746 APPENDIX. 



monograph > Nephrit und Jadeit,' 1875, p. 1 ; see also pp. 48, 49, 

 54, 355, 367, 377) of this negative feet, we must under all the 

 circumstances of the case assign a very high place. 



TTild animals, sisthlv, are but sparingly represented in early 

 British graves, whilst in some at least of the earliest Swiss lake- 

 dwellinsrs thev have a numerical preponderance over the domesti- 

 cated breeds. It is right however to add that in the early British 

 dwellings for the living and in early British excavations such as 

 the flint mines at Cissbury, this numerical inferiority of the wild 

 fauna is by no means so distinctly pronounced (see Journal Anthrop. 

 Institute, vol. vi. p. 20, 1876). 



Seventhly, as regards the craniography of our own species, the 

 skulls of the Swiss lake-dwellers of both stone- and bronze- 

 periods alike belong to that ' massive and grandiose ' variety of 

 the dolicho-cephalic type which the Swiss ethnographers, His 

 and Eijtimeyer, have in their often-referred to * Crania Helvetica' 

 called the • Sion T}-pas.' In other words, we have in Switzerland 

 no such evidence for the immigration of a fresh race of men at 

 the commencement of the bronze period as we have furnished to 

 us in Great Britain by the appearance contemporaneously with 

 metal implements of brachy -cephalic crania in preponderating 

 numbers. It may however be objected here that this seventh 

 point of difference, like indeed all the other sis, depends simply 

 on negative evidence; and that the entire number of human 

 skulls recovered from the lake- dwellings has been, as might from 

 the very nature of the case have been expected, very small. On 

 the other hand, I have to say that an English ethnologist, con- 

 vinced, as due examination of the evidence (see p. 712 ■siipra) wiU 

 convince him, that a very thorough, if not absolutely exhaustive, 

 displacement of the races previously in occupation of what is now 

 his country was effected by the Teutonic immigration of the fifth 

 and succeeding century, may very easily be over-ready to believe 

 that other invasions mav have been similarlv overwhelming. The 

 Swiss ethnologists, at all events, after fairly stating the two 

 opposed views, declare themselves to be of opinion that one and 

 the same dolicho-cephalic stock persisted through the two periods 

 in question. Their words run thus (Crania Helvetica, p. 37) : — 

 'Wir sind durch diese Unterbrrngung des Meilen- und des 

 Auvemier-Schadel zu einem hodist erfreuKchen Resultate gelangt 

 heinsichtlieh der Bevolkerung die die Ptahlbauten, wahrend der 

 ersten Zeit ihres Bestehens in der sog- Stein- und Bronze-Periode 



