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79 relations: Abolitionism in the United Kingdom, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Archaeology, Australopithecine, Cabrerets, Catholic Church, East Africa, Egypt, Egyptology, Fellow of the British Academy, Genus, Gertrude Caton Thompson, Google, Google Doodle, Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–19, Hand axe, Hembury, Hominidae, Homininae, Hominini, Homo habilis, Hubbard Medal, Hyrax, Hyrax Hill, Illustration, India, Iron Age, John Frere, Jonathan Leakey, Kensington, Kenya, Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings, Laetoli, Later Stone Age, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, List of fossil sites, List of human evolution fossils, London, London Museum, Lot (department), Louis Leakey, Mortimer Wheeler, Nairobi, Neolithic, Njoro River Cave, Oldowan, Olduvai Gorge, Paleoanthropology, Paranthropus, Paranthropus boisei, ..., Pech Merle, Philip Leakey, Prehistory, Prestwich Medal, Proconsul (primate), Proconsul africanus, Richard Leakey, Rome, Royal Mail, Rusinga Island, Scree, Serengeti, South Africa, Species, St Albans, Swanscombe, Tanzania, Taxonomy (general), The New York Times, The Times, University College London, University of Cambridge, University of Michigan, University of Oxford, University of the Witwatersrand, Verulamium, Volcanic ash, Yale University, Zanj. Expand index (29 more) »
Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade.
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.
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Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Australopithecine
Australopithecines are generally all species in the related Australopithecus and Paranthropus genera, and it typically includes Kenyanthropus, Ardipithecus, and Praeanthropus.
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Cabrerets
Cabrerets is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography.
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Egypt
Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.
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Egyptology
Egyptology (from Egypt and Greek -λογία, -logia. علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD.
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Fellow of the British Academy
Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Gertrude Caton Thompson
Gertrude Caton Thompson, FBA (1 February 1888 – 18 April 1985) was an influential English archaeologist at a time when participation by women in the discipline was uncommon.
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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
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Google Doodle
A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages that commemorates holidays, events, achievements, and people.
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Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–19
This is a list of Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–2019.
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Hand axe
A hand axe (or handaxe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history.
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Hembury
Hembury is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and Iron Age hill fort near Honiton in Devon.
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Hominidae
The Hominidae, whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, which includes modern humans and its extinct relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal), and ancestors, such as Homo erectus.
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Homininae
Homininae is a subfamily of Hominidae.
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Hominini
The Hominini, or hominins, form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae ("hominines").
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Homo habilis
Homo habilis was a species of early humans, who lived between roughly 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago.
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Hubbard Medal
The Hubbard Medal is awarded by the National Geographic Society for distinction in exploration, discovery, and research.
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Hyrax
Hyraxes (from the Greek ὕραξ, hýrax, "shrewmouse"), also called dassies, are small, thickset, herbivorous mammals in the order Hyracoidea.
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Hyrax Hill
Hyrax Hill is a prehistoric site near Nakuru in the Rift Valley province of Kenya.
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Illustration
An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.
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John Frere
John Frere (10 August 1740 – 12 July 1807) was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Lower Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797.
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Jonathan Leakey
Jonathan Harry Erskine Leakey (born 4 November 1940, Kenya) is a Kenyan businessman and former palaeoanthropologist.
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Kensington
Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.
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Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings
The Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings are a series of ancient paintings on rock shelter walls in central Tanzania.
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Laetoli
Laetoli is a site in Tanzania, dated to the Plio-Pleistocene and famous for its hominin footprints, preserved in volcanic ash.
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Later Stone Age
The Later Stone Age (or LSA) is a period in African prehistory that follows the Middle Stone Age.
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Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (Las Aisiás de Taiac e Siruèlh) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
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List of fossil sites
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils.
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List of human evolution fossils
The following tables give a brief overview of several notable hominin fossil finds relating to human evolution beginning with the formation of the Hominini tribe in the late Miocene (roughly 6 million years ago).
