Abstract
THIS book must be welcomed, in default of any systematic study of the prehistoric remains. The late Mr. Bruce Foote had, for more than forty years, been collecting stone implements as a bye-issue of his professional work as Government geologist. In 1901 he published a valuable catalogue of the collection in the Government Museum at Madras. Since then he drew up the present catalogue of his own collection, which has lately been added to that museum. The photographic plates here are sufficiently good, and a large map of India (in end pocket) shows seven distinct classes of prehistoric sites by coloured signs. The arrangement by locality is useful for the future worker, but it makes the grasp of the historical results more difficult to follow.
Madras Government Museum. The Foote Collection of Indian Prehistoric and Protohistoric Antiquities. Notes on their Ages and Distribution.
By Robert Bruce Foote. Pp. xv + 246 + plates 64. (Madras: Government Press, 1916.) Price 14s. 8d.
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P., W. Madras Government Museum The Foote Collection of Indian Prehistoric and Protohistoric Antiquities Notes on their Ages and Distribution . Nature 97, 319–320 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097319a0
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