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| Old Stone Age, including Lower (early), Middle, and Upper (late) |
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| Lower Paleolithic tool tradition associated with H. erectus |
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| early H. sapiens (300,000 to 28,000 b.p.); includes Neandertals |
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| archaic H. sapiens group inhabiting Europe and the Middle East from 130,000 to 28,000 b.p. |
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| main epoch (1.8 mya - 11,000 b.p.) of evolution of Homo |
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| major advances of continental ice sheets in Europe and North America |
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| extended warm periods between glacials |
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| Middle Paleolithic tool tradition associated with Neandertals |
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| Anatomically modern humans; e.g., Cro Magnan, Skhul, Qafzeh, Herto |
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