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OUR FOREFATHERS IMMIGRATION 9
Accordingly, it is clear that the people who, after the end of the last Glacial
Period, immigrated to Sweden, and became the first inhabitants of our country,
must have belonged to the CrosMagnomrace.
This is confirmed in a very distinet manner by the many discoveries made
in our country, which prove that a long*headed race, with skulls similar to those
of the Cro*Magnomrace, lived in Sweden more than 2,000 years before the com*
mencement of the Christian Era. This is further confirmed by the faet that such
skulls are, even at the present time, very common here.
As the fragile skuils can be preserved for thousands of years only under very
favourable conditions, it is not surprising that no Swedish skulis are met with
from an earlier period than the later Stone Age. Already long before this, the
short«headed race, of which we have just spoken, had arrived to Europe.
Although this race had not replaced the original inhabitants in the North,
the latter had, as is usual in such cases, more or less been blended with the
newseomers. As even these, as well as the former immigrants, came to Scandi*
navia from Central Europe, it would be a natural consequence that the short«
headed race was comparatively more spread in Southern Scandinavia, than further
North. This has just been the case.
Gustaf Retzius and Carl Furst have described a large number of Swedish
skulis from the 3rd millennium B. C., and Furst has proved, that in Scania, as
in Denmark, the percentage of shorTheads during that time was greater than in
Central Sweden. This is just what ought to be the consequence of my theory
about the primitive inhabitants of our country.
We obtain further important confirmation of this theory from another source.
If they who immigrated here after the end of the Glacial Period were our
forefathers, the names of the lakes in our country would be of Swedish origin.
Several years before I arrived at my present opinion regarding the primitive
inhabitants of Sweden, Professor Hellquist of Lund had examined the names of
the Swedish lakes, and found that all of them, — with the exception of the Lapp*
landish and Finnish lakes in the most Northern parts of the country — are of
Swedish origin.*
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