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  Mesopotamia

  Mesopotamia was home to some of the oldest major ancient civilizations, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Persians, Babylonians and Assyrians. Mesopotamia housed some of the world's most ancient ... > more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
  Cultures
  Early Climate
  Anthropology
  Human Evolution
   
  

  Iron Age

  In archaeology, the Iron Age is the stage in the development of any people where the use of iron implements as tools and weapons is prominent. The adoption of this new material coincided with other ... > more
• Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Anthropology
  Evolution
  Cultures
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  Toba catastrophe theory

  According to the Toba catastrophe theory, modern human evolution was affected by a recent, large volcanic event. Within the last three to five million years, after human and other ape lineages ... > more
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  Origin of Life
   
  

  Maya civilization

  The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its spectacular art, monumental architecture, ... > more
• Evolutionary Biology
  Evolution
  Charles Darwin
  Nature
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
   
  

  Parallel evolution

  Parallel evolution is the independent evolution of similar traits, starting from a similar ancestral condition. Frequently this is the situation in more closely related lineages, where several ... > more
• Evolution
  Charles Darwin
  Human Evolution
  Origin of Life
  Dinosaurs
  Early Humans
   
  

  Evolution of the horse

  The evolution in the structure of their teeth, odd-toed limbs, obvious mobility of the upper lip, and other aspects, joins the horse to the evolutionary line of odd-toed, hoofed mammals: the ... > more
• Language Acquisition
  Apes
  Child Development
  Anthropology
  Cultures
  Behavioral Science
   

  Great Ape language

  Research into non-human Great Ape language has generated a great deal of evidence suggesting that apes are capable of using sophisticated communication with humans and other apes. Gorillas and ... > more
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  Minoan civilization

  The Minoans were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, flourishing from approximately 2600 to 1450 BC when their culture was superseded by the Mycenaean culture, which ... > more
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  Human Evolution
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  Mummy

  A mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold or dryness, or airlessness. The best-known mummies are those ... > more
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  Dead Sea scrolls

  The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise roughly 600 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ... > more

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