Originally Posted by
Shelati
Coon being ignorant yet again. Modern day Iraqi Arabs are very mixed and impure. The majority are more Arabian admixed, though many would have Iranian, Mandean, Turkmen, Kurdish and a mishmash of other West Asian groups in their blood. They are not straightforward descendants of ancient Mesopotamians. That will be us Assyrians (not saying we're 100% pure descendants, as we have mixed with Armenians to some degree, but we're up there as being pure Mesopotamians alongside Mandeans who come from southern Mesopotamia). Iraqi Arabs are too mixed and that Iraqi template up there ironically shows his admix very clearly (Arabian head and ear shape, Turkmen eyes and Iranian jaw - typical Iraqi Arab look that even Saddam and his henchmen possessed).
And why did Coon broaden the Med race? Arabs are long-headed Mediterranean? There is nothing Mediterranean about them, other than their elongated head shape. If a long head means Mediterranean, then those Caucasoid Somalis with long heads should also be Mediterranean by his strange logic. :confused: