Author: Cohane, John Philip
Title: The Key
Description: New York, Crown Publishers, (1969). orig.cloth. 23x16cm, 288 pp, Some small stains to front flyleaves. In a somewhat rubbed dustwrapper.. Textual photo illustrations. Some rubbing. Light page-edge soil. Good. Dustwrapper ¶ A theory of prehistoric Semitic migrations based on place-name studies. ["...while working on a book about the Irish, John Philip Cochrane kept reencountering certain key words & place-names that looked to him as if they had been brought into Ireland and Great Britain from the Mediterranean in prehistoric times. Moreover, those key words and names seemed to be of Semitic origin...before the Egyptian, Greek, Phoenician and Carthaginian eras, two major Semitic migrations or dispersions took place...worldwide in scope....Mr. Cochrane links together through certain key names and words the baffling complex of Avebury and Stonehenge in England, the Homeric civilizations of Mycenae and Crete, the ruined Aztec and Mayan cultures, and the vanished splendors of the Far East..." - dustwrapper blurb].

Keywords: Historical Linguistics, Place Names, Etymology, Archeology, Archaeology, Semitic Languages, Prehistoric, Mediterranean, Human Migrations