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... modern humans as Cro - Magnons , Upper Paleolithic industries exhibit greater complexity , specialization , and variety of tool types and the emergence of distinctive regional artistic traditions . " Venus of Věstonice , " Upper ...
... modern humans as Cro - Magnons , Upper Paleolithic industries exhibit greater complexity , specialization , and variety of tool types and the emergence of distinctive regional artistic traditions . " Venus of Věstonice , " Upper ...
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... modern Lebanon , with adjoining parts of modern Syria and Israel . Its inhabitants , the Phoenicians , were notable merchants , traders , and colonizers of the Mediterranean in the 1st millennium BC . The chief cities of Phoenicia ...
... modern Lebanon , with adjoining parts of modern Syria and Israel . Its inhabitants , the Phoenicians , were notable merchants , traders , and colonizers of the Mediterranean in the 1st millennium BC . The chief cities of Phoenicia ...
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... Modern hammers are covered with felt ; earlier , leather was used . The modern piano has a cast - iron frame capable of withstanding the tremendous tension of the strings ; early pianos had wood frames and thus could only be lightly ...
... Modern hammers are covered with felt ; earlier , leather was used . The modern piano has a cast - iron frame capable of withstanding the tremendous tension of the strings ; early pianos had wood frames and thus could only be lightly ...
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