ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Upper Paleolithic

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 100
• Professor: Kathleen Cross

Document Summary

Earliest modern h. sapiens found in africa and middle east. Holds that neanderthals evolved locally into modern humans as the result of a continuous gene flow between european and african populations: argues that neanderthal populations in europe were replaced by modern humans 30,000 40,000 years ago. Refers to the first modern human hunter-gatherer societies that lived in europe. Microliths and bone tools not found in previous periods in europe. Solutrean tradition 23 20 kya (bifacially flaked means both side can be used) good to hunt big animals.