. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . ical Society. A comparisonof these with the specimens of crania drawnby Dr. Thurnam from examples found in anancient tumular cemetery at Lamel Hill, nearYork, believed to be of the Anglo - Saxonperiod, abundantly proves an essential differ-ence of races, f The latter, though belongingto the superior or dolicho-kephalic type, aresmall, very poorly developed, low and narrowin the forehead, and pyra
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . ical Society. A comparisonof these with the specimens of crania drawnby Dr. Thurnam from examples found in anancient tumular cemetery at Lamel Hill, nearYork, believed to be of the Anglo - Saxonperiod, abundantly proves an essential differ-ence of races, f The latter, though belongingto the superior or dolicho-kephalic type, aresmall, very poorly developed, low and narrowin the forehead, and pyramidal in form. Astriking feature of one type of crania from theScottish barrows is a square compact form. .No. 7 [Figs. 231 and 232] was obtainedfrom a cist discovered under a large cairn atNether Urquhart, Fifeshire, in 1835. An ac-count of the opening of several cairns andtumuli in the same district is given by Lieu-tenant-Colonel Miller, in his Inquiry respect-ing the Site of the Battle of Mons of them contained urns and burnt bones,ornaments of jet and shale, and the like earlyrelics, while in others were found implementsor weapons of iron. It is selected here aa Fxa. Fig. 232.
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