Les Ages préhistoriques de l'Espagne et du Portugal

Abstract

ANTHROPOLOGISTS and archæologists will gladly hail this handsome volume from the pen of the editor of the “Matériaux pour l'Histoire primitive de l'Homme.” It relates to two countries of the primæval antiquities of which but little is generally known, and the literature concerning whose early relics has hitherto been but scanty. It is true that we have various essays on the prehistoric antiquities of Portugal by Carlos Ribeiro, Delgado, and the Geological Commission; while those of Spain have been treated of by Signor Tubino and Dr. Vilanova y Piera, and, so far as Andalusia is concerned, by Signor Gongora y Martinez; and, as to some of the caves, by Mr. MacPherson and the late Mr. Busk. The work, however, of M. Cartailhac is far more general and comprehensive than that of any previous author. It will be well perhaps to give some sort of summary of the contents of his book.

Les Ages préhistoriques de l'Espagne et du Portugal.

By Par M. Émile Cartailhac. Imperial 8vo, with 450 cuts and 4 plates. (Paris: Reinwald, 1886.)