The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

120 PHCENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

account of the latter occupying the old Pictavia region on the border of Iberia. Their primitive habits and living in caves and underground burrows or “ Pict-dwellings,”’ like the Vans or Khaldis,? as well as their immemorial occupation of the land, have doubtless accounted for their being in modern folklore identified with malignant fauns, Fians and Pixies, which latter name seems to preserve “ Pict.”’

The early prehistoric Picts thus appear to have been the primitive aborigines of Albion in the late Old Stone Age and early Neolithic Age whose long-headed, narrow and lowbrowed skulls (see Fig. 22, p. 135) are mostly found in the lower strata of the ancient river-beds, and hence termed by Huxley “ The River-bed”’ type. The peculiar, though unsuspected, literal appropriateness of this title will be obvious when we recall that these people seem to have actually called themselves ‘The Children of the River’ (Khal-dis or “‘ Caleds”’) presumably through their finding their primitive livelihood along the river-banks and river-beds.

This river-bed race of primitive dwarfish men was shown by Huxley to have been widely distributed in remote prehistoric times over the British Isles, from Cornwall to Caithness, and over Ireland, and also over the European continent from Basque and Iberia eastwards.

[He especially records it from the Trent Valley of Derbyshire, in the Ledbury and Muskham skulls,* in Anglesea, the Thames Valley. In Ireland it is seen in the river-bed skulls of the Nore and Blackwater in Queen’s County and Armagh.* He also observed this type of skull in the more ancient prehistoric sites on the European continent from Gaul and Germany and Switzerland to the Basque country (Picardy) and I[beria.* And he significantly added that he suspected that it would be found in the inhabitants of Southern Hindustan—which it has been in the dark aborigines of Central and Southern India,

1 We have seen that the old and existing cave-dwellings and subterranean burrows of the Vindia region west of Van are of the same general characteristic prehistoric subterranean Picts’ Houses and ‘“‘ Weems ” or cave-dwellers in Early Albion. Thus the name “ Pitten-weem "’ for a seaport on the Forth coast, with a series of caves with prehistoric human remains, and meaning ‘‘ Caves of the Pitts or Picts” is especially obvious as an early settlement of cave-dwelling Picts.

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+7b, 123, 125, etc. 4 7b, 130.