. Contributions to the anthropology of Iran / by Henry Field, Curator of Physical Anthropology. Ethnology -- Iran; Anthropometry -- Iran; Iran -- Social life and customs. The Land and the People 31 During the following thousand years there were invasions from Central Asia, Turkey, and Mesopotamia. The invasions by Genghis Khan and by his grandson, Hulagu Khan, who was appointed in the year 1256 to rule over Iran, as well as the campaigns of Tamerlane in 1380, brought Mongoloid peoples into this country. It is thus to. Fig. 3. Communications within Iran. be surmised that each invader left some
. Contributions to the anthropology of Iran / by Henry Field, Curator of Physical Anthropology. Ethnology -- Iran; Anthropometry -- Iran; Iran -- Social life and customs. The Land and the People 31 During the following thousand years there were invasions from Central Asia, Turkey, and Mesopotamia. The invasions by Genghis Khan and by his grandson, Hulagu Khan, who was appointed in the year 1256 to rule over Iran, as well as the campaigns of Tamerlane in 1380, brought Mongoloid peoples into this country. It is thus to. Fig. 3. Communications within Iran. be surmised that each invader left some indelible mark on the physical characters of the peoples of Iran. In the year 1502 Shah Ismai'il founded the Safavid dynasty, which ruled Iran down to the middle of the eighteenth century. In 1736 the Afghans under Nadir Shah conquered the country. During his reign of eleven years the Persian Empire extended from the Caucasus to the Indus. In 1779 Agha Muhammed founded the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Field, Henry, 1902-; Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago : Field Museum Press
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