of primitive existence* 
In .America the conditions are simple* The antiq- 
uities of a region represent in a large measure the early his- 
tory of the known peoples of that region* There have not 
been the successive occupations, the racial in t ©mingling© , f 
the obscuring and obliteration of phenomena that so seriously 
embarrass the student of the ancient nations of the Old World* 
The stone age and the red race stand practically alone within 
the filed of study, 
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In America the high water mark of culture barely 
reached the lower limit of civilisation. In the Old World the 
fuller representation of man's career is above that limit so 
that America can be expected to assist, especially, in building 
up the substructure of biman history; she can be expected to 
furnish a fuller reading of the early chapters of culture progress- 
than any other region of the world* 
f 
The position of fee aboriginal America in the fi&ld 
of culture history and the area of that history which American 
