104 RUTH SAWTELL WALLIS 



group, the tendency for the females to exhibit fewer striking race types than 

 the males is very clear; a characteristic not shared by the round-headed 

 females from Greifenberg. 



Viewed, then, in relation to others, the civilized Nordics of the sixth and 

 seventh centuries do not present quite the most mixed appearance. But on 

 the positive side, there is little to justify the picture of purity and symmetry 

 in that day from which we sometimes trace our cultural and physical 

 superiority. 



REFERENCES 



(1) Martin, Rudolf: Lehrbuch der Anthropologic, Jena, 1928, vol. 2. 



(2) Hooton, Earnest A.: The Ancient Inhabitants of the Canary Islands, Harvard 



African Studies, Cambridge, 1925, vol. 7, pp. 261-267. 



(3) Scheldt, Walter: Die rassischen Verhaltnisse in Nordeuropa (Zeitschrift fur 



Morphologie und Anthropologic), Stuttgart, 1930, vol. 28, pp. 37 and 41. 



(4) Shapiro, H. L. : Crania from Greifenberg in Carinthia. Anthrop. Papers, American 



Museum of Natural History, New York, 1929, vol. 31, pt. 1. 



