"We are strengthened in this assumption that the earliest Europeans were not only long-headed but also dark-complexioned, by various points in our enquiry thus far. We have proved the prehistoric antiquity of the living CroMagnon type in Southern France ; and we saw that among these peasants, the prevalence of black hair and eyes is very striking. And comparing types in the British Isles we saw that everything tended to show that the brunet populations of Wales, Ireland and Scotland constituted the most primitive stratum of population in Britain. Furthermore, in that curious spot in Garfagnana, where a survival of the ancient Ligurian population of Northern Italy is indicated, there also are the people characteristically dark. Judged, there¬ fore, either in the light of general principles or of local details, it would seem as if this earliest race in Europe must have been very dark. ... It was Mediterranean in its pigmental affinities, and not Scandinavian."
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Races of Europe, by Prof. Ripley, quoted in Who Were the Shudras? , B. R. Ambedkar , 1946.
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William Z. Ripley
William Zebina Ripley (October 13, 1867 – August 16, 1941) was an American economist, lecturer at Columbia University, professor of economics at MIT, professor of political economy at Harvard University, and racial anthropologist. Ripley was famous for his criticisms of American railroad economics and American business practices in the 1920s and 1930s, and later for his tripartite racial theory of Europe. His work of racial anthropology was later taken up by racial physical anthropologists, euge
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