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  2. History of cancer - Wikipedia

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    His contemporary Nicolaes Tulp believed that cancer was a poison that slowly spreads, and concluded that it was contagious. [6] In the 1600s, cancer was vulgarly called "the wolf[e]". [7] The first cause of cancer was identified by British surgeon Percivall Pott, who discovered in 1775 that cancer of the scrotum was a common disease among ...

  3. Jebel Irhoud - Wikipedia

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    Jebel Irhoud or Adrar n Ighoud (Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⵖⵓⴷ, romanized: Adrar n Iɣud; Arabic: جبل إيغود, Moroccan Arabic: žbəl iġud), is an archaeological site located just north of the town of Tlet Ighoud in Youssoufia Province, approximately 50 km (30 mi) south-east of the city of Safi in Morocco.

  4. Hueyatlaco - Wikipedia

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    Hueyatlaco is an archeological site in the Valsequillo Basin near the city of Puebla, Mexico. After excavations in the 1960s, the site became notorious due to geochronologists' analyses, which have found wildly contradictory estimates for human habitation at Hueyatlaco dating from ca. 370,000 to 25,000 years before present (ybp). [1] [2]

  5. Uruk - Wikipedia

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    Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river. The site lies 93 kilometers (58 miles) northwest of ancient Ur , 108 kilometers (67 miles) southeast of ancient Nippur , and 24 kilometers (15 miles ...

  6. Akrotiri (prehistoric city) - Wikipedia

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    There is a variety of dating evidence for the eruption, but its exact year is not known. Radiocarbon dating places it most probably between 1620 and 1530 BCE, which is also in accord with the date range of 1570 to 1500 BCE suggested by similarities of the material culture with other sites in the Aegean.

  7. History of archaeology - Wikipedia

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    Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts (also known as eco-facts) and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).

  8. Scotts Valley Site - Wikipedia

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    The Scotts Valley Site (CA-SCAR-177), also known as the Lake Carbonera Site, is an archaeological site which has been documented as one of the oldest human settlement sites in Central California. Dated at 12,000-9,000 years before present, it is located in Scotts Valley, California, in the United States, at what was once a large pluvial lake.

  9. History of cities - Wikipedia

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    It is the oldest known civilization in the Americas, flourishing between the 30th century BCE and the 18th century BCE. [32] Mesoamerica saw the rise of early urbanism in several cultural regions, including the Preclassic Maya , the Zapotec of Oaxaca, and Teotihuacan in central Mexico.