Since strong arguments can be advanced that many Upper Paleolithic societies in Southwest Europe were transegalitarian societies with significant inequalities, I, together with D’Ann Owens, began to ...

to represent events, people, places, or things — including other abstract ideas (love, freedom, etc.). Upper Paleolithic (UP): A prehistoric Period. An assortment of prehistoric technologies ...

New research from Tel Aviv University suggests prehistoric children were joint creators of European cave art, fulfilling a ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...

Archaeology is increasingly allowing us to glimpse into one of those epochs, from 50,000 to 35,000 years ago—the period of transition between the Middle and the Upper Paleolithic eras when modern ...

About 40,000 years ago, near the dawn of the 30-millennia-long period known as the Upper Paleolithic, the first anatomically modern humans suddenly and mysteriously revolutionized their cultures ...

The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both the Old and New Worlds was the blade flake, a thin, parallel-sided flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide. Blade flakes were ...

The drawings differ from many of the prehistoric cave paintings discovered from the Upper Paleolithic period in that they are completely geometric and do not depict humans, animals, or any other ...