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| Investigating the Past | |
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| The Discovery of the Iceman Cutting Edge Box: Differing Attitudes Toward the Dead | |
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| The Issues and Problems of Prehistory | |
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| The Historical Growth of Archaeology in Europe | |
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| The New Geology Human Antiquity | |
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| The Beginnings of Archaeology in the Americas | |
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| The Field of Archaeology Today Goals of Archaeological Interpretation Reconstructing Culture History: Archaeology as History Without Writing | |
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| The Investigation of Prehistoric Lifeways Archaeology as the Study of Culture Change Archaeology as a Science Contemporary Approaches to Archaeological Interpretation | |
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| The Archaeological Record Sites Understanding How the Archaeological Record Was Formed Archaeology in Practice: Stratigraphy and Stratigraphic Analysis: How Do Archaeologists Reconstruct the Sequence of Events at an Archaeological Site Preserving the Past Conclusion | |
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| Our Earliest Human Ancestors: The Australopiths and the Earliest Humans Humans as Primates and Hominins Australopithecus and the South African Discoveries | |
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| The Leakeys and Olduvai Gorge Australopithecus afarensis: Lucy and the First Family | |
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| The Laetoli Footprints Earliest Ancestors | |
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| The Branching Tree of Hominin Evolution | |
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| The Earliest Members of Our Genus, Homo Archaeology in Practice: Dating the Earliest Hominins Case Study: The South African Australopiths: Did They Hunt or Were They Hunted? | |
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| The Earliest Archaeological Sites: The First Stone Tools | |
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| The Beginnings of the Archaeological Record | |
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| The Earliest Forms of Stone Tools | |
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| The Nature of the Early Archaeological Sites Archaeology in Practice: the Basics of Working Stone How Were the Olduvai and Koobi Fora Sites Formed? | |
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| Who Created the Sites? | |
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| The Roles of Carnivores and Hominins Cut Marks on Bone: Butchery at Olduvai and Koobi Fora Explaining the Sites: Alternative Hypotheses Successful Scavengers Case Study: The Interpretation of Early Hominin Behavior: The DK Controversy | |
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| Homo erectus the Lower Paleolithic in Africa and the Near East | |
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| The Appearance of Homo ergaster/Homo erectus in Africa Nariokatome: The Turkana Boy | |
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| The Acheulian Industry Archaeology in Practice: Experimental Archaeology: How Were Stone Tools Made and Used? | |
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| The Control of Fire When and Why Did Hominins Expand Out of Africa | |
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| The Later Acheulian in the Near East: Gesher Benot Ya’aqov | |
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| The Lower Paleolithic in Asia and Europe | |
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| The Appearance of Homo erectus in Asia Sone Industries with and without Handaxes: The Movius Line, Beyond the Movius Line: The Lower Paleolithic of East Asia, Dragon Bones, Zhoukoudian, and the Discovery of Peking Man | |
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| The Initial Settlement of Europe | |
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| The Earliest Inhabitants of Europe: The Grand Dolina Site, Spain | |
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| The Later Lower Paleolithic in Europe Cutting Edge Box: The Human Family “Bush” The Levallois Technique Acheulian Lifeways: Elephant Hunters or Scavengers? | |
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| The Evidence from Torralba and Ambrona Terra Amata: A Hunter’s Encampment? | |
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| Archaeology in Practice: Dating the Past: Thermoluminescence (TL) and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) | |
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| The Distribution of Early Humans in Europe | |
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| The Middle Paleolithic and the Appearance of the Neanderthals Humans unlike Ourselves: The Discovery of the Neanderthals Archaeology in Practice: The Pleistocene and Its Chronology Middle Paleolithic Archaeology: The Mousterian Industry | |
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| The Bordes Typology of Middle Paleolithic Stone Tools Explaining the Variability in Mousterian Assemblages: Tribes, Activities, and Tool Manufacture | |
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| The Culture of the Middle Paleolithic Cast Study: The Excavations in Keb | |