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that on account of its shape offers the least support to the 
theory of an American paleolithic raa n; ami that no shaped stone 
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of any MM found in America has any reason for assignment on ac- 
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count of its simps to any other people that the '.American aborigine© 
of recent geological time* The conservative attitude of Keane is 
still shared by some European students who * hampered by the shadow 
of early misconceptions# fail to give due consideration to the 
American evidence as it stands today, and it seem not improbable 
that the shadow hangs also over some features of the problems of 
early man in Europe* 
•O A second consideration of primary importance is that cf 
the age of the American occupation as indicated by association 
of traces of man with geological fermtions of determined ago* 
That the race reached the human status in the old world at a date 
geologically ancient is fully established, and there are those who 
believe also that the race occupied the American Continent at a 
period equally remote, and there are a few who hold the view that 
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still earlier traces have boon found. he are led, however., to 
