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 EPILOGUE. 279 Attica (Nicolucci, Virchow, Broesike, et aL), thirty-eight to Asia Minor (twenty-two to Troy [Virchow] and sixteen to Ionia [Zaborowsky]), four to the Greek islands (Quatref ages), and nineteen to southern Italy and Sicily (Nicolucci et al.). This shows that there were only thirty- three skulls from Greece, and that from most parts of Greece not a single ancient skull was known to science. There was the impossibility of obtaining reliable results in regard to the most important part of Hellenic ethnography, the impossibility of a comparison of the ancient type with all the later types of Greece. There are in the collection some skeletons from the oldest Iron Age of Greece, the twelfth to the thirteenth century before Christ, found at Eleusis. The objects of art found with these skeletons show the geometric instead of the naturalistic style, the latter being the style of Mykense. Of the Iron Age, the museum pos- sesses a number of skeletons of very small chil- dren which had been preserved in vases in the necropolis of Ereusis. At this period the mesat- icephalous and the brachycephalous types begin to make their appearance; the mesaticephalous type is the predominating one, but the brachy- cephalous type is frequent.