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    The Lower Paleolithic (or Lower Palaeolithic) is the earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. It spans the time from around 3.3 million...
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    The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (c. 3.3 million – c. 11,700 BC) (/ˌpeɪlioʊˈlɪθɪk, ˌpæli-/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee-), also called the Old Stone Age...
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    including Neanderthals. Religion prior to the Upper Paleolithic is speculative, and the Lower Paleolithic in particular has no clear evidence of religious...
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  • The Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and...
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  • West-Eurasian backflow, started in the early Holocene or already earlier in the Paleolithic period, sometimes between 30-15,000 years ago, followed by pre-Neolithic...
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    Lowestoft in Suffolk 48 kilometres south of Happisburgh. They were in the lower Bytham river, and not the Thames which had now moved further south. Pakefield...
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    during the Upper Paleolithic period, dating to about 50,000 through 12,000 years ago, while religion in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic "belongs to the...
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  • sapiens all have taken place during the European Paleolithic. The period is divided into: the Lower Paleolithic, from the earliest human presence (Homo antecessor...
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    Paleolithic era ended with the Mesolithic, or in areas with an early neolithisation, the Epipaleolithic. At sites dating from the Lower Paleolithic Period...
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    Pakistan is home to many archaeological sites dating from Lower Paleolithic period to Mughal empire. The earliest known archaeological findings belong...
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    7000–6000 BCE. The Paleolithic in South Asia is also traditionally divided into the Lower, Middle, and Upper Paleolithic periods. The Paleolithic falls within...
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    The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between...
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    BP (Middle Pleistocene). At Ounjougou, in Mali, a yet-to-be-dated Lower Paleolithic economy (e.g., pebble cores, pebble tools, polyhedrons, spheroids...
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  • played in their lives.[citation needed] The Lower Paleolithic period was the earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. It spans the time from...
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  • The earliest human occupation of what is now China dates to the Lower Paleolithic c. 1.7 million years ago—attested by archaeological finds such as the...
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    resettle areas north, as the effects of the eruption slowly vanished. Upper Paleolithic revolution began after this extreme event, the earliest finds are dated...
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  • certainty how close that may be to where the invention took place. The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like...
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    of the Palaeolithic is called the Lower Paleolithic (as in excavations it appears underneath the Upper Paleolithic), beginning with the earliest stone...
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    refers to Europe before the start of written records, beginning in the Lower Paleolithic. As history progresses, considerable regional unevenness in cultural...
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  • 0.co;2-7. S2CID 35814375. Bar-Yosef, Ofer (1994). "The Lower Paleolithic of the Near East". Journal of World Prehistory. 8 (3): 211–265. doi:10...
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    Shuntang Liu Jinniushan 260-200 ka Homo longi Homo daliensis 1984 China Paleolithic Archeology Student Excavation Team Florisbad Skull 259±35 early Homo...
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    into West Africa (e.g., Baie du Levrier, Mauritania; Tiemassas, Senegal; Lower Senegal River Valley). Affad 23 is an archaeological site located in the...
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    The Japanese Paleolithic period (旧石器時代, kyūsekki jidai) is the period of human inhabitation in Japan predating the development of pottery, generally before...
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    human evolution and declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. Lower Paleolithic begins in Iberia with the first human habitation c.1.3 Ma ago, and...
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  • Shinichi Fujimura (category Paleolithic Japan)
    found a large number of stone artifacts dating back to the Lower Paleolithic and Middle Paleolithic periods. These objects were later revealed to be forgeries...
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    The prehistory of East Africa spans from the earliest human presence in the region until the emergence of the Iron Age in East Africa. Between 1,600,000...
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    The prehistory of Central Africa spans from the earliest human presence in the region until the emergence of the Iron Age in Central Africa. By at least...
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  • the years 15,000 BC to 14,001 BC. This millennium is during the Upper Paleolithic period. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened during...
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    and are dated as far back as around 50,000 years ago (Art of the Upper Paleolithic). Together with religion and other cultural universals of contemporary...
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    Homo habilis (category Lower Paleolithic)
    Homo habilis (lit. 'handy man') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.3 million years ago...
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