ABSTRACT
It is unfortunate that we know far less about the ethnology of early Greece than the importance of the subject makes desirable. Some material has indeed been collected and commented on; philology lends valuable assistance and something can be gathered from the history of neighbouring countries, notably Egypt; while the researches of the last half-century have taught us much of the material civilizations which preceded the classical culture; but the question as to what races of men were the earliest inhabitants of the Greek peninsula and the neighbouring islands is much less near being settled than it is for Italy or France. Much collecting and measuring of prehistoric human remains has still to be done; and often, though by no means always, we are stopped at the outset in an investigation of this sort by the circumstance that the population we would study cremated their dead.
