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  2. Paleolithic - Wikipedia

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    The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (c. 3.3 million – c. 11,700 BC) (/ ˌ p eɪ l i oʊ ˈ l ɪ θ ɪ k, ˌ p æ l i-/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee-), also called the Old Stone Age (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós) 'old' and λίθος (líthos) 'stone'), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the ...

  3. Paleolithic Europe - Wikipedia

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    Paleolithic Europe, or Old Stone Age Europe, encompasses the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age in Europe from the arrival of the first archaic humans, about 1.4 million years ago until the beginning of the Mesolithic (also Epipaleolithic) around 10,000 years ago. This period thus covers over 99% of the total human presence on the European continent. [1]

  4. List of first human settlements - Wikipedia

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    The oldest human skeletal remains are the 40ky old Lake Mungo remains in New South Wales, but human ornaments discovered at Devil's Lair in Western Australia have been dated to 48 kya and artifacts at Madjedbebe in Northern Territory are dated to at least 50 kya, and to 62.1 ± 2.9 ka in one 2017 study. [26] [27] [28] [29]

  5. A prehistoric innovation marked a major shift in how humans ...

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    According to this interpretation, eyed needles, one of the symbols of the Paleolithic age, were not simple tailoring tools but also instruments for the social and cultural development of ...

  6. 9 discoveries that have fundamentally altered our ... - AOL

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    Here are nine of some of the most significant archaeological discoveries in history that changed what humans know about our origins and culture through time. ... The Paleolithic cave art was first ...

  7. Aurignacian - Wikipedia

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    The Upper Paleolithic developed in Europe some time after the Levant, where the Emiran period and the Ahmarian period form the first periods of the Upper Paleolithic, corresponding to the first stages of the expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa. [4] They then migrated to Europe and created the first European culture of modern humans, the ...

  8. Cro-Magnon - Wikipedia

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    Ahrensburg culture – Late Upper Paleolithic nomadic hunter culture; Châtelperronian – Proposed Upper Paleolithic European industry; Early modern human – Old Stone Age Homo sapiens; Federmesser culture – European cultures 14ka to 12.8ka ago; Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician – Upper Paleolithic blade-making culture

  9. Caveman - Wikipedia

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    Le Moustier Neanderthals (Charles R. Knight, 1920). The caveman is a stock character representative of primitive humans in the Paleolithic.The popularization of the type dates to the early 20th century, when Neanderthals were influentially described as "simian" or "ape-like" by Marcellin Boule [1] and Arthur Keith.