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Three flint axes from the stone age. (prehistoric, tools, early humans, culture, archaeology, implements)
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During the Paleolithic, two major culture provinces can be recognized in Asia, each of which has yielded a distinctive sequence. The first of these includes the Middle East, Central Asia (formerly Russian Turkistan), central Siberia, and India; throughout this vast region a developmental sequence has been reported that, in all its essential respects, is related to that of Europe as well as to that of Africa in the early stages. The second of these provinces is in the south and east, and it embraces Pakistan, Myanmar (Burma), Java, Peninsular (West) Malaysia, Thailand, and China. There the characteristic implement types consist ...(100 of 18252 words)

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