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DR. MUNTHE is a distinguished geochronologist. He must be the doyen in his subject in Scandinavia. His first paper was published so long ago as 1886, and since that date few years have passed without some further contribution to knowledge appearing from his pen. The volume under notice presents the mature results of the author's work and conclusions on his subject. Scandinavian geochronology from the end of pleistocene times onwards is particularly complex and interesting. Not only was the region affected by the normal sequence of postglacial climate changes, but there were also up and down movements of the land relative to the sea which have to be taken into account. Dr. Munthe's exposé is largely factual, and there is a wealth of information here collected, the results of his own and other people's investigations. The treatment of the stone age settlements is slighter. The author is interested in human cultures not so much in themselves as in how they correlate with the various climate phases with which he is concerned. There are plenty of illustrations, the descriptions of which are translated into English ; there are also sixteen very important maps and diagrams in a folder at the end of the volume. The book as a whole is, of course, in Swedish. Dr. Munthe is to be congratulated on having produced such a clear and detailed account of his life's work and ideas.
Om Nordens, Främst Baltikums, Senkvartära Utveckling och Stenåldersbebyggelse
(On the Late Quaternary Development and the Stone Age Settlement of North Europe, primarily the Baltic.) Av Henr. Munthe. (Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, Serien 3, Band 19, No. 1.) Pp. 242+16 plates. (Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksells Boktryckeri A.-B. ; London: H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., 1940.) n.p.
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BURKITT, M. Om Nordens, Främst Baltikums, Senkvartära Utveckling och Stenåldersbebyggelse. Nature 157, 678 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157678b0
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