- •Published, April, 1939.
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction 78-82
- •Introduction 131-135
- •Introduction 297-298
- •Introduction 400-401
- •Introduction 510-511
- •List of maps
- •Introduction to the historical study of the white race
- •Statement of aims and proposals
- •Theory and principles of the concept race
- •Materials and techniques of osteology**
- •Pleistocene white men
- •Pleistocene climate
- •Sapiens men of the middle pleistocene
- •The neanderthaloid hybrids of palestine
- •Upper palaeolithic man in europe,
- •Fig. 2. Neanderthal Man. Fig. 3. Cro-Magnon Man.
- •Aurignacian man in east africa
- •The magdalenians
- •Upper palaeolithic man in china
- •Summary and conclusions
- •Fig. 12. Fjelkinge, Skane, Sweden. Neolithic.
- •Mesolithic man in africa
- •The natufians of palestine
- •The midden-d wellers of the tagus
- •Mesolithic man in france
- •The ofnet head burials
- •Mesolithic man in the crimea
- •Palaeolithic survivals in the northwest
- •Clarke, j. G. D., op. Cit., pp. 133-136.
- •38 Fiirst, Carl m., fkva, vol. 20, 1925, pp. 274-293.
- •Aichel, Otto, Der deutsche Mensch. The specimens referred to are b 5, ks 11032, ks 11254b, b 38, b 34, b 37, b 10.
- •Clarke, j. G. D., op. Citpp. 133-136.
- •Summary and conclusions
- •The neolithic invasions
- •(1) Introduction
- •1 Childe, V. Gordon, The Dawn of European Civilization; The Most Ancient East; The Danube in Prehistory; New Light on the Most Ancient East; Man Makes Himself.
- •And chronology '
- •The neolithic and the mediterranean race
- •Vault medium to thin, muscular relief on vault as a rule slight.
- •Iran and iraq
- •Vallois, h. V., “Notes sur les Tfctes Osseuses,” in Contencau, g., and Ghirsh- man, a., Fouilles de Tepe Giyan.
- •Jordan, j., apaw, Jh. 1932, #2.
- •Keith, Sir Arthur, “Report on the Human Remains, Ur Excavations,” vol. 1: in Hall, h. R. H„ and Woolley, c. L., Al 'Ubaid,
- •10 Frankfort, h., “Oriental Institute Discoveries in Iraq, 1933-34,” Fourth Preliminary Report, coic #19, 1935,
- •Civilized men in egypt
- •11 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1925, p. 4.
- •12 This summary of climatic changes in Egypt is based on Childe, V. G., New Light
- •18 Childe, op. Cit.Y p. 35. 14 Leakey, l. S. B., Stone Age Africa, pp. 177-178.
- •Brunton, Guy, Antiquity, vol. 3, #12, Dec., 1929, pp. 456-457.
- •Menghin, o., Lecture at Harvard University, April 6, 1937.
- •Childe, V. G., op. Cit.Y p. 64.
- •Derry, Douglas, sawv, Jahrgang, 1932, #1-4, pp. 60-61. 20 Ibid., p. 306.
- •Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1927, vol. 27, pp. 293-309.
- •21 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, vol. 17, 1925, pp. 1-52.
- •Morant, op. Cit., 1925.
- •Neolithic north africa
- •(6) The neolithic in spain and portugal
- •The eastern source areas: south, central, and north
- •The danubian culture bearers
- •The corded or battle-axe people
- •The neolithic in the british isles
- •Western europe and the alpine race
- •Schlaginhaufen, o., op. Cit.
- •Schenk, a., reap, vol. 14, 1904, pp. 335-375.
- •Childe, The Danube in Prehistory, pp. 163, 174.
- •Neolithic scandinavia
- •Introduction
- •Bronze age movements and chronology
- •The bronze age in western asia
- •The minoans
- •The greeks
- •Basques, phoenicians, and etruscans
- •The bronze age in britain
- •The bronze age in central europe
- •The bronze age in the north
- •The bronze age on the eastern plains
- •The final bronze age and cremation
- •Summary and conclusions
- •Race, languages, and european peoples
- •The illyrians
- •The kelts
- •Vallois, h. V., Les Ossements Bretons de Kerne, TouUBras, et Port-Bara.
- •We know the stature of Kelts in the British Isles only from a small Irish group, and by inference from comparison with mediaeval English counterparts of Iron Age skeletons.
