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this source (without going with Prof. Herve 1 to the Central Asian 

 Mongols) were therefore most probably derived the Asiatic round- 

 heads of the brachy zone of East and Alpine Europe. 



On the other hand the tall long-headed blonds (Ripley's 

 Teutons and the typical "Aryans" of nearly all 

 German anthropologists), must have followed a more origins " 

 northern route from the Eurasian steppe to the 

 Baltic lands, where they are by many regarded as indigenous, that 

 is, as having here been specialised in an environment favourable 

 to the development of a florid complexion and robust physique. 

 This suggestion, which is reasonable enough, in no way clashes 

 with a Eurasiatic origin, if understood to mean, not that the 

 Teutons sprang out of the soil in their present homes, but only 

 that, since their advent in this region in Neolithic times, they have 

 under new conditions acquired those physical characters by which 

 they have been distinguished throughout the historic period. 



In fact the earliest known historic records all point in this 

 direction, that the Baltic lands (north Germany, Scandinavia, 

 the present Finland and Baltic provinces) are, in the sense here 

 suggested, the true home of the Teutonic race, a second area of 

 differentiation and dispersion in later times over Europe and half 

 the globe. Thus Gustav Kossinna 2 shows that south Scandinavia 

 with Denmark, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania form the German 

 cradle ("Urheimat") since the Neolithic Age. Their farther east- 

 ward spread in the Bronze period can have started 

 only from Scandinavia, as direct trade-relations specialisation 



between south Sweden and the mouth of the Oder and Disper- 

 sion. 



can be traced back to the beginning of the Metal 

 period. Somewhat later two distinct trade-routes can be clearly 

 followed through Bornholm (originally Burgund) and through 

 Jutland, while tribal names such as Warines, Goths, Burgunds 



Iranian influences in Asia Minor, and reference is made to the "blue-eyed" 

 princess of Metanni spoken of in the Tell-el-Amarna tablets (Sitzungsberichte, 

 Bohem. Acad. of Sc. 1898, "Hethiter u. Skythen "). 



1 In Rev, de f Ecole d'Anthrop., July 1898, this ethnologist makes all the 

 Kelts of direct Mongol lineage, entering Europe in the Neolithic Age with a 

 distinct Ural-Altaic type and culture. 



! Indogerm. Forsch. vn. 3 and 4, Strassburg, 1896. 



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