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among the most different and widely separated 

 races of mankind, should warn us that archaeology 

 is no more a sure guide in questions of race than 

 philology. 



With respect to the osteological characters of 

 the people of the Swiss pile-dwellings information 

 is as yet scanty. So far as the present evidence 

 goes, they appear to have comprised both broad- 

 heads and long-heads, of moderate stature.* In 

 France, England, and Germany, both long and 

 broad skulls are found in tumuli belonging to the 

 neolithic stage. In some parts of England the 

 long skulls, and in others the broad skulls, accom- 

 pany the higher stature. In the Scandinavian 

 peninsula, nine-tenths of the neolithic people are 

 decided long-heads: in Denmark, there is a much 

 larger proportion of broad-heads. 



In view of all the facts known to me (which 

 cannot be stated in greater detail in this place), I 

 am disposed to think that the blond long-heads, 

 the brunet long-heads, and the brunet broad-heads 

 have existed on the continent of Europe through- 



* Professor Virchow has guardedly expressed the opin- 

 ion that the oldest inhabitants of the Swiss pile-dwell- 

 ings were broad-heads, and that later on (commencing 

 before the bronze stage) there was a gradual infusion of 

 long-heads among them (Zeitschrift fur Ethnologic, xvii., 

 1885). There is independent evidence of the existence 

 of broad-heads in the Cevennes during the neolithic period, 

 and I should be disposed to think that this opinion may 

 well be correct; but the examination of the evidence on 

 which it is. at present, based does not lead me to feel very 

 confident about it. 



