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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [qb] Sometimes in daily speak we still talk about ancient peoples as if they belonged to certain countries, even if those countries did not exist at that time. You can see it in Europe, in China or wherever you go. For example here in Sweden we have books titled "The first Swedes" or in France you can find books about "The prehistory of France" and similar, even if Sweden as a country did not exist 12 000 years ago or France 25 000 years ago. Sometimes we just use the modern names because we do not know what those ancient peoples called themselves or the place they lived in. [/qb][/QUOTE]Yes, true, but generally they are given names of the geographic areas they are found in order to distinguish them from more recent historical cultures. Hence "Cheddar Man" is named after the Cheddar Gorge where the remains were found. Or Neanderthals being named after the Neanderthal Valley. The Nazlet Kater remains are named after the town of the same name near where they were found. The Taramsa Child also named the same way. Plus a lot of the research is in determining how those various sites relate to other sites and populations at different times. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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