Behind them came people bearing the Nostvet culture.148 Our knowledge of Russian prehistory is still very scanty.
The attempt to place this long chapter of prehistory on a historical basis has many dangers, of which I am fully aware.
In prehistory and paleontology there is the same geographical difference as regards the rapidity of development in time.
As a matter of fact they belong to the prehistory period of Britain, and to test their value scientific methods are required.
And it extends still further back into prehistory, that is to say, into, unwritten history.
With this social organization ends the prehistory of the human race.
