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the western Caspian region, the area of the Black Sea 

 and the Danube valley and in the Alpine regions a fair 

 broad-headed type ; we do find such a type to-day in this 

 region, the type which we have called the Danubean and 

 the Alpine races. Finally, if we assume that a western 

 wing of this northern people, moving south before the 

 ice front, returned northwestward when the ice receded 

 we should expect to find, as we do in modern times, a 

 definite Baltic area of dolichocephalic blonds. 17 



As the Glacial epochs lasted for thousands of years, 

 the ice must have kept these blond groups separated from 

 one another in an eastern, an east central, a west 

 central and a western area, respectively. In the regions 

 of the Caspian we find neolithic remains, then through- 

 out Assyria, Palestine, Egypt, northern Africa, Spain, 

 France and even southern England we find remnants of 

 neolithic stone structures showing how persistently these 

 areas were inhabited during the Neolithic period. 



Then, as the great continental ice sheet melted back 

 and the interglacial period began, men pressed north- 

 ward to the regions of the Baltic. This Cro-Magnon, 

 long-headed, Eur- African man, migrated to the northern 

 sections of Europe and intermarried with the blond 

 Baltic types. The Baltic peoples, prolific, sent out 

 waves of migration. The Caspian peoples, also rapidly 

 multiplying, sent out waves of migration. The Baltic 

 peoples moving south and southeastward, the Caspian 

 peoples moving south and southwestward, mingled and 

 produced in the course of this process all the varieties 

 of the White race. Professor Giddings maintains that 

 substantially this explanation of the origin of the varie- 

 ties of the White race is consistent with the known facts. 



IT See figure 72. 



