Abstract
IT is not surprising that Mr. Burkitt's treatise on prehistory should so soon have reached a second edition. It is a unique summary of the handicraft and art of the successive races of Palaeolithic man in Europe, with some references to Neolithic and Bronze Age man. It is based on personal observation, guided by one of the foremost pioneers in such research, the Abbe Breuil. It is not only a clear statement of the facts in convenient order, but also a discussion of all the important inferences which may be drawn from these facts as to the life and ideas of primeval man. It is, indeed, both a work of reference and one which will satisfy the general reader who desires only a broad view of the subject.
Prehistory: a Study of Early Cultures in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.
By M. C. Burkitt. Second edition. Pp. xxvi + 438 + 48 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1925.) 35s. net.
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W., A. Prehistory: a Study of Early Cultures in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin . Nature 116, 894 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116894a0
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