474 SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— H. 



Mr. T. T. Paterson. — The Middle Palceolithic industries in relation to 

 the Pleistocene sequence of S.E. England (3.40). 



Discussion (4.0). 



Mrs. A. Bowler-Kelley. — Middle and Earlier Stone Age industries in 

 south-west Africa (4.15). 



In south-west Africa the surface industry, occasionally imbedded in 

 limestone spring deposits, is an undifferentiated Middle Stone Age usually 

 of quartz, more rarely of quartzite or shale. It consists of smallish Levallois- 

 like cores, flakes, unretouched points and blades and some scrapers 

 reminiscent of Smithfield types. 



In 1937, at a new site, Ameib Mine, the author identified in a thin gravel, 

 a typologically older complex of broad flakes and hand-axes of dolerite and 

 quartzite, called by the late Dr. Lebzelter the ' Ohombahe Kultur,' as an 

 ensemble of strong Lower Fauresmith flavour with Victoria West elements. 



Further north, at the tin mine of Uis, was discovered a workshop of late 

 Victoria West facies the artifacts of which occur in immense numbers both 

 rolled and unrolled throughout a three metre thick gravel deposit in a now 

 completely dry valley. A study of the dial physique shows a perfectly 

 chromatic series and with both long and ' horse-hoof ' type cores and flakes, 

 cleavers and crude hand-axes in all degrees of rolling. This find extends 

 the known range of the Victoria West industry for approximately a thousand 

 miles in a north-westerly direction. 



Saturday, August 20. 



Excursion to Ely, Littleport, Welney, Mildenhall and Newmarket. 



Sunday, August 21. 



Excursion to Gog and Magog Hills, Ickleton, Saffron Walden and 

 Bartlow. 



Monday, August 22. 



Presidential Address by Prof. V. Gordon Childe on The Orient and 

 Europe (lo.o). (See p. 181.) 



Prof. Stanley A. Cook. — The re-discovery of the ancient Orient : its 

 bearing on modern thought (ii.o). 



The importance of this area is by no means confined to the part it has 

 played in giving birth to the three great monotheisms : Judaism, Christianity 

 and Islam. Besides the generally recognised significance of the area for the 

 growth of early culture, the fact that its actual history can be traced over 

 so many millennia makes it a unique field for the study of processes of 

 development. In tracing the outlines of pre-history, proto-history, the 

 period covered by the Bible, and the subsequent mediaeval and modern 

 ages we can throw light upon a variety of linguistic, social, political and 

 ideological changes. What is often called ' the unchanging East ' provides" 

 positive material for reconsidering our conceptions of the processes of 

 human development or evolution, Especially noteworthy are the gradual 



