Yeah, but these scholars were doing this out of bias because the man who started this Caucasian nonsense (Blumenbach) claimed that white Europeans came from the Caucasus Mountains even though he has never been in that region. He got his Georgian skull from one of his groupies who traveled to the Caucasus. Therefore, Blumenbach assumed that white Europeans came from these mountains because of how beautiful the skull looked.
News Flash. Europeans originated from the Eurasian Steppes.
Alpine is a more accurate term for white people because the Alps are fully in Europe while only half of the Caucasus is in Europe while the rest is in Asia. So white Europeans literally naming themselves after a small group of Asians from West Asia.