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THE work which has given this brief essay its inspiration and its title stands for three things of outstanding importance to all interested in the application of science to human history. First, the unique value of the prehistoric treasures of Carniola and the surrounding provinces themselves, both in the narrower world of archæology and the broader one of man's history at large. Second, the devotion by the late Duchess of Mecklenburg of her great resources to their methodical excavation from 1905 to 1914, after the district had for many decades been pillaged by indiscriminate fossickers, and so amassing a collection not only of enormous wealth, but also of unspotted scientific purity. Third, the unparalleled feat of co-operation by which an American sale-room, acting for the late Duchess's daughter, has commissioned an international committee of prehistorians to work over the entire collection and perpetuate its authentic archæological groupings as lots in a free public sale in New York, at which it has been laid down that each lot is accompanied by its original inventory, excavation-records, plans, and other documents, the publication rights in each being reserved solely to its purchasers. The volume now before us is the catalogue which embodies the archæological committee's work, and in enabling its publication the American Art Association Anderson Galleries have caused an outstanding contribution to be made to prehistoric science.
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HAWKES, C. Treasures of Carniola*. Nature 133, 164–165 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133164a0
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