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Archeologists study the remains of Human and therefore only go back as far as the first humans, that is 1-2 million years ago.

To study the remains/fossils of the first mammals you need to be a GEOLOGIST (Paleontologist). These scientists have identified that the earliest ancestors of mammals appeared in the Carboniferous period (359.2 to 299 million years ago) and that lineage leading to today's mammals split up in the Jurassic period (That is during the age of the great dinosaurs) - during this period the mammals were only very small animals.

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