Published by the University of Manchester at THE UNIVERSITY PRESS ( H. M. McKechnie , Secretary) 12, Lime Grove, Oxford Road, MANCHESTER LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. London : 39, Paternoster Row New York : 443-449, Fourth Avenue and Thirtieth Street Bombay : 8, Hornby Road Calcutta : 303, Bowbazar Street Madras : 167, Mount Road The Migrations of Early Culture A study of the Significance of the Geographical Distribution of the Practice of Mummification as Evidence of the Migrations of Peoples a

When these pages were crudely flung together no fate was contemplated for them other than that of publication in the proceedings of a scientific society, as an appeal to ethnologists to recognise the error of their ways and repent. They were intended merely as a mass of evidence to force scientific men to recognise and admit that in former ages knowledge and culture spread in much the same way as they are known to be diffused to-day. The only difference is that the pace of migration has become a

By Professor G. Elliot Smith , M.A., M.D., F.R.S. ( Read February 23rd, 1915. Received for publication April 6th, 1915. ) In entering upon the discussion of the geographical distribution of the practice of mummification I am concerned not so much with the origin and technical procedures of this remarkable custom. This aspect of the problem I have already considered in a series of memoirs ( 75 to 89 [1] ). I have chosen mummification rather as the most peculiar, and therefore the most distinctive

Between 4000 B.C. and 900 B.C. a highly complex culture compounded of a remarkable series of peculiar elements, which were associated the one with the other in Egypt largely by chance, became intimately interwoven to form the curious texture of a cult which Brockwell has labelled “heliolithic,” in reference to the fact that it includes sun-worship, the custom of building megalithic monuments, and certain extraordinary beliefs concerning stones. An even more peculiar and distinctive feature, gene

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