Word: prehistorians
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...France's foremost prehistorian, the Abbé Henri Breuil, soon inspected the pictures, pronounced them genuine and highly important. Early this year he managed to relay news of the discovery to the learned British journal, Nature. Archeologists and anthropologists world-over opened their eyes in amazement, then frowned wearily at the difficulty of getting adequate photographs through the confusion and censorship of Vichy. Last week TIME succeeded in bringing them out. The most interesting of them appear herewith...
...lost the ability to think in large dimensions. We need a change of Lebensgefiihl, of our feeling for life. And it is my hope that the enormous perspective of human growth and existence which has been opened to us by these pictures and by the researches of the modern prehistorian may serve to contribute in some small measure to its development...
...forces which caused the germination of various cultures before the beginning of recorded history were discussed by Vere Gordon Childe, Professor of Prehistoric Archeology at the University of Edinburgh, in an address entitled "A Prehistorian's Interpretation of Diffusion." Although Professor Childe started out by saying: "Discussions of diffusion are apt to degenerate into combats where in only dust is diffused . . ." he made some very definite comments concerning the influence of environmental factors in aiding intercourse between the urban civilizations of the early Orient...