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Introducing World Prehistory | |
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Archaeology and Prehistory | |
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Site: The Avebury Archer The Beginnings of World Prehistory | |
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Who Needs the Past? | |
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Cyclical and Linear Time | |
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Science: Dating the Past | |
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Written Records, Oral Traditions, and Archaeology | |
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Studying Culture and Culture Change | |
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Primary Cultural Processes | |
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Theoretical Approaches: Culture as Adaptation | |
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Climatic Change | |
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Culture as Adaptation | |
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Cultural Evolution and Cultural Ecology | |
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Multilinear Evolution: Prestate and State-Organized Societies | |
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Theoretical Approaches: Evolutionary Ecology and Hunter-Gatherers | |
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Evolutionary Ecology and Optimal Foraging Strategy | |
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Theoretical Approaches: People as Agents of Change | |
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External and Internal Constraints | |
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Interactions | |
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Gender: Men and Women | |
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Trade and Exchange | |
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Ideologies and Beliefs | |
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Summary | |
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Beginnings 7 Million to 40,000 Years Ago | |
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Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.9 Million Years Ago The Great Ice Age | |
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The Origins of the Human Line | |
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Aegyptopithecus | |
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Miocene Primates | |
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Molecular Biology and Human Evolution | |
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The Ecological Problems Faced by Early Hominins | |
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Adaptive Problems | |
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Dating the Past: Potassium-Argon Dating | |
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Fossil Evidence: 7 to 3 MYA | |
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Toumaiuml;: Sahelanthropus tchadensis | |
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Ardipithecus ramidus | |
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Australopithecus anamensis | |
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Australopithecus afarensis | |
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Laetoli: Footprints of | |
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Fossil Evidence: 3 to 2.5 MYA | |
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Gracile Australopithecines: Australopithecus africanus | |
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Robust Australopithecines | |
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Australopithecus garhi | |
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Early Homo: 2.5 to 2.0 MYA | |
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Homo habilis | |
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A Burst of Rapid Change? | |
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Who Was the First Human? | |
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Archaeological Evidence for Early Human Behavior | |
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Evidence for ldquo;Central Placesrdquo;? | |
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Site: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa | |
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Hunting and Scavenging | |
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Plant Foraging and ldquo;Grandmotheringrdquo; Toolmaking | |
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The Oldowan Industry | |
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The Mind of the Earliest Humans | |
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The Development of Language | |
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Social Organization | |
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Summary | |
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Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens: 1.9 Million to 40,000 Years Ago Pleistocene Background | |
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Lower Pleistocene (1.6 Million to c. 780,000 Years Ago) | |
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Middle Pleistocene (c. 780,000 to 128,000 Years Ago) | |
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Homo ergaster in Africa The Radiation of H | |