Re: Cranial Indexing

--- In cybalist@..., x99lynx@... wrote:

> I wrote
> <<Does Danish culture show a clear pattern of IE material culture

back to

> neolithic times?>>
>
> "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> replied:
> <<It's a matter of interpretation. According to what I read in
> Albrectsen (see also earlier postings), skulls in Danish Neolithic
> graves are mixed doligocephalic and brachycephalic, while those of
> the newly introduced inhumation graves in Early Roman Iron Age (0-

200

> CE) are mostly doligocephalic. It is tempting to assume an invasion
> (or two) in the interim period, eg. around 0 (and another one,
> Cimbrian?, at 500 BCE).>>
>
> Well, at least that looks like some evidence of

dolichocephalic "population

> continuity" in that region, for what that is worth. Genetic

(biochemical)

> evidence for the general region is somewhat more supportive.
>

Nonsense. The only scenario with "population continuity" that would
be consistent with these facts would be one where mysteriously only
the long-skulled part of the population decided to practise the new-
fangled idea of inhumation; an explanation in need of an explantion
of its own. What it would be consistent with, is an invasion.

> Steve

Torsten