The Upper Paleolithic Period includes the period of time during which anatomically modern human became behaviorally modern humans, beginning about 40,000 years ago.
The rockshelter of Abric Romaní is a Middle and Upper Paleolithic site located in a cliff outside of the village of Capellades, in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, some 50 kilometers west of Barcelona, Spain.
The Afontova culture is the name given to the Upper paleolithic culture in Siberia, 22,000-14,000 years before the present.
Archaeological and chronological data from the Kostenki site in Russia have convinced researchers that beneath a previously identified 40,000 year-old Aurignacian component representing Early Modern Humans is an early, previously unknown Initial Upper Paleolithic component.
The Aurignacian period (40,000 to 28,000 years ago) is an Upper Paleolithic stone tool tradition.
Box Gully is a small hunting camp located on saline Lake Tyrrell, northern Victoria, Australia, with dates ranging between 26,600 and 32,000 years before the present, thus making Box Gully one of the earliest known occupations of the region.
Some breath-takingly lovely jpegs of the Chauvet Cave, discovered in the valley of the Ardeches in December 1994.
Cro-Magnon is the informal word once used by scientists to refer to the people who were living alongside Neanderthals at the end of the last ice age (ca. 35,000-10,000 years ago).
The archaeological site of Denisova Cave is located on the Anui River, in the Altai region of Siberia and cut into the face of a steep limestone cliff.
Devil's Lair is an archaeological cave site located in Western Australia, which earliest has been dated to approximately 41,000-46,000 years ago and perhaps earlier still.
Diuktai Cave (also spelled Dyuktai) is an archaeological site on the Aldan River, a tributary of the Lena in eastern Siberia, occupied by a group that may have been ancestral to some Paleoarctic people of North America.
Dzudzuana is an Early Upper Paleolithic rockshelter located in the western part of the Republic of Georgia, 5 kilometers east of the similarly dated Ortvale Klde.
The edited volume Early Upper Paleolithic Beyond Western Europe presents data from over 100 sites throughout eastern Europe and Asia on the transition period of 50,000 to 35,000 years ago, which saw the evolution of modern human behavior.
The multicomponent archaeological cave site of El Mirón is located in the Rio Ason valley of eastern Cantabria, Spain, that has occupations between the late Middle Paleolithic to AD 1400.
Etiolles is the name of an Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) site located on the Seine River near Corbeil-Essonnes
Franchthi Cave was constantly occupied for thousands of years, beginning in the Upper Paleolithic period, with wonderful preservation of bones and seeds throughout.
The Ginsy Site is an Upper Paleolithic site located on the Dneiper River of Ukraine.
Hohle Fels is an Upper Paleolithic site located in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany, located 20 kilometers southwest of the town of Ulm.
The archaeological site of Mezhirich is an Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) site located in Ukraine near Kiev, and it is one of the best preserved sites of its type excavated to date.
The Hohle Fels figurines are a set of mammoth ivory figurines carved by humans and buried in the Hohle Fels cave of southwestern Germany at separate times between 30,000 and 35,000 years ago. This image is of a horse head (or possibly another animal)
Klisoura Cave is a rockshelter and collapsed karstic cave in Klisoura gorge in the north-western Peloponnese with an important Upper Paleolithic (Aurignacian) series of occupations.
How old is the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe? John Hoffnecker replies to some queries about the Kostenki site from John Hawks.
An upper paleolithic culture in the Ukraine, dated between 26,000 and 12,500 years before the present
How old is the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe? John Hoffnecker replies to some queries about the Kostenki site from John Hawks.
Lake Mungo is the name of several archaeological sites, located in 13 inter-connected dry lake basins, located in western New South Wales, Australia.
Le Flageolet I is a small, stratified rockshelter in the Dordogne valley of southwestern France, near the town of Bezenac.
The Upper Paleolithic (ca. 28000-25000 BP) culture of Mal'ta Buret' is in the Irkutsk district of Siberia.
At the end of the last ice age (ca 15,000-10,000 years ago), 85 percent of the large mammals (called megafauna) went extinct. Why this happened in a question of some import to the Upper Paleolithic period.
The archaeological site of Mezhirich is an Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) site located in Ukraine near Kiev.
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic site of Molodova is located on the Dniester River in the Chernovtsy province of the Ukraine.
Cave paintings are the earliest expression of permanent, non-portable art, and have been found throughout the world, with the earliest attempts about 40,000 years ago.
Paleolithic notation is the term used by archaeologists for deliberate markings made by our ancestors to count objects or remember events in a sequence.
Paviland Cave is a cave in South Wales dated to the Early Upper Paleolithic period between 30,000-20,000 years ago.
Predmostí is an early modern human Upper Paleolithic site, located in the Moravian region of what is today the Czech Republic. The site consists of three separate sites, clustered around two limestone formations of the southern entrance of the Moravian Gate.
Sanghao Cave is a rockshelter located on the Potwar Plateau of Pakistan, with an Upper Paleolithic occupation.
The Son Vi culture is the name given to the Upper Paleolithic lithic tradition of highland Vietnam.
A discussion by a Portuguese scholar about the age of the cave paintings in the Coa Valley.
The edited volume Early Upper Paleolithic Beyond Western Europe presents data from over 100 sites throughout eastern Europe and Asia on the transition period of 50,000 to 35,000 years ago, which saw the evolution of modern human behavior.
New mitochondrial data reported in the[i] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences[/i] on May 7, 2007, supports the somewhat still controversial Australian colonization as having occurred at about 50,000 bp--and that it was a single founder population who were subsequently isolated from the rest of the world.
Seven of the most famous sculpture type of the Upper Paleolithic period, also known as earth mother images. These are the Balzi Rossi figurines, the largest collection ever recovered from one site, in a cave on the Mediterranean Sea.
The date and pathway of the first human occupants of the American continents is still perhaps one of the most highly debated topics in archaeology today.
Venus figurines--those ancient little statuettes of fat ladies--are among the best known artifact on the planet--except they really aren't. A recent study at the Polish site of Wilczyce illustrates the variation in form and substance of Venus figurines.
"Venus figurine" is the name given to a nearly universal type of art, appearing first in the Upper Paleolithic period between 31,000 and 9,000 years ago.
The Upper Paleolithic site of Wilczyce is located near the Polish town of Kielce in northeastern Poland.
Yudinovo is an Upper Paleolithic base camp site located on a promontory above the right bank of the Sudost' River in Pogar District, Briansk region of Russia.