- •Greenwell, w., Archaeologia, vol. 60, part 1, pp. 251-312.
- •Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1926, vol. 18, pp. 56-98.
- •The romans
- •46 Whatmouffh. J., The Foundations of Roman Italy.
- •The scythians
- •88 Browne, c. R., pria, vol. 2, ser. 3, 1899, pp. 649—654.
- •88 Whatmough is in doubt as to their linguistic affiliation. Whatmough, j., op. Cit., pp. 202-205.
- •Fig. 29. Scythians, from the Kul Oba Vase. Redrawn from Minns, e. H., Scythians and Greeks, p. 201, Fig. 94.
- •Doniti, a., Crania Scythica, mssr, ser. 3, Tomul X, Mem. 9, Bucharest, 1935.
- •The germanic peoples
- •Stoiyhwo, k., Swiatowit, vol. 6, 1905, pp. 73-80.
- •Bunak, V. V., raj, vol. 17, 1929, pp. 64-87.
- •Shetelig, h., Falk, h., and Gordon, e. V., Scandinavian Archaeology, pp. 174-175.
- •70 Hubert, h., The Rise of the Celts, pp. 50-52.
- •71 Nielsen, h. A., anoh, II Rakke, vol. 21, 1906, pp. 237-318; ibid., III Rakke, vol. 5, 1915, pp. 360-365. Reworked.
- •Retzius, g., Crania Suecica, reworked.
- •78 Schliz, a., pz, vol. 5, 1913, pp. 148-157.
- •Barras de Aragon, f. De las, msae, vol. 6, 1927, pp. 141-186.
- •78 Hauschild, m. W., zfma, vol. 25, 1925, pp. 221-242.
- •79 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, vol. 18, 1926, pp. 56-98.
- •8° Reche, o., vur, vol. 4, 1929, pp. 129-158, 193-215.
- •Kendrick, t. D., and Hawkes, c. F. C., Archaeology in England and Wales, 1914-1931.
- •Morant, Biometrika, vol. 18, 1926, pp. 56-98.
- •Lambdoid flattening is a characteristic common to Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic man, but rare in the exclusively Mediterranean group.
- •Calculated from a number of series, involving over 120 adult males. Sources:
- •Peake, h., and Hooton, e. A., jrai, vol. 45, 1915, pp. 92-130.
- •Bryce, t. H., psas, vol. 61, 1927, pp. 301-317.
- •Ecker, a., Crania Germanica.
- •Vram, u., rdar, vol. 9, 1903, pp. 151-159.
- •06 Miiller, g., loc. Cit.
- •98 Lebzelter, V., and Thalmann, g., zfrk, vol. 1, 1935, pp. 274-288.
- •97 Hamy, e. T., Anth, vol. 4, 1893, pp. 513-534; vol. 19, 1908, pp. 47-68.
- •The slavs
- •Conclusions
- •The iron age, part II Speakers of Uralic and Altaic
- •The turks and mongols
- •I® Ibid.
- •Introduction to the study of the living
- •Materials and techniques
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •2. Skin of tawny white, nose narrow,
- •Hair Flaxen
- •Gobineau, a. De, Essai sur Vinegaliti des races humaines.
- •Meyer, h., Die Insel Tenerife; Uber die Urbewohner der Canarischen Inseln.
- •46 Eickstedt, e. Von, Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit.
- •Nordenstreng, r., Europas Mdnniskoraser och Folkslag.
- •Montandon, g., La Race, Les Races.
- •Large-headed palaeolithic survivors
- •Pure and mixed palaeolithic and mesolithic survivors of moderate head size56
- •Pure and mixed unbrachtcephalized mediterranean deriva tives
- •Brachtcephauzed mediterranean derivatives, probably mixed
- •The north
- •Introduction
- •The lapps
- •I Wiklund, k. B., gb, vol. 13, 1923, pp. 223-242.
- •7 Schreiner, a., Die Nord-Norweger; Hellemo (Tysfjord Lappen).
- •8 Gjessing, r., Die Kautokeinolappen.
- •10 Kajava, y., Beitr'dge zur Kenntnis der Rasseneigenschaften der Lappen Finnlands.
- •17 For a complete bibliography of early Lappish series, see the lists of Bryn, the two Schreiners, Geyer, Kajava, and Zolotarev.
