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  2. Timeline of prehistory - Wikipedia

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    6000 BC: Evidence of habitation at the current site of Aleppo dates to about c. 8,000 years ago, although excavations at Tell Qaramel, 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the city show the area was inhabited about 13,000 years ago, [124] Carbon-14 dating at Tell Ramad, on the outskirts of Damascus, suggests that the site may have been occupied since ...

  3. Miocene - Wikipedia

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    The Miocene (/ ˈ m aɪ. ə s iː n,-oʊ-/ MY-ə-seen, -⁠oh-) [6] [7] is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words μείων (meíōn, "less") and καινός (kainós, "new") [8] [9] and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates ...

  4. Timeline of North American prehistory - Wikipedia

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    1492: Christopher Columbus sails in search of a new route to India and lands in the Caribbean, leading to the first European contact in the Americas since the Norse colonization of North America 500 years earlier. 1497: Italian navigator John Cabot sails from England to Newfoundland.

  5. 15,000 years ago, a glacier covered Rhode Island. Explore its ...

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    15,000 years ago, a glacier covered Rhode Island. ... But the Town of Charlestown stepped in and acquired 78 acres in 2013 for $2.1 million from a private landowner, financed with a state open ...

  6. Engravings from nearly 16,000 years ago peel back the ... - AOL

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    Engravings from nearly 16,000 years ago peel back the curtain on ancient European society. Julia Musto. November 6, 2024 at 10:12 AM.

  7. List of first human settlements - Wikipedia

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    Before Homo sapiens, Homo erectus had already spread throughout Africa and non-Arctic Eurasia by about one million years ago. The oldest known evidence for anatomically modern humans (as of 2017) are fossils found at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, dated about 360,000 years old.

  8. Newly found seamount reveals spaghetti monster and other rare ...

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    Paleontologists have solved a prehistoric cold case, piecing together how a sea cow, a manatee-like creature, met an especially violent end some 15 million years ago. Bite marks on the unusual ...

  9. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Stone tools found at the Shangchen site in China and dated to 2.12 million years ago are considered the earliest known evidence of hominins outside Africa, surpassing Dmanisi hominins found in Georgia by 300,000 years, although whether these hominins were an early species in the genus Homo or another hominin species is unknown. [37