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Topic: Upper Paleolithic

	The Early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe
		The appearance of novel Upper Paleolithic technologies, new patterns of land use, expanded social networks, and the emergence of complex forms of symbolic communication point to a behavioral revolution beginning sometime around 45,000 years ago.
		In the absence of fossil association, the behavioral transition was thought to reflect the biological replacement of archaic hominid populations by intrusive modern humans.
		Emergence of the Levantine Upper Paleolithic: Evidence from the Wadi al-Hasa
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9850.html (591 words)

	Paleolithic period - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		PALEOLITHIC PERIOD [Paleolithic period] pāand180;lēelĬth´Ĭk, -lēō-, păland180;- or Old Stone Age, the earliest period of human development and the longest phase of mankind's history.
		By far the most outstanding feature of the Paleolithic period was the evolution of the human species from an apelike creature, or near human, to true Homo sapiens (see human evolution).
		In the Upper Paleolithic period Neanderthal man disappears and is replaced by a variety of Homo sapiens such as Cro-Magnon man and Grimaldi man. This, the flowering of the Paleolithic period, saw an astonishing number of human cultures, such as the Aurignacian, Gravettian, Perigordian, Solutrean, and Magdalenian, rise and develop in the Old World.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-paleolit.html (872 words)

	Use-Wear Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There is equal agreement that the bow and arrow came into play during the Upper Paleolithic, demonstrated by the recovery of nocked arrows attributed to the end of this era (Rust 1943: 190).
		Upper Paleolithic artifacts, which composed the majority of the assemblage, were found stratigraphically overlying Middle Paleolithic artifacts at this south-facing rockshelter (Williams in press).
		Upper Paleolithic artifacts of an Early Ahmarian nature, consisting of mostly end scrapers, burins, and el-Wad points, were recovered from 0-100 cm, stratigraphically overlying Middle Paleolithic artifacts.
	faculty.smu.edu /jowillia/use_wear/use-wear_analysis.htm (3759 words)

	Southern Methodist University - Department of Anthropology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Upper Paleolithic of the Rio Maior Basin (Portugal).
		The Late Aurignacian and "Aurignacian" Elements in the Upper Paleolithic of the Portuguese Estremadura.
		Early Upper Paleolithic of the Levant, in The Early Upper Paleolithic: Evidence from Europe and the Near East, pp.
	www.smu.edu /anthro/faculty/aMarks/aMarks.htm (3606 words)

	Paleolithic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (Greek παλαιός paleos=old and λίθος lithos=stone or the 'Old Stone Age') was the first period in the development of human technology of the Stone Age.
		It is theorised that one of the functions of art within their societies was to ensure success in hunting and to bring about fertility of crops and women.
		Lower Paleolithic (2,500,000 BCE - 120,000 BCE, approx.): This was the time of the hand axe-industries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paleolithic (470 words)

	Whangape Colossus New Zealand
		Previously, people thought that, to the end of the last glaciation, the man of the upper Paleolithic, who painted animals in the Caves, had abandoned the Europe in order to chase the herds of mammals of which he was fed, before migrating to North, and then towards others parts of the world.
		In Europe, like in Oceania and Africa, in the upper Paleolithic, there are different types of civilization, of which the two main ones have as theyr artistic applications, the one the sculpture, and the other the painting.
		In the upper Paleolithic, that is beginning from approximately 40,000 years ago, for the sculpture there are the same uncertainties that exist for the painting, that is we know where it is found, but do not know where it is born, in how much the people have always migrated.
	www.paleolithicartmagazine.org /pagina89.html (2660 words)

	upper paleolithic photo album
		Week 10: The Archaeological Record: "Art" and Symbolism This lab is designed to introduce you to the Upper Paleolithic artifacts that we call "art" and to some of the information that can be learned by archaeologists from the study of rock art sites and from artifacts.
		Cave paintings of the Upper Paleolithic are found in very few places, including Australia and southern Africa, but most has been found in France and Spain.
		In the Upper Paleolithic, these paintings were made and viewed with flickering light from lamps and torches.
	www.geocities.com /athens/acropolis/5645/upperpaleolithic.html (2659 words)

	Upper Paleolithic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia.
		This shift from Middle to Upper Paleolithic is called the Upper Paleolithic Revolution.
		The complexity of the new human capabilities hints that humans were less capable of planning or foresight before 40,000 years and that speech changed that [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Upper_Paleolithic (484 words)

	Paleolithic - Paleolithic Art
		Paleolithic or "Old Stone Age" is a term used to define the oldest period in the human history.
		In Europe and Africa the Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the period of the early Stone Age that lasted between around 120,000 and 40,000 years ago.
		Paleolithic Art origin, in Liguria (Italy) and in Europa, Africa, Asia, America, Oceania, with contributions of all the scientific disciplines.
	www.huntfor.com /arthistory/prehistoric/paleolithic.htm (808 words)

