negroid more than the non-negroid men; although the women, of whichever race-stock they
might be, participated equally in the improvement.
The increase in the size of the head, which we have ventured to attribute to the
intellectual development that took place at the time, is not consistently maintained in
the subsequent periods, some of which indeed afford evidence of marked deterioration.
In the Roman age there are certain differences in the cranial characteristics which are
probably due rather to alien blood than to natural development and may therefore be
considered separately.
Apart from the results of culture and civilization we must not neglect to mention the
occasional effects of alien immigrations, though they are not nearly so pronounced as might
have been expected and have only a temporary significance. Our analysis has revealed
at times the presence of isolated groups analogous to the occurrence of distinct colonies or
the intrusion of people of allied stock, but it is not till the Roman period that the influx of
an alien race can be detected. The negroid element in the population was always much less
stable than the non-negroid, and was probably recruited more than once from different tribes.
Thus at Hou there was the remarkable circumstance of the settlement amid the established
population of another negroid colony. Again in the Early Predynastic series the negroid
females were slightly different from the most typical representatives of the stock. And
there is some reason to think that the decline of the native women in physique led to
a demand for negroid mistresses, who were obtained from foreign sources. Lastly, in the
Roman period there is the striking fact that negroid men appear who belong to a type
which is superior in cranial development to that of the contemporary natives.
In contradistinction to these minor variations, which are confined to the negroid stock,
there are two cases in which a foreign intrusion may be observed. One is at Regagnah in
the Third and Fourth Dynasties, where there was a settlement of large-headed men who, as
we have seen reason to suppose, were brought from Middle or Lower Egypt for a special
purpose. The other case occurs among the non-negroid males of the Roman period, whose
narrower face and nose and straighter profile are suggestive of just such a foreign influence
as the historical circumstances would lead the reader to expect.
Cranial Capacity.
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