The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between...
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change, this dramatic shift from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic is sometimes called the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution. In the late Pleistocene, various...
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dates to about the same time. Other fine examples of art from the Upper Palaeolithic (broadly 40,000 to 10,000 years ago) include cave painting (such as...
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Prehistoric Britain (redirect from Upper Palaeolithic Britain)
Early Upper Palaeolithic (before the main glacial period), the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic (the main glacial period) and the Late Upper Palaeolithic (after...
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Cro-Magnon (category Upper Paleolithic Europe)
contributes ancestry to present-day Europeans. Cro-Magnons produced Upper Palaeolithic cultures, the first major one being the Aurignacian, which was succeeded...
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Behavioral modernity (redirect from Upper Palaeolithic Revolution)
Lycett, Stephen; Norton, Christopher (2010). "A demographic model for Palaeolithic technological evolution: The case of East Asia and the Movius Line"....
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Prehistory of France (section Upper Palaeolithic)
current territory of France until the arrival of modern humans in the Upper Palaeolithic . The earliest known fossil man is Tautavel Man, dating from 570,000...
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Paleolithic (redirect from Palaeolithic)
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (/ˌpeɪlioʊˈlɪθɪk, ˌpæli-/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee-), also called the Old Stone Age (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós) 'old'...
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Late Pleistocene (redirect from Upper Pleistocene)
Holocene. In palaeoanthropology, the late Pleistocene contains the Upper Palaeolithic stage of human development, including the early human migrations of...
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Kara-Bom, a probable Initial Upper Paleolithic site Hajdinjak, Mateja; Mafessoni, Fabrizio (April 2021). "Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent...
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They were seasonally occupied by nomadic groups of people during the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. Evidence of Neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman and...
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Venus figurine (category Upper Paleolithic)
A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round. Most have been unearthed in Europe, but others have...
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Prehistoric Norfolk (section Upper Palaeolithic)
time periods, these being Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic . Norfolk has a very rich prehistoric past, from the Palaeolithic era 950,000 years ago,...
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Genetic history of Europe (section Palaeolithic)
Austria dating back to about 30–31,000 ybp. At about this time, an Upper Palaeolithic culture also appeared, known as the Gravettian. Earlier research into...
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sticks first appear as animal bones carved with notches during the Upper Palaeolithic; a notable example is the Ishango Bone. Historical reference is made...
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Epipalaeolithic (redirect from Epi-Palaeolithic)
early Mesolithic. The Epipalaeolithic has been defined as the "final Upper Palaeolithic industries occurring at the end of the final glaciation which appear...
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Capuche, "Lady with the Hood") is a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Palaeolithic, apparently broken from a larger figure at some time unknown. It was...
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made between the Upper Palaeolithic and the early Bronze Age. The oldest of these, that possibly dates from the Upper Palaeolithic, depicts a number...
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depict an aurochs. Palaeolithic engravings showing aurochs were also found in the Grotta del Genovese on the Italian island of Levanzo. Upper Paleolithic rock...
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Gravettian (redirect from Upper Perigordian)
These are not small differences.] Garrod, D. A. E. (2014). "The Upper Palaeolithic in the Light of Recent Discovery". Proceedings of the Prehistoric...
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Rossano has theorised that religion evolved in three stages: In the pre-Upper Palaeolithic, religion was characterised by ecstatic rituals used to facilitate...
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Middle Palaeolithic Mousterian stone technology with modern human Upper Palaeolithic Aurignacian stone technology across Europe (the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic...
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South Asian Stone Age (redirect from Palaeolithic in South Asia)
The South Asian Stone Age covers the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in the Indian subcontinent. Evidence for the most ancient Homo sapiens...
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PMC 5048219. PMID 25731166. Jones, Eppie R.; et al. (16 November 2015). "Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians". Nature Communications...
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The Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site (Yana RHS) is an Upper Palaeolithic archaeological site located near the lower Yana river in northeastern Siberia, Russia...
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Prehistory of Mesopotamia (section Upper Palaeolithic)
p. 47. A. Belfer-Cohen and N. Goring-Morris, "The Upper Palaeolithic and Earlier Epi-Palaeolithic of Western Asia", in C. Renfrew (dir.), The Cambridge...
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Western Steppe Herders (section Jones et al. (2015), Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians)
modeled as a mixture of EHG-related ancestry, and ancestry related to Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of the Caucasus (CHG) and the first farmers of northern...
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are formed on the ground. The oldest known rock art dates from the Upper Palaeolithic period, having been found in Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa....
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Stone Age (section Upper Paleolithic)
the rest of Africa and Eurasia had progressed to the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, so that across the earth all three were for a time contemporaneous...
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the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art is a 2002 study of Upper Palaeolithic European rock art written by the archaeologist David Lewis-Williams...
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