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navia, particularly bronze fibulae from southern Sweden and the 

 adjacent islands of Bornholm and Qland,^^ bear designs which are 

 suggestive of Old Bering Sea art and even more so of prehistoric 

 Ainu art.^* It may be because of the limitation of our knowledge 

 that these appear now as only isolated resemblances. Little is known 

 of the archeology of the greater part of central Siberia and nothing 

 at all of the Siberian Arctic coast. Excavations in these regions 

 might close the gaps and bring to light a series of old related cultures, 

 forming an earlier parallel to the present general uniformity of 

 culture in the circumpolar zone. 



=" Stjema, Kunt, Bidrag till Bornholms befolkningshistoria under J&m&Idern, pp. 144- 

 145, Stockholm, 1905 



«Torii, R., op. cit., pi. 32, fig. 1. 



