Prehistory: A Study of Early Cultures in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin

Abstract

DURING the last two decades great progress has been made in our knowledge of prehistoric man, especially by discoveries in the caves of France and Spain. Most of the results are published in technical memoirs in serials not easily accessible, and it is difficult to follow them without much previous study and extensive reading. Mr. Burkitt has therefore done good service by the preparation of his volume on “Prehistory,” which summarises the whole subject and enables both the student and the general reader to appreciate its present position. He himself has taken an active part in much of the research, in association with the Abbés H. Breuil and H. Obermaier; he thus writes from personal knowledge,, and adds sufficient details of some of the most interesting localities to make his text-book a useful guide for those who wish to visit them.

Prehistory: A Study of Early Cultures in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.

By M. C. Burkitt. Pp. xx + 438. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1921.) 35s. net.