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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist: [QB] Here is my research on the Pelasgians - [b]Age of Settlement[/b] There is archaeological evidence of Pelasgians extending at least to the Neolithic or ''Old Europe'' (c. 6500 BC) or slightly earlier (Gimbutas, 1974). The antiquity of the Pelasgians is reflected in the ancient Greek myths surrounding their age. The ancient poet Asius notes that the eponymous founder of the Pelasgians, a man called Pelasg, was born of the earth as an autochthon or earth sprung primordial (Paus. viii. 1. 4). According to the Greek traditions the Pelasgians had dwelt in Argos even before the time of the primeval king Ogyges of Boeotia (Eusebius. Praep Evang. x. 10. p. 489; Fragm. Hist. graec. i. p. 385. 8). Ephorus also reports a tradition that the ''Pelasgians had been the most ancient people who had ruled over Greece'' (Fragm. 54). [b]Racial Type[/b] Skeletal analysis of Pelasgians from Neolithic burials has determined that they mostly cluster in the Mediterranid 'Proper' Caucasoid division, with minor Alpine admixture (Ripley, 1899; Buxton, 1920; Coon, 1939; Angel, 1945). Angel (1945) concluded after analysing 13 skulls from the Neolithic that they were Gracile ('Proper') and Dinaric-Mediterranid, a minority with ''Alpine tendancies'' (p. 256). Ancient literary sources are also useful, noting that the Pelasgians were dark haired. An ancient fragment from Philochorus for example notes that the ''dark lustre of their black hair was never tained by a single silver thread'' (Hist. graec. i). Although the etymology of Pelasgian is still debated among scholars, it has been proposed that their name means ''dark faced men'' or ''swarthy Asiatics'' (Dr. Donaldson's Varronianus, 1852, pp.24-30; Herodotus, Book III, tr. George Rawlinson, p. 441, footnote) from pelios - ''dark'' and asgi ''the people of Asia'' (Buttman, Lexil. Ad voc, p. 155, note). It appears then the Pelasgians can be connected to the old Mediterranid racial stock of the Middle-East or Asia Minor (Coon, 1939). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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