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Coon, Carleton Stevens
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1904-81, American anthropologist, archaeologist, and educator, b. Wakefield, Mass., grad. Harvard 1925, Ph.D. 1928. From 1925 to 1939 he was engaged in fieldwork and anthropological research in Arabia, the Balkans, and N Africa, where he discovered (1939) the remains of a Neanderthal. He taught (1934-48) at Harvard and in 1948 became professor of anthropology at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and curator of ethnology at the University Museum there. Coon became a controversial figure after writing The Origin of Races (1962), in which he argued that certain races had reached the Homo sapiens stage of evolution before others; he said this would explain why different races achieved different levels of civilization. Physical anthropologists now emphasize that the amount of genetic variation between races, by any objective criteria, is slight, indicating a recent origin for racial differences. His other writings include Races (1951, repr. 1981), The Seven Caves (1957), The Story of Man (2d ed. 1962), The Living Races of Man (1965), The Hunting Peoples (1971), and his autobiography, Adventures and Discoveries (1981).
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Carleton S. Coon
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Carleton Stevens Coon, (23 June 1904 — 6 June 1981) was an eminent American anthropologist.
Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Coon attended post secondary education at Harvard University, earning his A.B., A.M., and Ph. D. (1928). He taught at Harvard until resigning in 1948 to become Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania up to 1963. He also became Curator of Ethnology at the University Museum in Philadelphia. Coon was active in both archaeology and cultural/physical anthropology. He conducted controversial studies of the origins and modern variations of human racial types. His region of specialization was North Africa and the Near East. He worked in Morocco in 1925-1928, 1939, 1947, and 1962-1963.
His books include The Origins of Race (1962), The Story of Man (1954), The Races of Europe (1939), Races: A Study of the Problems of Race Formation in Man, The Hunting Peoples, Living Races of Man (1965), Seven Caves: Archaeological Exploration in the Middle East, Adventures and Discoveries: The Autobiography of Carleton S. Coon (1981), Mountains of Giants: A Racial and Cultural Study of the North Albanian Mountain Ghegs, Yengema Cave Report (his work in Sierra Leone), and Caravan: the Story of the Middle East (1958). A North Africa Story (1980) is an account of his work during World War II.
Starting in the late 1950s Coon's work increasingly attracted the ire of younger anthropologists, most notably Ashley Montagu, who believed it essentially racist. However, Coon's work was characterized by careful, fully documented field observation and measurement while that of his detractors was often based essentially on abstraction driven by social ideals. As of the turn of the millennium, Coon's opponents have effectively brought the newer generations of students to their view and race is widely held by them to be useless in any formal taxonomic sense. But concurrent expansion in the use of the terms "ethnic group" or "ethnic origin" and the substitution of the term "population" as a near synonym for "race" in many contexts show how difficult it will be to eradicate all notions of sub-specific human classification.
Coon's hypothesis that modern humans, Homo sapiens, arose five separate times from Homo erectus in five separate places, "as each subspecies, living in its own territory, passed a critical threshold from a more brutal to a more sapient state", thus providing origins in deep time for his five races of mankind, no longer has wide currency among scholars. See Multi-regional origin for a discussion of theories of this type.
Coon served in the US Air Force in 1956-1957 and in the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. His work with the OSS in the early 1940s involved espionage and the smuggling of arms to French resistance groups in German-occupied Morocco under the guise of anthropological fieldwork, a controversial practice generally condemned by practicing anthropologists. These contributions to the war effort were dangerous, and he was wounded several times while carrying them out.
Coon was a member of the National Academy of Science and served as President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists from 1961 to 1962. He resigned his post as President in disgust after the association voted to censure the book Race and Reason: A Yankee view by Carleton Putnam, which argued against racial desegregation, even though most of the members present admitted to not having actually read it.
Coon died on June 6, 1981, in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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"It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village."
—The Story of Man, 1954, page 376
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: erm per post before: "he didn't actually refute those claims. don't assume what you like only.
I said he was *trying* to refute those claims, not that he actually did (though his own argument still stands, even today, un-refuted).
: he just said in the end of the article that 'in his opinion' the greeks have continuity.
And I agree wholeheartedly.
: besides again and again since then most DNA testing reports (and not the few obscure unreliable strains tested) that i've read (from MEDICLINE which gives you access to over 2,500 science publication-but must be done from a library subscribed to service) have refuted them"
Refuted what? I've seen all kinds of genetic studies. Regarding Greeks, certain allels have been associated with Greek expansion. These allels today only show up in areas known to have been colonized by Greeks, with their highest concentration being in the Greek penninsula. Even various genetic diseases have been attributed to Greeks. It is interesting to note that the only place in the North of Italy where Thallassemia occurs is the region of Ferrara, which was once a Greek colony.
I'd really like to hear more about your genetic "studies." Mention the findings and specific allels from just one, including the scientists involved.
: just to clarify it for you' in his opinion' means there's no proof that the mixing didn't take place (resulting in the same similarities physically of course again).
"In his opinion" means, really, if there was a little mixing, it doesn't matter, because the same races inhabited both sides of the Aegean.
as the article stands
: all the 'empirical facts' you've been talking about just disappear. and considering this is by a very influential Western anthropologist who's findings on the greeks (well publicised as they were) were never taken on board by the rest of his colleagues goes to say something doesn't it? at school i was told there was a specific gap between ancient and modern greeks. and this is in a school in the West over 35 years after Coon's findings. i only find that in greece does no one dispute it. it's only what people want to hear unfortunately.
: face the facts for once mate!
I am facing the facts, dead on. Just because one's collegues don't accept his work, doesn't make his work bogus. People have agendas, often racist ones, and Coon's collegues were no different.
The reason Coon was so well respected by so many people was that he tried to be objective and let things speak for themselves. He made no wild speculation; he didn't bend the facts to suite his agenda; he merely presented information, told all the sides of the story, and *offered* an explaination that the reader can do what he very well pleased with.
That's the reason, years and years later, people still know about and refer to Coon, and nobody remembers any of his collegues.
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