128 : 2. The Eneolithic period. G. Elliot Smith, 1, pp. 20 _seq._, 37 and 163 _seq._ Professor Orsi is responsible for the introduction of this term. See T. E. Peet, _The Stone and Bronze Ages in Italy_, and G. Sergi, _Italia_, pp. 240 _seq._, on the Eneolithic period in Italy. 128 : 13. Oscar Montelius, _The Civilization of Sweden in Heathen Times_, and _Kulturgeschichte Schwedens von den ältesten Zeiten_; Sophus Müller, _Nordische Alterthumskunde_. The latter gives 1200 B. C. See also Rice Holmes, 1, pp. 64, 127, 424–454; Beddoe, 4, p. 15; Haddon, 3, p. 41. According to Gjerset, in his _History of the Norwegian People_, the Bronze Age in Norway began about 1500 B. C., the Iron Age at 500 B. C. Lord Avebury, pp. 71–72; Read, _Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age_; and Deniker, 2, p. 315, give 1800 B. C. for Britain, and for northern Europe Avebury assigns 2500 B. C. 1800 is the generally accepted date for the beginning of the Bronze Age in Britain. 128 : 16. Alpines in Ireland. Beddoe, 4, p. 15; Fleure and James, pp. 128–129, 135, 139; Rice Holmes, 1, p. 432; Ripley, pp. 302–303; Abercromby, pp. 111 _seq._; Crawford, pp. 184 _seq._ But Fleure and James say, p. 138, that other Alpines without brow ridges are to be found at the present time in considerable numbers on the east coast of Ireland. Ripley’s strong assertion that no Alpines have remained in the British Isles has been proved by more recent study to require modification. 128 : 17. See in this connection Fleure and James, p. 127. 128 : 26. _Cf._ Elliot Smith, 1, pp. 20–21, 163, 181; Peet, 2; Reisner, _Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-ed-Dêr_; and Rice Holmes, 1, p. 65 _seq._ 129 : 2–8. The megaliths were not erected by Alpines, for there are practically none in central Europe, according to Keane, _Ethnology_, pp. 135–136, and Dr. Robert Munro, in a discussion published in the _Jour. Roy. Anth. Inst._, 1889–1890, p. 65. On the other hand, Peet, 1, pp. 39, 64, says they are being discovered in the interior—a few in Germany. He does not mention bronze among the finds in the megaliths of France, but there was a little gold. Bronze was, however, found in Spain. Consult Fleure and James, pp. 128 _seq._; Rice Holmes, 2, pp. 8–9; and, for an exhaustive archæological study, Déchellette, _Manuel d’archéologie_, vol. I, chap. III, especially paragraph v, pp. 393 _seq._, for dolmens in Brittany. Concerning the contents of these we may quote the following: