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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
the measurements of five specimens, representing the 
skull-form of male Egyptians of the Sixth Dynasty — of 
men who were living in Egypt between four thousand 
and five thousand years ago. When the Egyptian, 
Maltese, and Kentish skulls of the Neolithic period — at 
least Neolithic as far as England is concerned, for in 
Egypt and along the shores of the Mediterranean the use 
of copper and bronze was already known — are compared, 
it will be seen that they differ in detail, but in general 
form are of the " river-bed " type. We find the same 
type in the Neolithic people of Spain, France, Switzerland, 
North Germany, and Scandinavia. 
Fig. 7. 
-Form of skull of ancient Egyptians of the Sixth Dynasty, 
from the side and from the front. 
We see, then, that the little group of people whose 
remains were buried in the central chamber at Coldrum 
are not an isolated patch of people ; they are a sample of 
the kind of men who lived in Western Europe in the 
Neolithic period. The same, or a closely allied race, 
spread eastwards along the shores of the Mediterranean, 
both on the European and on the African side. 
Already in the Neolithic period the Mediterranean type 
of man, with a well-defined form of head or skull, was 
differentiated into local groups or varieties. It must not 
be thought that the people who built the Coldrum 
monument are counterparts of the people who built the 