- •Schreiner, k. E., Zur Osteologie der Lappen.
- •Gjessing, r., Die Kautokeinolappen, pp. 90-95.
- •Hatt, g., Notes on Reindeer Nomadism, maaa, vol. 6, 1919. This is one of the few points regarding the history of reindeer husbandry upon which these two authorities agree.
- •The samoyeds26
- •Scandinavia; norway
- •Iceland
- •Sweden64
- •Denmark62
- •The finno-ugrians, introduction
- •Fig. 31. Linguistic Relationships of Finno-Ugrian Speaking Peoples.
- •Racial characters of the eastern finns
- •The baltic finns: finland
- •The baltic-speaking peoples
- •Conclusions
- •The british isles
- •R£sum£ of skeletal history
- •Ireland
- •Great britain, general survey
- •Fig. 32. Composite Silhouettes of English Men and Women.
- •The british isles, summary
- •Introduction
- •Lapps and samoyeds
- •Mongoloid influences in eastern europe and in turkestan
- •Brunn survivors in scandinavia
- •Borreby survivors in the north
- •East baltics
- •Carpathian and balkan borreby-like types
- •The alpine race in germany
- •The alpine race in western and central europe
- •Aberrant alpine forms in western and central europe
- •Alpines from central, eastern, and southeastern europe
- •Asiatic alpines
- •The mediterranean race in arabia
- •Long-faced mediterraneans of the western asiatic highlands
- •Long-faced mediterraneans of the western asiatic highlands: the irano-afghan race
- •Gypsies, dark-skinned mediterraneans, and south arabian veddoids
- •The negroid periphery of the mediterranean race
- •Mediterraneans from north africa
- •Small mediterraneans of southern europe
- •Atlanto-mediterraneans from southwestern europe
- •Blue-eyed atlanto-mediterraneans
- •The mediterranean reemergence in great britain
- •The pontic mediterraneans
- •The nordic race: examples of corded predominance
- •The nordic race: examples of danubian predominance
- •The nordic race: hallstatt and keltic iron age types
- •Exotic nordics
- •Nordics altered by northwestern european upper palaeolithic mixture: I
- •Nordics altered by northwestern european upper palaeolithic mixture: II
- •Nordics altered by mixture with southwestern borreby and alpine elements
- •The principle of dinaricization
- •European dinarics: I
- •European dinarics: II
- •European dinarics: III
- •European dinarics: IV
- •Dinarics in western asia: I
- •Dinarics in western asia: II
- •Armenoid armenians
- •Dinaricized forms from arabia and central asia
- •The jews: I
- •The jews: II
- •The jews: III
- •The mediterranean world
- •Introduction
- •The mediterranean rage in arabia
- •The mediterranean world
- •7 Lawrence, Col. T. E., The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
- •The Distribution of Iranian Languages
- •The turks as mediterraneans
- •Fig, 37. Ancient Jew.
- •North africa, introduction
- •Fig. 38. Ancient Libyan. Redrawn from
- •The tuareg
- •Eastern barbary, algeria, and tunisia
- •The iberian peninsula
- •The western mediterranean islands
- •The basques
- •The gypsies
- •Chapter XII
- •The central zone, a study in reemergence
- •Introduction
- •8 Collignon, r., msap, 1894.
- •9 Collignon, r., bsap, 1883; Anth, 1893.
- •Belgium
- •The netherlands and frisia
- •Germany
- •Switzerland and austria
- •The living slavs
- •Languages of East-Central Europe and of the Balkans
- •The magyars
- •The living slavs (Concluded)
- •Albania and the dinaric race
- •The greeks
- •Bulgaria
- •Rumania and the vlachs
- •The osmanli turks
- •Turkestan and the tajiks
- •Conclusions
- •Conclusion
- •Comments and reflections
- •The white race and the new world
- •IflnrlrH
- •Alveon (also prosthion). The most anterior point on the alveolar border of the upper jaw, on the median line between the two upper median incisors.
- •Length of the clavicle (collar bone) and that of the humerus (upper arm bone);
- •Incipiently mongoloid. A racial type which has evolved part way in a mongoloid direction, and which may have other, non-mongoloid specializations of its own, is called incipiently mongoloid.
- •List of books
- •Index of authors
- •54; Language distribution, 561, map; Jews in, 642; Neo-Danubian, ill., Plate 31, Jig. 4.
