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IT is important to determine how far culture can independently arise in a given district, and how far it is dependent upon other centres of civilisation. For many years M. Salomon Reinach has devoted himself to these problems, especially in reference to the culture of prehistoric Europe. In his essays on “Le Mirage Orientate” he opposed the very prevalent idea that all our culture necessarily came from the East, and during the last three years he has contributed to L'Anthropologie a series of articles on “Sculpture in Europe before the Greco-Roman Influences.” This long series of papers is concluded in the current number (No. 2, vol. vii.) of that journal, and it forms a mine of information which cannot but prove of immense value to archaeological students, especially as it is illustrated with 441 outline sketches culled from a vast array of authors. His general thesis comprises two arguments—the one negative, the other positive.
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Prehistoric European Art. Nature 54, 482 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054482a0
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