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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 the ...
Jul 1, 2011 · Precisely how Upper Palaeolithic human ecology was shaped by changing climate during the Pleniglacial remains a matter of debate, for while this generally cold period is now understood to include complex and often rapid flux in climate, there are still considerable difficulties in resolving climatic variations at particular times and places — derived from various lines of proxy evidence ...
- David Beresford-Jones, Sean Taylor, Clea Paine, Alexander Pryor, Jiří Svoboda, Jiří Svoboda, Martin ...
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Jan 16, 2018 · The Upper Paleolithic (ca 40,000-10,000 years BP) was a period of great transition in the world. The Neanderthals in Europe became edged out and disappeared by 33,000 years ago, and modern humans began to have the world to themselves. While the notion of a "creative explosion" has given way to a recognition of a long history of the development ...
Sep 22, 2023 · Far to the east in Siberia, the initial migration of H. sapiens is interpreted to have occurred about 45 to 40 ka ago, with the direct dating of a modern human femur at Ust’-Ishim and the appearance of Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) industries at archaeological sites like Kara-Bom in the Altai Mountains; Kamenka A, Podzvonkaia, Makarovo-4, and Varvarina Gora in the Lake Baikal region; and ...
Apr 12, 2021 · Based on these data, we assess climate adaptations in two crucial Upper Palaeolithic human fossils, Sungir and Mladeč, associated with a boreal-to-temperate climate.
Jun 5, 2015 · Studies of human behavioural responses to climate change have begun to address traditional archaeological questions in new ways. Hitherto, most of these studies have focused on western Eurasia, but the question of human response to rapid climatic changes in northern Japan during the Upper Palaeolithic period opens up new perspectives.
