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by more than one race of men. On the Continent, as in 

 England, some are brachy cephalic, or short -headed, and 

 so far resemble those of the Lapps, while others are doli- 

 chocephalic, or long-headed* (fig. 142). Virchowf- has 

 published a memoir on the skulls obtained from Danish 

 tumuli, and contained in the Copenhagen Museum. Omitting 

 fragmentary specimens, and those belonging to young per- 

 sons, he has examined 41 skulls referred to the Stone Age, 

 3 to the Bronze Age, and 5 to the Iron Age, and compared 

 them with the specimens of Lapp (6), Greenland (5), and 

 Finn (3) skulls contained in the same collection. On the whole, 

 these Stone Age skulls are orthocephalic, inclining to bra- 

 chycephalism ; the Bronze Age and Iron Age specimens are 

 dolichocephalic, but it must be remarked that it would not 

 be safe to draw any definite conclusion from so small a number 

 of specimens ; and that even if the Bronze Age indicates the 

 immigration of a new race into Western Europe, they would 

 probably not exterminate the earlier inhabitants, but would 

 at any rate spare the young women, so that, until we have a 

 considerable body of evidence, it would be very unsafe to 

 speculate on the character of the population during the Bronze 

 Age. 



The Gfreenlanders are dolichocephalic, the Lapps and Finns, 

 on the contrary, brachy cephalic ; but Virchow observes that 

 if, in this respect, the skulls of the latter resemble the type 

 of the Danish Stone Age, they differ greatly in height and 

 breadth, so that no ethnic affinity can be predicated between 

 them. 



In some cases the skulls obtained from one and the same 

 tumulus differ from one another very considerably. Thus 

 among those found in the great tumulus at Borreby, in 



* Nilsson's Stone Age, English t Ar. fur Anthropologie, 1870, 

 eel. p. 121. p. 55. 



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