- •Published, April, 1939.
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Introduction 78-82
- •Introduction 131-135
- •Introduction 297-298
- •Introduction 400-401
- •Introduction 510-511
- •List of maps
- •Introduction to the historical study of the white race
- •Statement of aims and proposals
- •Theory and principles of the concept race
- •Materials and techniques of osteology**
- •Pleistocene white men
- •Pleistocene climate
- •Sapiens men of the middle pleistocene
- •The neanderthaloid hybrids of palestine
- •Upper palaeolithic man in europe,
- •Fig. 2. Neanderthal Man. Fig. 3. Cro-Magnon Man.
- •Aurignacian man in east africa
- •The magdalenians
- •Upper palaeolithic man in china
- •Summary and conclusions
- •Fig. 12. Fjelkinge, Skane, Sweden. Neolithic.
- •Mesolithic man in africa
- •The natufians of palestine
- •The midden-d wellers of the tagus
- •Mesolithic man in france
- •The ofnet head burials
- •Mesolithic man in the crimea
- •Palaeolithic survivals in the northwest
- •Clarke, j. G. D., op. Cit., pp. 133-136.
- •38 Fiirst, Carl m., fkva, vol. 20, 1925, pp. 274-293.
- •Aichel, Otto, Der deutsche Mensch. The specimens referred to are b 5, ks 11032, ks 11254b, b 38, b 34, b 37, b 10.
- •Clarke, j. G. D., op. Citpp. 133-136.
- •Summary and conclusions
- •The neolithic invasions
- •(1) Introduction
- •1 Childe, V. Gordon, The Dawn of European Civilization; The Most Ancient East; The Danube in Prehistory; New Light on the Most Ancient East; Man Makes Himself.
- •And chronology '
- •The neolithic and the mediterranean race
- •Vault medium to thin, muscular relief on vault as a rule slight.
- •Iran and iraq
- •Vallois, h. V., “Notes sur les Tfctes Osseuses,” in Contencau, g., and Ghirsh- man, a., Fouilles de Tepe Giyan.
- •Jordan, j., apaw, Jh. 1932, #2.
- •Keith, Sir Arthur, “Report on the Human Remains, Ur Excavations,” vol. 1: in Hall, h. R. H„ and Woolley, c. L., Al 'Ubaid,
- •10 Frankfort, h., “Oriental Institute Discoveries in Iraq, 1933-34,” Fourth Preliminary Report, coic #19, 1935,
- •Civilized men in egypt
- •11 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1925, p. 4.
- •12 This summary of climatic changes in Egypt is based on Childe, V. G., New Light
- •18 Childe, op. Cit.Y p. 35. 14 Leakey, l. S. B., Stone Age Africa, pp. 177-178.
- •Brunton, Guy, Antiquity, vol. 3, #12, Dec., 1929, pp. 456-457.
- •Menghin, o., Lecture at Harvard University, April 6, 1937.
- •Childe, V. G., op. Cit.Y p. 64.
- •Derry, Douglas, sawv, Jahrgang, 1932, #1-4, pp. 60-61. 20 Ibid., p. 306.
- •Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1927, vol. 27, pp. 293-309.
- •21 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, vol. 17, 1925, pp. 1-52.
- •Morant, op. Cit., 1925.
- •Neolithic north africa
- •(6) The neolithic in spain and portugal
- •The eastern source areas: south, central, and north
- •The danubian culture bearers
- •The corded or battle-axe people
- •The neolithic in the british isles
- •Western europe and the alpine race
- •Schlaginhaufen, o., op. Cit.
- •Schenk, a., reap, vol. 14, 1904, pp. 335-375.
- •Childe, The Danube in Prehistory, pp. 163, 174.
- •Neolithic scandinavia
- •Introduction
- •Bronze age movements and chronology
- •The bronze age in western asia
- •The minoans
- •The greeks
- •Basques, phoenicians, and etruscans
- •The bronze age in britain
- •The bronze age in central europe
- •The bronze age in the north
- •The bronze age on the eastern plains
- •The final bronze age and cremation
- •Summary and conclusions
- •Race, languages, and european peoples
- •The illyrians
- •The kelts
- •Vallois, h. V., Les Ossements Bretons de Kerne, TouUBras, et Port-Bara.
- •We know the stature of Kelts in the British Isles only from a small Irish group, and by inference from comparison with mediaeval English counterparts of Iron Age skeletons.
