Abstract
MR. PEAKE has written a popular account of the beginnings and early stages of development of material culture, which ranges from the earliest use of stone as an implement to the working of iron, and incorporates the most recent results of archaeological investigation, especially in Egypt and Mesopotamia, bearing upon his problems. His method of arrangement is both chronological and logical; for his chapters, in following the order of development of the means devised by man to satisfy his needs, first as a food gatherer, then as hunter, pastoral nomad and agriculturist, give a generalised picture in the order of succession of the ages of stone, copper, bronze and iron. As might be anticipated from Mr. Peakes preoccupations elsewhere, and on other occasions, full weight is given to the development of agriculture in relation to its effect on progress in the other arts of life.
Early Steps in Human Progress.
By Harold Peake. Pp. xii + 256 + 74 plates. (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., n.d.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Early Steps in Human Progress. Nature 132, 227 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132227b0
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