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[[underline]]KNOWLEDGE OF PREHISTORIC MAN EARLIER IN AMERICA THAN EUROPE[[/underline]]^[[circled]]
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I said, a few pages back, that the civilized world had, until the beginning of the XIX century, lived without knowledge of the prehistoric man and without even a suspicion of his existence.  This is more true in Europe than in America. Acquaintance with the prehistoric man began in American several hundred years before it did in Europe. Columbus formed his acquaintance on the discovery of this continent. The white man upon arriving in America beheld the prehistoric man face to face, he has ample opportunities for knowing and studying him, and finding our everything about the prehistoric man which was discoverable from contact with him. Many books have been written about the prehistoric man of America, and many historians and authors have described him as they saw him. Yet we know but little about him. The scientific study of the prehistoric

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