Kurds are now predominantly of Mediterranean racial stock, resembling southern Europeans and the Levantins in skin, general coloring and physiology. There is yet a persistent recurrence of tow racial substrata: a darker a drker aboriginal Palaeo-Caucasian element, and more localized occurrence of blondism of the Alpine type in the heartland of Kurdistan. The "Aryanization" of the aboriginal Palaeo-Caucasian Kurds, linguistically, culturally and racially, seems to have begun by the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, with the continuous immigration and settlement of Indio-European speaking tribes, such as the Hittites, Mitannis, Haigs, Medes, Persian, Scythians and Alans.
The process was more or less complete by the beginning of the Christian era, by which time the Kurds had absorbed enough Iranic blood and culture, particulary Median and Alan, to from the basis physical typology and culturalidentity. |
