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
Further anthropological studies may simplify the problem somewhat, but
the author is now inclined to believe that the above-mentioned third
brachycephalic type, the “Old Black Breed,” represents the survivors of
the earliest waves of the round-head invasion—in Britain antedating the
arrival of the Neolithic Mediterraneans, while the first type mentioned
above represents the descendants of the last great Alpine expansion.
This type in southern Germany has been so thoroughly Nordicized in
pigmentation that these blond South Germans are sometimes discussed as
though they were a distinct Alpine subspecies. The type is scantily
represented in England, and when found may be partly attributed to
ecclesiastics and other retainers brought over by the Normans.
The second of the above types, the Armenoids, are virtually absent from
Europe, and seem to be characteristic of eastern Anatolia and the
immediately adjacent regions.
The author regards the fourth, Borreby or Beaker Maker type of tall,
round heads as distinct from the three preceding types. The distribution
of their remains would indicate they entered Britain from the northeast.
We have no clew as to their origin. A similar type is found in the
so-called Dinaric race of Deniker (which Fleure and James mention in
connection with the third type but hesitate to class with it), which
extends from the Tyrol along the mountainous east coast of the Adriatic
into Albania. Further study of the Tripolje culture (see note to p.
143 : 15) and the mixture of population north of the Carpathians, where
the early Nordics and early Alpines came in contact, may throw light on
this question, as well as upon the problem of the acquisition of Aryan
languages by the Alpines.
All these four round skulled types seem to have been of West Asiatic
origin, but their relationship to each other and to the true Mongols of
central Asia is as yet undetermined. One thing is certain, that the
Alpine Slavs north and east of the Carpathians, and, to a less degree,
the inhabitants of Hungary and Bulgaria, have in their midst a very
considerable Mongoloid element, which has entered Europe since the
beginning of our era.
134 : 12 _seq._ For further characters of the Alpines see Ripley, pp.
123–128, 416 _seq._, and p. 139 of this book.
135 : 1. Haddon, _Races of Man_, pp. 15–16; Deniker, _Races of Man_, pp.
325–326.
135 : 14 _seq._ Zaborowski, _Les peuples aryens_, p. 110.
135 : 17. See the authorities given in Ripley; for the Würtembergers,
pp. 233–234; for Bavaria and Austria, p. 228; for Switzerland, pp.
282–286; and for the Tyrolese, p. 102.
135 : 22. Beddoe, 4, chap. VI, is particularly good on the physical
anthropology of the Swiss, while His and Rütimeyer, _Crania Helvetica_,
are classic authorities.
135 : 23. _The Historical Geography of Europe_, by Freeman; and Beddoe,
4, pp. 75 _seq._
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