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However, only the term Palaeolithic remains in common use, as Mesolithic and Neolithic have proved increasingly meaningless, even if they occasionally appear in specialist and popular literature.
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For these Lord Avebury proposed in 1865 the terms Palaeolithic and Neolithic. ( "
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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Dr Cristian Capelli University of Oxford Archaeological finds show that modern humans first settled in Europe from about 40,000 years ago - during a time known as the Palaeolithic.
BBC News - Home 2011
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It has been described as a Palaeolithic condominium, with all the food, shelter, warmth, and, to cap it all, an artist in residence.
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Thus it is identified as a Palaeolithic dog, suggesting that dog domestication had already started during the Aurignacian.
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How far these practices involved the conception of deity is necessarily unknown; but there is some possible evidence of the deification of woman as the source of life — a kind of Palaeolithic prototype of the Great
ORIGINS OF RELIGION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968
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Based on population growth, the economy doubled every 250,000 years from the Palaeolithic era until the Neolithic Revolution.
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Based on population growth, the economy doubled every 250,000 years from the Palaeolithic era until the Neolithic Revolution.
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In recent years, she has been occupied with the publication of scientific reports for Euboea since the Palaeolithic period, the Early Helladic Manika, and Hellenistic Amarynthos.
Meet the Team « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project 2009
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Instead, the Neolithic descendants of Palaeolithic (Stone Age) people evolved their tolerance of milk within the last 8,000 years due to exposure to dairy products, making this "the most rapidly evolved European trait of the past 30,000 years," according to Dr Mark Thomas of UCL.
Archive 2007-03-01 Steve Carper 2007
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