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RACIAL HEAD-TYPES IN EUROPE 135

shows three main racial types in the population of modern Europe, all three of which we shall find represented in Britain, namely : (I) The Aryan! or Nordic (or Northern), tall, fair, broad-browed, long or longish heads, (II) Alpine or “‘ Celtic ”’ (continental) or Germanic, short-statured, fair or darkish, broad-browed, round or broad heads; and (III) Jberian or ‘“ Mediterranean,’ shortish-statured, dark, narrow-browed, long-faced, long-heads, and including the prehistoric “ river-bed ” type of the Picts. The best of the distinguishing criterions of race is the Head Index in second column of table, in conjunction with colour.

Pic. 22.—Three main Racial Head-Types in Europe. (The head is viewed from above.)

A. Aryan or Nordic.

C. Alpine, or “ Celtic,”’ or Germanic (Teutonic)

B. Iberian or Mediterranean and “‘ River-bed ” type.

The first of these racial types of Europe, the Nordic or ~ Northern,” which is the Aryan type, is now mostly restricted to north-western Europe. It included most of the classic Greeks and Romans, as evidenced by their sculptures and paintings and skeletal remains. It comprises a considerable element in the present-day population in the British Isles, the Scandinavians or Norsemen (including Swedes and many Danes), and a small proportion of the people of France and of the Rhine Valley, where, however, the skulls of the older burials show that the civilizers of Germany, like the Jutes and Anglo-Saxons, were of this type. And I shall

1 See note 1 on p. 134.