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station im Gruebgraben bei Kammern in Niederoesterreich." 

 This article is illustrated by three good plates and by figures 

 in the text. The second article is by Hella Schuerer von 

 Waldheim, and is entitled, " Vorgeschichtliche menschliche 

 Funde aus Stillfried." This article is illustrated by one plate 

 showing Neolithic skulls. Stillfried is situated on the border 

 between Lower Austria and Hungary. 



The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, for 

 the year 191 7-1 8 (vol. ii, pt. 4), fully maintain the reputation 

 of the new society. The first article in the new issue is the 

 Presidential Address by Reginald A. Smith, and is entitled, 

 Our Neighbours in the Neolithic Period." In his address, Mr. 

 Smith discusses in great detail the relics of the Neolithic period 

 found in Scandinavia, North-Western Germany, the Low 

 Countries, and Northern France. He deals particularly thor- 

 oughly with the Neolithic period in Scandinavia, the Neolithic 

 culture of that region having been worked out in great detail. 

 The remains of this epoch found in Scandinavia are very plenti- 

 ful, and it has been found possible to base upon the evidence 

 which they afford a detailed and probably fairly accurate 

 subdivision of the Neolithic period into smaller epochs. It is 

 probable that the Neolithic period lends itself best to a three- 

 fold subdivision. In the early stage the dog was the only 

 domestic animal known, and the shell-mounds (otherwise 

 known as kitchen-middens) contain the most numerous relics 

 of the first period. It is probable that the so-called Azilian 

 period should be included as a subdivision of the first division 

 of the Neolithic. The Campigny culture of France must be 

 regarded as a transition period between the Early and Middle 

 Neolithic epochs. During the Campigny period pit-dwellings 

 were constructed, and it is probable that cattle had begun to 

 be domesticated. During the second subdivision, the Middle 

 Neolithic or Megalithic period, agriculture (as well as cattle- 

 farming) was well understood, and lake-dwellings and Mega- 

 lithic tombs were abundant. After this comes the late Neo- 

 lithic or " Epimegalithic " subdivision, and stone cists are 

 then found. A feature of Mr. Smith's paper, which will be 

 very valuable to students, is a table in which he gives a vocabu- 

 lary of the technical terms used by archaeologists in referring 

 to the Neolithic period, the vocabulary consisting of the six 

 languages, English, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish, 



