TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 915 



In the head-breadth frequency curve of the population of E. Aberdeenshire we 

 found two well-marked peaks at 150 mm. and 155 mm., and two lesser peaks at 

 145 mm. and 160 mm. Taking these breadths as centres, we have divided the 

 people into four groups, the limiting breadths being marked opposite each group in 

 the above table. 



The general averages given in the table show that lu W. Aberdeenshire the 

 people have broader and longer heads : they are taller by f inch, they are darker in 

 hair and lighter in eyes, and they have rather higher percentages of Roman, wavy, 

 and concave noses than in E. Aberdeenshire. 



The first column in the table shows approximately the percentage which each 

 group forms of the population. Group I. is much better represented in the west 

 than in the east, being 50 per cent, of the population in the former case and only 14 

 per cent, in the latter case. The average breadths and lengths of the head in this 

 group come out almost exactly the same in the west and in the east, and the 

 stature (5 feet 9^ inches), which is very high for an average, diflers only by 5- inch in 

 the two places. The nigrescence, which is calculated by a formula in which the rela- 

 tive value and percentage of all the colours are taken into account,* shows that in both 

 the east and the west this group is darker in hair and lighter in eyes than the 

 general average of the population. It is evidently the presence of a larger per- 

 centage of this group in the west which accounts for its superiority in physique 

 over the east. Group II. is well represented in both east and west. Groups III. 

 and IV. ai-e, however, almost completely absent in the west, the total numbers, 

 eleven and two, in these groups in the west being so small as to make the averages 

 for stature, &c., given in the table unreUabie. 



It seems reasonable to conclude from these results that, in Aberdeenshire, at 

 some distant date, an early, tall, broad-headed, light-eyed people have been driven 

 inland by later immigrants, who were shorter, had narrower heads, and were of the 

 blonde type. 



A frequency curve of breadths of round barrow heads shows that Groups I. 

 and II. were well represented in the Bronze age in the British Isles. Groups III. 

 and IV. have the breadths of long barrow heads, which, however, are much longer 

 (208 mm. on the average). The Bowgrave heads of N. Germany, whose average 

 length is given as about 200 mm., come much nearer to Group III. ; and as these 

 probably represent the aboriginal blonde race of N. Germany, it is reasonable to 

 assume that our Group III. represents blonde immigrants from N. Germany, who 

 when they arrived in Aberdeenshire found the country in possession of a tall, "broad- 

 headed, dark-haired, blue-eyed people, the descendants of the men of the Bronze ao-e. 

 The resemblance of Group I. to Deniker's Adriatic type is significant when taken 

 in conjunction with the fact that bronze first came into the British Isles from S.E. 

 Eurone. 



7. Report on the Age 0/ Stone Circles. — See Reports, p. 461. 

 * See Jourii. Anthropological Imtitiife, 1900. 



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