Archaeological Work in Ukrain by Professor Ščerbakivskyj

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Having had occasion, when in Prague, to meet Professor Ščerbakivskyj and to discuss with him his work at Hontzi, I felt t i should be made known in England, more especially as little has been published from this area since Volkov's papers at the Geneva Congress. Only a short precis is possible of the excavations and illustrations. Although the excavator inclines to a Magdalenian date for the culture, perhaps because it is not typically Aurignacian, one might rather suggest ‘Eastern European Upper Palaeolithic’, which occurs in an area where the Magdalenians —a French folk—never penetrated, although their influence was no doubt felt. This is certainly applicable to Pfedmost and other finds in Moravia which are neither of true Solutre nor La Madeleine culture. It is important for prehistorians to grasp clearly the fact that even at this early time cultures had by no means even a European extension and that different provinces had different cultures, more or less related.