The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European historyGrant, Madison
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The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history
Grant, Madison
Ethnology -- Europe
“We cannot but wonder also whether what Deniker calls the
Atlanto-Mediterranean type is not a result of averaging these dark
broad-heads with the true Mediterranean type.
“Seeking further distributional evidence, we find that the dark
broad-heads are highly characteristic of Dalmatia and may be an
old-established stock, but it would appear that this region is famous
for the height of the heads there, and our type is not specially
high-headed. Broad-head brunets do, however, occur farther east in Asia
Minor, the Ægean, and Crete, for example. Many are certainly
hypsicephalic, but in others it seems that the brow and head are
moderate and the forehead rather rectangular, as in our type....
“It is interesting that there should be evidence of our dark broad-heads
beyond the Irish end of the line now discussed, the line of intercourse
which Déchellette thinks must be older than the Bronze Age. The chief
evidences for the type beyond Ireland are:
“1. Ripley (p. 309) shows that a dark, broad-headed element is present
in Shetland, West Caithness, and East Sutherland. This is sometimes
called the Old Black Breed.
“2. Arbo finds the coast and external openings of the more southerly
Norwegian fjords have a broad-headed population, whereas the inner ends
of the fjords and the interior are more dolichocephalic. The broad-heads
stretch from Trondhjemsfjord southward, and from their exclusively
coastwise distribution he supposes them to have come across from the
British Isles.
“The population is darker than the rest of Norway and its area of
distribution, as Dr. Stuart Mackintosh has kindly pointed out to us, is,
like that of the same type in the British Isles, characterized by a
pelagic climate.”
Von Luschan has fully discussed the Armenoid type in his _Early
Inhabitants of Western Asia_, and with E. Petersen, in _Reisen in
Lykien, Milyas, und Kibyratis_. A special study was made by Chantre in
his _Recherches anthropologiques dans l’Asie occidentale_.
The first type, then, the western European, has a short, thick stature,
round head, and rather light pigmentation; the second, Armenoid, a
rather tall stature, square, high head, flat occiput, and dark
pigmentation. The third, the Old Black Breed, is rather small and dark.
In addition to these we have a fourth type, which has been called the
Bronze Age race, or, better, the Beaker Maker type (Borreby). This has
been discussed by Greenwell and Rolleston, Beddoe, and Keith, especially
as to their possible survivors at the present day; by Abercromby, in
_Bronze Age Pottery_; by Crawford, _The Distribution of Early Bronze Age
Settlements in Britain_; and by Peake, in a discussion of the last work
in the same number of the _Geographical Journal_. Fleure and James
describe it also. See the note to p. 138 : 1 of this book.
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