Both Homo erectus and Neanderthals used the same crude stone tools. Archaeologist Richard G. Klein, who has worked extensively … See more

50,000–40,000 BP
50,000 BP
• Numerous Aboriginal stone tools were found in gravel sediments in Castlereagh, Sydney, Australia. At first when these results were new they were controversial; more recently … See more

• Last Glacial Maximum
• Mesolithic
• Neolithic
• Neolithic Europe
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The climate of the period in Europe saw dramatic changes, and included the Last Glacial Maximum, the coldest phase of the last glacial period, which lasted from about 26.5 to 19 kya, being coldest at the end, before relatively rapid warming (all dates vary somewhat for … See more

The Upper Paleolithic in the Franco-Cantabrian region:
• The Châtelperronian culture was located around central and south western France, and northern Spain. It appears to be derived from the Mousterian culture, and represents the … See more

• The Upper Paleolithic Revolution. Archived 2009-11-13 at the Wayback Machine.
• Picture Gallery of the Paleolithic (reconstructional palaeoethnology) – Libor Balák at the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Institute of … See more