Directory of Paleolithic Resources

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The Paleolithic is the archaeological period before c.10,000 years ago, characterized by the earliest known stone tool manufacture.

Subcategories

• Art
• Human Evolution

Resources in This Category

• And Then Came Clothing and Speech

  http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba19/ba19feat.html#roberts
  Mark Roberts discusses why was Europe colonised by hominids half a million years ago. Published in the Journal of British Archaeology in 1996.

• Bradshaw Foundation: Ice Age Art

  http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/sculpture/
  Article on the figurines and sculptures of prehistoric Europe during the Upper Palaeolithic prehistory era.

• From Art and Tools Came Human Origins

  http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba42/ba42feat.html#barham
  Larry Barham reports in British Archaeology that evidence of modern human behaviour 200,000 years old may have been found in Africa.

• Global Land Environments during the last 130,000 Years

  http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc.html
  A description of climatic conditions during the Paleolithic.

• Ice Ages

  http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/
  A guide to the climatic changes that occurred during the Paleolithic.

• In This Dark Cavern Thy Burying Place

  http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba26/ba26feat.html#cavern
  An article by Andrew Chamberlain from British Archaeology discussing Paleolithic mortuary practices in Great Britain.

• Old Stone Age

  http://www.oldstoneage.com/
  Shannon McPherron (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and Harold Dibble (University of Pennsylvania) report on research at several sites in Europe and Abydos in Egypt.

• Pleistocene Mammals

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/pin/pinpleist.html
  A image gallery of megafauna on display at the Russian Paleontological Institute.

• Reflections on the Style-Function Debate

  http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/debate.html
  Summary of the style-versus-function debate regarding Paleolithic stone tools. Includes references.

• Struggling artists of the Ice Age

  http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba6/ba6feat.html#pettitt
  An article that argues that Paleolithic cave art is a depiction of human and animal relationships in prehistory.

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