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invasion, no specimens of the so called Philistine pottery have hitherto been found, is another pointer to the conclusion first arrived at by M. DUSSAUD (Civilisations Préhelléniques, 2e édition p. 308) and E. SAUSSEY (Syria, V, 1924, p. 169). Later confirmed by M. HENRTLEY (Quart. Dep. Ant. Palestine, V, 1936) that this particular style of pottery has no direct relationship with the biblical Philistines.
The squeletons and crania recovered from tomb 5 have not yet been studied by an expert anthropologist. But from the measurements taken during the excavations, some facts are already available (§ 75B).
No osteological remains of the Middle Bronze Age period could be identified among the mass of disturbed and broken squeletons embedded in the thick layer of bone-powder which covers the floor of the tomb. Among the crania of the Late Bronze Age burials (Cypriote Recent III) now seems to be of the typical dolichocephalic form. I would consider them as being all of brachycephalic or mesoephalic type. There is at first sight, no essential difference of type between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age crania. The individuals seem to have been of medium or rather small size, no squeleton measured over 1m60.
The same is true of the Iron Age people buried in tomb 5, the measurements of which indicate sizes between 1m40 and 1m60. The cranium of one of the female squeletons of this period has definitely been deformed artificially into a extrême long head according to a custom which seems to have been observed among the Enkomi
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