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Site of a series of painted and engraved chambers. Hearths on the floor looked as if they had been extinguished the day before.
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Grotte de Chauvet, France |
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Site on the Don River, occupied about 2000 years after those to the west. Contain large hollows filled with bones and other debris.
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Kostenki (Russia) |
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Culture in Siberia, semisubterranean houses. Female and bird figurines out of bone.
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Mal'ta culture |
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Earliest known site in northeastern Siberia. Variety of stone tools, foreshaft made of woolly rhinoceros horn came from this site. |
Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site (YHS) |
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Late Ice Age culture that once flourished in the MIddle Aldan VAlley. Mammoth and musk-ox remains associated with large stone choppers, bifacially flaked stone points, burins, and small blade artifacts. |
Diuktai |
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Northeastern England site. One of the first Stone Age locations dug with environmental experts on site, became a classic example of ecological archaeology. Headgear. Small residential base camp occupied by four or five families. Red deer antlers spiritually deposited in the lake. |
Star Carr, England |
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What is a key artifact of Europe? |
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What indicates craft specialization? |
Settlements/farming; leaving time to craft specialize. |
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What find was freeze-dried, organic remains preserved well, tattoos, and suffered a violent death. |
Otzi the Ice Man |
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In the Balkans, earliest farmers settled on fertile soils on floodplains. Lived in compact villages of one-room dwellings built of baked mud plastered on poles and wicker. |
Karanovo Culture
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Best-known early European farming culture. Named for its distinctive linear-decorated pottery. Central Europe, standardized long-houses. Near rivers: access to water, absorbtion of local foraging populations: absorbing outsiders, typically women.
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LBK: Linear Bandkeramik Culture |
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Eastern Mediterranean civilization. Cities, regular military. Political maneuvering, acculturation, first parliamentary monarchy. |
Hittites |
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What find was a middle-aged man who was buried with decorated beakers and metal items that signified a connection with metal working? |
Amesbury Archer |
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What types of vessels were found along with copper working? |
Bell beakers |
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Who were the people in Hungary who buried their dead in urns? |
Urnfield People |
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who were the people who did bronze working and discovered wine drinking? political geography, hilltop forts (centers for prince and political leaders), domesticated horse and urnfields |
Halstatt Culture
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Who executed criminals by way of bogs?
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Celts |
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A stone tool technology involving the use of preshaped cores and long, parallel-sided blades produced with the aid of a punch. Characteristic of many Upper Paleolithic peoples.
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Blade Technology |
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A chisel-like stone tool made on a blade used for grooving stone, antler, bone, and wood, as well as for making rock engravings.
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Burin |
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A diminutive version of the blade used for manufacturing small spear barbs and scraping tools. Especially common in late Ice Age and early Holocene Siberia and early Holocene Alaska. |
Microblade |
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A distinctive cluster of tooth features associated with Siberian and Native American populations.
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Sinodonty |
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A transitional zone between different environments.
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Ecotones |
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A British term for a wooden or stone circle-whence Stonehenge. |
Henge
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Glacial windblown dust from Ice Age glaciers that formed light soils.
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Loess |
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Term applied to communal stone-built tombs, widespread throughout western Europe, generally in the fifth millennium B.C.
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Megalith |
