A NEOLITHIC COMMUNITY OF KENT 15 
Zammit,^ the curator of the museum at Valetta, has 
given me an opportunity of investigating, as well as 
several other specimens from Malta of the Neolithic 
period. When we compare the Neolithic skulls from 
Coldrum and from Malta we see so many points of 
resemblance that we must regard them, not perhaps as 
of the same race, but as belonging to members of a 
closely related group of races. The name which must be 
given to this group of Neolithic races — the races charac- 
terised by a " river-bed " type of skull — there also can 
be no doubt about. The veteran Italian anthropologist, 
Professor Sergi," has clearly proved that the type of 
MALTA . NEOLITHIC . 
PlQ_ 6. — Side and front views of a skull from a Neolithic burial-place in Malta. 
skull represented by the Maltese specimen (fig. 6) is 
characteristic of the people who lived in the lands which 
bound the Mediterranean — from the Levant to the 
Straits of Gibraltar — during the Neolithic period. 
Sergi's Mediterranean race had heads which in size and 
form were of the " river-bed " type. The back of the 
head, in place of being flattened, projected backwards as a 
boss or cap — the occipital boss seen in the Coldrum skulls. 
The ancient Egyptians were also members of the 
Mediterranean group — perhaps rather aberrant members. 
In fig. 7 I reproduce a composite diagram, made from 
1 See Reports of Explorations of Hal-Safiieni Prehistoric Hypogeum. 
Malta, 1911, 1912. 
2 The Mediterranean Race, London, 1901. 
