Paleolithic Europe
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Paleolithic Europe, or Old Stone Age Europe, encompasses the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age in Europe from the arrival of the first archaic humans, about 1.4 million years ago until the beginning of the
Burins of the Gravettian culture discovered in Brassempouy, southwestern France. Currently preserved in the Muséum de Toulouse.
Azilian points, microliths from epipaleolithic northern Spain and southern France.
Venus Hohlefels 2
Moravianska venusa
Paleolithic
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The Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools. It represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology, ext
Paleolithic Europe
…Paleolithic Europe, or Old Stone Age Europe, encompasses the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age in Europe from the arrival of the first archaic humans, about 1.4 million years ago until the beginning of the Mesolithic (also…
Hunting a Glyptodon. Painting by Heinrich Harder c. 1920.
The oldest known figurative painting is a depiction of a bull that was discovered in the Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave in Indonesia. It was painted 40,000–52,000 years ago or earlier.
A skull of early Homo neanderthalensis, Miguelón from the Lower Paleolithic dated to 430,000 BP.
Many giant mammals such as woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, and cave lions inhabited the mammoth steppe during the Pleistocene.