The remains of Cyclopean architecture to be found in Greece, Sardinia, Sicily, and the Balearic Islands and Africa will perhaps in time furnish data from which the affinities of their builders may be determined; but the results of archæological inquiries in this direction are as yet hardly precise enough to be utilized. The pre-Hellenic remains of Tiryns and Mycenæ, however, contribute one interesting fact bearing on the constitution of the family. In the palaces recently excavated, the explorers were perplexed by the discovery of, as it were, two houses side by side, on the same plan, with little direct communication, the larger supposed to be for men and the other for women. This has been a puzzle to scholars, as there is no trace of such a separation in the Homeric family. But if these buildings are the work of Pelasgian or Cario-Lycian stocks, it would be less perplexing. The separate women's apartments might be a survival from the time when the wife was “lady of the house,” and the husband only visited her. And in that case it would point to a period of transitional usage, when the high-born wife came to dwell with her husband on condition of his providing her with a sort of separate establishment, and from that point of view the completeness of the architectural isolation of the two sets of rooms would cease to be surprising.