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ADDENDA—May 1907
Since the foregoing pages have been printed off, Dr. D. Mackenzie has,
with great kindness and courtesy, sent me the proofs of a valuable
article on " Cretan Palaces and the /Egean Civilisation," that is about
to appear in B.S.A. xii. It is gratifying to find that on the funda-
mental points raised in Chaps. IX. X. and XI. I am in substantial agree-
ment with him—e.g. in regard to the wide diffusion of the Mediterranean
Race. His argument that the loin-cloth is a proof of Southern origin
is convincing, (i) It occurs early in Crete, not only on the male
M.M. t. Petsofa figures {B.S.A. ix. PI. IX., X.), but probably on the
squatting female figures from Neolithic Knossos (unpublished ; see
Welch, B.S.A. vi. p. 86). Squatting itself shows Southern origin.
(2) Knickerbockers (see my p. 37) are an original I.e. made baggy
and long ; their wearers are naked above the waist, and some of them
are women. (3) Low dresses and flounced or multiple skirts (see my
p. 3) represent a development upwards and downwards of an original
I.e. for women. (4) Traces of the I.e. can be found in modern Sardinia
and the " subligaculum " of early Italy. (5) Northerners, when they
did come, i.e. the Greeks, never adopted the I.e.
It would be ungracious and premature to emphasise points of differ-
ence. While agreeing that the Mediterranean element was dominant
among the Minoans, I must put in a plea for their mixed character,
when we first can test them (see my pp. 165-71). A. Mosso's state-
ment {Escursioni nel Mediierraneo e gli Scavi di Creta, Milan, 1907,
p. 275), that " a great majority " of his skulls were dolichocephalic,
agrees with my conclusions. Sergi's remark (quoted M.I.L. xxi. 5,
p. 252) is too vague to weigh against the detailed evidence of Duck-
worth and Hawes. On my p. 166 the M.M. II. Palaikastro skulls
may be M.M. I. also (see B.S.A. x. pp. 194-5). This strengthens my
case.
In regard to the Central Hearth, Dr. Mackenzie argues not only that
it was due to the climate of Greece itself (see my pp. 181, 197), but
that the house in which it occurs is a development from a Cretan
hearthless type. With a fixed hearth you (a) gave up a door at the
back of your Megaron because the draught would not let your fire
burn ; and (b) made it deeper in proportion to its breadth, incor-
porating perhaps the back space that in warmer lands you had used
as a light-well. Does this novel and clever theory fully account for
the great differences between Cretan and Mainland houses (see my
243
Since the foregoing pages have been printed off, Dr. D. Mackenzie has,
with great kindness and courtesy, sent me the proofs of a valuable
article on " Cretan Palaces and the /Egean Civilisation," that is about
to appear in B.S.A. xii. It is gratifying to find that on the funda-
mental points raised in Chaps. IX. X. and XI. I am in substantial agree-
ment with him—e.g. in regard to the wide diffusion of the Mediterranean
Race. His argument that the loin-cloth is a proof of Southern origin
is convincing, (i) It occurs early in Crete, not only on the male
M.M. t. Petsofa figures {B.S.A. ix. PI. IX., X.), but probably on the
squatting female figures from Neolithic Knossos (unpublished ; see
Welch, B.S.A. vi. p. 86). Squatting itself shows Southern origin.
(2) Knickerbockers (see my p. 37) are an original I.e. made baggy
and long ; their wearers are naked above the waist, and some of them
are women. (3) Low dresses and flounced or multiple skirts (see my
p. 3) represent a development upwards and downwards of an original
I.e. for women. (4) Traces of the I.e. can be found in modern Sardinia
and the " subligaculum " of early Italy. (5) Northerners, when they
did come, i.e. the Greeks, never adopted the I.e.
It would be ungracious and premature to emphasise points of differ-
ence. While agreeing that the Mediterranean element was dominant
among the Minoans, I must put in a plea for their mixed character,
when we first can test them (see my pp. 165-71). A. Mosso's state-
ment {Escursioni nel Mediierraneo e gli Scavi di Creta, Milan, 1907,
p. 275), that " a great majority " of his skulls were dolichocephalic,
agrees with my conclusions. Sergi's remark (quoted M.I.L. xxi. 5,
p. 252) is too vague to weigh against the detailed evidence of Duck-
worth and Hawes. On my p. 166 the M.M. II. Palaikastro skulls
may be M.M. I. also (see B.S.A. x. pp. 194-5). This strengthens my
case.
In regard to the Central Hearth, Dr. Mackenzie argues not only that
it was due to the climate of Greece itself (see my pp. 181, 197), but
that the house in which it occurs is a development from a Cretan
hearthless type. With a fixed hearth you (a) gave up a door at the
back of your Megaron because the draught would not let your fire
burn ; and (b) made it deeper in proportion to its breadth, incor-
porating perhaps the back space that in warmer lands you had used
as a light-well. Does this novel and clever theory fully account for
the great differences between Cretan and Mainland houses (see my
243