Chapter 13: New Ideas, New Worlds: Life in the Upper Paleolithic
Chapter 13: New Ideas, New Worlds: Life in the Upper Paleolithic
Overview
This chapter begins by comparing the cultures of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic. It examines key Upper Paleolithic innovations in such areas as the manufacture of tools and nonutilitarian objects, subsistence strategies, burial practices, social and economic organization, and art. It provides a detailed look at European cave paintings, engraved bones and Venus figurines, and considers several hypotheses for the inspirations behind those artistic expressions. The artifactual and skeletal evidence relating to the first migrations of humans into Australia and the Americas is examined as are the results of genetic studies into the origin of Native Americans.Practice Exam (50 Questions)
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