CHAPTER IX.

/Races and Peoples of Europe/ 299

Problem of European ethnogeny--I. /Ancient Inhabitants Of Europe/--_Prehistoric races_--Quaternary period--Glacial and interglacial periods--Quaternary skulls--Spy and Chancelade races or types--Races of the neolithic period--Races of the age of metals--_Aryan question_--Position of the problem--_Migration_ of European peoples in the _historic period_--II. /European Races of the Present Day/--Characteristics of the six principal races and the four secondary races--III. /Present Peoples of Europe/--/A/. _Aryan peoples_: Latins, Germans, Slavs, Letto-Lithuanians, Celts, Illyro-Hellenes--/B/. _Anaryan peoples_: Basques, Finns, etc.--/C/. _Caucasian peoples_: Lesgians, Georgians, etc.