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  • Andorra is a parliamentary democracy and like any vibrant democracy any type of curtailment of personal autonomy and individual rights are out of question here. Individual rights and personal autonomy are respected in general. Do citizens enjoy freedom of movement, including the choice to change their place of residence, employment,…

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  • Present-day Kazakhstan has been inhabited by humans since the earliest Stone Age, generally following the nomadic pastoralism for which the region’s terrain and climate are best suited. Kazakhstan has been peopled for almost 1 million years according to some estimates. In 1958, archeologist H.A. Alpysbayev found Stone Age tools (choppers,…

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  • Archaeological findings facilitate the tracing of the origins of human habitation on the territory of modern Georgia back to the early Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. Quite a few Neolithic sites have been excavated in South Ossetia, and in the Kolkhida Lowland, in the Khrami River valley in central Georgia. These regions were…

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  • Stone tools point to presence of early humans in France at least 1.57 million years ago. Simple stone tools found at Grotte du Vallonnet near Menton date back to 1 million to 1.05 million years BC. Cave sites were extensively exploited for habitation, but Palaeolithic era hunter-gatherers also possibly built…

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  • The Bolivian highlands, permanently settled at least for 21,000 years, were part and parcel of the culture of Andean South America prior to the arrival of the Spaniards. The records through fragmentary suggest that agriculture started by 3000 B.C. and metal production, especially copper, began 1,500 years later. By 600…

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  • Prehistory Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) peoples possibly roamed Afghanistan as early as 100,000 years ago. The earliest definitive evidence of human occupation was found in the cave of Darra-i-Kur in Badakhshān. Transitional Neanderthal skull fragment dating back to about 30000 years ago from middle paleolithic period was discovered along with Mousterian-type tools. Evidence…

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  • Pre-Ceramic culture It is unknown when really humans first settled on the Japanese archipelago. Belief that there was no Paleolithic occupation in Japan survived for very long, but since World War II thousands of sites have been discovered across the country, yielding a wide range of Paleolithic tools, both core tools and flake…

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  • Remains of Homo erectus originally called Java man or Pithecanthropus indicate that the ancestors of humans were very much present on the island of Java roughly 1.7 million years ago, when much of the western archipelago was still connected by land bridges. Fast post-glacial rise in sea level some 6,000…

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