If this group of Iberic skulls be compared with those from the caves and tumuli of Great Britain (see Table, p. 197 and that below) it will be seen, that what Professor Busk observes of the ancient population of Spain is equally true of that of our country in the neolithic age. And the identity of form is especially remarkable in the crania from the sepulchral caves at Perthi-Chwareu, the difference between them being so small as to be of little account:-- +-------------------------+-------+--------+-------+--------+------+ | | | | |Circum- |Ceph. | | |Length.| Brdth. |Height.|ference.|index.| +-------------------------+-------+--------+-------+--------+------+ | | | | | | | |Mean of 10 skulls from | | | | | | | Perthi-Chwareu | 7·07 | 5·5 | 5·6 | 20·0 | ·765 | |Mean of 2 skulls from | | | | | | | Genista Cave, No. 3 | | | | | | | (Busk) | 7·35 | 5·55 | 5·9 | 20·7 | ·755 | |Mean of 40 male Basque | | | | | | | skulls from Guipuscoa | | | | | | | (Thurnam) | 7·2 | 5·5 | 5·4 | -- | ·760 | |Mean of 20 female, ditto | 6·9 | 5·3 | 5·0 | -- | ·760 | |Mean of 19 skulls, | | | | | | | chiefly male | 7·4 | 5·6 | 5·4 | -- | ·760 | |Mean of 57 female ditto, | | | | | | | St. Jean de Luz | 7·02 | 5·6 | -- | -- | ·799 | +-------------------------+-------+--------+-------+--------+------+ _The Dolicho-cephali cognate with the Basque._