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1t is conyenient to consider here the question whether there is other 
evidence to the same effect. (Probably Mr. Hawes has data, but I 
must write in ignorance of these.) Of well-authenticated examples, I 
would cite the series of skulls described by the late Professor Mosso. He 
measured nineteen crania referred to the Minoan period in Crete. Some 
of the crania were found near Palaikastro. Measurements are given by 
Mosso in his work entitled “ The Dawn of Mediterranean Civilisation.’ ® 
Of nineteen crania, four provide a breadth index of 80 or upwards, 
and are therefore brachycephalic. The data are reproduced in Table IV. 
TaBeE IV. 
Professor Mosso’s Data: Cretan Crania of the Minoan Period. 
| Site No. of Specimen Head Length | Head Breadth | Cephalic Index / 
| : 7 / 
| Gournia io 2 164 138 841 
= Seen 3 | 166 136 81-9* | 
Padlaikastro ; 11 | 176 141 80-1 
Knossos : | 13 | 178 145 81-5 | 
No records of sex or age are provided. 
* Erroneously given by Mosso (op. cit., p. 410) as 89°9. 
These data give no definite information as to the existence or other- 
wise of the armenoid type. But we may at least note that the brachy- 
cephalic element is here present in an appreciable proportion (21 per 
cent.), and further that these brachycephali are short rather than broad. 
It is noteworthy, however, that Professor Mosso assigns even the 
-most brachycephalic cranium to the Mediterranean race, on the remark- 
able ground that such head-forms are found in Egypt and in North 
TABLE V. 
| al Remarks or | 
— Locality Epoch | Sex ith a. Cephalic Author | a 
1p Sicily Neolithic | f. | 170 139 81-8 Sergi | No. 1931 
Il. x x £4 tae 147 87-0 ae No. 1933 
Til. 5 Eneolithic | m. (abjout 88-0) |Giuffrida-| No. 2766 
Ruggeri 
IV. % aa m.}| 170 145 85-3 Sergi | No. 2231 
V. _ Bronze m.| 174 147 84-5 5 No. 2228 
VI. | Sardinia | Eneolithic| m.| 173 147 85:0 a No. 11 
VII. a 55 m.| 185 151 81-6 ay No. 25 
VII. vot be fF O74. 143 82-2 Fe No. 33 
IX. oy z m.| 176 145 82-4 »  ‘|iNoxsd 
0. 3 a m.| 178 145 81-5 » | No. 44 
XI. 5 eS m. | 170 146 85-4 mS No. (II.) 17 
XII. | Corsica Bronze | m. ? ? 81-97 | Chantre No. 1 
XIIi. 2. > f. ? 2 81-98 iy | oer 
XIV. | Antiparos | ‘ Early —/| 178 144 80-9 | Garson — 
Aigean’ and Bent | 
Note.—It is to be remarked that the evidence of distinct occipital flattening in these 
skulls is not recorded, or is but vagucly indicated in the descriptions. But the illustra- 
tions suggest that it is preseat in some cases at least. 
8 English translation, by Miss Harrison, p. 410. 
