Shells as Evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture

Abstract

THOSE who are interested in recent developments in ethnological studies are aware that a very active school has arisen within the last two or three years in Manchester under the influence of Prof. G. Elliot Smith, who in 1911 directed attention to the widespread influence of Ancient Egypt in his little book, “The Ancient Egyptians and their Influence upon the Civilisation of Europe.” Since that date he has made investigations over a wider sphere, and formulated the theory that a large number of apparently associated customs and objects mark the progress of a complex culture throughout a considerable portion of the earth's surface. Shells as Evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture. By J. Wilfrid Jackson. Pp. xxviii + 216. (Manchester: At the University Press; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1917.) Price 6s. net.