AR103 Chapter Notes -Upper Paleolithic, Paleolithic Europe, Wurm
14 Mar 2014
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294-301 week 12 notes - dec. 1, 2011. Chapter eleven: the origin & dispersal of modern humans. Beginning of the upper paleolithic, 40,000 ya. Upper paleolithic divided into 5 stone tool categories: Magdelenian: pertaining to the nal phase of the upper paleolithic stone tool industry in europe. Major environmental shifts were apparent during this period. A warming trend leading to partially melted glacial ice resulting in eurasia covered by tundra and steppe, a vast area of treeless country dotted with lakes and marshes. In many northern areas permafrost prevented growth of trees but permitted growth of. Owers and mosses and other small vegetation in the short summers. This vegetation served as a pasture for herbivores which led to the pasture for carnivores as well. During this period, either western europe or perhaps portions of africa achieved the highest population density in human history up to that time.