- •Greenwell, w., Archaeologia, vol. 60, part 1, pp. 251-312.
- •Morant, g. M., Biometrika, 1926, vol. 18, pp. 56-98.
- •The romans
- •46 Whatmouffh. J., The Foundations of Roman Italy.
- •The scythians
- •88 Browne, c. R., pria, vol. 2, ser. 3, 1899, pp. 649—654.
- •88 Whatmough is in doubt as to their linguistic affiliation. Whatmough, j., op. Cit., pp. 202-205.
- •Fig. 29. Scythians, from the Kul Oba Vase. Redrawn from Minns, e. H., Scythians and Greeks, p. 201, Fig. 94.
- •Doniti, a., Crania Scythica, mssr, ser. 3, Tomul X, Mem. 9, Bucharest, 1935.
- •The germanic peoples
- •Stoiyhwo, k., Swiatowit, vol. 6, 1905, pp. 73-80.
- •Bunak, V. V., raj, vol. 17, 1929, pp. 64-87.
- •Shetelig, h., Falk, h., and Gordon, e. V., Scandinavian Archaeology, pp. 174-175.
- •70 Hubert, h., The Rise of the Celts, pp. 50-52.
- •71 Nielsen, h. A., anoh, II Rakke, vol. 21, 1906, pp. 237-318; ibid., III Rakke, vol. 5, 1915, pp. 360-365. Reworked.
- •Retzius, g., Crania Suecica, reworked.
- •78 Schliz, a., pz, vol. 5, 1913, pp. 148-157.
- •Barras de Aragon, f. De las, msae, vol. 6, 1927, pp. 141-186.
- •78 Hauschild, m. W., zfma, vol. 25, 1925, pp. 221-242.
- •79 Morant, g. M., Biometrika, vol. 18, 1926, pp. 56-98.
- •8° Reche, o., vur, vol. 4, 1929, pp. 129-158, 193-215.
- •Kendrick, t. D., and Hawkes, c. F. C., Archaeology in England and Wales, 1914-1931.
- •Morant, Biometrika, vol. 18, 1926, pp. 56-98.
- •Lambdoid flattening is a characteristic common to Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic man, but rare in the exclusively Mediterranean group.
- •Calculated from a number of series, involving over 120 adult males. Sources:
- •Peake, h., and Hooton, e. A., jrai, vol. 45, 1915, pp. 92-130.
- •Bryce, t. H., psas, vol. 61, 1927, pp. 301-317.
- •Ecker, a., Crania Germanica.
- •Vram, u., rdar, vol. 9, 1903, pp. 151-159.
- •06 Miiller, g., loc. Cit.
- •98 Lebzelter, V., and Thalmann, g., zfrk, vol. 1, 1935, pp. 274-288.
- •97 Hamy, e. T., Anth, vol. 4, 1893, pp. 513-534; vol. 19, 1908, pp. 47-68.
- •The slavs
- •Conclusions
- •The iron age, part II Speakers of Uralic and Altaic
- •The turks and mongols
- •I® Ibid.
- •Introduction to the study of the living
- •Materials and techniques
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •Distribution of bodily characters
- •2. Skin of tawny white, nose narrow,
- •Hair Flaxen
- •Gobineau, a. De, Essai sur Vinegaliti des races humaines.
- •Meyer, h., Die Insel Tenerife; Uber die Urbewohner der Canarischen Inseln.
- •46 Eickstedt, e. Von, Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit.
- •Nordenstreng, r., Europas Mdnniskoraser och Folkslag.
- •Montandon, g., La Race, Les Races.
- •Large-headed palaeolithic survivors
- •Pure and mixed palaeolithic and mesolithic survivors of moderate head size56
- •Pure and mixed unbrachtcephalized mediterranean deriva tives
- •Brachtcephauzed mediterranean derivatives, probably mixed
- •The north
- •Introduction
- •The lapps
- •I Wiklund, k. B., gb, vol. 13, 1923, pp. 223-242.
- •7 Schreiner, a., Die Nord-Norweger; Hellemo (Tysfjord Lappen).
- •8 Gjessing, r., Die Kautokeinolappen.
- •10 Kajava, y., Beitr'dge zur Kenntnis der Rasseneigenschaften der Lappen Finnlands.
