ABSTRACT
Geology is not history in any proper sense of that much-misused word, nor is prehistoric anthropology, though both of these sciences may prove at times useful handmaids to their greater sister. It is therefore not necessary to follow the successive changes in the contour of North-Western Europe, and of its fauna and flora, in the days when there was as yet nothing that could be called Britain. Among the known remains of the skulls and skeletons of the neolithic people the prevailing type shows moderate stature and slender proportions. The skull is markedly long in shape, whence the race has sometimes been called simply the early Dolichocephalic people, in order to avoid the use of misleading national names. The Iron Age peoples of the South and West were builders of hill-forts, which were sometimes established on or about the sites of old neolithic strongholds, differentiated by many details of a more perfected system of fortification.
