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  1. 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 50,000 and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of the Holocene ), according to some theories coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity in early modern humans , [1] until the advent of ...

  2. The Upper Palaeolithic (Upper Paleolithic or Late Stone Age) is the third and last part of the Palaeolithic period. It lasted from about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago. [1] . Humans used tools for hunting [2] and fishing. [3] . They also developed cave paintings.

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    Upper Paleolithic art can be divided into two broad categories: figurative art such as cave paintings that clearly depicts animals (or more rarely humans); and nonfigurative, which consists of shapes and symbols. Cave paintings have been interpreted in a number of ways by modern archaeologists.

  5. Sep 29, 2017 · The Oldowan was mostly found within Africa (in spots that correspond with, for example, present-day Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Africa) but was later on found in the Near East and eastern Asia, too, most likely by courtesy of the long legs of adventurous Homo erectus.

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  6. The Upper Paleolithic is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago, according to some theories coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity in early modern humans, until the advent of the Neolithic Revolution and agriculture.

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