106 THE HAELYN BITKIALS. 



that followed by the graves with contracted burials. The stone- 

 chamber for the burial, also, is almost exactly similar to the 

 chamber of the dolmen though on a smaller scale. At the present 

 day we find burial in a contracted position practised by the 

 Eskimo, and Bashkir Tartars in the north; by the natives of 

 Laos, and by the inhabitants of the Andamans, and the Solomon 

 Islands on the south ; while in America it prevailed among the 

 ancient Aztecs and Peruvians. All this points to a race not 

 Indo-European or Aryan, but Turanian or Mongolian. 



Be this as it may, I think that we are justified in holding, 

 until further investigations disprove it, that the discoveries on 

 the continent of Europe strongly testify that the burial-place at 

 Harlyn belongs to the Later Stone Age, or Neolithic Period, 

 although it contains some intrusive burials of a later era. 



