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northern borderland on either continent. The occurrence, though note- 

 worthy, may or may not have significant rehition with the movements 

 of races or the transfer of cultures, but the correspondences in shape, 

 material, size, and method of manufacture form 

 an unbroken chain of genetic, accultural, or for- 

 tuitous analogies entirely encircling the globe 



where, the land areas 

 are most nearly con- 

 tinuous. However, it 

 should be noted that 

 this particular form of 

 implement, if it really 

 originated in the East, 



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Fig. 12. Ground slate spear- 

 head, New England type. 



Fig. U. Ground slate spear- 

 head, Korean type. 



Fig. 13. Ground slate spear- 

 head, Japanese type. 



may have passed from Asia to America by the Boring Strait route 

 along with many other i)rimitive artifacts. 



Along the middle Atlantic shores of America certain forms of 

 artifacts are found which resemble more closely the 

 Analog'ies ^"^°"'' Corresponding fabrications of the Mediterranean re- 

 gion than do tliose of other ])arts of America. The 

 round-sectioned, petaloid polished celt is found in highest perfection 

 in western Europe and in the West Indies and neighboring Ameri- 

 can areas. It is absent or rare on the opposite shores of the Pacific. 

 In the Isthmian region we find works in gold and silver and their 

 alloys which display technical skill of exceptional, even remarkable, 

 kind, and it is noteworthy that the method of manufacture em- 

 ployed, as well as some of the forms produced, suggest sti-ongly the 

 wonderful metal-craft of the Nigerian tribes of old Benin; and, as 

 possibly bearing upon this occurrence, we observe that the trade 



