. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. THE GUANCHES. 543. DOLICHOCEPHALIC SKULL. The skulls illustrated (Figs. 2, 3) are drawn from specimens in the collection of tlie museum of Las Palmas. The first is a purely Iberian type, belonging to one of the three or four great divisions of the human race—those large groups or nationalities which had gradually formed from out of tlie primordial and half-simian swarms that had preceded tlicin. These Iberians inhabited the greater part of
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. THE GUANCHES. 543. DOLICHOCEPHALIC SKULL. The skulls illustrated (Figs. 2, 3) are drawn from specimens in the collection of tlie museum of Las Palmas. The first is a purely Iberian type, belonging to one of the three or four great divisions of the human race—those large groups or nationalities which had gradually formed from out of tlie primordial and half-simian swarms that had preceded tlicin. These Iberians inhabited the greater part of Avestern Europe in an infinitely remote period, probably toward the termination of the last glacial epoch, which some would place at eighty to ninety thousand years ago. These men lived and died among the gigan- tic animals now extinct; among mammoths, the giant elk of Iceland, the cave bear, and so forth. In England and in most parts of western Europe (except Germany, where tliey never penetrated) the remains of this race Iiave been found in what are termed the long barrows^ as distinguished from the round barrows, which belonged to the round lieaded, a stronger race, who gradu- ally eliminated the weaker. This long- headed race are known asthe Iberian; they inhabited the Basque provinces, Spain, northern Africa, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and the Canary Islands, and it is the same race who, by some yet unsolved problem, found their way to Mexico. These Iberians, however, gradually gave way before the stronger races—the Aryan, the Scandinavian, and the Ligurian—but in these remote Canary Islands they lived on less molested, less influ- enced by more dominant races, and hence have transmitted to a com- paratively recent time their structural peculiarities. For this reason the caves and places of sepulture, which the Spanish discovered here in the early part of the fifteenth century, still retained the remains of the most ancient race known to us—still indi- cated their
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