THE BUILDERS 



the skulls measured are of a long-headed type. 

 There are, however, in various localities, especially 

 in France, occasional anomalous types of skull 

 which are distinctly brachycephalic, and show 

 that contamination of some kind was taking or 

 had taken place. 



Of the state of civilization to which the builders 

 of the megalithic monuments had attained, and 

 of the social condition in which they lived, there 

 is something to be gathered. It is clear in the 

 first place from the evidence of the Maltese 

 buildings that they were a pastoral people who 

 domesticated the ox, the sheep, the pig, and the 

 goat, upon whose flesh they partly lived. Shell- 

 fish also formed a part of their diet, and the shells 

 when emptied of their contents were occasionally 

 pierced to be used as pendants or to form neck- 

 laces or bracelets. 



Whether these people were agricultural is a 

 question more difficult to answer. It is true that 

 flat stones have been found, on which some kind 

 of cereal was ground up with the aid of round 

 pebbles, but the grain for which these primitive 

 mills were used may have been wild and not 

 cultivated. No grain of any kind has been found 

 in the Maltese settlements. 



The megalithic race do not seem to have been 

 great traders. This is remarkably exemplified in 

 Malta, where there is not a trace of connection 



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