[579] Th. Volkov, in L'Anthropologie, 1896, p. 82.
[580] Too much stress must not, however, be laid upon the theory of gradual desiccation as a factor in depopulation. There are many causes such as earthquake, water-spouts, shifting of currents, neglect of irrigation and, above all, the work of enemies to account for the sand-buried ruins of populous cities in Central Asia. See T. Peisker, "The Asiatic Background," Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. I. 1911, p. 326.
[581] Journ. Anthr. Inst. 1895, p. 318 sq.
[582] Cf. Archæologia Cambrensis, 6th Ser. XIV. Part 1, 1914, p. 131, and Zeitschr. f. Ethnol. 1910, p. 601.
[583] "Zur Prähistorik Japans," Globus, 1896, No. 10.
[584] The best account of the archaeology of Japan will be found in Prehistoric Japan, by N. G. Munro, 1912.
[585] Die Bronzezeit Finnlands, Helsingfors, 1897.
[586] "Akkadian," first applied by Rawlinson to the non-Semitic texts found at Nineveh, is still often used by English writers in place of the more correct Sumerian, the Akkadians being now shown to be Semitic immigrants into Northern Babylonia (p. 264).
[587] Cf. L. W. King, History of Sumer and Akkad, 1910, pp. 5, 6.
[588] Ueber die Summerische Sprache, Paper read at the Russian Archaeological Congress, Riga, 1896.