316 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. ix. 



throughout the whole of the Neolithic age. On the 

 Continent, however, it is not so ; a new set of men, 

 differing in physical characteristics from them, make 

 their appearance. They were bigger than the preced- 

 ing, averaging, for the adult male, 5 feet 8 '4 inches in 

 height, according to Dr. Thurnam. The skulls (Fig. 

 Ill) are broad, or round (brachy cephalic), the supra- 

 occipital tuberosity or " probole " prominent, the parieto- 

 occipital region often flattened, the supraciliary ridges 

 more strongly marked than in the oval skulls. The face 

 instead of being oval is angular, or lozenge-shaped, and 

 the upper and lower jaws are so largely developed, and 

 projected so far beyond the vertical line dropped from 

 the forehead, that the term macrognathic has been happily 

 applied to them by Prof. Huxley ; their foreheads are 

 high, broad, and expanded. Human remains of this 

 kind are met with in caves and tombs in Belgium, 

 France, and Spain, 1 under conditions which show that 

 the tall race occupied those regions in the Neolithic 

 age, and the occurrence of the two forms of skull, with 

 all the intermediate varieties, in chambered tombs and 

 sepulchral caves reveals the fact that the tall invader and 

 the small dark inhabitant of France dwelt side by side 

 in the same area. The new invader is identified by 

 Thurnam and Huxley with the Celtse of history, whose 

 tall stature, light hair, and fierce blue eyes, have been 

 handed down as their principal characters. The Belgse 

 also were tall and fair, but their exact relation to the 

 Celtic and Germanic or Teutonic tribes is uncertain. 



1 For details, see Thurnam and Davis, Crania Britannica. Thurnam, 

 Anthrop. Mem. Soc. Lond. I. and III. ; Rolleston, in Greenwell and Rolle- 

 ston's Ancient British Barrows. 



