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PROF. LEO FKOBENITJS, president of the Frankfurt Research Institute for Cultural Morphology, who has recently returned from his twelfth expedition to Africa, claims, it is said, that the results of his explorations in the Libyan Desert and the Sudan have now established the validity of his theories of the origin and direction of diffusion of the periods, or phases, which he distinguishes in the history of civilisation. It will be remembered that Prof. Frobenius, working on the material which he has been engaged in collecting in Africa for nearly thirty years, has not only produced an elaborate classification and scheme of distribution of the main forms of culture in that continent, but has also put forward certain views as to their historical development and affiliations. In an interview with the correspondent of The Times, which appears in the issue of July 31, Prof. Frobenius is reported as saying that he has now discovered in the Neolithic} of the Sudan, the period in which agriculture and tho domestication of animals first appear, the missing, but essential, link hi tho chain of evidence joining prehistoric to historic cultures. It is further reported that, since October last, a staff of twenty research workers attached to the Institute and distributed from Scandinavia to Southern Rhodesia, including France, Spain, Italy, North Africa, Abyssinia and Arabia, has been engaged in filling in gaps in the evidence and adding details to the chart of cultural distributions, which is now approaching completion.
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Archæological Exploration in Africa. Nature 136, 213 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136213a0
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