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and Trojan figures fitted on to a primitive European family, the evolution of which 

 could be traced from the rudest beginnings. Thraeian and Danubian examples 

 carried this diffusion to the Carpathians. Beyond this, again, a curiously parallel 

 group — of amber, bone and stone — characterised a vast northern Neolithic province 

 including the Polish caves and the Baltic amber coast and extending to the shores 

 of Lake Ladoga. Attention was next called to certain recent and partly unpub- 

 lished discoveries of primitive painted images in Sicily and the Ligurian caves, and 

 after bringing them into relation -with others from Bosnia and Carniola, the author 

 showed that they had here the nearest prototypes to the Mycenajan. He exhibited 

 a curiously rude squatting figure of Pentelic marble found near Athens — the 

 earliest example of Attic art — and after adducing parallel examples from Thrace 

 and the Peloponnese, claimed a cousinship for them in the so-called ' Cabiri ' of 

 what had been hitherto known as the ' Phoenician Temple ' of Hagiar Kim in 

 Malta. This primitive building was really a West Mediterranean example of a 

 class illustrated by the primitive architecture of Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, and 

 even our own chambered barrows. Its Libyan afiinities had been noticed by 

 Fergusson, and the so-called Cabiri, with Aegean connections on the one hand, 

 seemed to stand in a direct relationship with the rude squatting figures of Mr, 

 Petrie's ' New Race.' Turning to Spain, Mr. Evans called attention to a class of 

 stone figures singularly resembling the Trojan discovered in Neolithic and early 

 Bronze Age deposits by the brothers Su'et, and to which their most recent excava- 

 tions had added rich materials. Finally, as the north-westernmost example of this 

 whole primitive class, he referred to the discovery of a whalebone ' idol ' amongst 

 Neolithic relics at Skara, in Orkney. The sepulchral relation in which these so- 

 called ' idols ' were usually discovered pointed to the conclusion that they had here 

 an illustration of the widespread practice among primitive peoples of placing small 

 figures in the grave as substitutes for human victims. 



3. Interim Report on Prehistoric mid Ancient Remains in Glamorganshire, 



4. Report on the Lake Village at Glastonbury. — See Reports, p. 519. 



5. The People of Southern Arabia. By J. Theodore Bent. 



The two classes of natives discussed in this paper are resident in the Hadramut 

 and Dhofar districts of South-eastern Arabia. First, those of the Hadramut are 

 described. Their fanaticism and complex tribal system present great difiiculties 

 to the anthropologist. Descriptions are given of the three divisions of the inhabit- 

 ants — namely, the Bedouins, the Arabs proper, and the Sayyids, or hierarchical 

 nobility. But the Bedouins and their manners and customs, as being a distinctly 

 aboriginal race, are described with greater minuteness. Their religion is discussed, 

 and the secret manner in which they maintain their cult is suggested as a parallel 

 to other secret cults in other parts of the Mohammedan world. 



Secondly, the district of Dhofar, the country from which the ancients obtained 

 frankincense, is next described, and the Bedouins of the Gara tribe compared with 

 those of the Hadramut : their manners and customs, and the general conditions 

 under which they live, are described. 



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