Early Egypt and the Caucasus

Abstract

WE are grateful to Sir Flinders Petrie for constituting himself his own reporter (NATURE, Oct. 9, p. 514) in the matter of his reply to our papers at Oxford, for we had at the meeting no opportunity to cover the ground on to which he transferred the argument. On that occasion, we kept studiously to the examination of the prehistoric and the geological evidences for the Caucasian-Solutrean argument. The difficulties we indicated: (1) cultural, (2) distributional, (3) geological, were left unanswered. If Sir Flinders Petrie prefers to argue on historical ground we have here, too, certain comments to make.