1. Upper Paleolithic/Mesolithic

2. Chatelperronian tools
By 40,000 Years Ago….
Chatelperronian tools
Burin Made on a Blade
Venus of Willendorf
Homo sapiens sapiens
….had “grown into” a wide variety of local habitats throughout the
Old World by cultural adaptation.
Upper Paleolithic Sequence in Southwestern France and Northern Spain
Altamira
Magdalenian 15,000-10,000BC
Lascaux
Solutrean 18,000-15,000BC
Solutrian Laurel-leaf Points
Gravettian 22,000-18,000BC
“Venus” figurines
Aurignacian 28,500-22,000BC
Burins and Points
Chatelperronian 38,000-28,500BC
Backed blades

3. Lascaux - southwestern France
Upper Paleolithic Art (ca. 12, 000 BP)
Lascaux - southwestern France
In this panel of Back-to Back Bison, reserves around the limbs in the background, distortion of shapes, choice of surface, symmetrical composition, are all used to create a three dimensional effect...

4. Altamira - northern Spain
Upper Paleolithic Art (ca. 12, 000 BP)
Altamira - northern Spain
In this representation of a horse, red is ocher, black charcoal. Undulations in cave wall and ceiling were incorporated in the composition of the paintings.

5. Summary of Early Fossil Evidence
This chart shows rough sequence of fossil hominids.
10,000BP
Homo sapiens (full culture, worldwide distribution)
100,000BP
Homo sapiens (Neandertal, et al.)
1mBP
Homo erectus (Radiation thru Old World)
2mBP
Homo habilis (Earliest Culture?)
3mBP
Australopithecus var. (Fully bipedal)
4mBP
Ardipithecus ramidus (Earliest hominines?)
5mBP