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map of cephalic index published in the March number of our series. 

 Thus do we discover the complexity of the problem. Even if the 

 old philologists were right in tracing European languages to a primi- 

 tive home in western Asia, a point which is generally denied to-day, 

 there would still be no possible solution as to which of these two 

 Asiatic types were entitled to the name Aryan. Probably the Hindu 

 would have been adopted for this honor; he is kith and kin phys- 

 ically of the Mediterranean race to which the Semites, Greeks, and 

 Romans belong. But how about our proof that this type is the 

 most primitive in Europe, persisting in situ from the stone age! 

 Whence came the Aryan civilization then? The question is too 

 broad to be settled here and now. We may return to it later. 



The only point which the discovery of a broad area in western 

 Asia occupied by an ideal Alpine type settles, is that it emphasizes 

 the affinities of this peculiar race. It is no proof of direct immigra- 

 tion from Asia at all. It does, however, lead us to turn our eyes east- 

 ward when we seek for the origin of the broad-headed type. The 

 wedge-shaped area of present Alpine occupation in Europe vaguely 

 points to an original ethnic base of supplies somewhere in this direc- 

 tion. It could not lie westward, for everywhere along the Atlantic 

 the race slowly disappears, so to speak. Neither does its original 

 source lie in central Europe, for its greatest representation lies in the 

 Slavic countries east of Vienna and Berlin. That the Alpine type 

 approaches all the other human millions on the Asiatic continent, in 

 the head form especially, but in hair color and stature as well, also 

 prejudices us in the matter, just as the increasing long-headedness and 

 extreme brunetteness of our Mediterranean race led us previously to 

 derive it from some type parent to that of the African negro. These 

 points are then fixed: the roots of the Alpine race run eastward; 

 those of the Mediterranean type toward the south. 



Before we leave this question we must clear up a peculiar diffi- 

 culty. If the Alpine broad-headed race entered western Europe 

 with sufficient momentum to carry it clear across to the British Isles, 

 up into Norway, down into Spain, intruding between and finally 

 separating the more primitive long-headed population into two dis- 

 tinct groups, why is it everywhere to-day so relegated to the moun- 

 tainous and infertile areas? This is especially true wherever it 

 comes in contact with the Teutonic race in the north. It is one of 

 the most striking results of our entire inquiry thus far, this localiza- 

 tion of the Alpine type in what we have termed areas of isolation. 

 One is at a loss to account for this apparent turning back of a tide 

 of prehistoric immigration. The Teutonic race must once have 

 yielded ground before the invader; our prehistoric stratification 

 shows it. Why has it now turned the tables and reoccupied all 



