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huge superstructure seems to have been built up on very weak 

 foundations. 



But whatever be the cause, the fact must be accepted that 

 Homo Europtzus (the Teutons) becomes merged 

 southwards in Homo Alpinus, whose names, as 



stated, are many. If, with Broca, we call him Kelt, 

 or Slavo-Kelt, the expression need no longer lead to misunder- 

 standings, as for us it now simply implies a great mass of Neo- 

 lithic round-heads from Africa, later probably in the Copper or 

 Early Bronze Age reinforced by other round-heads of Aryan 

 speech from Asia, with whom they united and from whom they 

 received their Keltic and Slavonic languages. 



It is remarkable that in the Alpine region, especially Tyrol, 

 where the brachy element comes to a focus, there 

 is a peculiar form of round-head which has greatly Tyrotese Type. 

 puzzled de Lapouge, but may perhaps be accounted 

 for on this hypothesis of two brachy types here fused in one. To 

 explain the exceedingly round Tyrolese head, which shows 

 affinities on the one hand with the Swiss, on the other with the 

 Illyrian and Albanian, that is, with the normal Alpine, a Mongol 

 strain has been suggested, but is rightly rejected by Franz 

 Tappeiner as inadmissible on many grounds 1 . De Ujfalvy' 2 , a 

 follower of de Lapouge, looks on the hyperbrachy 

 Tyrolese as descendants of the ancient Rhsetians or a nd Etruscans. 

 Rasenes, whom so many regard as the parent stock 

 of the Etruscans. 



But Montelius with most other modern ethnologists rejects the 

 land route from the north, and brings the Etruscans by the sea 



antropologi...i quali vorrebbero ammettere una trasformazione del cranio da 

 dolicocefalo in brachicefalo " (Arii e Italici, p. i ;;) 



1 This specialist insists "class von einer mongolischen Eimvanderung in 

 Europa keine Rede mehr sein konne" (Der europaische Mensch u. die Tiroler, 

 1896). He is of course speaking of prehistoric times, not of the late (historical) 

 Mongol irruptions. 



; "Malgre les nombreuses invasions des populations germaniques, le 

 Tyrolien est reste, quant a sa conformation cranienne, le Rasene ou Rhsetien 

 des temps antiques hyperbrachycephale " (Les Aryens, p. 7). The mean 

 index of the so-called Disentis type of Rhrctian skulls is about 86 (His and 

 Ruetimaer, Crania Helvetica, p. 29 and Plate E. i). 



