What is "Alpine stock"? Never heard of such people. I won't comment on Georgians (as they're similar, but different case), but North Caucasians are not tall at all, mostly stocky built, big hooked noses, brown eyes, black hair, as for skin, the higher the altitude of historic residence, the lighter the skin, there are exceptions of course, and blue-eyed, light haired people (however with typical west-Asian face features) are not so rare. And as anywhere else, there’re plenty of mixed people, the Russians, after exiling the Adygha population in 1865, settled the northern slopes of Caucasus. Adyghea and Karachai-Cherkesia are mostly populated by Slavs, Kabardino-Balkaria being the exception with 60% Kabardey population. By the way, guys, the Hurro-Urartian language is most closely related to East North Caucasian languages (Vainakh & Daghestani). See: I.M. Diakonoff and S.A. Starostin "Hurro-Urartian as an Eastern Caucasian language" München: R. Kitzinger, 1986 Another thing - Aryan does NOT mean neither white nor European (no matter what Hitler may have claimed ), it is pretty specific to a certain linguistic group with in Indo-European family, synonymous to Indo-Iranian. I also want to clarify that there isn't (nor ever was) such an ethnicity as Indo-European. Indo-European is a broad linguistic concept to identify people with strong linguistic affiliation, NOT genetic relation. In terms of origin and migration, the most commonly accepted THEORY in the academic world places the origin and center of migration in the steppes of historic Scythia (modern day Ukraine).
