Oslo: Aschehoug, 1950. — 249 p.: ill., maps.
Childe proceeds in the next nine lectures to unfold with exceptional lucidity the story of the arrival, spread, intermingling and antagonisms of peoples with a multiplicity of archeological assemblages, or cultures, which flourished in various parts of the European continent from the Upper Paleolithic period to the ultimate achievement of urbanization over most of the region by the middle of the first millennium B.C.