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TEN years of excavation throughout the Old World have yielded results startling enough to affect our concrete picture of human history. From this vast field I want to gather together some new facts that should mould our total synthesis. But my aim in so doing will be not to attempt in an hour an impossible reconstruction of human history. I shall rather focus attention on some new data which will permit a concrete answer to a rather abstract question. Why is a prehistorian asked to preside over a section in this Association from which historians, as such, would be de facto excluded? In a word, on what grounds can prehistory in general and British prehistory in particular claim to be a science?
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Childe, V. The Orient and Europe*. Nature 142, 557–559 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142557a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142557a0