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130 PHC@NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

show that the Early Britons and “ Scots,” properly so-called, as well as the Goths, belonged to this Aryan type, which was also the type of the eastern or Indo-Persian branch of the Aryans—the Barat-Khattiya,—and the Khatti or Hittites and Phoenicians.

The second, the ‘‘ Celtic’ or so-called “ Alpine” [Swiss], extending from Brittany to Switzerland, also comprises the major type in the Rhine Valley, the Slav or Serb people of Mid-Europe, including the Prussians, Poles and a large proportion of the Russians, and an appreciable element amongst the people on the East Coast of Britain derived from the “Bronze Age’ Hun invaders of prehistoric Alban in the later Stone Age who were essentially of this round-headed type.*

The third type is of especial interest in regard to the “ British Celtic’ question, and the dark racial element by which the “ Celtic’ language is chiefly spoken in the British Isles. This type is generally known as “ Iberian,” trom one of its old seats, Iberia or Spain, and it was given the wider synonym of ‘ Pelasgic’’; but it is now generally called “Mediterranean,” after Sergi’s nomenclature, as it is found in modern Europe, mainly along that sea-basin from Spain to Greece and its Archipelago to Asia Minor. It is essentially of the same type as the prehistoric Stone Age inhabitants of the British Isles, the ‘‘river-bed’’ type of Huxley, and is also substantially the same type which is found in many of the long “barrows” or long grave mounds alongside the Aryan type there? And it still forms the substratum of the modern

1 This important fact of the persistence of round-heads in the modern population of Great Britain, which is not referred to by Ripley, has been noted by many anthropologists, especially by Sir Arthur Keith in regard to both England and Scotland. Regarding the latter, Sir A. Keith has recently stated that, while the West Coast of Scotland, as in the Glasgow district, contains only about 2 per cent. of round-heads in its population which is mainly long-headed like the rest of the British Isles, Edinburgh, on the East Coast, contains about 25 per cent. of round-heads in its population.

: Dr. Thurnam’s well-known axiom still holds good: “ long barrow, long skull ; round barrow, round head.’ From the South Coast and the Severn Valley Glastonbury, Gloucester and Wilts—and northward over Britain, in the long barrows associated with the Aryan type (implying intermarnage) are found the remains of small-statured people with often fong-headed and often narrow-browed skulls along with their polished stone-weapons and no bronze. See D.E.M., 318 f. On broad-browed, long-heads in Jong barrows, see later,