The people of La Tène were of a highly mixed character, among whom, however, brachycephalic types predominated.
There were also found the bones of tame and wild animals, a human brachycephalic skull and some other human bones, a portion of a canoe, and a very small quantity of pottery of an indeterminate character.
In the Transition period, both brachycephalic and dolichocephalic are known.
Out of ten skulls submitted to Professor Virchow he found that five were brachycephalic and two dolichocephalic, while the other three had intermediate cranial indices.
In the stations of the pure Stone Age, brachycephalic skulls only are known to a certainty to have existed.
To me an ethnologist who speaks of an Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
Footnote 477: The Aissors or Chaldeans who migrated to the Caucasus are probably allied to these "Jews of the mountains"; they are also very brachycephalic (ceph.
They are the shortest in stature of all Europeans, and almost the most brachycephalic (see Appendices I.
The Lesgians are verybrachycephalic (see Appendix II.
Ten Kate and Ehrenreich) and a little morebrachycephalic (ceph.
They are below the average height, brachycephalic as a general rule, with a tendency towards mesocephaly.
Mongoloid eye, Northern and Southern) slightly brachycephalic My table contains the enumeration of the principal somatic characters for each race.
The Arab type is common among the Spanish Jews who practise the Sefardi rite, among the native Jews of the Caucasus, very brachycephalic however (85.
In Spain, in Portugal, in Sweden, dolichocephalic skulls are found in conjunction with some brachycephalic ones, the latter somewhat rare however.
Physically they resemble the Tunguse-Lamuts, though more brachycephalic and somewhat less dark-haired as a rule.
They arebrachycephalic and of remarkably low cranial capacity.
Defn: Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.
But the frequent occurrence of individuals with a high cephalic index would seem to point to their recruitment from the mesaticephalic or brachycephalic Canarese classes.
Heads still all brachycephalic and of only moderate height; faces broad, noses not prominent, in males tend to large.
In shape, the head of the western Eskimo is highly mesocephalic to moderately brachycephalic and of only fair height, and it seldom approaches the scaphoid or dome-shaped.
The few Aleuts in Unalaska at this time show physiognomies akin to the brachycephalic Indian, and not the Eskimo type.
Among the known brachycephalic peoples of Europe we have the Celts and the western Slavs, Poles, Czecks, etc.
The men of this race may certainly be regarded as belonging to Upper Palaeolithic times, whereas the brachycephalic race found at Grenelle, near Paris, is probably Neolithic.
Industry of the surviving Cro-Magnon and other resident races, and of newly arrived brachycephalic and dolichocephalic races in western Europe; decadent forms of flint and bone workmanship; entire absence of art.
This by no means prevents the Furfooz and the Grenelle types belonging to the same general brachycephalic race; it is altogether probable that they do, and that with them may be included the Ofnet broad-heads.
This is a ceremonial burial of thirty-three skulls of people belonging to two distinct races: respectively, brachycephalic and dolichocephalic, and certainly not related in any way to the Cro-Magnon race.
The brachycephalic Mound-Builder, on the other hand, may still survive in one or other of the members of the semi-civilised village communities of New Mexico or Arizona.
It is an antagonism between well-defined dolichocephalic and brachycephalic races.
They are all small, round, brachycephalic crania of beautiful form.
In the districts of Urasi and the Uta Pass on the north coast of Malaita,[92] there would appear to exist an almost brachycephalic race, of a lighter hue than is possessed by the natives of Bougainville Straits.
On the north coast of Malaita exists a type of native with an almost brachycephalic index.
The head index is brachycephalic except in the case of three, and all are platyrhinian, or nearly so, except one.
Thus in these Ilongot we have a short race, even shorter than the Igorot, brachycephalic and platyrhinian.
The mostbrachycephalic is "Belasco" and the next "Akop," the two of unusual stature.
Seven are brachycephalic and seven are mesaticephalic while one is dolichocephalic (73.
These men are less brachycephalic than the Igorot measured at Ambuklao and Kayapa, but the numbers in each case are too few to permit generalization.
It is a well-formed brachycephalic cranium of unusually great internal capacity, and would be regarded anywhere as indicating a race of high and refined cerebral endowment.
Consequently, even according to the simple subdivision of Retzius, a person who was brachycephalic during life, would become dolichocephalic after he was dead.
As a general rule, the brachycephalic races have a deeper thorax, i.
On the contrary, the races of western Europe and of central Asia are brachycephalic (Celts, Mongols).
The same thing is met with, notwithstanding its intermixture, in our own race: blond, brachycephalic women have a wider pelvis than brunette, dolichocephalic women.
There also exists a notablebrachycephalic type in France (Savoyards, 86.
In the normal profile two forms can be distinguished which are associated with the two general forms of leptoprosopic and chameprosopic face, and hence also with the dolichocephalic and brachycephalic forms of cranium.
It has long been maintained that the brachycephalic people of the Round Barrows introduced bronze into Britain.
The undoubted submergence of the primitive long-headed population of France by a brachycephalic type from the East, to which we have already adverted, was held accountable for a radical advance in civilization.
It would seem admissible to assume that when the modern brachycephalic Alpine race submerged the native one it brought new elements of civilization with it.
Or, secondly, we may assume that these long-headed Hallstatt people belonged to a period subsequent to the appearance of the brachycephalic type in western Europe.
The opposite school would treat the alleged Alpine race simply as a number of local brachycephalicvarieties of Nordic or Iberian peoples.
Even in Neolithic times dolichocephalic andbrachycephalic skulls are found in the same group of remains and often buried together, and that is true of most peoples to-day.
Some peoples, such as the mountain people of central Europe, have more brachycephalic individuals per cent.
The skull shape of the Lombards, says Flinders Petrie, changed from dolichocephalic to brachycephalic in a few hundred years.
It is difficult to isolate this type as it has almost everywhere been mixed with a brachycephalic Proto-Malay stock, but the Muruts of Borneo (cranial index 73) are probably typical (A.
In Spain and Portugal, perhaps because of the vicinity of the reservoir of the race in North Africa, Mediterranean man kept his hold, and the brachycephalicforms did not succeed in obtaining much foothold.
Several observers have recorded the opinion that women of dolichocephalic races are more brachycephalic, and women of brachycephalic races more dolichocephalic, than the men of the same races.
Shape of the skull apparently normal but more exaggeratedly brachycephalic than the mean cephalic index of the Piedmontese, which is 85; probable capacity 90 cu.
Vogt went so far as to maintain that were the three chief anthropoid apes developed further, two dolicocephalic and onebrachycephalic type of man would result; the first two from the chimpanzee and gorilla, the last from the orang.
There were sixteen brachycephalic and thirteen mesaticephalic skulls.
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