, like Circassians, Caucasians, Europeans, South Asians and Turks. But from the fall of the Roman Empire till today what we call Middle East is a point where many ethnicities of the world were meeting and are still meeting.
The great question is that the native caucasoid race still predominates in most MENA people and they retain most caucasian features even with this significant residual mix. Is always good to remember that these categories of 'race' we use were almost all unknown by ancient peoples, being a product of European modernity.
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