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What one can concede is that the " Caucasic " stratum is 

 anterior to the Aryan, since practically its distribution in 

 space is so reduced as to make it possible to consider it as 

 nothing but residual. Chronologically we have no diffi- 

 culty in pushing it up to 2700 B.C. as Hiising would 

 have it. 1 



Indo-European element, which is Sanskritic, which confirms that a " Vedic " tribe 

 was in Asia Minor at that time. By Dr. Cowley is also maintained that " the 

 language of the scribes " of the Hittite Empire was a " mixed language " : c/. 

 OOWLEY (A.E.), The Hittites, Oxford, 1920. 

 1 Ibid., p. 243. 



