10 OUR FOREFATHERS IMMIGRATION 



which would thus be nearly 15,000 years old? Fortunately we can reply in the 

 affirmative. 



The almond-formed flint implements which have been found in those parts 

 of our country, where people first could settle, are of exactly the same type 

 as the flint implements from the Solutre-Period in France, which is coincident 

 to the period when the ice first disappeared in South Sweden. 



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The people who immigrated to the north, after the end of the 

 Glacial Period, cannot be called Teutons, but they were the forefa- 

 thers of the Teutonic (Nordic) race. At this remote age, when our forefathers 

 first began to settle in Sweden, probably there was not much dissimilarity between 

 the tribes, who wandered about in different parts of Central and Southern Europe. 



During the many thousand years, which have elapsed since our forefathers 

 came here and lived separated from the other inhabitants of our part of the world, 

 they by degrees, through a natural differentiation, became Teutons, in the same 

 way as the inhabitants of Western Europe became Celts, and those who lived 

 in Eastern Europe became Slavs. 



About 2,000 years B. C., the home of the Teutons was only Sweden, Norway, 

 Denmark, and the most Northerly part of Germany, between the Oder and the 

 Rhine, as is shown in the map Fig. 1. This is apparent from the fact, that within 

 that region the well*executed and tasteful stone implements, which are charac* 

 teristic of the Teutons are common; in other parts of Europe, those types are 

 very rare, or entirely absent. Afterwards, the Teutons spread more and more on 

 the continent, so that the whole of the present Northern Germany became Teu* 

 tonic, but the Southern part was Gallic. The countries south of the Main, as 

 well as France, were in possession of the Gauls, who belonged to the great 

 Celtic race. 



It is generally known that the conditions in Germany and France became 

 considerably changed by the great migrations, which caused the fall of the Roman 

 Empire. 



The short-headed people who, seven* or eight thousand years before our 

 time, appeared in Europe, penetrated to the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, 

 so that the long-headed race remained comparatively unblended only in two 

 districts very far apart: one of these districts was south-western France, and the 

 other the Scandinavian countries. 



Right up to the present time the dolichocephalic race on the Scandinavian 

 peninsula remained almost pure. 



The dolichocephalic people who remained in South-western France, after the 

 penetration of the brachycephalic race into Europe, has been blended with these 

 long time ago, and therefore the Scandinavian peoples are the purest of the now 

 living descendants of the Cro-Magnon race, who inhabited Central Europe at the 



end of the last Glacial Period. 



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The above investigations entitle us to say: Our forefathers lived in Sweden 

 since the end of the last Glacial Period, and consequently when they arrived here, 



