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Some Dorian Descendants?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Extract

The temptation to probe the origins of a people who brought war and destruction with them, but whose absorption was followed by the great renaissance of Greece is infectious. Philologists have not regarded the warning of Beloch who twenty years ago wrote ‘Gewiss werden Wanderungen auf der griechischen Halbinsel in vorhistorishcher Zeit stattgefunden haben; aber wir wissen dariiber nichts, absolut gar nichts, und wer es anders sagt, der tauscht sich selbst und sein Publikum’ and now the anthropologist is emboldened to try. Much water has flowed under the bridge since 1890, and I make the plunge. I take leave to change the question from the usual formula, ‘Who were the Dorians?’ to ‘Who are the Dorians?’ The attempt is made from the point of view of physical anthropology, in the hope that it may prove a contribution; for the aid of archaeology and philology is obviously needed in the solution of such an involved question.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1910

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page 263 note 1 It was at Anopolis in Sphakia that I came upon three poor begrimed Epirots, who for ourteen years had been spending eight months annually in the island for the purpose of scouring and cleaning the iron and copper domestic utensils. If the Dorians brought iron to Crete, their descendants, or their neighbours, are maintaining the tradition, by cleaning it!

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8·0 per cent. among the Albanians Tsakonians (38 by C. H. H.)

13·3 per cent. among the Albanians Selinots (83 by C. H. H.)

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page 274 note 1 The only serious evidence, in the opinion of the writer, put forward for the non-permanency of the head form is that of the Report of the Immig. Com. of the U.S. Gov., which rumour says is to be withdrawn as incorrect. When the variation of the Boer from the Dutch prototype is used as an argument, one should remember the varied ancestry of the Boers. Their very names advertise the Huguenot element; history supplies another from the pressgangs of Europe.

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page 276 note 4 Baron Nopcsa's Sala &ŕ Klementi, Sarajevo, 1910, I have not seen. Moreover it is in Serb. I am therefore indebted to the kindness of Miss Durham for notes on this.

page 276 note 5 Op. cit.

page 277 note 1 Miss Durham believes that the short dark Albanian was the earlier and the tall (often fair) Albanian the later, which is the position taken in this paper; but to the prehistoric arrival of the latter element she would not agree.

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page 278 note 2 Op. cit. p. 23.

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