Prehistory and archaeology

Open questions on human origins, stone tools, early agriculture and the first civilisations.

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  • Front Which archaeological method is best for identifying large-scale land modifications?
    Back aerial photography
  • Front What designation for a pottery style was eventually applied to an entire cultural complex that moved across the Pacific?
    Back Lapita
  • Front What is one of the differences between simple foragers and complex foragers?
    Back Complex foragers focus on a few highly productive resources
  • Front What is the earliest form of writing in the world and where did it develop?
    Back cuneiform, in Mesopotamia
  • Front What is the name of the lithic technology seen in the Arctic and consisting of wedge-shaped cores, micro-blades, bifacial knives, and burins?
    Back Denali Complex

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Source : https://huggingface.co/datasets/cais/mmlu — Licence : MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
Source
MMLU — Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding (Hendrycks et al., 2021)
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History
Language
English
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6
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