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The occurrence of this marked prehistoric thrust of South American 

 influence as far to the north and west as the Bay Islands has interest- 

 ing theoretical connotations. It forms another link in the growing 

 chain of evidence indicating that the answers to many basic problems 

 of Middle American culture history lie buried in the southern con- 

 tinent. The time is hardly ripe, nor is this the place, to attempt to 

 trace out more specific relationships. These will become evident as 

 the nature and sequence of culture horizons in the Chiriqui, Code, 

 and adjacent regions of South America are investigated and reported 

 on. Their importance to the entire field of Middle American research 

 is strikingly indicated by Vaillant (Merwin and Vaillant, 1932, p. 65) 

 in discussing the apparent diversity of Maya ceramic origins. " More- 

 over, those ceramic groups which are Early in southern Central 

 America differ from those in central Mexico, and an examination of 

 Central American ceramics reveals a group of forms that have in 

 essence stronger connections with South America than with Mexico. 

 It also seems evident from our involved discussion that we have not 

 yet begun to scratch the surface of the history of the rise of Central 

 American and South American ceramics ". 



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