Note 1973 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN (continued 2)

I am glad to find that I have the support of Dr. Collignon (Annales de géogr., v, 1896, p. 159), who speaks of ‘la population pré-gauloise que Broca nommait à tort les Celtes’. Similarly M. G. Hervé (Rev. mensuelle de l’École d’anthr., vi, 1896, p. 99) says that ‘la race brachycéphale néolithique ou race de Grenelle est devenue à l’âge de bronze ... celle des Celtes, au sens que les anthropologistes ont accoutumé d’attacher depuis Broca à ce dernier terme’; and, as he remarks (ib., p. 104), the Celtic language was imposed on this people, long before they and their conquerors were called by Caesar Celtae, by invading Gauls. MM. Collignon and Hervé do not perhaps make it sufficiently clear that the people whom Broca called ‘les Celtes’ were not the brachycephalic neolithic race alone, but that race plus mesaticephalic people also of neolithic origin plus the conquerors of both.