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Upper Paleolithic Gravettian period (28,000 to 22,000 years ago) people were humans, not Neanderthals, and they added backed blades and bevel-based bone points to the Aurignancian tool repertory.
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• Chatelperronian
• Aurignacian
• Acheulean
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