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area; (4) the Upper Mississippi and Great Lakes area ; (T)) the Great 

 Phiins and Roek^v Mountain area; (G) the Arid area; (7) the Cali- 

 fornia area; (8) the Columbia-Fraser area; (9) the Northwest Coast 

 area; (10) the Arctic Coast area; (11) the Great Northern-Interior 



Fig. 41. Maj) of North America outlining tenialive culture characterization areas. 



area. These areas are here made as few ami simple as possible to 

 avoid too great complexity in conducting comparative studies of the 

 several classes of antiquities. 



The Middle and South American areas (fig. 42), also outlined on 

 the broadest possible plan, are as follows: (12) The North Mexican; 

 (13) the Middle Mexican ; (14) the South Mexican ; (15) the Maya- 



