Kostenki (Russia)
Colorado University at Boulder (c) 2007
The archaeological site of Kostenki is a actually a stratified series of sites deeply buried within the alluvial deposits of a steep ravine that empties into the Don River in central Russia. The site includes several Late Early Upper Paleolithic levels, dated ca 40,000 to 30,000 calibrated years ago.
Lagar Velho (Portugal)
Lagar Velho is a rockshelter in western Portugal, where a 30,000 year old burial of a child was discovered. The child's skeleton has both Neanderthal and early modern human physical characteristics, and us Lagar Velho is one of the strongest pieces of evidence for inter-breeding of the two types of humans.
Lascaux Cave (France)
Probably the most famous Upper Paleolithic site in the world is Lascaux Cave, a rockshelter in the Dordogne Valley of France with fabulous cave paintings, painted between 15,000 and 17,000 years ago.
Le Flageolet I (France)
Le Flageolet I is a small, stratified rockshelter in the Dordogne valley of southwestern France, near the town of Bezenac. The site has important Upper Paleolithic Aurignacian and Perigordian occupations.
Maisières-Canal (Belgium)
Maisières-Canal is a multiple-component Gravettian and Aurignacian site in southern Belgium, where recent radiocarbon dat place tanged points of the Gravettian at about 33,000 years before the present, and roughly equivalent to Gravettian components at Paviland Cave in Wales.
Mezhirich (Ukraine)
The archaeological site of Mezhirich is an Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) site located in Ukraine near Kiev. The open air site has evidence of a mammoth bone dwelling--a house structure built entirely of the bones of extinct elephant, dated to ~15,000 years ago.
Mladec Cave (Czech Republic)
The Upper Paleolithic cave site of Mladec is a multi-floor karst cave located in the Devonian limestones of the Upper Moravian plain in the Czech Republic. The site has five Upper Paleolithic occupations, including skeletal material that has been controversially identified as either Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, or transitional between the two, dated to approximately 35,000 years ago.
Molodova Caves (Ukraine)
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic site of Molodova (sometimes spelled Molodovo) is located on the Dniester River in the Chernovtsy province of the Ukraine. The site includes two Middle Paleolithic Mousterian components, Molodova I (> 44,000 BP) and Molodova V (between about 43,000 to 45,000 years ago).
Paviland Cave (Wales)
Paviland Cave is a rockshelter on the Gower Coast of south Wales dated to the Early Upper Paleolithic period somewhere between 30,000-20,000 years ago.
Predmostí (Czech Republic)
Predmostí is an early modern human Upper Paleolithic site, located in the Moravian region of what is today the Czech Republic. Occupations in evidence at the site include two Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) occupations, dated between 24,000-27,000 years BP, indicating the Gravettian culture people lived a long time at Predmostí.