- •Map; classified, 577; racial characteristics, 578-79; ill., Plate 3, fig. 3.
- •Ill., Plate 6, Jigs. 1-5; survivors in Carpathians and Balkans, ill., Plate 8, figs. 1-6; Nordic blend, ill., Plate 34, figs.
- •61; Associated with large head size, 265, 266. See also Cephalic index, Cranial measurements.
- •Ill., Plate 36, fig. 1. See also Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland.
- •Ill., Plate 30, fig. 2.
- •85; Von Eickstedt’s, 286-88; Gzek- anowski’s system, 288-89; author’s, 289-96; schematic representation, 290, chart; geographic, 294- 95, map.
- •396; Cornishmen in France, 512, 514.
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NORTH
323
with
the last named is clearly shown by his devotion to the doubleheaded
hammer, which was probably nothing more nor less than the boat-axe.
The
worshippers of Odin and Frey were especially interested in the
horse; horse sacrifices were made to these gods, and to Frey was
dedicated the cult of the embalmed horse’s penis. In Norway the
horse was replaced to a certain extent as a funeral object by the
ship; and the ships were made by the carls, who had learned their
craft from their Megalithic predecessors and ancestors. With
the introduction of iron, ship-building flourished, and the Viking
was nothing more nor less than a sea-going central European
Nordic, who had exchanged his horse for a steed suited to a new
environment, with the cooperation of a vigorous body of indigenous
craftsmen and warriors, into whose racial body his own group was
soon blended.
Iceland
46 was first discovered by the Irish, but when this event
took place we do not know. Our first reliable account of their
voyages to Iceland is the book of the Irish monk Dicuil,
written in 825 a.d.
At that
time, and presumably for some years before, the only occupants of
the island had been Irish hermits, who found their arctic retreat an
excellent asylum from the ills of the world. It was probably from
the Irish that the Norsemen obtained their knowledge of this
island, before the motive had arrived for them to go there and live
in it.
Toward
the end of the ninth century King Harald Fairhair united Norway
under his own command, and then tried to extend his authority to the
Norsemen living in the Orkneys and other outlying regions. As a
result of his activities the noblemen who refused to submit sailed
forth on Viking expeditions, and the Norse population in the British
Isles increased. Iceland, however, being a country which was
practically uninhabited, offered a ready refuge to these political
malcontents, who comprised, it is said, the highest nobility of
Norway.
In
870 a.d.
Ingolf
Arnarsson first settled in Iceland, and a period of intensive
colonization followed which lasted from 874 a.d.
to 930
a.d.
The high
nobles, including kings, jarls, and peers of lesser rank, brought
with them their entire households, consisting of wives, concubines,
housecarls, and slaves. Four hundred such chiefs are mentioned in
the Landnamabok,
the unique document describing in detail the settlement of Iceland
and the partitionment of its land. Various estimates reckon the
population at the
46
The bulk of this section is derived from Hannesson, G., Korpermasse
und Korperpro-
portionen
der Islander,
and from Seltzer, C. C., The
Physical Anthropology of the Mediaeval Icelanders,
unpublished MS. in Peabody Museum. Author’s permission.
Iceland
324
THE
RACES OF EUROPE
year
950 a.d.
between
the figures of 20,000 and 50,000. The lower figure is probably more
nearly correct than the higher. At any rate, the chances are that
the servants and other undistinguished persons made up the majority,
and that although the proportion of noblemen was high, it was not
high enough to predominate in a numerical sense.
The
Landnamahok
names the homes of 1003 of these immigrants. Of them 846 came from
Norway, 30 from Sweden, 1 from the Faroes, and 126 from the British
Isles. Of those coming directly from Norway, the homes of 461 are
known, as follows: Nordland, 51; Tr^ndelag and M0re, 95; Sogn og
Fjordane, 128; Hordaland, 77; Rogaland 10 (3 from Jaeren); Agder,
Telemark, Vestfold, 67; the eastern valleys, 33. Of 113 known homes
in the British Isles, the list is: Ireland, 52, Scotland, 31,
Hebrides, 26, and Orkneys, 4. Thus the Norsemen who came from Norway
came mostly from the coastal regions, and especially from Hordaland,
Sogn og Fjordane and points northward. Few were from the eastern
valley region and fewer from the brachycephalic nucleus in Rogaland.
