Excerpt from The Mediterranean Race: A Study of the Origin of European Peoples When this little book was first published in an Italian edition in 1895, and in a German edition in 1897, I was still unable to obtain many anthropological data needed to complete the picture of the primitive inhabitants of Europe. In the English edition the book is less incomplete, richer in anthropological and ethnological documents, and hence more conclusive; it also contains replies to various objections which have been brought forward. This English edition, therefore, is not so much a translation of a work already published as a new book, both in form and arrangement The conclusions I have sought to maintain are the following: - (l.)The primitive populations of Europe, after Homo Neanderthalensis, originated in Africa; these constituted the entire population of Neolithic times. (2.) The basin of the Mediterranean was the chief centre of movement whence African migrations reached the centre and the north of Europe. (3.) From the great African stock were formed three varieties, in accordance with differing telluric and geographic conditions: one peculiarly African, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.