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THE NARROW WAIST 171
headed element came from we cannot tell. That it
exists to-day in the highlands of Asia Minor, as well as
in the Balkans, is in itself no proof that it was native
there ; but there is no warrant for assuming that all
broad-headed people came from the North, or that in
race or language they must have been Indo-European.
The Sumerians of Mesopotamia seem to have been
themselves broad-headed,1 and excavation has shown
that there were such elements in the early population
of Asia Minor.' Any attempt indeed to equate the
words "broad-headed" and "Indo-European" is self-
convicted, as it has to allow that the dominant element1
in one of the most characteristic of the Indo-European
peoples, the Scandinavians, is longer-headed than any
race in Europe.
Skull measurement, then, does not tell us whether
Minoan civilisation owed anything to the North.
Can we learn anything from the type of figure repre-
sented on the monuments, or from manner of life,
as we see it in art ?
Professor Petrie would answer' by drawing our atten-
tion to the narrow Minoan waist, which, as we have
seen,6 is so characteristic that even the Egyptians re-
cognised the fact. In his researches into the invasions
of the Roman Empire from the North, he has come across
a passage in Eunapius,' and another in Apollinaris
1 Sayce, A.C.I. 1907, p. 73. E. Meyer, S.S.B. 1906, p. 90, 114,
denies that they are hyperbrachycephalic. But his own Plate VI.,
a head from Tello, now in Berlin (p. 41), is without doubt brachy-
cephalic, even if we consent to omit the " hyper."
' For Korte's excavations at Boz-Eyuk in Phrygia, see
Ath. Mitt. xxiv. 1899, pp. 1 seq. and references ap. Crowfoot,
J.U.S. xix. p. 49. It is sometimes called the " Armenoid "
stock.
3 See above, p. 164.
4 Migrations, p. 20. 5 P. 94.
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headed element came from we cannot tell. That it
exists to-day in the highlands of Asia Minor, as well as
in the Balkans, is in itself no proof that it was native
there ; but there is no warrant for assuming that all
broad-headed people came from the North, or that in
race or language they must have been Indo-European.
The Sumerians of Mesopotamia seem to have been
themselves broad-headed,1 and excavation has shown
that there were such elements in the early population
of Asia Minor.' Any attempt indeed to equate the
words "broad-headed" and "Indo-European" is self-
convicted, as it has to allow that the dominant element1
in one of the most characteristic of the Indo-European
peoples, the Scandinavians, is longer-headed than any
race in Europe.
Skull measurement, then, does not tell us whether
Minoan civilisation owed anything to the North.
Can we learn anything from the type of figure repre-
sented on the monuments, or from manner of life,
as we see it in art ?
Professor Petrie would answer' by drawing our atten-
tion to the narrow Minoan waist, which, as we have
seen,6 is so characteristic that even the Egyptians re-
cognised the fact. In his researches into the invasions
of the Roman Empire from the North, he has come across
a passage in Eunapius,' and another in Apollinaris
1 Sayce, A.C.I. 1907, p. 73. E. Meyer, S.S.B. 1906, p. 90, 114,
denies that they are hyperbrachycephalic. But his own Plate VI.,
a head from Tello, now in Berlin (p. 41), is without doubt brachy-
cephalic, even if we consent to omit the " hyper."
' For Korte's excavations at Boz-Eyuk in Phrygia, see
Ath. Mitt. xxiv. 1899, pp. 1 seq. and references ap. Crowfoot,
J.U.S. xix. p. 49. It is sometimes called the " Armenoid "
stock.
3 See above, p. 164.
4 Migrations, p. 20. 5 P. 94.
0 Pp. 46-48 : espc. Kara tie to fiivov 6i<(r<j>iyntva fprtp <f>ij<Ttv
'Api(rToT(\7]s Ta ivrofia.