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Panel of the Rhinos, Chauvet Cave (Replica)
Replica of the Panel of the Rhinos from Chauvet Cave. The art at Chauvet Cave has been dated to c.33,000-c.30,000...
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Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a Neolithic / Bronze Age monument located on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, southern England. The first monument on the...
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Agriculture in the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia - Timeline
A visual timeline illustrating the evolution of agriculture in parallel with invention and...
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Painting of a Horse, Lascaux Cave
Horse depicted in Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne, southwestern France, dated to the Upper Paleolithic period.
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Denisovan
The Denisovans are an extinct group of fossil humans who, along with their sister group the Neanderthals, also share an ancestor with...
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Homo Rudolfensis
Homo rudolfensis is an early human species that lived in East Africa between c. 2.5 and 1.8 million years ago. It is known from...