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Where it ruled
Prehistoric Europe · 4 known sites
The civilization
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 humans. It is followed by the Mesolithic. Anatomically modern humans (i.e. Homo sapiens) are believed to have emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago.
Field notes
- period
- 40,000 BCE — 10,000 BCE
- region
- Prehistoric Europe
- known sites
- 4
