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| likely a group of Homo erectus isolated on the island for hundreds of thousands of years. Small brains and bodies – there is a general tendency for island species to become smaller. Some argue that they were just modern humans with a pathology of microcephaly (results in small brain). |
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| species of large animals that became extinct in many areas of the world, including the Americas and Australia, toward the end of the Pleistocene. |
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| a term used by rhys jones to describe the aboriginal use of fire in Australia. |
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| clovis culture, dated to 13.500 to 12.500 years ago, is the first human occupation in the Americas. |
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| human occupation of the Americas predates 13.500 years ago. |
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| human occupation of the Americas began as early as 30.000 – 40.000 years ago. |
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| the period many north American archaeologists view as the initial human occupation of the Americas, dated to between 13.500 – 12.500 years ago. |
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| a potential migration route for populations expanding out of beringia, running between the cordillerian and laurentide ice sheets. |
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| the earliest culture in beringia, dating to between 14.000 and 12.800 years ago. |
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| the route some archaeologists say was used by the earliest people in the Americas to move out of beringia instead of moving through the ice free corridor. |
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| objects created by geological forces. |
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| the proposal that the origin of the clovis culture was in the migration of groups from the soultrean culture of southern France. |
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| skeletal remains found at Kennewick, Washington, and dated 9.200. control and ownership of the remains have been subject to contrvoversy. |
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| tradition that labels the appearance of copper artifacts in an area around the great lakes |
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| a paleo-eskimo culture characterized by small winter village sites consisting of large rectangular structures. |
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| ancestors of the contemporary inuit who spread across the artcic from Alaska about 1000 years ago. They arrived with new technology, like the ability to hunt whales as well as dog-sled technology. |
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