- •17 For a complete bibliography of early Lappish series, see the lists of Bryn, the two Schreiners, Geyer, Kajava, and Zolotarev.
- •Schreiner, k. E., Zur Osteologie der Lappen.
- •Gjessing, r., Die Kautokeinolappen, pp. 90-95.
- •Hatt, g., Notes on Reindeer Nomadism, maaa, vol. 6, 1919. This is one of the few points regarding the history of reindeer husbandry upon which these two authorities agree.
- •The samoyeds26
- •Scandinavia; norway
- •Iceland
- •Sweden64
- •Denmark62
- •The finno-ugrians, introduction
- •Fig. 31. Linguistic Relationships of Finno-Ugrian Speaking Peoples.
- •Racial characters of the eastern finns
- •The baltic finns: finland
- •The baltic-speaking peoples
- •Conclusions
- •The british isles
- •R£sum£ of skeletal history
- •Ireland
- •Great britain, general survey
- •Fig. 32. Composite Silhouettes of English Men and Women.
- •The british isles, summary
- •Introduction
- •Lapps and samoyeds
- •Mongoloid influences in eastern europe and in turkestan
- •Brunn survivors in scandinavia
- •Borreby survivors in the north
- •East baltics
- •Carpathian and balkan borreby-like types
- •The alpine race in germany
- •The alpine race in western and central europe
- •Aberrant alpine forms in western and central europe
- •Alpines from central, eastern, and southeastern europe
- •Asiatic alpines
- •The mediterranean race in arabia
- •Long-faced mediterraneans of the western asiatic highlands
- •Long-faced mediterraneans of the western asiatic highlands: the irano-afghan race
- •Gypsies, dark-skinned mediterraneans, and south arabian veddoids
- •The negroid periphery of the mediterranean race
- •Mediterraneans from north africa
- •Small mediterraneans of southern europe
- •Atlanto-mediterraneans from southwestern europe
- •Blue-eyed atlanto-mediterraneans
- •The mediterranean reemergence in great britain
- •The pontic mediterraneans
- •The nordic race: examples of corded predominance
- •The nordic race: examples of danubian predominance
- •The nordic race: hallstatt and keltic iron age types
- •Exotic nordics
- •Nordics altered by northwestern european upper palaeolithic mixture: I
- •Nordics altered by northwestern european upper palaeolithic mixture: II
- •Nordics altered by mixture with southwestern borreby and alpine elements
- •The principle of dinaricization
- •European dinarics: I
- •European dinarics: II
- •European dinarics: III
- •European dinarics: IV
- •Dinarics in western asia: I
- •Dinarics in western asia: II
- •Armenoid armenians
- •Dinaricized forms from arabia and central asia
- •The jews: I
- •The jews: II
- •The jews: III
- •The mediterranean world
- •Introduction
- •The mediterranean rage in arabia
- •The mediterranean world
- •7 Lawrence, Col. T. E., The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
- •The Distribution of Iranian Languages
- •The turks as mediterraneans
- •Fig, 37. Ancient Jew.
- •North africa, introduction
- •Fig. 38. Ancient Libyan. Redrawn from
- •The tuareg
- •Eastern barbary, algeria, and tunisia
- •The iberian peninsula
- •The western mediterranean islands
- •The basques
- •The gypsies
- •Chapter XII
- •The central zone, a study in reemergence
- •Introduction
- •8 Collignon, r., msap, 1894.
- •9 Collignon, r., bsap, 1883; Anth, 1893.
- •Belgium
- •The netherlands and frisia
- •Germany
- •Switzerland and austria
- •The living slavs
- •Languages of East-Central Europe and of the Balkans
- •The magyars
- •The living slavs (Concluded)
- •Albania and the dinaric race
- •The greeks
- •Bulgaria
- •Rumania and the vlachs
- •The osmanli turks
- •Turkestan and the tajiks
- •Conclusions
- •Conclusion
- •Comments and reflections
- •The white race and the new world
- •IflnrlrH
- •Alveon (also prosthion). The most anterior point on the alveolar border of the upper jaw, on the median line between the two upper median incisors.
- •Length of the clavicle (collar bone) and that of the humerus (upper arm bone);
- •Incipiently mongoloid. A racial type which has evolved part way in a mongoloid direction, and which may have other, non-mongoloid specializations of its own, is called incipiently mongoloid.
