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Lucy, First family, First intact skull of A. Afarensis
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Hadar
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Johanson 1974: 2.9 mya, 3.2 mya, 1994
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First potassium argon dates, Zinjanthropus, Oldowan pebble tools
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Olduvai Gorge
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1.75mya, Louis and Mary Leaky 2mya
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Footprints
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Laetoli
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3.7mya, Mary Leaky 1976
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Earliest instance of the intentional use of fire, 80 P. robustus, 6 H. erectus
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Swarkrans cave
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Bricca
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First discovery of the fossil remains of Homo erectus, no stone tools
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Trinil
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Eugene Dubois, Java Island 1.2mya
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Remains of H. erectus, 12 statified layers, fossils lost or stolen
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Zhoukoudian
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John Gunnar Andersson and Davidson Black
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32 individual skeletons: H. Heidelbergensis
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Atapuerca: Sima de los Huesos
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intentional burial 350,000-500,000ya
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90 fossil fragments, 4 individuals H. erectus
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Atapuerca: Gran Dolina
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First Europenans were cannibals
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Handaxes and cleavers, 200,000 years of successive human ocupations
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Kalambo falls
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Meat-eating, 400 handaxes and animal bones, importance of both plants and animals in diet of H. erectus
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Olorgesailie
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Fully modern humans appeared here earlier than anywhere else in the world
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Klasies River Mouth Caves
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120,000-60,000ya
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Unusual Skeleton by Neander River
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Valley of the Neanderthals
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1913 Marcellin Boule: gave Neanderthals a bad name
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Homo sapiens sapiens found with Mousterian tools
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Qufzeh Cave
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Animals butchered, venus of vestonice, burial excavated in 1949 woman with partial paralysis on left side of face
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Dolni Vestonice
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25,000ym
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Upper Paleolithic mural art in primarily France and Spain
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Cave of Lascaux
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36,000ya
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Underwater cave art
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Cosquer
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18,500BP
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Lack of sweeping or cleaning suggests only brief occupation
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Pincevent
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Leroi-Gourhan and M. Brezillon 1964
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Oldest example of cremation, foraging successful for a long time
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Lake Mungo, Australia
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Colonized 40,000ya
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Homo sapiens sapiens came to the New World for the first time before 13,000ya
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Beringia
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Series of crossings
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Oldest evidence for potato, forced a reconsideration of our interpretation of the earliest inhabitants of the New World
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Monte Verde
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11,000BC
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Two or more different social groups came together, perhaps to cooperate in bison hunting, for a brief time some 11,000ya
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Lindenmeier Northern Colorado
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Two concentrations: one larger points andother different obsidian. 1934 Frank Roberts, 9000BC
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Intentionally placed on back in grave, number of injuries in lifetime but all healed before death
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Kennewick Man
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7500BC
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Earliest evidence for plant domestication, 200-300 people, collective burials in pits or individual ones
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"Ain Mallaha
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11,000-9,000BC, 1973 Jean Perrot A
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Tell, One of the best records of the changes that took place as farming and herding first began, 2000-3000 inhabitants
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Abu Hureyra
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10,500-6,000BC, abandoned because of arid conditions, herding a more viable enterprise
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Tell, one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on the earth, freshwater springs, 600 population, large stone tower
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Jericho
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Kenyon, 10,000BC
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First city, Central Turkey, 10,000 people, no indication of differences in status, control of obsidian trade
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Catalhoyuk
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James Mellaart 1960s, 7250BC
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A prepottery Neolithic phase and the indigenous domestication of humped zebu cattle, along with the development of highly specialized local craft industries, cotton, ceramic vessels
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Mehrgarh
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1974 Jean-Francois Jarrige, seventh millennium BC
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Southerly site: rice, Principle crop: millet, grew hemp, had spindle whorls, bone needles, pigs and dogs principle domesticated animals, 500,000 pieces of pottery and six kilns
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Ban-po
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5,000BC
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Cultivated rice, exchange, probably introduced from South China, mortuary ritual,
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Khok Phanom Di
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Mid 1960s Chester Gorman, 2000-1500BC
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microbands,maguey plants, mesquite tree, squash, exceeding caloric requirements with a lower intake of food, manufacture of tools
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Guilá Naquitz Cave
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Kent V. FLannery 1964
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Seasonality and scheduling, shifted towards more doesticated foods and then became more sedentary
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Tehuacán
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Textile are an important step towar elaborate techniques used for later prehistoric Andean fabrics, montaña zone, tubers and rhizomes,
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Guitarrero Cave
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Thomas Lynch 1960s
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