________ was an archeologist and anthropologist who found that leading homo sapiens diverged from that leading to chimpanzees about 5 to 6 million years ago.
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Fertile Crescent
Wheat and wild pigs existed in the ________, but not in the Americas; wheat and wild pigs existed in the Andes area, but not in Africa or Asia.
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________ leaky an archeologist discovered in what is now known as Tanzania a series of footprints of three such hominid individuals, preserved in cooling volcanic ash 3.5 million years ago.
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1788
When the first Europeans arrived in ________, scholars estimated the population of Australia to be around 300, 000 people.
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Aboriginals
The emergence of an intricate and sophisticated view of the world, known as the Dreamtime, accompanied ________ 'technological simplicity and traditionalism.
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Paleolithic era
The ________ covered over 95 % of the time that human beings have inhabited earth.
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Dreamtime
________ told how ancient creatures crisscrossed the country, forming rivers, hills, rocks, and waterholes; how different peoples came to occupy the land; and how they interacted with animals and one another.
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Plant domestication
________ in the Americas happened in a variety of areas, similar to the Agricultural Revolution in Africa, including the coastal Andean regions of western South America.
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Nomadic
________: Roaming about from place to place aimlessly, frequently, or without a fixed pattern of movement.
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human numbers
Farming and raising animals allowed for a substantial increase in ________ and many over centuries.
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Early human migration
________ to Australia, estimated to be around 60, 000 years ago, occurred from Indonesia and included another first in human history: the use of boats.
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Clovis culture
________ initially appeared approximately 13, 000 years ago and quickly expanded over most of North America.
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Paleolithic era
The ________ ended 11, 000 years ago.
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Paleolithic era
________ (old stone age): the phase of human history during which these initial migrations.
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