Tools and Weapons: Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London, and 2000 Outlines from Other Sources

Abstract

ONE of the ever-present problems of archæology is the degree of interdependence in which the ancient civilisations stood to one another in the matter of customs, religion, and the material objects of everyday life. Where undoubted importations occur the question becomes simple, but in the early ages of man's civilisation these imports are more often lacking, and the sole evidence available comes from a typological comparison of various classes of objects. In the volume under review Prof. Flinders Petrie has devoted himself to a study of Egyptian implements other than most of the stone types, and by the aid of numerous figures of similar implements from other countries, chiefly in Europe and Western Asia, he has sought to demonstrate the part played by Egypt in the invention and development of the various tools and weapons known to the ancient world.

Tools and Weapons: Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London, and 2000 Outlines from Other Sources.

By Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie. (British School of Archæology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account, Twenty-second Year, 1916.) Pp. vii + 71 + lxxix plates. (London: British School of Archæology in Egypt; Constable and Co., Ltd.; Bernard Quaritch, 1917.) 35s. net.