2007-11-22 04:49:05 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Around 1800, Joseph Blumenbach, who is sometimes called the founder of the science of anthropology, considered a skull from what's now the Republic Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains, particularly appealing and named the entire white race Caucasian as a a result. It does not mean that the white race originated in the Caucasus area.
2007-11-22 05:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by aida 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Was used (no longer) as an anthropology term to denote light-skinned humans with other features as a particular race. Definitely derived from the Caucasus.
Following from the Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Caucasian \Cau*ca"sian\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region
between the Black and Caspian seas.
2. Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom
the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the
type.
Caucasian \Cau*ca"sian\, n.
1. A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian
or Georgian.
2. A member of any of the white races of mankind.
2007-11-22 13:08:59 · answer #2 · answered by lorus_900 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Exactly it refers to the people from the Caucasus region of europe.
2007-11-22 12:59:35 · answer #3 · answered by Paul T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're spot on Jason.
2007-11-22 13:09:15 · answer #4 · answered by Jim 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