	Paleolithic period — Infoplease.com
		Paleolithic period: The Middle Paleolithic Period - The Middle Paleolithic Period The Middle Paleolithic period includes the Mousterian culture, often...
		Paleolithic period: The Upper Paleolithic Period - The Upper Paleolithic Period In the Upper Paleolithic period Neanderthal man disappears and is...
		Paleolithic period: The Lower Paleolithic Period - The Lower Paleolithic Period The oldest recognizable tools made by members of the family of man are...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0837341.html (356 words)

	Civilization.ca -
		In particular, evidence from the Upper Palaeolithic period indicated that artistic skill and symbolic representation were highly developed among the hunter-gatherers of the time.
		The concept of the Palaeolithic, or Old Stone Age, was formulated in the last century to account for the history of human occupation of the Old World.
		During the first half of the Upper Palaeolithic period, between 28,000 and 22,000 years ago, the northern hemisphere began to feel the effects of a climatic cooling, which eventually led to the peak of the last great ice age, about 20,000 years ago.
	www.civilization.ca /archeo/paleofig/pal01eng.html (665 words)

	Paleolithic Art in France a paper by Jean Clottes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		That sexual theme is thus a constant of the Upper Paleolithic, with more or less frequent occurrences according to the times and places.
		As to humans, whatever the culture and diverse as they may be, they always seem to be uncouth and unsophisticated, mere caricatures.
		The remains left over on the ground by Upper Paleolithic people allow us to know their techniques rather well.
	www.bradshawfoundation.com /clottes/page2.html (1251 words)

	Evolution of Modern Humans: Early Modern Human Culture
		The various Upper Paleolithic tool traditions were successful cultural adaptations to diverse environments around the world.
		Caspari and Lee suggest that the rapid cultural evolution, evidenced by new technology and art during the Upper Paleolithic, largely was a consequence of these demographic transformations.
		Likewise, the Upper Paleolithic cultural developments no doubt contributed to increased longevity in turn, which fueled the population explosion.
	anthro.palomar.edu /homo2/mod_homo_5.htm (2830 words)

	The Upper Paleolithic Revolution
		It was not till around 40,000 years ago that the archaeological record reveals the emergence of technical and social advances which a modern human can understand as fundamentally like our own.
		This dramatic change is known as the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution.
		At Paviland Cave, on the Gower peninsula in Wales (an Upper Palaeolithic site, dating to around 30,000 - 20,000 years ago), the ceremonial burial of a young male, dated to 26,350 +/- 550 years ago provides fine evidence of a new aesthetic sensibility.
	www.newarchaeology.com /articles/uprevolution.php (649 words)

	Upper Paleolithic
		The Upper Paleolithic is characterized by the development of projectile points made from bony materials (bone, ivory, deer antler), the use of personal adornments (animal teeth and shells pierced to be used as pendants, for instance) and art.
		In some Upper Paleolithic industries the point itself was made of stone and its manufacture required sophisticated technical skills (heat pre-treatment of the flint, pressure retouch) that made it possible to obtain objects of great beauty.
		The human type of the European Upper Paleolithic is the anatomically modern Cro-Magnon man or Homo sapiens sapiens.
	www.ipa.min-cultura.pt /coa/en/Paleolithic/Paleo_Upper (349 words)

	Self-Representation in Upper Paleolithic Female Figurines
		This study explores the logical possibility that the first images of the human figure were made from the point of view of self rather than other and concludes that Upper Paleolithic "Venus" figurines represent ordinary women's views of their own bodies.
		To determine what choice of visual information actually prevailed at the beginning of representation in the Upper Paleolithic, the attributes of the surviving images should be experimentally examined for the structural regularities predicted if the artist's body served as the original model.
		There is no reason to suspect that information from direct visual self-inspection has changed since the Upper Paleolithic, and thus the image projected onto the retina of a woman living today constitutes the visual analog of that perceived by her long dead ancestors.
	cmsu2.cmsu.edu /~ldm4683/1.htm (699 words)

	The Alekseev Manuscript - Chapter IV: Upper Paleolithic in Afro Eurasia
		According to Alexeev, in Siberia the Upper Paleolithic sites are centralized in the Southern regions, in the Lena Valley, in a great zone of not very high mountains and surrounding steppe.
		Both Kostenki II and Kostenki XIV produced burials of Upper Paleolithic man. Skeletal remains from Kostenki II are of an adult male, tall, and approximately fifty years of age.
		In discussing Upper Paleolithic art, Alexeev contrasts the cave art from Altamira in Spain with the art from Kapovaia Cave in Russia.
	www.drummingnet.com /alekseev/ChapterIV.html (4677 words)