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London Museum
The London Museum, established to illustrate the history of London, was inaugurated on 21 March 1912 by King George V with Queen Mary and Princess Mary and Prince George in temporary accommodation within the second-floor State Apartments at Kensington Palace.
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Lot (department)
Lot (Òlt) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Lot River.
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Louis Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow paleontologist Mary Leakey.
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Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army.
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Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and the largest city of Kenya.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.
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Njoro River Cave
Njoro River Cave is an archaeological site on the Mau Escarpment, Kenya, that was first excavated in 1938 by Mary Leakey and her husband Louis Leakey.
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Oldowan
The Oldowan (or Mode I) is the earliest widespread stone tool archaeological industry (style) in prehistory.
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Olduvai Gorge
The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world; it has proven invaluable in furthering our understanding of early human evolution.
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Paleoanthropology
Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of archaeology with a human focus, which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence (such as petrified skeletal remains, bone fragments, footprints) and cultural evidence (such as stone tools, artifacts, and settlement localities).
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Paranthropus
Paranthropus (from Greek παρα, para "beside"; άνθρωπος, ánthropos "human") is a genus of extinct hominins that lived between 2.6 and 1.1 million years ago.
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Paranthropus boisei
Paranthropus boisei or Australopithecus boisei or "Karl Surva" was an early hominin, described as the largest of the genus Paranthropus (robust australopithecines).
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Pech Merle
Pech Merle is a cave which opens onto a hillside at Cabrerets in the Lot département of the Occitania region in France, about 35 minutes by road east of Cahors.
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Philip Leakey
Philip Leakey (born 21 June 1949 in Nairobi) is a former member of the Kenyan Parliament.
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Prehistory
Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.
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Prestwich Medal
The Prestwich Medal is a medal of the Geological Society of London established in the will of Joseph Prestwich "to apply the accumulated annual proceeds…at the end of every three years, in providing a Gold Medal to the value of Twenty Pounds which, with the remainder of the proceeds is to be awarded… to the person or persons either male or female, and either resident in England or abroad, who shall have done well for the advancement of the Science of Geology; or, from time to time to accumulate the annual proceeds for a period not exceeding six years, and apply the said accumulated annual proceeds to some object of special research bearing on Stratigraphical or Physical Geology, to be carried out by one single individual or by a Committee; or, failing these objects, to accumulate the annual proceeds for either three or six years and devote such proceeds to such special purposes as may be decided".
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Proconsul (primate)
Proconsul is an extinct genus of primates that existed from 23 to 25 million years ago during the Miocene epoch.
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Proconsul africanus
Proconsul africanus is an ape which lived from about 23 to 14 million years ago during the Miocene epoch.
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Richard Leakey
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey FRS (born 19 December 1944) is a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician.
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Rome
Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).
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Royal Mail
Royal Mail plc (Post Brenhinol; a' Phuist Rìoghail) is a postal service and courier company in the United Kingdom, originally established in 1516.
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Rusinga Island
Rusinga Island, with an elongated shape approximately 10 miles (16 km) from end to end and 3 miles (5 km) at its widest point, lies in the eastern part of Lake Victoria at the mouth of the Winam Gulf.
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Scree
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of crags, mountain cliffs, volcanoes or valley shoulders that has accumulated through periodic rockfall from adjacent cliff faces.
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Serengeti
The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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St Albans
St Albans is a city in Hertfordshire, England, and the major urban area in the City and District of St Albans.
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Swanscombe
Swanscombe is a small town in the Dartford Borough of Kent.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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Taxonomy (general)
Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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University College London
University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.
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University of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg.
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Verulamium
Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain.
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Volcanic ash
Volcanic ash consists of fragments of pulverized rock, minerals and volcanic glass, created during volcanic eruptions and measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches) in diameter.
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Yale University
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Zanj
Zanj (زَنْج, meaning "Blacks"Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Volume 131 (Kommissionsverlag F. Steiner, 1981), p. 130.) was a name used by medieval Muslim geographers to refer to both a certain portion of Southeast Africa (primarily the Swahili Coast), and to the area's Bantu inhabitants.
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References
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