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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 83 



CHRONOLOGY OF WEST ASIATIC, EGYPTIAN, CRETAN, 

 EUROPEAN AND SCANDINAVIAN CULTURES 



After Osborn 



Campignian culture in France, 

 Neolithic culture at Anau, 

 Turkestan 



Close of Reindeer 

 Southern France 



Period in 



Crete settled 



Azilian and Tardenoisian micro- 

 flint industry from Spain and 

 north Africa 



Magdalenian (Paleolithic) art 

 culture in France. Neolithic 

 culture at Susa, Persia 



Beginning of Neolithic in south- 

 western Asia 

 Orient and France 



B. C. 



7000 



8000 



9000 

 II 000 



11500 



12000 

 13000 

 14000 

 15000 

 16000 



17000 

 18000 



Our ancestors arrive in Scandinavia 

 with large flint implements and 

 axes of reindeer horn 



Afaglemose (Mullerup) culture of 

 Denmark — Domestic Dog 



Moose (Elk) Period in Scania 

 Reindeer Period in Scania 



Final retreat of the Scandinavian 

 Glacier from Southern Scania 



Reindeer 

 France 



Period in Northern 



Denmark and Sweden 



Especially valuable aid in these connections was given to the writer 

 by Professor Frank Leverett, and Dr. Ernst Antevs. Their com- 

 munications follow. Dr. Antevs' latest chronological tables for Europe 

 are especially serviceable. 



Professor Leverett: 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



Ann Arbor, Michigan, 



November 25, 1928 

 Dr. Hrdlu'ka : 



In reply to your letter of November 17 on chronology of glacial epoch, and 

 recent papers pertaining thereto : 



The most important recent contribution is a book by Dr. Ernest Antevs (a stu- 

 dent of De Geer) entitled "The Last Glaciation," published by the American 

 Geographical Society, Research Series No. 17, 1928. 



Data furnished by Dr. F. W. Sardeson in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Folio of 

 the United States Geological Survey make the date of the final southward flow 

 of the glacial Lake Agassiz, and shifting of the outlet into the Hudson Bay 



