Professor Antonio Blanco Freijeiro of Seville University, Director of the Museo del Prado, Madrid, for checking the sections on Tartessus. Professor Carl W. Blegen, the eminent archaeologist who unearthed the stratum containing Homeric Troy, for taking me over the ruins of Nestor spalace at Pylos. VS o TiR is Dakaris, Ephoros A rcheotiton at the Museum of Archaeol ogy, loannina, for explaining details of the temple precincts and Jruins in the Valley of Dramissos and checking the sections dealing i with the oracle of Dodona. i Dr. Hans-D ietrich Disselhoff, authority on ancient American -civilizations and Director of the Museum of Ethnology, Berlin, for much invaluable advice and generous help. William P. Fagg, Deputy Keeper of the Department of Ethnography in the British Museum, for checking the section on Benin. Professor Dr. Martin Gusinde of Vienna University, Nanzan 4U niversity, Nagoya, Universidad de Chile and Catho HcU niversity, Washington, D. C, ethnologist and expert on prehistoric civilizations, American Indian tribes, especially those of Tierra del Fuego, and tmany other primitive peoples, who wil Hngly answered all my questions and enlightened me on a number of unsolved problems. Professor Dr. Wilhelm Koppers 4, the distinguished authority on ethnology and prehistory to whom I shall always be indebted for his .,, encouragement and instructive comments. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don"t occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books" Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text.