• The Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and...
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    The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (/ˌpeɪlioʊˈlɪθɪk, ˌpæli-/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee-), also called the Old Stone Age (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós) 'old'...
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    Sulawesi, Indonesia, dated about 35,000 years old (Art of the Upper Paleolithic). Together with religion and other cultural universals of contemporary...
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    and 250,000 years ago, with Mode 2 technology. The Middle Paleolithic followed the Lower Paleolithic and recorded the appearance of the more advanced prepared-core...
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    Paleolithic religions are a set of spiritual beliefs and practices that are theorized to have appeared during the Paleolithic time period. Paleoanthropologists...
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    investigation. Credible evidence of religious behaviour dates to the Middle Paleolithic era (45–200 thousand years ago). It may have evolved to play a role...
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  • earlier in the Paleolithic period, sometimes between 30-15,000 years ago, followed by pre-Neolithic and Neolithic migration waves from the Middle East, mostly...
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  • Harold Lewis Dibble (1951 – 10 June 2018) was an American Paleolithic archaeologist. His main research concerned the lithic reduction during which he...
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    the Middle Paleolithic (300,000–50,000 years ago), religion emerged with certainty in the Upper Paleolithic around 50,000 years ago. Upper Paleolithic religion...
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    Serbia, Slovenia, and European Turkey) covers the period from the Upper Paleolithic, beginning with the presence of Homo sapiens in the area some 44,000...
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    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...
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    Middle Paleolithic. However, since then Radiocarbon dating has shown that the Middle Stone Age is in fact contemporaneous with the Middle Paleolithic...
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  • million years ago; the Middle Paleolithic, marked by the presence of Neanderthals, 300,000 to 40,000 years ago; the Upper Paleolithic, c. 46,000 to 12,000...
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  • the first species to bury their dead about 500,000 years ago. The Middle Paleolithic period occurred in Europe and the Near East, during which the Neanderthals...
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    resettle areas north, as the effects of the eruption slowly vanished. Upper Paleolithic revolution began after this extreme event, the earliest finds are dated...
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  • records going back to 3,200 BC. Prehistory covers the time from the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the beginning of ancient history. All dates are approximate...
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  • early as during the Homo erectus expansion to Eurasia, in the Upper Paleolithic peopling of Europe, and again in the re-peopling Mesolithic Europe following...
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    synonymous with the Middle Paleolithic of Europe, especially due to their roughly contemporaneous time span; however, the Middle Paleolithic of Europe represents...
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    The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12...
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  • sapiens around 300 kya coincides with the start of the Middle Paleolithic period. Towards the middle of this 250,000-year period, humans begin to migrate...
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  • archaeological excavations, several flutes that date to the European Upper Paleolithic were discovered in caves in the Swabian Alb region of Germany. Dated...
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    part of the defining characteristics separating the Upper Paleolithic from the Middle Paleolithic. The discovery of cave art of comparable age to the oldest...
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    Autonomy of the Basque Country. Biscay has been inhabited since the Middle Paleolithic, as attested by the archaeological remains and cave paintings found...
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    between 780,000 BP and 126,000 BP (Middle Pleistocene). At Ounjougou, in Mali, a yet-to-be-dated Lower Paleolithic economy (e.g., pebble cores, pebble...
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  • Evolutionary origin of religion History of religion Holocene calendar Chibanian Paleolithic religion Prehistoric religion Religion and mythology Late Pleistocene...
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    Hunting (redirect from Paleolithic hunting)
    hunting hypothesis sees the emergence of behavioral modernity in the Middle Paleolithic as directly related to hunting, including mating behaviour, the establishment...
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  • The Japanese Paleolithic hoax (旧石器捏造事件, Kyū Sekki Netsuzō Jiken) consisted of a number of lower and middle paleolithic finds in Japan discovered by amateur...
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    a distinct differentiation between the Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic layers. The Middle Paleolithic layers of the cave show that many groups...
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    been the first species to bury their dead about 500,000 years ago. Middle Paleolithic period – in Europe and the Near East during which the Neanderthals...
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    1007/978-94-007-0492-3_10. ISBN 978-94-007-0491-6. Richter, J. (2011). "When Did the Middle Paleolithic Begin?". In Conard, N. J.; Richter, J. (eds.). Neanderthal Lifeways...
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