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| | Middle Paleolithic sites, tools, hominids |
 | | The Middle Paleolithic (MP) period saw the emergence of Homo sapiens archaicus who is associated with a new type of flake tool industry, Mode III technology. |
 | | Homo sapiens archaicus appears in Asia somewhere between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago and in Australia possibly 100,000 to 60,000 years ago with subsequent arrivals perhaps as late as 6,000 BP (Kow Swamp, OSL 22-19K, C14 15-9K BP; Lake Nitchie, 7-6.5K BP; Cossack >7,000 BP). |
 | | Based on DNA studies it appears that Homo neanderthalis became extinct or, as evidenced in recent Portuguese skeleton, 24,500 BP, faded away by interbreeding into Homo sapiens sapiens. |
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