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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. x 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 

 throughout the Recent period : that only the for- 

 mer two at first inhabited our islands ; but that a 

 mixed race of tall broad-heads, like some of the 

 Blackforesters of the present day, so excellently 

 described by Ecker, migrated from the continent 

 and formed that tall contingent of the population 



1 Professor Virchow has guardedly expressed the opinion that 

 the oldest inhabitants of the Swiss pile-dwellings were broad - 

 heads, and that later on (commencing before the bronze stage) 

 there was a gradual infusion of long-heads among them. 

 (Zcitsdirift fur JEthnolugie. 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. 



