On the people of the long barrow period / by George Rolleston.

  • Rolleston, George, 1829-1881.
Date:
[1875]
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Credit: On the people of the long barrow period / by George Rolleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE LONG BARROW PERIOD. BY GEOEGE ROLLESTON, M.D.,F.E.S., Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, Oxford. [From the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. V. October, 1875.] Introductory Remarks.—In this paper I propose to give in detail a description of the examination of three Long Barrows situated near the little village of Nether Swell, in the county of Gloucester, prefacing this account by some general re- marks—firstly, as to the physical characteristics of the people of the Long Barrow period; secondly, as to the possibility of dividing that period into successive epochs; and thirdly, as to the rationale of the various modes of disposing of the dead observable in those early tumuli. In these prefatory remarks I shall not confine myself to the facts observed in the Gloucester- shire explorations, but shall use, for purposes of comparison, my records of the investigation of similar barrows carried on by me in Yorkshire and elsewhere, with the valuable assistance of Canon Greenwell. Looking at the osteological remains as a whole, perhaps the most striking point is the great disproportion in the sizes and the lengths of certain of the long bones, and, by consequence, in heights, of the male and female skeletons respectively. The