RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of International Congress of Prehistoric Archæology: Transactions of the third session, 1868. CUL-DAR80.B81. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).


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Transact. Internat. Congress of Pre-hist Arch. 1868.

p 105 Huxley says that the skulls of many south Germans & Swiss are "as short & as broad as those of the Tartars, while those of the Scandinavians are as long as those of the Esquimaux."

[Huxley. On the distribution of the races of mankind, and its bearing on the antiquity of man. Fourth meeting, 24 August. International Congress of Prehistoric Archæology: Transactions of the third session, 1868: 92-105.]

p 169 Prof. Broca say "the quabernary race of les Eyzies differs from the quat. race of the caverns of Belgium as much as the most dissimilar modern races."

p 171 The skulls have large capacity; superior to the average skull of the present day.

172 This race presents a most singular combination of low or simious & high characteristics, the latter in accordance with their works of art

175 He concludes by saying "that the race of les Eyzies

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[Paul Broca. On the crania and bones of Les Eyzies, Dordogne. Ibid.: 168-175.]

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"is entirely different from any other race, ancient or modern, that we have ever seen or heard of."


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