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AT the anniversary meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute, held on Tuesday, Jan. 24, the outgoing president, Mr. H. J. E. Peake, delivered an address on “The Introduction of Civilisation into Britain.” He said that it seems certain that the art of agriculture, the first step in civilisation, was first practised in the Near East, more probably in Asia than in Africa, and that the first grain-growers were also potters. At an early date both these arts were introduced into the yEgean area and into the Plain of Hungary, and Prof. Childe has shown how they spread from the latter area to Switzerland, to the Rhine, and to the country around Liege.
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The Introduction of Civilisation into Britain. Nature 121, 188 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121188a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121188a0