NO. 13 SOVIET ANTHROPOLOGY — FIELD 177 



(the Kirghiz having included the remains of the Kanglas tribes) 

 belongs in the "northern" group of his classification and not the 

 western (Radlov's "southern"), which unites in it the Turkomans. 

 Azerbaidzhans, and Osmanlis. Even in the past, according to Korsh, 

 the Turkoman language was closer to the Jagatai tiian to the Kirghiz, 

 forming a part of the eastern branch of his southern group. Could 

 this contradiction be eliminated by assuming that the Turkomans 

 embraced tiie Jagatai dialect only at a later date, when they settled in 

 Mawerannahr? 



Polivanov and Korsh demonstrate Iranian elements in the Persian 

 language. According to Polivanov, these elements are distinct from 

 the Persian language proper. 



Since this hypothesis, namely that the Turkomans are the remains 

 of the Scytho-Sarmatian peoples, is based on scanty factual materials, 

 it must be considered as provisional. 



V. V. Barthold, who examined this work, agrees with it on the main 

 points. He objects, however, to the identification (by Aristov) of 

 the Kanglas with the Kang-gu of the Chinese sources, and states that 

 there is no evidence for this identification other than that of the 

 similarity of the two names. According to Barthold, it is not probable 

 that the Kanglas, like the other Turki tribes, could have come to 

 Turkestan before the sixth century A. D. The Guzes (Oguzes) 

 who, according to Barthold, are correctly thought to be the ancestors 

 of the Turkomans, are Turkish people who had migrated to Turkes- 

 tan from Mongolia between the sixth and eighth centuries A. D. In 

 the light of this supplementary data, Oshanin is inclined to think that 

 the Guzes became sufficiently intermixed with the Scytho-Sarmatian 

 tribes in the period between the sixth and the tenth centuries to 

 Turkize them completely in language, at the same time acquiring their 

 Indo-European racial type. That such a period of time is sufficient 

 for a loss of an original racial type and for a complete assimilation 

 with another race is seen from the example of the Khwarazmian 

 Uzbeks, who belong to the same physical type as the Tashkent Sarts. 

 In other words they have the anthropological t)-pe of the Indo-luiro- 

 pcans (GiufFrida-Ruggieri) with a relatively small admixture of 

 Mongoloid traits. 



Another point of view is represented by \'. \'. lUmak. Having 

 examined this manuscript, P.unak writes that the Turkomans, to- 

 gether with the Kurds, Persiaji Ajemis (.Adzhemis), many Syrians. 

 Arabs, etc., must be considered to belong to the Mediterranean physical 

 type. Anthropologically this is proved by the works of Chantre, von 

 Luschan, and others. .According to Bunak's opinion, it is very prob- 



