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IN this volume Prof. Goessler, Director of the State Museum of Antiquities in Stuttgart, has published a series of forty plates with descriptive letterpress, each dealing with a type of prehistoric man or of prehistoric culture, the type skull being figured with characteristic associated implements, ornaments, etc. The series begins with Heidelberg man and ends with the races of Central Europe of the present day. Students will appreciate the special attention which is given to the archaeology of south-east Germany. The author has not, however, confined himself to Central Europe, and in the palaeolithic age in particular the skeletal remains of early man from France and Britain as well as Rhodesian man are duly noted; but Piltdown man obtains no more than an incidental mention in connexion with the Galley Hill skull. In later periods, especially the bronze and iron ages, while the place of origin of German finds is, for the most part, carefully noted, in the case of many of the objects figured from other sources, this information is not given at all or only vaguely. The text is in German, French, and English, but the last-named is so bad as to be unintelligible at times without the original German, and shows almost complete ignorance of English technical nomenclature.
L'Homme prehistorique dans l'Europe centrale: Primeval Man in Central Europe.
Prof. Dr.
P.
Goessler
By. Pp. 134 + 40 plates. (Stuttgart: Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1924.) n.p.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 114, 410 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114410a0
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