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Feeling that my own study of the cultures of Palæolithic and Neolithic Man would be helped by a glimpse into the Æean. Bronze Age as studied by classical archæologists, I took the opportunity of 3 months free time to visit a number of the Minoan (Bronze Age) sites in Crete, as well as the corresponding Helladic localities on the mainland of Greece. The return journey was made by Vienna and Buda-Pesth, in order to study for a short time in the museums there, and the dissimilarity between the Bronze Age cultures north of the Alps and those of the Ægean area, which I had been visiting, was extremely marked. The Bronze Age of the North comes very much into the purview of English Prehistorians and has its due place in our Proceedings. But the Ægean Bronze Age is included under classical archæology, and so it seemed to me that, having had the opportunity of studying in the field with such men as Evans and Wace, a few notes might not be out of place in our E. A. Journal. And more especially is this so when one considers that the Ægean area is on a direct road between the early cultures of what is now Persia and Asia Minor, and the west.
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page 585 note * This language may be similar to that on the inscriptions that have been dug up from Minoan sites. These tablets have not been able to be read yet.
page 585 note † The only palæolithic finds recorded from Greece are (1) a poorly made lower palæolithic implement from near Salonika; (2) an Upper Palæolithic burin, made from a chocolate-coloured chert, now in the museum at Manchester and labelled “Piræus.” Supposing the label is correct, the implements may have come from one of the many rock shelters that abound in the Piræus district. Similar coloured chert occurs native in Greece.