. The arts in early England. es of theolder British population are to be looked for, especially amongthe skeletons of females, the inference being that the Teutonicwarriors took to themselves wives from the older inhabitants ofthe land. In connection with one of the most recent explora-tions of a cemetery, that at East Shefford, Berks, it was urgedthat there was cranial evidence that the older females were forthe most part at any rate of British race. This meant re-opening a question that anthropologists considered practicallysettled in favour of community of race between the sexes. Inconnecti
. The arts in early England. es of theolder British population are to be looked for, especially amongthe skeletons of females, the inference being that the Teutonicwarriors took to themselves wives from the older inhabitants ofthe land. In connection with one of the most recent explora-tions of a cemetery, that at East Shefford, Berks, it was urgedthat there was cranial evidence that the older females were forthe most part at any rate of British race. This meant re-opening a question that anthropologists considered practicallysettled in favour of community of race between the sexes. Inconnection with another of the more recent discoveries, that ofthe cemetery on Dover Hill above Folkestone, Kent, ProfessorF. G. Parsons reported in 1911 1 that the female skulls andbones showed no points of difference from those of the malesexcept in the normal sexual signs, and this agrees with thetenor of most previous reports of the kind by craniologists. 1 Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, xli, 128. ANGLO-SAXON SKULLS. CRANIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE 185 Writing in the Wilts Magazine about 1890 General PittRivers drew a comparison from the anthropometric point ofview among three classes of skeletons found in prehistorictombs in England. The biggest and strongest men werethose of the Early Bronze Age, the smallest and most delicatebelonged to our Early Iron Age and the Romano-Britishperiod, while the Anglo-Saxon skeletons male and female camein between, and were notably those of larger people than theRomano-Britons. Craniologically the Anglo-Saxons are dolicho-cephalic, that is their skulls are long from front to back inproportion to their width— long and fairly high but distinctlydeficient in width Professor Parsons describes theml—whereasthe Celts were round-headed or brachycephalic, with a widthof head from side to side more nearly approaching its dolichocephalic character of Anglo-Saxon skulls generallyhas been almost universally recognized though some femalesku
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