Future Aims and Methods in Research in Prehistoric Europe

EARLY Europe is an inviting area, especially from the teaching point of view, because of all continents it has been most fully studied from the time of its earliest inhabitants until the present. For the chronology of the early periods the use of geology and palaeobotany and for the later periods the tracing of imported objects and cultural influences from areas dated by historical record establish a procedure that is of value in many other archaeological fields. The unity of the subject is also worth emphasizing. The classical archaeologist is likely to be interested in the Aegean and Italy without caring to trace their connections in the European hinterland, and the prehistorians of the rest of the continent have too often been content to pursue problems of local significance without relation to the Mediterranean, the Middle East or the Soviet Union. Europe is after all inseparable from the Old World as a whole

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