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Upper Palaeolithic

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noun

  1. the latest of the three periods of the Palaeolithic, beginning about 40 000 bc and ending, in Europe, about 12 000 bc : characterized by the emergence of modern man, Homo sapiens

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adjective

  1. of or relating to this period

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Residues from an Upper Palaeolithic site in the Pontic steppe in eastern Europe show ancient people pounded tubers before they ate them.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2022

The conference was called ‘The Origins of the Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia and the evolution of the genus Homo’ but it might as well have been dubbed Denisovastock.

From Nature • Feb. 26, 2019

Genome of the Mal’ta child revealed that an Upper Palaeolithic population from this region mixed with ancestors of present-day East Asians, giving rise to the First American gene pool.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2013

The famous rock paintings in Chauvet, France, made by cave- dwelling people of the Upper Palaeolithic period, or European Ice Age, are 32,000 years old.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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