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Also Known As	Northern Maritime culture

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Inugsuk culture Inuit Dorset culture Ipiutak culture Kachemak culture Ancestral Pueblo culture Moche stone tool industry Hohokam culture Magdalenian culture Jōmon culture Mogollon culture

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Therkel Mathiassen

Danish archaeologist and ethnographer