chronology* These problems do not relate so much to Partic- 
ular nations as to the history of the rac© as a whole; not 
so much to peculiar or local cultures as; to the origin -and 
evolution of the native activities; not so much to tribal or 
national chronology as to correlations of race and culture 
history with the geological time scale. 
With respect to race and racial characters American 
archeology has as yet little to add to what may be learned 
from studies of the living peoples. So far as observed the 
variations in type of fossil forms do not extend decidedly 
b eyond the range of variation observed among the living. It 
has been sought to establish a palaeo-American type in South 
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America but we are not at all certain that a sufficient com- 
parative study of the osseous Terrains of the present peoples 
of the world has been made to warrant a satisfactory determi- 
nation* Conservatism is especially desirable in any attempt 
to establish new racial types or special orders of culture. 
Regarding race origin it may be said that there Is 
