The ethnological argument as to long-headed and short-headed races (dolichocephalic and brachycephalic) seems untrustworthy, because in countries described as dolichocephalic short skulls abound and vice versa.
The form of the head (skull) varies considerably among the Indian tribes north of Mexico, running from the dolichocephalic eastern Eskimo with a cephalic index of 71.
The dogma of the superiority of the dolichocephalic blond has been made a cult by Mr. J.
To me an ethnologist who speaks of 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.
Brachycephalic and dolichocephalic people nearly equal in number.
Even in Neolithic times dolichocephalic and brachycephalic skulls are found in the same group of remains and often buried together, and that is true of most peoples to-day.
The skull shape of the Lombards, says Flinders Petrie, changed from dolichocephalic to brachycephalic in a few hundred years.
The former represent more often what Bassanovitch calls the "dolichocephalic Thracian type.
The oval-faced Bulgarians among our portraits are probably of this dolichocephalic type.
Of white races the Arabs and Kabyles of Algeria, and the Guanchos of the Canary Islands, are most notable fordolichocephalic tendency.
Increased bodily stature, without any corresponding increase in the size of the brain, may (judging from the previously adduced case of rabbits), have given to some races an elongated skull of the dolichocephalic type.
But before this conquest, the Celtæ had already mingled with the aboriginaldolichocephalic folk of Gaul, Iberians, or Mediterraneans of Professor Sergi.
I also made it clear that I regarded the dolichocephalic element as of Indonesian stock and the brachycephalic of Proto-Malayan origin.
Volz confirms Hagen's observations of the existence among the Battak of North Sumatra of two types, a dolichocephalic Indonesian and a brachycephalic type.
No other source for such a dolichocephalic population is possible.
Up in Bohemia and Moravia also, according to Niederle, the first bronze-age people, such as we know them, were stilldolichocephalic quite like their predecessors in the pure stone age.
A dolichocephalic substratum of population, with a negroid type of skull, has in fact been traced by archaeologists all over Europe through the early and late Stone Ages.
The differences in the two shapes being so very trifling, one may consider one's self equally intelligent whether dolichocephalic or brachycephalic.
In general they are taller and more dolichocephalic than the Papuans.
All these tribes speak the same language as the islanders of Corisco, and are for the most part very tall and dolichocephalic (average stature of the Okandas 1 m.
The only skull found in these heaps is dolichocephalic and reminds one of the Ainu skull.
Dolichocephalic skull of an islander of Torres Straits 57 11.
Mesocephaly is frequent in Europe in the regions bordering on the sub-dolichocephalic countries, as well as in different parts of Asia and America.
It is an antagonism between well-defined dolichocephalic and brachycephalic races.
The dolichocephalic head-form, especially, is common to them, and to the Algonkin and other Northern Indians.
In the dolichocephalic Iroquois or Huron, we have the highest type of the forest savage; maintaining as his own the territory of his fathers, and building palisaded towns for the secure shelter of his people.
So far as the native races of Canada are considered, it has been shown that they belong to the dolichocephalic type.
The skull was dolichocephalic or low mesaticephalic, with an average index of 75, of peculiar outline when viewed from above.
Peringuey remarks also that the type was less dolichocephalic than the Bushmen and Hottentots, under 80 in cephalic index.
Papuasian: extremely dolichocephalic (68-73) and high, but very variable in areas of mixture.
These people were much stronger and bigger men than their predecessors, their powerful jaws and projecting chins showing much more power of will than the softer narrow-faced dolichocephalic race.
Every caravan that has entered Arabia for the last twelve hundred years has had its contingent of female slaves of alien race, mainly from dolichocephalic Africa.
In the case of the philosopher Kant his ultra-brachycephaly could not be charged to race, since he sprang from dolichocephalic Scotch on one side and dolichocephalic Germans on the other.
He had a dolichocephalic head with massive jaws, prominent lips, especially the upper.
Here are a few general data of the cephalic index relative to its distribution: The most dolichocephalic of all peoples are found in Melanesia, Australia, India and Africa.
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 is a corresponding diversity of form in the breasts of the women: the dolichocephalic races have more elongated breasts (pear-shaped), the brachycephalics more rounded.
Consequently, even according to the simple subdivision of Retzius, a person who was brachycephalic during life, would become dolichocephalic after he was dead.
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.
The following extracts from my notes show that the hyperdolichocephalic type survives in the dolichocephalicinhabitants of the Tamil country at the present day:-- Class Number Cephalic index below 70.
And so far as I am able to judge, the characters claimed as distinctive (separating the Galley Hill skull from modern dolichocephalic European skulls) are based upon observations containing a very large possibility of error.
The builders of the megalithic monuments thus belonged in the main to a fairly dolichocephalic race or races, for the large majority of the skulls measured are of a long-headed type.
In the Transition period, both brachycephalic and dolichocephalic are known.
Also a female human skull of the dolichocephalic type.
The most important discovery here was a human skull of the dolichocephalic type.
In the full Bronze period the skulls are more inclined to the dolichocephalic type.
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