Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume I
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Contributors
- Preface
- Book part
- 1 Introduction and overview
- Part I Historiography, method, and themes
- Part II The Paleolithic and the beginnings of human history
- 13 Before the farmers: culture and climate, from the emergence ofHomo sapiensto about ten thousand years ago
- 14 Early humans: tools, language, and culture
- 15 Africa from 48,000 to 9500BCE
- 16 Migration and innovation in Palaeolithic Europe
- 17 Asian Palaeolithic dispersals
- 18 The Pleistocene colonization and occupation of Australasia
- 19 The Pleistocene colonization and occupation of the Americas
- Index
- References
16 - Migration and innovation in Palaeolithic Europe
from Part II - The Paleolithic and the beginnings of human history
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Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume I
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Contributors
- Preface
- Book part
- 1 Introduction and overview
- Part I Historiography, method, and themes
- Part II The Paleolithic and the beginnings of human history
- 13 Before the farmers: culture and climate, from the emergence ofHomo sapiensto about ten thousand years ago
- 14 Early humans: tools, language, and culture
- 15 Africa from 48,000 to 9500BCE
- 16 Migration and innovation in Palaeolithic Europe
- 17 Asian Palaeolithic dispersals
- 18 The Pleistocene colonization and occupation of Australasia
- 19 The Pleistocene colonization and occupation of the Americas
- Index
- References
Summary
By the end of the nineteenth century, European scholars had uncovered the principal archaeological remains of the Ice Age and at least a few human fossils of the most recent phases of human evolution in Europe. All Ice-Age archaeological remains were classified as 'Old Stone Age' or Palaeolithic. The late or Upper Palaeolithic, which was subsequently divided into several successive industries, was eventually linked to modern humans or the Cro-Magnons. The preceding Middle Palaeolithic was associated with the extinct Neanderthals, and the early or Lower Palaeolithic with the pre-Neanderthal inhabitants of Europe. Modern humans seem to have invaded Europe in a series of migratory waves beginning possibly as early as 50,000 years ago. Technological innovation almost certainly played a critical role in the rapid expansion of modern humans out of Africa and into a wide range of habitats and climate zones, and it is strikingly evident in the next Upper Palaeolithic industry that appears in Europe.
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