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India
- In India: The Indian Paleolithic
  …roughly the extent of the Middle Paleolithic Period. During that time the area of the present desert provided a rich environment for hunting. The Rohri Hills, located at the Indus River margins of the desert, contain a group of sites associated with sources of chert, a type of stone that…
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Tabūn
- In Tabūn
  …manufacture during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods. This record has become the reference scale for human technological evolution in southwestern Asia between 300,000 and 50,000–100,000 years ago. From 1929 to 1934 Tabūn also yielded a series of fossil remains from the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. The fossils suggest that…
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In Stone Age: Middle Paleolithic
The Middle Paleolithic comprises the Mousterian, a portion of the Levalloisian, and the Tayacian, all of which are complexes based on the production of flakes, although survivals of the old hand-ax tradition are manifest in many instances. These Middle Paleolithic assemblages first appear…
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Eyzies-de-Tayac caves
- In Eyzies-de-Tayac caves
  …to 10,000 years ago) and Middle Paleolithic Period (200,000 to 40,000 years ago). The Upper Paleolithic caves are especially noted for their extensive wall drawings. Situated in the Vézère valley—the location of some 150 archaeological sites—the Eyzies-de-Tayac caves are among a series of decorated grottoes in the area that were…
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