1S95.] '^* ' [Briutoii. 



former gives the name " Pelasgican," and argues that its European 

 connections were the Pelasgi and the Etrusci.* On the other 

 hand, Fr. Miiller, Mor. Schmidt, G. Radet and P. Jensen have 

 concluded that it is some remote, not clearly defined, member of 

 the Aryan family. f While J. Halevy, on the strength of the 

 inscriptions from Sindjirli, has claimed the Hittites who once 

 lived in that region as Semites. 



Recent archa.^ological researches in Paphlagonia present evi- 

 dence that before the arrival of Greek colonies from the west 

 this territory was peopled by the same stock ; and at the height 

 of their power they may have controlled a large portion of the 

 eastern shores of the jEgean sea. This was about 1200-1500 

 B.C.; and it has been argued from a variety of evidence that 

 near the former date they were conquered and scattered or ab- 

 sorbed by their Semitic, Egyptian and Hellenic foes. Prof. 

 Ramsay and others have identified them with the Amazons of 

 the Homeric legends on reasonably good grounds | 



It is quite likely that mat Hatte was a very vague phrase to 

 the Assyrian mind; and it is wiser not to employ " Hittite " as 

 an ethnic term. It has been proposed (by whom first I kuow 

 not) to designate collectively the tribes above named as related, 

 by the term " Anatolians," from the ancient name of Asia Minor ; 

 and I adopt this appropriate suggestion. Perhaps some of the 

 easternmost and southernmost of the so-called Hittites did not 

 belong in the Anatolian group, but those in most of Cappadocia 

 and Cilicia in all probability did. 



At various times, after and probably before the dawn of 

 history, the Anatolian group proper extended its conquests 

 southward ; and it is the opinion of Hoernes§ and others that 

 they were the pi"e-Semitic inhabitants of the whole of Syria. 

 It is even possible, as Mariette and Hilprecht || have suggested, 

 that the Hyksos d^y^iasty of Egypt in the second millennium 

 B.C. was an advanced outpost of the group, though this at 



* Fanli, Elne Insdirift von Lemnos, p. 79; Tomaschek, Die Ufbevolkemng Kleinasiens, in 

 the Mlltheilungen of the Vienna Anthrop. Soc. for 1892. 



fDr. Jensen's article was published in the Sunday School Times (Philadelphia), April 

 1, 1893. 



t See a series of articles on " Die Paphlagonischen Felsengriibsr," by Lt. von Kannen- 

 berg, in the Globus, Jan. and Feb., 1893, especially p. 121, note. 



§Dr. Moritz Hoernes, Die Urgcschichte des MenscJien, p. -154 (Vienna, 1892). 



il Hilprecht, Assi/riaca, p. 130 (Boston, 1891). 



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