- •List of books
- •Index of authors
- •54; Language distribution, 561, map; Jews in, 642; Neo-Danubian, ill., Plate 31, Jig. 4.
- •Map; classified, 577; racial characteristics, 578-79; ill., Plate 3, fig. 3.
- •Ill., Plate 6, Jigs. 1-5; survivors in Carpathians and Balkans, ill., Plate 8, figs. 1-6; Nordic blend, ill., Plate 34, figs.
- •61; Associated with large head size, 265, 266. See also Cephalic index, Cranial measurements.
- •Ill., Plate 36, fig. 1. See also Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland.
- •Ill., Plate 30, fig. 2.
- •85; Von Eickstedt’s, 286-88; Gzek- anowski’s system, 288-89; author’s, 289-96; schematic representation, 290, chart; geographic, 294- 95, map.
- •396; Cornishmen in France, 512, 514.
THE
BRONZE AGE
135
In
many parts of the north European plain the drought may have been
great enough to discourage agriculture and to force some peoples to
rely wholly on their flocks and herds, thus changing their habit of
life from farming to pastoral nomadism. Droughts of this kind also
fostered tribal migrations, and political disturbances in
Mesopotamia and Anatolia, in the early part of the second millennium
B.C.,
indicate
that widespread movements of economic origin were prevalent at this
time.
About
the middle of the Bronze Age we find the first definite evidence of
the domestication of the horse as an animal of traction. Horse-using
nomads invaded Mesopotamia and brought about the Babylonian Dark
Age. Others, the Hyksos, appeared in Egypt, where they first
conquered the Delta, and then obtained control over the entire
kingdom. In the absence of definite information, it has been
supposed that these inroads were the indirect result of desiccation
farther north, where the steppes had become too dry for cultivation,
and the erstwhile farmers had turned to pastoral nomadism*
Although
all movements on the eastern European plain were by no means
westward, we may find, in later times, significant parallels to the
Bronze Age migrations which brought the Hyksos to Egypt, the Nasili-
speakers to Asia Minor, and other barbarians to Mesopotamia. The
westward migrations of the Scyths, Huns, Turks, and Mongols
were simply consecutive events in a reciprocal sequence which may
have commenced long before the days of Herodotus.
All
Bronze Age movements were not entirely overland, however. Metal
seekers from the eastern Mediterranean followed the
megalith-builders along their sea route from the Aegean to the
Italian islands, thence to Spain, and around Gibraltar to Britain
and the north. During the Late Bronze Age movements of peoples may
be established archaeologically, but the racial interpretation is
complicated by the adoption of that unfortunate practice,
cremation, which destroys the evidence which physical
anthropologists require.
The
age of metal began in Egypt and Mesopotamia early in the fourth
millennium B.C.,
and by
3000 B.C.
it had
spread to the Aegean and to Anatolia. Crete probably received metal
age influences from Palestine and Egypt before most of the Anatolian
mainland. Cyprus, which bears the same name as copper, was another
early center, In the diffusion of early metal age culture westward
along the Mediterranean and northwestward up the Danube, the peoples
of Asia Minor, Cyprus, Crete, and the Aegean played an important
r61e, acting as transmitters of impulses which had originated in
Egypt and Sumeria.
The bronze age in western asia
136
THE
RACES OF EUROPE
Let
us first examine what Bronze Age skeletal material there is in Asia
Minor. So far, all of it comes from two sites, Alishar Hiiyiik,
which, in its later periods, was a Hittite city, and Hissarlik, the
seventh level of which was Homer’s Troy. Both were important
centers in the Bronze Age. At Alishar, fifty-three skulls have been
studied, from seven archaeological periods, ranging from the
earliest Copper Age, dated from between 2600 and 2300 B.C.,
to the
Osmanli invasion.2
Ten
crania from the earliest period (two “Chalcolithic,” eight
Copper Age) are uniformly Danubian in type, both metrically and
morphologically. The small, high-vaulted, somewhat infantile
dolicho- and mesocephalic form, with small face and mesorrhine
to chamaerrhine noses, is no different from that found at roughly
the same time at Anau, at Mariupol, in the Kiev Government, and
in the Danube Valley, in association with Neolithic cultures. Two
others, which are longer, may belong to a Megalithic or Corded
variety. The unity of the early food-producing peoples on both
sides of the Caucasus and Black Sea is therefore indicated, and from
the racial standpoint, the Danubians could have come to central
Europe from either South Russia or Anatolia, or both.
