Tue MIGRATIONS OF MAN. 25 
Tanean race has been called by a _ great variety of 
mames, such as Berber, Iberian, Pict, and Dolmenbuilder. 
The last is the best name, for they were monumental masons on 
a gigantic scale, and this explains how we are able to trace very 
exactly both their route and their settlements. They were a 
short, rather feeble, long-headed, and dark people, with a 
passion for petite culture or petty cultivation. They cultivated 
the soil, and apparently were the first to irrigate the fertile 
alluvials of Egypt and Southern Europe. I have noticed that a 
partiality for leeks, onion, and especially garlic, characterises 
almost all the countries where they still persist from Wales to 
Spain, Southern Italy, and Egypt. The important point to 
observe is that they lived in large populations ; they were the first 
city folk; they had no metal tools, but used wooden picks, stone 
adzes, and wooden ploughs, such as one can still see in Portugal. 
It is very probable that they were a douce, patient, peaceable 
folk, horribly oppressed by priests and kings, and very likely they 
were fond of great human sacrifices. They probably invented 
the alphabet, and indeed all Egyptian and Greek science, for 
they are at the foundation of both the ancient Egyptian and the 
Greek race.* They spread by the great North African highway 
from Egypt to Tripoli, Tunis, Algeria, and Morocco. The 
savage Blonde Cavemen of Morocco were probably driven into 
the Atlas Mountains. Then the Dolmenbuilders crossed into 
Spain. So far, then, their route is just that followed by Cartha- 
ginian conquest, and at a much later date by the fanatical 
Mahomedan cavalry, more fierce and destructive than any 
other invaders. But the Dolmenbuilders penetrated into France, 
where Brittany is full of their monuments, and then crossed 
into Britain, where they built no less than 200 stone circles as 
well as innumerable “long ’’ barrows. Stonehenge was an im- 
portant settlement, which is said to date from 2000-1800 B.c. 
They reached Holywood, which is a typical example of their 
work. Indeed they seem always to have selected good land, 
and the misty peat mosses and rugged forests of stern Caledonia 
would not attract them. There are many of us who are de- 
scended from the Dolmenbuilders, for in Devonshire, Western 
Wales, and the West Highlands one finds short, dark people with 
* Sergi The Mediterranean Race. 
