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5 days ago · There is reasonable agreement that the Paleolithic ended with the beginning of the Holocene geologic and climatic era about 11,700 years ago (about 9700 bce). It is also increasingly clear that a developmental bifurcation in human cultural history took place at about this time.
- Paleolithic Period
The onset of the Paleolithic Period has traditionally...
- Neolithic
Stone Age - Neolithic, Tools, Agriculture: The origins and...
- Middle Paleolithic
In general, Upper Paleolithic art falls into two closely...
- Holocene Epoch
Holocene Epoch, younger of the two formally recognized...
- Oceania
Stone Age - Oceania, Tools, Artifacts: The archaeology of...
- The Americas
Stone Age - Prehistoric Americas, Tools, Artifacts: The...
- Stone Tools
Stone Age - Tools, Technology, Prehistory: Carpenters used...
- Western North America
Stone Age - Paleoindian, Clovis, Folsom: In western North...
- Paleolithic Period
5 days ago · During the Middle Paleolithic period (300,000-30,000 years ago), a new stone tool technology known as the Levallois technique emerged in Africa and Eurasia. This technique involved the careful preparation of a stone core to predetermine the shape and size of the flakes that would be removed.
3 days ago · The first wave of modern humans in Europe ( Initial Upper Paleolithic) left no genetic legacy to modern Europeans; [1] however, from 37,000 years ago a second wave succeeded in forming a single founder population, from which all subsequent Cro-Magnons descended and which contributes ancestry to present-day Europeans.
2 days ago · To read about rare evidence of family life 14,000 years ago that was uncovered in an Italian cave, go to "Upper Paleolithic Cave Life." Advertisement IN THE CURRENT ISSUE
3 days ago · Although the children of Neanderthals, who lived until around 40,000 years ago, and those of modern humans of the Upper Paleolithic Age 50,000 to 12,000 years ago were probably subjected to comparable stresses, systemic stress peaked at different stages of development.
1 day ago · Stonehenge, prehistoric stone circle monument, cemetery, and archaeological site located on Salisbury Plain, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It was built in six stages between 3000 and 1520 BCE, during the transition from the Neolithic Period to the Bronze Age.
6 days ago · Cro Magnon Man, a robust and powerful hominid of the Upper Paleolithic era, emerges from the shadows of prehistory, leaving behind skeletal remains primarily found in southern France. Classified as Homo sapiens, these ancient beings bear striking anatomical similarities to modern Europeans, West Asians, and North Africans, yet with notable ...
