. Anthropology . Ossetians,and the brown AfTghans. Its highest expression is met with in thefirst of these. The Tadjicks are of medium height, with a longoval face and regular features. The forehead is broad and high,the eyes large and shaded with black eyebrows, the nose prominentand straight, or bent round, the mouth large, and the lips thin, thecomplexion fair and rosy, the pilous system over the whole bodyabundant, the hair straight and black, the beard and moustache alsoblack, long, thick, and well placed. Authors, with the exception * See Eevue dAnthropologic, vol. ii. p. 161, and vol. i
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. Anthropology . Ossetians, and the brown AfTghans. Its highest expression is met with in thefirst of these. The Tadjicks are of medium height, with a longoval face and regular features. The forehead is broad and high, the eyes large and shaded with black eyebrows, the nose prominentand straight, or bent round, the mouth large, and the lips thin, thecomplexion fair and rosy, the pilous system over the whole bodyabundant, the hair straight and black, the beard and moustache alsoblack, long, thick, and well placed. Authors, with the exception * See Eevue dAnthropologic, vol. ii. p. 161, and vol. iii. p. 234. 458 CELTIC TYPE. [Chap. x. of Chardin and Tavenier, agree in considering it a beautiful type.They appear to be dolichocephalic. * The Celtic Type. The Celtic type is thoroughly recognised by the universal testi-mony of ancient authors. The name Celts has been taken in fourdifferent acceptations, thus causing much confusion. Linguistsunderstand by it the ancient peoples speaking the Celtic language, . Fig. 44.—Celtic type: Skull of an Auvergnian, from the Memoire of M. Broca on the Celtic race. such as we now find it in Ireland, in Cornwall, in Wales, in theIsle of Man, in Scotland, and in Brittany, but which was very widelydiffused at one time, and was the first detached from the mother-stock of Asia. Archaeologists, on their side, call by this name thedolmen builders during the Polished Stone epoch, and the importersof bronze into Europe. Both linguists and archaeologists think thatthe Celts form the first migration of the invaders from the East.A certain number of ancient historians again confound under thisname all the peoples of Western and Central Europe, including thoseof the British isles among them, the Galli, the Gaels, the Gauls, * Ethnographie de la Perse/ by M. de Khanikoff. In 4to. Paris, 1866. €hap. x.] CELTIC TYPE. 459 the Galatians, the Kymris, the Belgae, the Cimbri, the Cimmerians, the Caledonians, the Eirbolgs, the Bretons, &c. Lastly there is t