Bertil Lundman
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Bertil J. Lundman was a Swedish anthropologist. He is best known for having created a racial classification system of Europeans in his book The Races and Peoples of Europe (1977).
Theory of European races
Bertil Lundman's book The Races and Peoples of Europe distinguishes several racial types:- Nordid, including the subraces Falid, North Atlantid and Scando-Nordid
- Paleo-Atlantid
- West-AlpineAlpine raceThe Alpine race is an historical racial classification or sub-race of humans, considered a branch of the Caucasian race. The term is not commonly used today, but was popular in the early 20th century.-History:...
- East-Alpine (Gorid)
- West-MediterraneanMediterranean raceThe Mediterranean race was one of the three sub-categories into which the Caucasian race and the people of Europe were divided by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, following the publication of William Z. Ripley's book The Races of Europe...
(Ibero-Insular) - Berid
- East-Mediterranean, including the subraces Pontid, Iranid, North-Indid, Gangid, Nesid, Saharid, Aegyptid
- Arabid, including the Syrid subrace
- Taurid, including subraces DinaridDinaric raceThe Dinaric race is one of the sub-categories of the Europid race into which it was divided by physical anthropologists in the early 20th century...
, ArmenidArmenoidThe Armenoid or Assyroid race in physical anthropology is a subtype of the Caucasian race.-Origin, distribution and physiognomy:Carleton S...
and Carpathid - Volgid, including the subraces Sudeten and Pre-Pontid
- East BaltidEast Baltic raceThe East Baltic race is one of the subcategories of the Europid race into which it was divided by anthropologists in the early 20th century....
, including the subraces Tavastid (Sub-Nordid) and Savolaxid - Scando-Lappid (South-Lappid, Samid)
- Mongolid strainsMongoloid raceMongoloid is a term sometimes used by forensic anthropologists and physical anthropologists to refer to populations that share certain phenotypic traits such as epicanthic fold and shovel-shaped incisors and other physical traits common in East Asia, the Americas and the Arctic...
: Kumid and Taigid