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ARCHÆOLOGY, no less than other branches of research, has profited from the increased popular interest in the results of scientific inquiry and their application to social ends which followed on the close of the War of 1914–18. If the practical bearing of archæological aims was less immediately apparent, this was counterbalanced by a number of spectacular discoveries, of which it will suffice to recall that of King Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt and Sir Leonard Woolley's excavations at Ur. While it is beyond question that the study of archæology has profited much and gathered strength from tliis enhancement of popular interest, the constant stimulus of sensation needed to keep it alive has obvious dangers which may affect the quality of the investigation.
Archæology and Society
By Grabame Clark. Pp. xv + 220 + 24 plates. (London: Methuen and. Co., Ltd., 1939.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Archæology and Ethnology. Nature 144, 1077 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441077b0
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