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THE most recent contribution of M. R. Vaufrey to discussion of a group of chronological and cultural problems in the archaeology of North Africa, of which an account appears in another column of this issue of NATURE (see p. 432), is of more than local interest in its bearing on questions of wide import in the study of prehistoric civilizations. M. Vaufrey, the distinguished anthropologist who occupies a chair in the Institut de Pateontologie humaine in Paris, has explored extensively over a number of years among the prehistoric sites of North Africa, and his studies in the classification of the cultures and in the prehistory of that region are accorded the authority due no less to his meticulous precision as an investigator in the field than to his ability in the analysis of archaeological evidence recorded by others. In his latest contributions to a subject upon which no one is thus better qualified than himself to speak, M. Vaufrey has two main objectives.
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Prehistoric Cultures and Chronology in North Africa. Nature 139, 438 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139438b0
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