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264:Nile valley
218:Pre-Pottery
120:Mureybetian
116:Followed by
106:Preceded by
88:Major sites
1602:Categories
1506:Bronze Age
1348:Peking Man
1247:Cambridge.
1162:Paléorient
1116:2016-07-02
1065:K. Schmidt
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183:Mesolithic
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1026:C. Calvet
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1486:Daimabad
1378:Ubeidiya
1368:Solo Man
1358:Sangiran
1328:Java Man
1265:H. Brown
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