Shells as Evidence of the Migration of Early Culture (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

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Mr. Jackson submitted a series Of six reports upon his work to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and these were published in its Proceedings. The Council of the Society has courteously given him per mission to republish the four more important of these contributions, with certain additions.

This book represents nothing more than the informa tion garnered in this preliminary survey; and no one recognises its incompleteness more than its author. But I have urged Mr. Jackson to make these results more generally accessible by collecting them into a book, because they reveal the richness and the importance of this branch of ethnography. Lt is hoped that by appealing to the interest of conchologists and ethnologists it will stimulate some of them to join in the search for further evidence and assist in collecting and sifting the material for an exhaustive treatise.

The numerous letters which Mr. Jackson has received from all parts of the world since he began the publication of his repo'rts suggests that the interest in this line of investigation is real and widespread and that the wider distribution Of this collection of essays will achieve the end he has in view.

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