The Early Inhabitants of Western Asia the Huxley Memorial Lecture for 1911
The Early Inhabitants of Western Asia the Huxley Memorial Lecture for 1911
Felix Von Luschan
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The material and mental culture of these tribes and their somatic qualities are widely distinct, and the extent of the Arabic language is infinitely larger than the extent of an Arabic racial element. 15] Felix von" Luschan. — The Early Inhabitants of Western Asia. 235 But peninsular Arabia is the least-known land in the world, and large regions of it are even now absolute terroe incognitoe, so great caution is necessary in forming conclusions, from the measurements of a few dozens of men, conc...erning the anthropology of a land more than five times as great as France. My own measurements are confined to thirty-eight Annezeh-Bedouins, whom I met in 1883 in Aleppo, eighteen other Bedawy, generally Shamrinar, camel drivers between Mosul and Alexandretta, twenty Mahometan " Arabs " living in the town Hamah, the site of the first Hittite inscriptions published, and fifteen other Mahometans from Syrian towns. Two, unfortunately very small, groups consist of six priests from Gesyra, whom I met in Aleppo, and five men from Hail in Arabia, whom I was able to measure in Constantinople — in all 102 adult men, sixty-one of them real Bedawy and forty-one settled in towns.^ The cephalic indices of these " Arabs " ran thus : — r38 Annezeh, 68 to 78.
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