Examples of artifact in the following topics:
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Archaic Hunters and Gatherers
- The placement of artifacts and materials within an Archaic burial site indicated social differentiation based upon status in some groups.
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Archaeology and History
- Artifacts found in both North and South America have been dated to 14,000 BP (a geological term for "before present").
- Straus, a primary critic of the Solutrean hypothesis, points to the theoretical difficulty of the ocean crossing, a lack of Solutrean-specific features in pre-Clovis artifacts, and the absence of art (such as that found at Lascaux in France) created by the Clovis people as major deficiencies in the Solutrean hypothesis.
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Land Policy
- Sent by Jefferson to survey, map, and gather specimens and natural artifacts for further study, Lewis and Clark undertook one of the first major explorations of western territory that initiated further contact with Native American tribes west of the Mississippi as well as the Spanish territories of Texas and New Mexico.
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Early Lifestyles
- Archaeologists do not agree on whether the widespread presence of these artifacts indicates the proliferation of a single people or the adoption of a superior technology by diverse population groups.