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138 : 1 _seq._ Beddoe, 4, pp. 15, 17, 231–233; Davis and Thurnam; Keane,
1, p. 150; Rice Holmes, 1, pp. 194, 441; Ripley, pp. 308–309. Holmes
suggests that the Beaker Makers may have come from Denmark. Compare this
theory with that expressed by Fleure and James, pp. 128 _seq._ and 135;
and by Abercromby, Crawford and Peake as given there. The Beaker Makers
are quite fully discussed on pp. 86–88, 117, 128 _seq._, and 135–137, in
the article by Fleure and James. See also Greenwell, _British Barrows_,
pp. 627–718, and J. P. Harrison, _On the Survival of Certain Racial
Features in the Population of the British Isles_. Fleure and James
describe the type as follows on p. 136: “With the beakers have long been
associated the broad-headed, strong-browed type, long known to
archæologists as the Bronze Age race, but better called the ‘Beaker
Makers,’ or Borreby type, for we now think that these people reached
Britain without a knowledge of bronze.... The general description of
them is that they must have been taller than the Neolithic British,
averaging 5 feet 7 inches, rather strongly built, with long forearms and
inclined to roughness of feature. The head was broad (skull index over
80, often 82 or more) and the supraciliary arches strong, but very
distinctly separated in most cases by a median depression, and thus
strongly contrasted with the continuous supraciliary ridges of _e. g._,
Neanderthal man ... Keith ... thinks it [the type] was usually brown to
fair in colouring at all periods, and this seems to be a very general
opinion.”
138 : 3. Beddoe, 4, p. 16: “On the whole, however, we cannot be far
wrong in describing the British skulls of the bronze period as
distinctly brachycephalic; and this seems to have been the case in
Scotland as well as in England (see D. Wilson, _Archæological and
Prehistoric Annals_, pp. 168–171). Whencesoever they came, the men of
the British bronze race were richly endowed, physically. They were, as a
rule, tall and stalwart, their brains were large and their features, if
somewhat harsh and coarse, must have been manly and even commanding. The
chieftain of Gristhorpe, whose remains are in the Museum of York, must
have looked a true king of men with his athletic frame, his broad
forehead, beetling brows, strong jaws and aquiline profile.”
138 : 14. Rice Holmes, 1, p. 425.
138 : 17. Dinaric Race. Deniker, 1, pp. 113–133; also 2, p. 333. For
allusions to this and descriptions see Ripley, pp. 350, 412, 597,
601–602.
138 : 18. Remains of Alpines. Fleure and James, pp. 117, no. 3, and pp.
137–142.
138 : 22. See the notes to p. 122 : 3. Also Jean Bruhnes in _Le
Correspondant_ for September, 1917, p. 774.
139 : 3. See p. 121 : 16.
139 : 6 _seq._ Sergi, _Africa_, p. 65; Studer and Bannwarth, Crania
_Helvetica Antiqua_, pp. 13 _seq._; His and Rütimeyer, _Crania
Helvetica_, p. 41.
139 : 16. See p. 144 of this book.
139 : 22 _seq._ See p. 130.
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