Abstract
THE most valuable and scientific part of this work is the first sixth of the volume, by Prof. Myres, which is an elaborate correlation of Tertiary geology, climate, conditions of life, and movements of races. Though the detail might be gleaned elsewhere, the realisation of the manner in which each change conditions others, the presentation of the continuity of this pre-history, and the living sense of the realities of existence, put plainly to the reader the complexities of tracing the history of man. Such a mass of detail cannot be at all a final statement; the knowledge that has been gleaned in the last fifty years is much too fragmentary as yet. We can welcome this as a piece of courageous charting, which will show where the blank places lie, and make us realise the value of scattered items which may be fitted into place.
The Cambridge Ancient History.
Edited by J. B. Bury Dr. S. A. Cook F. E. Adcock. Vol. 1: Egypt and Babylonia to 1580 B.C. Pp. xxii + 704 + 12 maps. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923.) 35s. net.
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P., W. The Cambridge Ancient History. Nature 112, 569–570 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112569a0
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