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Racial Contexts of Prehistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1946

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References

1 J. Beddoe, The Races of Britain. London, 1885.

2 It is equally possible that sapiens man, being an offshoot from the earlier, less specialized, Neanderthals, was himself a carrier of Neanderthal traits. See W. E. Le Gros Clark, ‘Pithe canthropus in Peking’, ANTIQUITY, XIX, especially pp. 4-5.

3 But Pictland did not escape Iron Age invasion. See Childe, Prehistoric Communities of the British Isles (1940), pp. 211 ff.

4 Shetelig, Falk and Gordon, Scandinavian Archaeology (Oxford, 1937), pp. 174f.

5 It shares plurals in -s and superlatives in -st- with Indo-Iranian. As to garbling, the unusual consonantal mutations, and the large number of apparently non-Wiro words (such as house, stone sea, wife) may be cited.

6 Coon, p. 188.

7 Coon, p. 210.

8 p. 399.