In physical anthropology

Physical anthropology

Biological anthropology is that branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species. It plays an important part in paleoanthropology and in forensic anthropology...

 and scientific racism

Scientific racism

Scientific racism is the use of scientific techniques and hypotheses to sanction the belief in racial superiority or racism.This is not the same as using scientific findings and the scientific method to investigate differences among the humans and argue that there are races...

, Paleo-European is a term for the supposedly native populations of Europe descended directly from Cro-Magnon

Cro-Magnon

The Cro-Magnon were the first early modern humans of the European Upper Paleolithic. The earliest known remains of Cro-Magnon-like humans are radiometrically dated to 35,000 years before present....

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There was a concept of a "Paleo-European race" (палеоевропеоидная раса) in Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 anthropology, considered a subtype of the Europid race (Европеоидная раса).
The type was also called "Proto-European" (протоевропейский), "Nordic" (северная раса, североевропеоидный тип) or "Cro-Magnid" (кроманьидный тип). The type was especially associated with the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age Afanasevo

Afanasevo culture

The Afanasevo culture, traditionally dated to 2500–2000 BC , is an archaeological culture of the late copper and early Bronze Age of southern Siberia....

, the Andronovo

Andronovo culture

The Andronovo culture, is a collection of similar local Bronze Age cultures that flourished ca. 21200–1400 BCE in western Siberia and the west Asiatic steppe. It is probably better termed an archaeological complex or archaeological horizon...

 and the Yamna

Yamna culture

The Yamna culture is a late copper age/early Bronze Age culture of the Southern Bug/Dniester/Ural region , dating to the 36th–23rd centuries BC...

 cultures associated with early Indo-Iranians

Indo-Iranians

Indo-Iranian peoples are a linguistic group consisting of the Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Dardic and Nuristani peoples; that is, speakers of Indo-Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family....

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See also

• Caucasian race
  Caucasian race
  The term Caucasian race has been used to denote the general physical type of some or all of the populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia , Central Asia and South Asia...
  
  
• Aryan race
  Aryan race
  The Aryan race is a concept historically influential in Western culture in the period of the late 19th century and early 20th century. It derives from the idea that the original speakers of the Indo-European languages and their descendants up to the present day constitute a distinctive race or...
  
  
• East Baltic race
  East Baltic race
  The East Baltic race is one of the subcategories of the Europid race into which it was divided by anthropologists in the early 20th century....
  
  
• Pamir-Fergana race
• Alpine race
  Alpine race
  The 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:...