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Nature 142, 345-346 (20 August 1938) | doi:10.1038/142345a0;

The Orient and Europe

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THE distortions of prehistory on the Continent to fit "biased and distorted political dogmas" and the travesty of the subject broadcast by the B.B.C. a year ago challenge archaeologists to justify their membership of an association for the advancement of science by criticizing their hypotheses impartially and objectively in the light of rapidly accumulating concrete facts. Prof. Y. Gordon Childe attempts such an examination in his presidential address to Section ?