(1) The Annual of the British School at Athens (2) The Cochin Tribes and Castes (3) The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man (4) Notes and Queries on Anthropology (5) Rough Stone Monuments and their Builders

Abstract

(1)THE last issue of the Annual of the British School at Athens opens with an interesting review of the working of this institution since its foundation in 1883, prepared by the honorary secretary, Mr. G. A. Macmillan. In spite of its limited resources, the school, which deserves more active support from archæologists and students of classical literature in this country, has done most valuable work in the excavation of historical sites, and in the preparation of monographs on the archaeology and anthropology of Greece and the eastern Ægean area. In the present volume, besides reports on the topography of the Troad, Thebes, Phylakopi, Phokis, and other places, Mr. W. R. Halliday has made an important contribution to the study of comparative religion in his article entitled “Cenotaphs and Sacred Localities,” in which he deals with the stratification of local beliefs. It is interesting to read a description of a Thracian Tholos tomb at Kirk Kilisse, written before the recent campaign which has directed public attention to this place. The number, as usual, is provided with a fine series of maps and illustrations.

(1) The Annual of the British School at Athens.

No. xvii. Session 1910á”11. Pp. liv + 355 + xxi plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 25s. net.

(2) The Cochin Tribes and Castes.

L. K. Anantha K. Iyer. Vol. ii. Pp. xxiii + 504. (Madras: Higginbotham and Co.; London: Luzac and Co., 1912.)

(3) The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man.

Mental and Social Condition of Savages. By Lord Avebury. 7th edition. Pp. xxviii + 454. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912.) Price 7s. 6d. net.

(4) Notes and Queries on Anthropology.

Edited for the British Association for the Advancement of Science Barbara Freire-Marreco Prof. J. L. Myres. 4th edition. Pp. xii + 288. (London: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1912.) Price 5s.

(5) Rough Stone Monuments and their Builders.

T. E. Peet. Pp. xii + 172. (London and New York: Harper and Bros., 1912.) Price 25. 6d. net.