144 OBJECTS BURIED WITH THE DEAD. 



in which it is from 74 79 to 100 as medium heads, and 

 those in which the proportion is 80 or more than 80 to 100 

 as short heads, or Brachycephalic, we shall have the following 

 result : 



Total number of Dolichocephalic Orthocephalic Brachycephalic 

 skulls. 6373. 7479. 8089. 



Long barrows . 67 .... 55 .... 12 . . . 

 Eound barrows . 70 .... .... 26 ... 44 



Thus there is not a single long head among the 70 

 specimens from round barrows, nor a single round head 

 among the 67 specimens from long barrows. So remarkable 

 a distinction certainly appears to imply a difference of race, 

 and Dr. Thurnam is disposed to refer the Dolichocephalic 

 people to the Neolithic Age, the Brachycephalic to that of 

 Bronze. 



The more recent researches of Canon Green well and Dr. 

 Eolleston confirm these views. They have never found a 

 round skull in a long barrow. On the other hand, although 

 Dr. Thurnam found no long skulls in round barrows, yet, 

 unless the long-headed race were entirely destroyed by the 

 men with round heads, we should naturally expect that, 

 though the round heads would preponderate in the later 

 round barrows, still skulls of the earlier long-headed race 

 would sometimes occur ; and this we find is really the case. 

 The women at any rate of the earlier race were probably not 

 wholly exterminated. 



As yet, no bone belonging to any of the extinct mammalia 

 has been found in a tumulus. Even the reindeer, so far as 

 our present evidence goes, is entirely wanting. Again, the 

 stone implements, as already mentioned, are of a character 

 very different from those used by Palaeolithic men. It is 

 therefore not surprising to find that the skulls which have 

 been obtained from tumuli attributed to the Stone Age indi- 

 cate that Europe was, even at that period, already inhabited 



