ARCHAOLOGICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN CRETE. 249 
Without entering into further details, I have to submit that if the 
neolithic skeletons of Schweizersbild are accepted as establishing the 
existence of a pygmy race in that locality, then these early Cretan 
skeletons here described possess an even better claim to be recognised 
as pygmies. 
But these short Cretan bones do not stand alone in Southern 
Europe. I find that in 1904 Professor Giuffrida-Ruggeri described a 
precisely similar tibia from a neolithic site near Verona.” This simi- 
3s.) 
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so 
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(a> e 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
Fic. 8.—Various tibie of pygmy size: (1) (2) (3) Neolithic Cretans ; Agios Nikolaos. 
(4) Mori-ori native; Chatham Island. (5) Bush native, South Africa. (6) Andaman 
Islander. From specimens in the Cambridge Museum. The scale is in centimetres. 
larity is established by a comparison of the dimensions of the Verona 
tibia with the smaller specimen from Agios Nikolaos. 
(a) Crete (b) Verona 
fesLencthyin jis pon isisias toot talesbiod | .c/283nim. 280 mm. 
2. Ratio of circumference of shaft to length = 100. 22-9 22-9 
3. Angle of retroversion of head on shaft. . . 11° 13° 
Professor Giuffrida-Ruggeri claims that he has established the 
correctness of his view assigning the Verona tibia to the male sex. 
The index quoted as (2) above is considered to provide conclusive 
evidence on this point. The Cretan tibia has an equal claim to be 
18 Cf. L’ Anthropologie, 1904, p. 37. 