Those from the British Isles were presumably Norse who had not
occupied their new homes long enough to lose their Norwegian
identity.
The
Vikings who came from the British Isles brought with them
Kelticspeaking slaves and concubines, who formed a considerable
community and who are frequently mentioned in the sagas. Some of the
leaders undoubtedly had Irish mothers. The exact ratio of these
people to the total population is, however, a matter of controversy.
Hannesson, who has measured the living Icelanders, estimates the
Irish and other Keltic elements to have formed some 13 per cent
of the whole. At any rate, since the tenth century no new immigrants
have entered Iceland in any numbers, and hence the living
Icelanders are the direct and unassimilated descendants of the
Viking settlers and of their retainers.
In
a total of 33 of the longer poems,47 the bards who
composed the sagas gave physical descriptions of 67 early Icelandic
persons, all important and drawn mostly from the noble class. Of
these 54 were called large or tall, and only 3 medium sized. In
regard to hair quantity, 8 out of 9 men were said to have long hair,
and one thick. Six out of seven men had curly hair, and one
straight. The following hair colors were observed for 19 males: gray
2, white 1, golden blond 2, blond 3, red 3, light brown 1, brown 4,
black 3. One female was given black hair. Of three beard colors
noticed, two were red and one gray. One man had blue eyes, and two
women black. Although these observations do not form a statistically
valid series or a random sample, yet they may be regarded as ample
proof that the ancestors of the Icelanders were of variable
pigmentation. Since the persons described were all of high rank, the
chances are that most of « Heinzel, R., SAWV,
vol.
97,
1881, p. 107.
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NORTH
325
them
were pure Norwegians, and that the pigmentation map of western
Norway was not very different a thousand years ago from what it is
today.
The
modern Icelanders, with a mean stature of 173.6 cm., are taller than
most Norwegian groups, and come closest in general bulk to the Valle
and Tr^ndelagen populations. In bodily proportions, too, they seem
to be moderately thick-set and heavily muscled, and to be long
spanned and relatively long bodied. In these general somatic
characters they reveal the fact that their ancestors came more from
the coast than from the interior of Norway.
Their
heads, being very long, with a mean of 197.3 mm., and rather broad
(154.1 mm.), may be duplicated in size only in Valle, and in
Ireland. A head height of 126 mm. likewise fits into the
general West Norwegian picture, as does a mean cephalic index
of 78.1.
The
Icelanders, with a nasion-menton height of 130.1 mm., are very long
faced, but their excess over the Norwegians in this character is
partly a matter of technique.48 They are actually not
much longer in this character than the people of Valle. The
breadths of the face, the minimum frontal, bizygomatic, and bigonial
(106.5, 140.6, and 108.5 mm.), are all broader than the
corresponding dimensions in Norway as a whole, but they are
comparable to those found in the provinces from which the Icelandic
ancestors came. The excess of the jaw breadth over that of the
forehead may indicate an adaptation resulting from rigorous
dietary conditions,49 as Mme. Schreiner also
observed in northern Norway.60 The noses are very high
(58.8 mm.), and of moderate breadth, with a nasal index (60.2) on
the lower border of leptorrhiny. One-half of the nasal profiles are
straight, one-third concave; the remaining 17 per cent are mostly
undulating, with a few convex. On the whole, less convexity is found
here than in most districts of Norway or of Ireland.
Hannesson,
although he used the Fischer chart, divides his hair color
categories in such a way that one cannot distinguish the ash-blond
from the golden class. Other evidence, however, clearly indicates
that, of the two, the latter is in the majority. Of pure blond hair
(Fisher #12-24) he finds but .8 per cent as against 13.1 per cent
for Norway,61 and 5.5 per cent from Sogn og Fjordane, the
province from which the largest number of settlers to Iceland came.
In his light brown class (Fischer #7-11, 25-26), which includes what
other authorities usually call ash-blond, he finds 52 per cent
In
recruit material used in the Somatologie
nasion is quite apparently located lower than is consistent with
either Hannesson’s or Mme. Schreiner’s techniques. A series of
Icelanders measured by Ribbing includes a face height mean of 122
mm.; cf. Ribbing, L„ LUA, N. F. Afd. 2, vol. 8, #6, 1912, pp.
1-8.Hooton,
E. A., AJPA, loc.
cit.60
Schreiner, A., Die
Nord-Norweger.
61
Recalculated from Bryn and Schreiner.