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Similar objects are found southward into Mexico but 
are not found farther north than Utah. The present 
presumption is that this weapon was used to the exclu- 
sion of the bow, which, from its wide distribution, must 
have been known in America from its earliest settlement. 
The Basket Makers also made very useful and well- 
decorated sacks of yucca fiber strings. Large quantities 
of human hair both as finished twine and in preparation 
have been found. 
Whether these Basket Makers changed their ways of 
life and became pueblo dwellers we do not know. It is 
not generally to be assumed that a people well settled in 
a locality with a highly developed-culture change their 
ways of life without pronounced foreign influence such 
as results from a movement of population. 