	Early Culture (Post Diaspora Upper Paleolithic)
		But earlier, from the first appearance of Aurignacian markings in the caves, the print of the hand, engraved or outlined as a negative in red or fl paint, appears on the cave walls either alone, in groups of hands, or as an element associated with animals, notations, or symbolic forms.
		This idea is not Neolithic in origin; it goes back to the Paleolithic, when the narrow passages, oval-shaped areas, clefts, and small cavities of caves are marked or painted entirely in red." (Gimbutas, Marija (1989) The Languages of the Goddess.
		Until recently, Pleistocene glaciation was assumed to affect primarily upper latitudes, but recent paleoclimatology studies have suggested that glaciation had substantial effects on the temperature, rainfall, seasonality, and patchiness of resources in the equatorial zones of Africa (Foley, 1987).
	www.humanevolution.net /a/paleolithic.html (6088 words)

	The early Upper Paleolithic human skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal) and modern human emergence in ...
		The early Upper Paleolithic human skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal) and modern human emergence in Iberia -- Duarte et al.
		and ecological barrier to the diffusion of the Upper Paleolithic
		It is buried in a distinctively early Upper Paleolithic
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/96/13/7604 (4303 words)

	FuturePundit: Life Expectancies Increased In Upper Paleolithic Period
		By examining dental information derived from molar wear patterns a pair of anthropologists has been able to show that human life expectancy increased during the Upper Paleolithic Period.
		The increase in longevity that occurred during the Upper Paleolithic period among modern humans was dramatically larger than the increase identified during earlier periods, they found.
		Update: Managing to live for 30 years was enough to classify someone as "old" in the Upper Paleolithic.
	www.futurepundit.com /archives/002218.html (603 words)

	Paleolithic period: The Upper Paleolithic Period
		In the Upper Paleolithic period Neanderthal man disappears and is replaced by a variety of
		The Archaeology of Britain: An Introduction from the Upper Paleolithic to the Industrial Revolution.
		Radiocarbon calibration for the Middle/Upper Paleolithic: a comment.(response to T.H. van Andel, Antiquity, vol.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0860205.html (454 words)

	Upper Paleolithic Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		What is called the "Upper Paleolithic" culture is believed to have begun about 40 000 years ago.
		The first cultural style in Europe was called the Aurignacian culture.
		Upper Paleolithic Europeans are believed to have been highly skilled nomadic hunters.
	hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca /emily/thirteen.html (215 words)

	Upper Paleolithic sites, tools, hominids
		The Upper Paleolithic (UP) period saw the emergence of 'anatomically modern Homo sapiens' (AMHS) = Homo sapiens sapiens who eventually developed a new type of flake tool industry, Mode IV blade and burin and microlithic technology.
		In Africa this period is designated the "Later Stone Age" (LSA), typified by the innovation of microlithic industries.
		Upper Paleolithic industries in Europe are divided chronologically into Aurignacian, Perigordian, Solutrean and Magdalenian industries.
	www.originsnet.org /eraup.html (999 words)

	Aurignacian, Upper Paleolithic Cores & Blades
		Archaeologists recognize the Early Upper Paleolithic period as the beginning of the first modern humans in Europe.
		It's generally believed by archaeologists that most Upper Paleolithic blades were removed by indirect percussion flaking.
		The most common blade tools made during the European Upper Paleolithic were burins, end scrapers and backed blades or knives.
	lithiccastinglab.com /gallery-pages/2002marchaurignacianpage2.htm (666 words)

	Early Homo sapiens and the Upper Paleolithic
		Upper Paleolithic period is generally dated to about 40,000 or 35,000 BP to about 10,000 BP we noted last time that this overlaps with the last of the Neanderthals
		Upper Paleolithic people populated most of the remaining land in the world
		most) Paleolithic art is from the Magdalenian, that is, the latest part of the Upper Paleolithic, after about 18,000 BP but early examples, like the lion-headed figure from Stadel Cave, Germany (pg.
	bruceowen.com /worldprehist/3250s06.htm (2241 words)

	Egypt: History - The Upper Paleolithic
		Archaeologists know that this site is from the Upper Paleolithic because of the existence of burins, small, stubby, pointed tools made of flakes and characterized by long, narrow flakes forming a point.
		Although dry, the desert areas were not completely hostile, as the annual flooding of the Nile was much higher than today, which resulted in a greater groundwater table and in turn, oases, floodpools, and waterholes.
		Although many of the remains unearthed at these sites are the usual cross-section of elderly and young, chieftains and commoners, there are quite a disturbing number of bodies from the final 10,000 years of the Upper Paleolithic that appear to have died by violence.
	interoz.com /egypt/ebph3.htm (1547 words)

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