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Archaic humans are distinguished from anatomically modern humans by having a thick skull, prominent supraorbital ridges (brow ridges) and the lack of a prominent chin. [11] [12] Anatomically modern humans appeared around 300,000 years ago in Africa, [4] [5] [6] and 70,000 years ago gradually supplanted the "archaic" human varieties.
Copper knife, spearpoints, awls, and spud, from the Late Archaic period, Wisconsin, 3000–1000 BC. In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC [1] in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.
Archaic may refer to: Archaic Period (several meanings), archaeological term used to refer to a very early period differing by location; Archaic humans, people before homo sapiens; Archaic, a comic-book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting; Archaism, an archaic word or style of speech or writing.
Peoples of the ancient world (i.e. prior to AD 476). For individuals, see Category:Ancient people . Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
The following articles contain information related to ancient humans: Human evolution; Archaic humans; Early modern humans; Prehistoric people; Ancient history; See ...
Ancient history covers all continents inhabited by humans in the period 3000 BC – AD 500, ending with the expansion of Islam in late antiquity. [1] The three-age system periodises ancient history into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, with recorded history generally considered to begin with the Bronze Age. The start and end of ...
Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of ... probably less than one in four people were over 40, and ...
The West African groups carrying the archaic DNA include Yoruba from coastal Nigeria and Mende from Sierra Leon indicating that the ancient DNA was acquired long before the spread of agriculture and likely well before the Holocene (starting 11,600 BP), Such an archaic lineage must have separated before the divergence of San ancestors, which is ...