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(d) Tall dolichocephalic (Mesopotamia?) elements 



(Toda). 



(e) Dolichocephalic Aryans ^H. Indo-europcem 



dolichomorphus) . 



(/) Brachycephalic Leueoderms (//, Indo-enropceus 

 braohymorphus) , 



These last, therefore, are in much attenuated propor- 

 tion, as we have already said. 



Our theory is that the Pre-Dravidians are Australoid- 

 Veddahs and are not to be confused with an oriental exten- 

 sion of the Mediterranean race as Ripley thinks, or with 

 Elliot- Smith's " Brown Race," whose anthropological 

 consistency is somewhat equivocal, nor with Mitra's , 

 Tndo-Erythrean race, which embraces the pre-dynastic 

 Egyptians also and is supposed to be Pre-Dravidian. On 

 the contrary we believe that for the countries surrounding 

 the Erythrean sea pre-historic Egypt included ' 2 ~ -it is 

 sufficient to admit a type with Proto- Ethiopian characters 

 (i.e., having Dravidian affinity), and not with Pre- 

 Dravidian, i.e., Austral oid-Yeddaic characters. 



It would be useful to see what physical characters 

 are presented by the pre-historic skulls of India 

 mentioned by Mitro, especially those of Bayana, which 

 he refers to as of Pre-Dravidic Veddah type, and 

 those of Adichanallur, which, according to Lapicque 

 are also Pre-Dravidic but in a different sense from ours 

 i.e., rather negroid. There is lacking, up to the present 

 a good illustration of all these materials, 3 but we hope 



1 HITRA. (P.), Prehistoric Cultures, etc . op. cit., p. 183, and also Prehistoric Arts, 

 etc., op. cit., p. 60. 



2 (//. GlUFFRlDA-RuoGERi (V.) f Were the Pre-dynastic Egyptians: Libyans or 

 Ethiopians? "Man" XV, 1915, no. 1 ; and also : A feu- notes on the neolithic 

 Egyptians and the Ethiopians. " Man," XVI, 1916, no. 6. 



3 Six of these skulls, which are in the Madras Museum collection gave THURSTON 

 (op. cit., Introduction, p. xxvi, see there fig. b) four ceph. ind. below 60, but the 

 other characteristics of these interesting prehistoric hvperdolichocephals of Southern 

 India are unknown : one of these skulls is shown by Thurston in norma lateralis, 

 it is prognathous with a receding forehead : on the whole they seem to show 

 chnracteristics which are much less frequent in the actual population. 



