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An artifact or artefact is
any object made or modified
by a human culture, and
often one later recovered by
some archaeological
endeavor. Examples include
stone tools such as
projectile points, pottery
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Stone tool
A stone tool is, in the most
general sense, any tool made
of stone. Although
stone-tool-dependent
cultures exist even today,
most stone tools are
associated with prehistoric
societies that no longer
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Neandertal interaction with Cro-Magnons
Neanderthals apparently
co-existed with anatomically
modern humans beginning some
100,000 years ago. However,
about 45,000 years ago, at
about the time that
stoneworking techniques
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a period
in a civilization's
development when the most
advanced metalworking
consisted of techniques for
smelting copper and tin from
naturally occurring
outcroppings of ore, and
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Indigenous peoples of the Americas
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Neanderthal
The Neanderthal or Neandertal was a species of Homo (Homo (sapiens) neanderthalensis) that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia from about 230,000 to 29,000 years ago, during the Middle ... > more -
Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is a dark grey-pinkish granite stone (often incorrectly identified as basalt) with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic ... > more -
Human migration
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Civilization
The word civilization (or civilisation) has a variety of meanings related to human society. By the most minimal, literal definition, a civilization is a complex society. Technically, anthropologists ... > more -
Archaeology
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Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization, located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, present-day Mexico. From roughly 600 CE in ... > more
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