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Now, if we turn to Asia Minor, we shall find that it is a region of 

 short-headedness . 



For purposes of comparison, as we have a long-headed population in 

 Crete, we will extract the brachycephals of Crete and compare them with 

 peoples in Asia Minor. This gives us 71 brachycephalic Sitians, whose 

 measurements, compared with those of Turks and Tachtadshy (Takh- 

 t ad j i) of S.W. Asia Minor are as follows : — 



Chantre's 297 Armenian men have a cephalic index of 85'5; head- 

 lengths and head-breadths I cannot give, as I write without books of 

 reference by me. 



One could hardly demand a closer agreement than with these figures 

 of 120 Turks and 13 Takhtadji, those wild peoples of the marshes 

 and uplands of Asia Minor, who, in the opinion of von Luschan, best 

 represent the prehistoric race of Asia Minor. As we get further away 

 from the Aegean to Lake Van and Russian Armenia, the head is even 

 shorter, but also rather broader (27 Aissori, 22 males and 5 females, 

 are 173 mm. long and 155 mm. broad). This may be the result of 

 deformation, but in any case our connections are naturally nearer at 

 hand. 



Now let us try Veneto-Emilia, Dalmatia, and the Illyrian area. 

 [And here I much regret that I am without reference books, and must 

 depend on odd notes.] 



The cephalic index of 30 Dalmatians (Deniker) is 87"0, and that 

 of 52,410 inhabitants of Veneto-Emilia is 85'1. 



Unfortunately, I cannot give the head-lengths and head-breadths of 

 these, but from 18 Venetian soldiers measured by me I have the 

 following : — 



Head Length Head Breadth Cephalic Index 



185-1 155-2 839 



and for Pittard's 20 Albanians we have the following: — 



Head Length 

 1850 



Head Breadth 

 155-7 



Cephalic Index 

 83-8 



These figures, which represent not a short head but a broad head, 

 compare with the Selinots in the western end of Crete, the brachy- 

 cephals among whom, to the number of 33, have the following : — 



Head Length 

 1853 



Head Breadth 

 157-5 



( lephalic Index 

 85-0 



and I may remind my readers that in my previous reports I have derived 

 this western Cretan brachycephal from the north, and ultimately from 

 Illyria. 



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