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The living stature is available from Crete and CJyprus only in large numbers 
(see Table X); in both cases the stature is practically identical, 1690 and 1688 
respectively. Three other small series ai'e available all of which fall into a single 
shorter group, Leukas (1668), Mount Parnon (1662) and Lycians (1660). 
The modern stature seems to be slightly gr-eater than the ancient. In Cyprus 
this can be tested ; two of the females were below the average in the measurements 
of the cranium, a third although she appeared to have been an adult when she died 
was certainly young, the fourth and shortest female had a head of average size, the 
male had the longest skull measured and a head breadth of average size. It may fairly 
be argued that the females were below the average stature and the male might be 
expected to be about average stature. Three of the females however came from 
one tomb, and one male and one female from a second. They therefore do not 
represent an avei'age selection from the population. 
Among the modern peoples we find fii'st an unusual difference between the men 
from Selinos and Sphakia compared with the rest of the population of Crete. This 
difference is greater than any other difference in our series but until Hawes' figures 
are published cannot be satisfactorily explained. The differences between the 
various groups in Cyprus are small and do not give a clue to possible wide 
divergencies locally. The Cretans are however noticeably taller than the rest of 
the series. The significant differences may be tabulated. 
TABLE XI. 
Differences in Stature. Living Adult Males. 
People compared 
Difference 
Leukas 
Crete 
Cyprus 
Crete 
Cyprus 
1-97+ -69 
3-81 + •72 . 
1-84+ -31 
The figures suggest what had previously been deduced from the cephalic index, 
namely that in Crete we have an extreme type, and among the Lycian gypsies 
another extreme type, Leukas being more allied to the latter than to any of the 
other intermediates. We have again a general similarity in variation except 
among the Lycian gypsies who have a lower standard deviation than any of the 
other peoples. 
Pigmentation. 
Exact information in regard to hair and eye colour among the Greeks is scanty. 
Pittard remarks that brown eyes are in the majority, grey eyes frequently occur 
and blue are not rare. Ornstein* out of a total of 1767 men found 170 with blond 
hair, 1561 with brown hair and 36 with black. Weisbach's figures are very 
different : out of 47 cases 20 had black hair, two fair hair and the remainder 
various shades of brown ; two out of the 47 had blue eyes. Schiff believed that he 
* Vei-hajidl unpen der Bi'rUner anthrop. Gesdhchaft, 1877, S. 39 u. 1879, S. 305. 
