Abstract
THE progress of archæological discovery during the last twenty years has thrown a flood of light on the relation of the prehistoric period in Europe north of the Alps to the civilisation of the Mediterranean in the period embraced by history. We are now in a position to recognise the source from which the inhabitants of middle and northern Europe, and of the British Isles, obtained the art manifested in their articles of daily use, and we are able to trace them back to that wonderful Mediterranean civilisation, proved by the labours of Schliemann to be older than the Greeks and shown recently by Mr. Arthur Evans to have occupied a commanding position in the island of Crete. Schliemann discovered its range over the eastern Mediterranean from Troy to the Peloponnese, Evans extends it to almost within sight of Italy, where the Etruscan civilisation is the dominant factor at the dawn of history.
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