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2.5 million adaptation Africa agriculture ancestors animals archaeological record archaeologists archaic Homo sapiens areas artifacts Asia Australopithecus Aztec behavior bones cave central centuries ceremonial Chapter China chronology civilization climatic coast communities complex Cro-Magnons culture change Dendrochronology developed earliest early human East elaborate environment environmental Europe evolved excavations farming Figure flakes flourished food production foraging forest fossil groups Guila Naquitz hand axes highlands hominids Homo erectus Homo habilis Homo sapiens sapiens human cultures human evolution human prehistory hunter-gatherers hunters hunting Ice Age important island Kent Flannery land late Ice Age later lifeways living lowlands maize major Maya Mesoamerica Mesopotamia Mexico million years ago modern humans Neanderthals North America northern Oldowan Olduvai Gorge origins past patterns period political population Potassium-argon dating prehistory primates radiocarbon region religious river valleys rulers social state-organized societies Teotihuacan tion toolkits trade tree-ring tropical village wild world prehistory