Dzudzuana Cave (Georgia)
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Dzudzuana Cave is a rockshelter with archaeological evidence of several Upper Paleolithic occupations, located in the western part of the Republic of Georgia, with occupations dated to ca 30,000-35,000 years ago.
El Miron (Spain)
The archaeological cave site of El Mirón is located in the Rio Ason valley of eastern Cantabria, Spain The Upper Paleolithic Magdalenian levels date between ~17,000-13,000 BP, and are characterized by dense deposits of animal bones, stone and bone tools, ochre and fire cracked rock
Etoilles (France)
Etiolles is the name of an Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) site located on the Seine River near Corbeil-Essonnes about 30 kilometers south of Paris, France, occupied ~12,000 years ago
Franchthi Cave (Greece)
First occupied during the Upper Paleolithic sometime between 35,000 and 30,000 years ago, Franchthi Cave was the site of human occupation, pretty much consistently up until about the final Neolithic Period about 3000 BC.
Geißenklösterle (Germany)
The University of Tübingen
Ginsy (Ukraine)
The Ginsy site is an Upper Paleolithic site located on the Dneiper River of Ukraine. The site consists of two mammoth bone dwellings and a bone field in an adjacent paleo-ravine.
Grotte du Renne (France)
Caron et al. 2011, PLoS ONE.
Hohle Fels (Germany)
Hilde Jensen, University of Tübingen
Hohle Fels is a large cave located in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany with a long Upper Paleolithic sequence with separate Aurignacian, Gravettian and Magdalenian occupations. Radiocarbon dates for the UP components range between 29,000 and 36,000 years bp.
Kapova Cave (Russia)
Kapova cave (also known as Shulgan-Tash Cave) is an Upper Paleolithic rock art site in the republic of Bashkortostan in the southern Ural Mountains of Russia, with an occupation dated to approximately 14,000 years ago.
Klisoura Cave (Greece)
Klisoura Cave is a rockshelter and collapsed karstic cave in Klisoura gorge in the north-western Peloponnese. The cave includes human occupations between the Middle Paleolithic and the Mesolithic periods, spanning between about 40,000 to 9,000 years before the present
