Taylor I. The Origin of the Aryans

New York: Scribner & Welford, 1890. — 339 p. — (The Contemporary Science Series).A fine overview of early European racial anthropology, first published in a time before political correctness and leftist hatred suppressed the science.
Taylor, the Canon of York, provides a comprehensive summary of the vexed issue of the origins of the Indo-European peoples. He points out that there is no Aryan race per se, but rather a collection of Aryan languages — and shows that language alone cannot be a final indicator of racial origins. Taylor’s book was the first major English-language work to reject the Ex oriente lux theory of Indo-European origins in favor of a birthplace in southern Russia. Using a thorough evaluation of cranial, archaeological and cultural evidence, he presents his conclusion. Often attacked and dismissed by contemporaries, modern DNA has proven many of Taylor’s theories to be completely accurate.
Isaac Taylor (1829–1901) was a philologist, toponymist, and Anglican canon of York, England, from 1885 until his death. He specialised in ancient history and his studies of the origin of European peoples. His major archaeological and philological studies were Words and Places (1864), Etruscan Researches (1874), The Alphabet (1883), Greeks and Goths (1879), and The Origin of the Aryans (1880).Contents:
The Aryan Controversy
The Prehistoric Races of Europe
The Neolithic Age.
The Methods of Anthropology.
The Races of Britain.
The Celts.
The Iberians.
The Scandinavians.
The Ligurians.
The Neolithic Culture
The Continuity of Development.
Metals.
Weapons.
Cattle.
Husbandry.
Food.
Dress.
Habitations.
The Boat.
The Ox Waggon.
Trades.
Social Life.
Relative Progress.
The Aryan Race
The Permanence of Race.
The Mutability of Language.
The Finnic Hypothesis.
The Basques.
The Northern Races.
The Evolution of Aryan Speech
The Aryan Languages.
Dialect and Language.
The Lost Aryan Languages.
The Wave Theory.
Language and Race.
The Genesis of Aryan Speech.
The Aryan Mythology