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Late Paleolithic Egypt

2001
ABSOLUTE TIME PERIOD: 45,000–7000 B.P. These dates stretch the established range of the Late Paleolithic Egypt tradition for the purposes of the encyclopedia’s organization. Radiometric dates place the period more accurately between 21,000–10,000 B.P.
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Siberian Late Upper Paleolithic

2001
relative time period: Follows Siberian Middle Upper Paleolithic tradition, precedes Siberian Neolithic ...
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Radiocarbon dating the late Middle Paleolithic and the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura

Journal of Human Evolution, 2008
Many lines of evidence point to the period between roughly 40 and 30 ka BP as the period in which modern humans arrived in Europe and displaced the indigenous Neandertal populations. At the same time, many innovations associated with the Upper Paleolithic--including new stone and organic technologies, use of personal ornaments, figurative art, and ...
Nicholas J, Conard, Michael, Bolus
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Late Middle Paleolithic Adaptations and Their Possible Consequences

BioScience, 1970
I proposed a model based on certain empirical generalizations drawn from the extant lithic and paleontological data of the early Wiirm of the Levant-a model which, it was hoped, could explain the distributions observed. Means were proposed for testing the adequacy of the sample on which the generalizations were made, although testing the model itself ...
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The late Middle Paleolithic and earliest Upper Paleolithic in Central Europe and their relevance for the Out of Africa hypothesis

Quaternary International, 2001
Abstract The available data from Central Europe is consistent with the hypothesis that Homo sapiens sapiens evolved initially outside Europe and colonized the different regions of the continent previously occupied by Neanderthals between roughly 50 and 30 kyr BP.
Michael Bolus, Nicholas J Conard
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Late Paleolithic and Neolithic Grinding Implements in Egypt

Lithic Technology, 1982
This paper describes the manufacture and function of several forms of grinding implements found in Late Paleolithic and Neolithic sites along the Nile.
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Current observations of the early Late Paleolithic in Korea

Quaternary International, 2013
Abstract Material evidence from the Korean early Late Paleolithic, dating between the end of MIS 3 and the beginning of MIS 2, shows that Paleolithic tools were primarily comprised of simply made cores and flakes and a small number of blades. The blade toolkits were introduced, but did not immediately replace coexisting simplified forms of tools ...
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Paleolithic Cashes of the Late Ushki Culture of Kamchatka

Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology
Purpose . The article presents the results of a study of four closed accumulations of stone artifacts – caches – identified in Layer VI of the multilayered Ushki I site in Kamchatka. The research is based on the systematization of published and archival materials, as well as on technological, typological, and ...
A. Yu. Fedorchenko, N. E. Belousova, E. V. Levina   +2 more
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Two Late Paleolithic Sites on the Federsee, Germany

Journal of Field Archaeology, 1995
Abstract A multi-year program of subsurface surveys and excavations in a peat bog was carried out to investigate subsistence and settlement patterns of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Central Europe. The Federsee of SW Germany has long been known for its rich archaeological record for the Neolithic and Bronze Age, due largely to the exceptional ...
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Hunting in Late Upper Paleolithic Western Europe

1987
Three papers in this volume (Fisher, Frison, Morlan) deal with the prey and hunting practices of the terminal Pleistocene/initial Holocene Paleoindians and four authors (Behrensmeyer, Trinkaus, Binford, Klein) debate the crucial issue of hunting by early (“proto-human”) hominids.
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