In
the second and third periods at Alishar, dated between 2300 and 1500
B.C.,
and
called the Early Bronze Age, brachycephalic skulls appeared,
and these persisted through the period of the Hittite Empire, for
several centuries after 1500 B.C.
The
crania are large, low vaulted, and only moderately brachycephalic,
with lambdoid flattening, and moderate browridges. The faces are of
medium length, and narrow, although somewhat broader than those
of the earlier Danubian type. The stature of the one male observed
was tall, 174 cm.3
Not
all of the Hittite Empire crania are brachycephalic. A long-headed
variety, which seems to have replaced or outnumbered the
brachycephals by the time of the Phrygian invasions, is both longer
and lower vaulted than the Danubian type of the Copper Age; it is
characterized by a very prominent nasal skeleton of true Near
Eastern form, with little nasion depression. Bas-relief sculptures
of historic Hittites reproduce this hooknosed, open-eyed type
of countenance.
The
sequence of racial types in Asia Minor during the metal ages
probably runs somewhat as follows: the earliest food-producing
people were the same as those in western Turkestan and southern
Russia. The latter probably came in earlier times from the highland
belt of which Anatolia
Kansu,
Shevket Aziz, TAM,
vol.
6, #10, 1930, pp. 25-30; ibid.,
vol. 10, #15-16, 1934 pp. 105 seq.; BTTK,
vol.
1, #1, 1937, pp. 192-202.
Krogman,
W. M., POIC,
#20,
1933, app. #4, pp. 123-138; “Cranial Types from Alishar Hiiyiik,”
in H. H. von der Osten, The
Alishar Huyiik,
POIC,
#30,
Chicago, 1937, Part iv, pp. 213-293.
Kansu,
Shevket Aziz, 1937, Skeleton #3.
THE
BRONZE AGE
137
forms
a
part.
Shortly before 2000 B.C.,
a
moderately brachycephalic type,
with tall stature, entered
Anatolia from regions yet to be determined,
followed by a
low-vaulted, hawk-nosed Mediterranean form, which we
have named
“Cappadocian,” and which is well known in the present day
Near
East. True Armenoids or Dinarics were not, apparently, common
in
early times.
During
the third millennium B.C.,
the city
of Troy, located strategically
on the eastern shore of the
Bosporus, grew from a village to a city, and
acted as the most
important center of diffusion for Bronze Age culture to
the
north and west, especially to the Danube Valley. Troy II, the first
real
city, lasted through much of the
third millennium, and was
razed soon
after 2000 B.C.
The
skull of one
young female. from this level 4
seems
to represent the same brachycephalic
type found at
Alishar, with which it
was probably contemporaneous.
If
craftsmen and immigrants were pass-
ing over the
Bosporus at that time,
carrying metal techniques to
central
Europe, we may, therefore, suppose
that some of
the few round-heads
found in sites in the Balkans, who
were
at last entering Europe from the
east, came from this quarter.
Toward
the end of the second mil-
lennium was built the Ilium
which
the fair-haired Achaeans were later
to lay waste;
and the settlements be-
tween
the important third millennium city and that of Homer’s
heroes
were but minor villages. Troy III (Schliemann’s
sequence), which existed
through the first century or more of
the second millennium, has yielded two
male and one female
skulls.6 These three belong to one type; a large
doli-
chocephal, with low to medium vault, and a face of
moderate size. In gen-
eral, they resembled the “Eurafrican”
type prevalent in Mesopotamia at the
same time, and the Long
Barrow or Megalithic Neolithic form. Homer’s
Troy, which
falls wholly within the Bronze Age, is sterile of skeletons.
In
Palestine, at the city-site of Megiddo, twenty-seven skulls have
been taken from the Copper Age or Chalcolithic level, dated before
3000 B.C.,
and five
more from the immediately following Early Bronze Age horizon,
4
Schliemann, H., Ilios,
City and Country of the Trojans,
pp. 270-272.
Schliemann,
H., op.
cit.,
pp. 509-512.
|y
Fig.
26.
Hittite.
After
Schafer, H., and Andrae, W., Die
Kunst des alten Orients,
1925, p. 554.
