CAS AN 101 Chapter 10: The Origin and Spread of Modern Humans
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The blade tool was actually developed and produced by striking a long and narrow from the core of stones that were gathered from the. Earth: clovis tradition - while the united states itself might be a relative baby in terms of the age of the average nation around the globe, the history of the north american continent is long and sto- ried. Anthropologists have long been studying the origin of ancient civilizations throughout the continent. In order to distinguish this region of the world from others, the name clovis" has been coined to describe the earliest known human culture to be well established on the continent of. As a consequence, anthropol- ogists have developed different terminology to refer to each group of the homo genus. The term cro-magnon was actually coined back in the year 1868 owed in part to five different skeletons that were uncovered from a rock-shelter in france that bore that same name.