[3][4] Carleton Coon (1904–81) described the regions of West Asia such as Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iraq, Iran, and the Levant as the center of distribution of the Armenoid race.
[5] In his works, Hans F. K. Günther portrayed the Jewish people as a specifically non-European racial mixture comprising Armenoid, Semitic, and Negroid elements.
[6] The German physical anthropologist Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt characterized the Jews as a racial mixture that is primarily of the Armenoid type.
[8] They described the race as being "characterized by a dark complexion and a personality prone to trickery, fawning and cheating".
This racial type was believed to be prevalent among Armenians, Assyrians, as well as northern, central and southeastern Iraqis.