So said archaeologist Bunak
Archaeological studies show that armenoids are the oldest indigenous race of Front Asia. The Armenoid type "is known from the earliest times and is widespread in all regions of the Dvurechia, starting from its southern part to the peaks of the Tigre and Euphrates, and further, to the end of the Anatolian Peninsula, on the one hand, and to the inner regions of I the wound - from the other hand. No other racial elements can be found in the oldest population of Front Asia. Education of this type was completed even before the European and Asian tribes appeared in Front Asia - the Fracians, Ellins, Turks, who apparently did not have a significant impact on the anthropological population type, dissolving sustainably into forms the irony armenoid race" (c. 263)
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Cellar V. In Crania Armenica (Armenian skull) // (Research on Anthropology of Front Asia with table. measurements, graphs, charts and photos) Works of the Anthropological Research Institute at Moscow State University. R I P. 2. Application to the Russian Anthropological Journal. T. 16. R I P. 1-2. M. , 1927 263s, 25 tables.
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P.S. Since Armenians are Indo-Europeans, then from the results of the study B. V. Bunaka automatically follows that the Ancestry of the Indo-Europeans is the historical habitat of the Armenian ethnicity, which was later confirmed by the works of prominent Soviet scientists T. Gamkrelidze and V. Ivanova:
Gamkrelidze T. , Ivanov V. Indo European language and Indo Europeans. In two volumes. - Tbilisi, From TSU, 1984.
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P.S. Even much later, in Byzantines, the racial composition of the population almost did not deviate from the Armenian race. Skull excavations found prove that the peoples of the mountains belonged mostly to the armenoid type: broad bones, with flat backs. Of course, the mixing of migration and conquest began long before the Christian era, especially in easily accessible areas... yet ancient Armenoids survived because their racial type always proved to be dominant"
Rice David T. The Byzantines. - M. : CENTRALPOLIGRAPH, 2009, p. 12-13.
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Viktor Valerianovich Bunak (1891-1979) was a Soviet anthropologist and anatomist, one of the founders of the Soviet anthropological school, professor, doctor of biological sciences, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR. The author of many works on anthropology and related disciplines. The spectrum of his scientific interests was unusually wide. The main works are on human morphology (theory of the process of "growth", physical development, studies of skeleton formation), intelligence, problems of anthropogenesis, human genetics, theories of the origin of speech and intelligence, etc. He implemented new methods of anthropological research and processing of mass anthropometric data. Organizer and head of applied anthropological work on setting standards for the manufacturing of personal items in the USSR (clothing, shoes, etc.) d. ). He developed (1932) the first anthropological classification of East Slavic peoples. He led the Russian Anthropological Expedition of the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR 1955-1959, during which more than 100 groups of Velorussian population were studied and unique scientific data were collected.
the works in . V. Bunaka are of great scientific value and have a fundamental importance in expanding knowledge about humans.
