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The average male height was 1-625 m. as against 1*677 m., the average minoan
height of men in that district of Siteia at the present day. skulls
Sir W. Boyd Dawkins examined three Early Minoan skulls from tombs at
Epano Zakron and found all three to be of dolichocephalic type.1
Professor Sergi 2 examined skulls from the tholos of Hagia Triada, which
is of E.M. II date, and found that ' they belong to the known Mediterranean
type, which embraces elliptical, oval, and pentagonal shapes corresponding to
the craniometrical measurements of dolichomesocephalic heads.'
Professor Sergi had previously examined four skulls of Mycenaean date from
Erganos in Crete and had found them dolichocephalic, elliptical, and oval.3
Signor A. Mosso examined and measured nineteen Minoan skulls in the
Candia Museum, of which four only were brachycephalic, the rest being either
mesocephalic or dolichocephalic.4
Mr. Hawes measured twenty-five Minoan skulls in the Candia Museum
from central and east Crete, and found a mean cephalic index of 75-5.5
All these measurements point to the same conclusion, that a large propor-
tion of the people of Minoan Crete belonged to a dolichocephalic race, and they
confirm the view of Professor Sergi and other archaeologists 6 that the Minoans
were a branch of the so-called Mediterranean race.
This race was of brunette type, dolichocephalic, and short of stature, and the minoan
is well represented at the present day by the Sardinians. About a hundred race
Minoan skulls have been measured, chiefly by Dr. Duckworth, and of these the
large majority consists of clear dolichocephals.
The stature, estimated from the length of the long bones, did not exceed
five feet four inches, about two inches less than the average height of the
present-day population.7
These are the anthropological data on which, with certain other indica-
tions, scholars have chiefly had to rely for the elucidation of the ethnological
problem presented by the Minoans of Crete, the inhabitants of the Cyclades,
and the Mycenaeans of the Mainland.
The problem has not yet been solved, for the resulting theories are many,
and in many points incompatible.8
1 B.S.A., VII, pp. 150-155, Plate VI.
8 Mem. 1st. Lomb., loc. cit., p. 252.
3 American Journal of Archaeology. Second
Series, vol. V, pp. 815-818.
4 Mosso, Origini, op. cit., p. 327.
5 Hawes, British Association, 1910, Section H,
A Report of Cretan Anthropometry, p. 2.
6 G. Sergi, Origine e diffusione della Siirpe
Mediterranea (Roma, 1895). See also Evans,
Palace, p. 8.
7 Hawes, Crete the Forerunner of Greece, p. 23.
8 Cf. the more important, viz. :—
Sergi, Origine, op. cit., pp. 25, 33, 44, 45, 48.
D. Mackenzie, Cretan Palaces: B.S.A., XIII,
pp. 423-445.
E. Reisinger, Kretische Vasenmalerei, s. 50-51.
R. N. Bradley, Malta and the Mediterranean
Race, pp. 25-27.
Hall, The Ancient History of the Near East,
p. 81, etc.
E. Meyer, Geschichte des Altertums, III Auf,
§§ 505, 514, 520, 522.
Peet, The Stone and Bronze Ages in Italy and
Sicily, pp. 81, 173.
Evans, Palace, pp. 13 IF.
Elliot-Smith, The Ancient Egyptians, p. 174.
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The average male height was 1-625 m. as against 1*677 m., the average minoan
height of men in that district of Siteia at the present day. skulls
Sir W. Boyd Dawkins examined three Early Minoan skulls from tombs at
Epano Zakron and found all three to be of dolichocephalic type.1
Professor Sergi 2 examined skulls from the tholos of Hagia Triada, which
is of E.M. II date, and found that ' they belong to the known Mediterranean
type, which embraces elliptical, oval, and pentagonal shapes corresponding to
the craniometrical measurements of dolichomesocephalic heads.'
Professor Sergi had previously examined four skulls of Mycenaean date from
Erganos in Crete and had found them dolichocephalic, elliptical, and oval.3
Signor A. Mosso examined and measured nineteen Minoan skulls in the
Candia Museum, of which four only were brachycephalic, the rest being either
mesocephalic or dolichocephalic.4
Mr. Hawes measured twenty-five Minoan skulls in the Candia Museum
from central and east Crete, and found a mean cephalic index of 75-5.5
All these measurements point to the same conclusion, that a large propor-
tion of the people of Minoan Crete belonged to a dolichocephalic race, and they
confirm the view of Professor Sergi and other archaeologists 6 that the Minoans
were a branch of the so-called Mediterranean race.
This race was of brunette type, dolichocephalic, and short of stature, and the minoan
is well represented at the present day by the Sardinians. About a hundred race
Minoan skulls have been measured, chiefly by Dr. Duckworth, and of these the
large majority consists of clear dolichocephals.
The stature, estimated from the length of the long bones, did not exceed
five feet four inches, about two inches less than the average height of the
present-day population.7
These are the anthropological data on which, with certain other indica-
tions, scholars have chiefly had to rely for the elucidation of the ethnological
problem presented by the Minoans of Crete, the inhabitants of the Cyclades,
and the Mycenaeans of the Mainland.
The problem has not yet been solved, for the resulting theories are many,
and in many points incompatible.8
1 B.S.A., VII, pp. 150-155, Plate VI.
8 Mem. 1st. Lomb., loc. cit., p. 252.
3 American Journal of Archaeology. Second
Series, vol. V, pp. 815-818.
4 Mosso, Origini, op. cit., p. 327.
5 Hawes, British Association, 1910, Section H,
A Report of Cretan Anthropometry, p. 2.
6 G. Sergi, Origine e diffusione della Siirpe
Mediterranea (Roma, 1895). See also Evans,
Palace, p. 8.
7 Hawes, Crete the Forerunner of Greece, p. 23.
8 Cf. the more important, viz. :—
Sergi, Origine, op. cit., pp. 25, 33, 44, 45, 48.
D. Mackenzie, Cretan Palaces: B.S.A., XIII,
pp. 423-445.
E. Reisinger, Kretische Vasenmalerei, s. 50-51.
R. N. Bradley, Malta and the Mediterranean
Race, pp. 25-27.
Hall, The Ancient History of the Near East,
p. 81, etc.
E. Meyer, Geschichte des Altertums, III Auf,
§§ 505, 514, 520, 522.
Peet, The Stone and Bronze Ages in Italy and
Sicily, pp. 81, 173.
Evans, Palace, pp. 13 IF.
Elliot-Smith, The Ancient Egyptians, p. 174.