Ethnology : in two parts, I. Fundamental ethnical problems. II. The primary ethnical groups / by A.H. Keane.

Augustus Henry Keane

Date:: 1896

Credit: Ethnology : in two parts, I. Fundamental ethnical problems. II. The primary ethnical groups / by A.H. Keane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Aryan family....I believe Picts and Iberians to have belonged to one and the same family, which I have ventured to call Ibero- Pidish. How nearly related Picts and Iberians may prove to be is a matter for future research'. But Mr Gray seems needlessly to separate the Basques from the Iberians, and to connect the former positively with the Picti of North Britain and the Pictones or Pictavi of South [West] Gaul. The language of the Picts was Basque. The name Pict is derived from a Basque word, pikatu, to cut...The pre-Pictish inhabitants were probably Iberians, and prevailed mostly in Ireland, South Wales, Cumberland and South Scotland'. It is right to add that these conclusions are far from being accepted by some of the leading Keltic scholars, such as Mr Whitley Stokes and Prof Windisch, both of whom still hold that the Picts were Kelts, but more nearly allied to the Cymry [Welsh] than to the Gael [Irish]'. But these discordant views on points of detail do not affect the main argument, that Homo Caucasicus had his .... . Family Tree origin in North Africa, and spread thence in pateo- of Homo Cau- and neolithic times over the whole' of Europe, the Nile Valley and a great part of Asia. In the accompanying Family Tree are seen the chief branches, which have ramified from the parent stem during pre-historic and historic times. In all attempts at a classification of Homo Caucasicus, claim- ing to be something more than a mere linguistic . ° Xanthochroi groupmg, the great initial difficulty is colour. So and Melano- true is this that, as seen, Huxley and other recent systematists begin at once by splitting the whole division into two sections, a fair and a dark type—the Xanthochroi and the Melano- chroi branches of our Family Tree. But even this is far from covering the whole ground. It not only leaves out of account the \videspread Indofiesian branch, here ramifying to the left, which is neither fair nor dark, but distinctly brown, but it also gives to the term dark a totally inadequate meaning. Melanochroi in fact * Academy, Sept. 26, 1891. - Distribution of the Picts in Britain, as indicated by Place-Natnes, Papei read at the Meeting of the Brit. Assoc. Oxford, 1894. ' W. Stokes, The Linguistic Value of the Irish Annals.$