138
THE
RAGES OF EUROPE
which
lasted until about 2600 b.c.6
The
crania from both levels are small dolichocephals, of a Mediterranean
type; they are delicate and feminine in aspect, and sexing is
difficult. The nose is prominent, with a high root, which often
springs directly from glabella without nasion depression. Yet in
many cases a break in the lateral profile is formed by a bulbousness
of the forehead above glabella. The occipital development is great,
and prognathism is not uncommon.
The
high-nosed Cappadocian element found in Alishar Hiiyiik from the
time of the Hittite Empire onward was also, therefore, the
prevailing racial type of at least one important city of Palestine
during the same period. Four Bronze Age skulls, two each from the
Mount of Olives and Ain Jebrul, may be included in the same
category.7 One brachycephalic skull, however, has been
found in Bronze Age Palestine; in the cave of Umm Qatafa, in the
Wady Khreitum.8 This belonged to an adolescent,
presumably a male, with a vertical forehead, small browridges, and a
vertical occiput. With him was a large, prognathous
dolichocephal. These two were not buried in the cave, but had been
trapped by a fall of rock.
Returning
to Megiddo, we are told that “the skulls from the Hyksos and Late
Bronze Age burials differ markedly from the Early Bronze and Chal-
colithic specimens, and altogether appear to form another major
physical group.’5 9 What the features of this later
group may have been, we cannot determine without further
information. But we have one other indication of racial types in the
Bronze Age Near East, and that is the pictures on Egyptian
monuments, which almost without exception show western Asiatics as
white-skinned, bearded, and aquiline-nosed. Some are blond, but most
are brunet.
After
Alishar, our next good series of Near Eastern Bronze Age crania
comes from Cyprus. The Bronze Age culture which flourished in this
island is divided into three periods; Early, Middle, and Late
Cypriote; from 3000-2100, 2100-1600, and 1600-1000 b.c.10
Three
skulls from the early period include two brachycephals, which are
too fragmentary for further study, and one high-vaulted mesocephalic
example. In the early and middle periods combined, twenty skulls
have been studied. Of these, forty per cent, mostly from the middle
period, are brachycephalic.11 (See Appendix I, col. 20.)
The population was clearly mixed, with a long-
Ehgberg,
R. M., and Shipton, G. M., Notes
on the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Pottery of Megiddo,
pp. 44-46.
Henckel,
K. O., ZFMA, vol. 28, 1930, pp. 238-243.
Neuville,
R., and Boureau, R., BSAP, ser. 8, vol. 1, 1930, pp. 33-36.
Engberg
and Shipton, p. 46. ‘
Fiirst,
C. M., LUA, N. F. Bd. 29/6, 1933.
Ftirst’s
3 EG and 2 MG crania, and Buxton’s 15 EG + MC. See Fiirst, op.
cit.; Buxton,
L. D., JRAI, 1920, vol. 50, pp. 183-235; Massari, C., APA, vol. 59,
1929, pp. 65-75.
THE
BRONZE AGE
139
headed
hook-nosed Hittite-like element, and a brachycephalic one. In the
Late Cypriote period, seventy per cent of forty-seven skulls were
brachycephalic. The round-headed element was clearly on the increase
during the Bronze Age, and it may have begun entering the island at
any time between 3000 and 2100 b.c.
Judging from the evidence of Asia Minor and Palestine, we may
suppose that this took place nearer the late than the early date. At
the end of the Bronze Age, iron-using invaders reestablished
dolichocephaly.
The
long-headed element in Bronze Age Cyprus was, apparently, the
typical Cappadocian, or Near Eastern variety of Mediterranean. In
the
FACIAL
TYPES IN BRONZE AGE CYPRUS
Fig.
27 Fig.
28
Gjerstadt,
J.; Lindros, J.; Sjoqvist, E.; Wcstholm, A.; Swedish
Cyprus Expedition, Stockholm,
1935. Vol. ii, plates CCXVI and CLXXXIX.
Late
Cypriote period, during the prevalence of brachycephaly, an attempt
was made through artificial deformation to lengthen the head form,
producing the so-called “Hitrite’5 style of
deformation. In Egypt, Ikhnaton’s head was similarly deformed, as
were those of his two daughters.
The
round-headed element in Cyprus, which appears identical with that
from Alishar, is numerous enough to warrant statistical comparisons.
Fiirst calls the skulls Armenoid, and they do resemble Iron Age and
modern Armenians quite closely in vault size and proportions, but
the faces and noses of the Cypriotes are smaller in both height and
breadth.