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Apr 10, 2024 · Because the epoch is best recognized for glaciation and climatic change, many have suggested that its lower boundary should be based on climatic criteria—for example, the oldest glacial deposits or the first occurrence of a fossil of a cold-climate life-form in the sediment record.
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4 days ago · Thanks to their technology and their advanced social structures, Paleolithic groups such as the Neanderthals—who had a Middle Paleolithic level of technology—appear to have hunted large game just as well as Upper Paleolithic modern humans.
Mar 25, 2024 · The hypothesised links of the EEC wave with the IUP, and of the WEC wave with the Upper Palaeolithic (UP) are informative about the expected material culture to be found in the putative Hub ...
2 days ago · Initial Upper Paleolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China. Nature Ecology & Evolution . Published January 18, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41559-023-02294-4.
Mar 25, 2024 · Stone Age, prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, characterized by the creation and use of stone tools, the oldest known of which date to some 3.3 million years ago. The Stone Age is usually divided into three separate periods: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic.
- What was the Stone Age?The Stone Age was the prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, that was characterized by the creation and use of stone tools. It...
- What are the three periods of the Stone Age?The Stone Age is divided into three separate periods, namely the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), and Neolithic (New Sto...
- When did the Stone Age start?The beginning of the Stone Age coincides with the discovery of the oldest known stone tools, which have been dated to some 3.3 million years ago.
- What type of tools were made during the Stone Age?Humans created four types of tools during the Stone Age: pebble tools; bifacial tools, or hand-axes; flake tools; and blade tools.
4 days ago · The Upper Palaeolithic is characterised by evidence of expansive trade routes and the great distances at which communities could maintain interactions. The early Upper Palaeolithic is especially known for highly mobile lifestyles, with Gravettian groups (at least those analysed in Italy and Moravia, Ukraine) often sourcing some raw materials ...
Apr 12, 2024 · The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago).
