RECENT DISCOVERIES BEARING ON THE ANTIQUITY 
OF MAN IN EUROPE. 
[With 18 plates.] 
By GreorcE GRANT MacCurpy, Yale University. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Every ten years our Government takes a census. This happens to 
be the year in which it is done. It is also good policy for a science, 
especially if it is a relatively new one, to take a periodical account of 
stock. The science of prehistoric anthropology need have no fear of 
the satisfactory outcome of such a test at this time. I have been 
asked to be the census taker for the European field, and consider 
myself fortunate, not only in the field, but also in the period to be 
covered. Nowhere else has the prehistoric, the whole problem of 
man’s antiquity, been studied with such thoroughness and with such 
happy results. Of the nearly one hundred years since prehistoric 
archeology began to take shape and to grow into what is now becom- 
ing a real science, no decade has shown a more satisfactory record 
than the one just closed. To its achievements the present paper is 
devoted. 
How are we to measure the growth of the decade in question? The 
correct result requires a knowledge not only of what is now known 
but also of what was known in 1900. The annual output in the way 
of publications is one of the best gauges of activity, of the rate of 
progress in a given subject. Ten years ago the prehistoric output 
was well provided for in the journals dealing with anthropology in 
general, in the proceedings of periodical congresses, the transactions 
of local societies, and occasional special publications, These channels 
continue to be utilized in increasing ratio, which ordinarily would 
meet the requirements of a healthy, steady growth. But they have 
not sufficed. New and more highly specialized journals have sprung 
into existence, new prehistoric societies and congresses have been 
organized, and special publications financed. At this moment I do 
not recall a single purely prehistoric European journal of importance 
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