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forbids any speculation as to the race to which they belonged. 
He is, however, inclined to consider the cave-man of Britain 
and Western Europe to be represented at the present day by 
the Eskimo, on account of the unusual aptitude, common to 
both races, of reproducing animal forms on their implements 
and ornaments, a talent not found in Neolithic man. This 
view is opposed by Prof. Elower, 2 who states that the Eskimo 
are such an intensely specialised race “ that it is probable 
that they are of comparatively late origin, and were not, as a 
race, contemporaries with the men whose rude flint tools 
found in our drifts excite so much interest and speculation as 
to the makers.” He adds that the Eskimo have evidently 
been derived from the same stock as the Japanese. And 
when we turn to illustrations given by Prof. Boyd Dawkins 
of Paleolithic and Eskimo drawings 3 we cannot fail to notice 
that the artistic aptitudes of Paleolithic man were far superior 
to those of the Eskimo of our own day. The presumption 
therefore seems to be against Prof. Boyd Dawkins’s view. 
No pottery of Paleolithic age has yet been discovered. With 
the negative conclusion that we know nothing of the racial 
affinities of British Paleolithic man, I pass on to his Neo¬ 
lithic successor. 
Of Neolithic man the remains are both more numerous and 
more important. In many parts of Britain barrows exist, 
containing not only his indestructible flint-implements, but 
occasionally his pottery and even his bones. These barrows 
are especially numerous on the Yorkshire Wolds and on 
Salisbury Plain, and many of them in various parts have 
been explored by Sir Bichard Colt Hoare, Bateman, Thurnam, 
Greenwell, and other investigators. Their researches tend to 
show that the small long-headed (dolicho-ceplialic) Neolithic 
people, the remains of whose chiefs are found in British long 
barrows, once spread over the whole of our islands, and that 
they are well represented among us at the present day, 
though usually more or less modified by succeeding races. 
Most writers are inclined to think the shorter and darker 
2 Journ. Anthrop. Inst., vol. xiv., pp. 387 - 8 (May, 1885). 
3 ‘Early Man in Britain,’ pp. 216, 217, 221, 238, 239. 
