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Calibrated carbon-14 dates for Çatalhöyük, as of 2013 [1]. Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk / ˌ tʃ ɑː t ɑː l ˈ h uː j ʊ k / cha-tal-HOO-yuhk; Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic ...
The chimpanzee–human divergence likely took place around 10 to 7 million years ago. [1] The list of fossils begins with Graecopithecus, dated some 7.2 million years ago, which may or may not still be ancestral to both the human and the chimpanzee lineage.
The Megalithic Portal. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017; Miles, David (2016). The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic revolution transformed Britain. London, UK: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-05186-3. Pleger, T.C. (2002). A brief introduction to the Old Copper Complex of the western Great Lakes: 4000-1000 BC. Twenty-seventh Annual ...
The Sweet Track is an ancient trackway, or causeway, in the Somerset Levels, England, named after its finder, Ray Sweet.It was built in 3807 BC (determined using dendrochronology - Tree-ring dating) and is the second-oldest timber trackway discovered in the British Isles, dating to the Neolithic.
The form triskelion (as it were Greek τρισκέλιον [9]) is a diminutive which entered English usage in numismatics in the late-19th century. [10] [11] The form consisting of three human legs (as opposed to the triple spiral) has also been called a "triquetra of legs", also triskelos or triskel. [12]
In the past century agriculture has been characterized by increased productivity, the substitution of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides for labour, water pollution, [180] and farm subsidies. [181] Other applications of scientific research since 1950 in agriculture include gene manipulation , [ 182 ] [ 183 ] hydroponics , [ 184 ] and the ...
Agelarakis A., "Proto Neolithic Human Skeletal Remains in the Zawi-Chemi Layer in Shanidar Cave", Sumer XL:1-2, pp. 7–16, (1987–88) Agelarakis, Anagnostis (1989). The paleopathological evidence, indicators of stress of the Shanidar Proto-Neolithic and the Ganj Dareh early Neolithic human skeletal collections (Thesis). Agelarakis, A (1993).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. Extinct species of large cattle Not to be confused with Bos taurus, European bison, or Oryx. Aurochs Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene–Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Mounted skeleton of an aurochs bull at the National Museum of Denmark Conservation status Extinct (1627 ...