OVERVIEW PALEOLITHIC PREHISTORIC CULTURAL LEVEL HUMAN THE CREATION STONE TOOLS ROBERT THE STONE AGE DIVIDED MESOLITHIC PERIOD NEOLITHIC PERIOD DEGREE SOPHISTICATION PALEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY CONCERNED ORIGINS DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY HUMAN CULTURE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MAN BELIEVED OR 70 YEARS AGO THE BEGINNING OF RECENT GEOLOGIC ERA 8000 BC SPAN INTERVAL CANNOT MODERN EVIDENCE SUGGESTS ANCESTRAL PRIMATE STOCK RECOGNIZABLE TOOLS HORIZONS LOWER PLEISTOCENE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATIC EVENTS NORTHERN LATITUDES MOUNTAINOUS AREAS SUBJECTED RETREATS ICE SHEETS RIVER VALLEYS TERRACES THE PRESENT COASTLINES CHANGES FAUNA AND FLORA TIMES SEEMS ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS STAGES PLEISTOCENE EPOCH FOOD GATHERER HUNTING WILD ANIMALS COLLECTING RECORD LONG INTERVAL CULTURES ALONE THE RAVAGES OF TIME THE REMAINS CONTEMPORARY HUNTED FORERUNNERS ALL THAT SCHOLARS HAVE TO GUIDE HUMAN ACTIVITY VAST PERCENT APPEARANCE TRUE HOMINID MATERIALS DEVELOP ASSEMBLAGE SERVE CONNECTION PROCESS INCREASINGLY COMPLEX CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF IN OTHER WORDS TREND SIMPLE STAGE HIGH THE CASE HISTORIC TIMES STONE TRADITIONS DEVELOPED BIFACIAL FACT MISTAKEN NOTIONS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CERTAIN TRADITION MIGHT BE REGION ADVANCED METHOD OLDER TECHNIQUE AS IT OVERALL THE ORDER PEBBLE TOOLS SINGLE EDGE CUTTING NO TRUE LATE 20TH CENTURY SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ON THE OTHER HAND PRIMITIVE TYPE FRENCH USED TO DESIGNATE THE VARIOUS DISCOVERIES MADE IN TERMINOLOGY NOTWITHSTANDING REGIONAL DIFFERENCES DO IN SEQUENCE FOUNDATION PARTS REASONABLE AGREEMENT CLEAR DEVELOPMENTAL BIFURCATION CULTURE HISTORY TEMPERATE TROPICAL WOODLAND ENVIRONMENTS SOUTHERN FRINGES ARCTIC TUNDRA UPPER PALEOLITHIC SIMPLY TOWARD MORE OR LESS INTENSIFIED VARIETY SUCCESSION GENERALLY SOMEWHAT MIDDLE LATITUDES TRACES COURSE DEVELOPMENT INCIPIENT AGRICULTURE ANIMAL DOMESTICATION SOUTHWESTERN ASIA ALREADY EFFECTIVE COMMUNITIES DETAILS TAKING ALMOST THUS COASTAL SLOPES BELOW SOUTHEASTERN ASIA LITTLE TRACE MESOLITHIC NEED ANTICIPATED THE GENERAL PROBABLY CULTIVATION THE PICTURE PRESENTED THE CULTURE HISTORY OF PERIOD GENERALIZED FOOD PRODUCTION OLD AND NEW THE PLANT ANIMAL EFFECTIVENESS FLEXIBILITY ADAPT NEW LEVEL EXPENSE CONSERVATIVE THE MATRIX CIVILIZATIONS MAJOR MIDDLE DEFINED THE MIDDLE UPPER SYSTEM LOWER PALEOLITHIC BASIS RICH THE SOMME VALLEY THE NORTH FRANCE THE THAMES IN THE SOUTH WESTERN ACHEULEAN LEVALLOISIAN TYPE ABBEVILLIAN CHELLEAN TAKES NAME THE TOWN TERRACE CONSIST HAND HAMMER FLAKE TOOLS LACK REPORTED DEPOSITS INTERGLACIAL BEGINS CLOSE THE THIRD COVERS THE LONGEST TIME TYPE SITE NORTHERN FRANCE DISPLAY MARKED TECHNOLOGICAL REFINEMENT APPARENTLY WOODEN BONE BILLET RATHER THE MORE PRIMITIVE EXCEPT CYCLE DIFFERENCE MICOQUIAN EXHIBIT STRAIGHT CONTRAST THE SIDE PREDOMINANT TRIMMING FLAKES THE PROCESS POINTS CROSS GREATER SOUTHEASTERN ENGLAND SHOWS CLACTONIAN ARTIFACTS CORE CHOPPING TOOLS IN FACT PLAIN BULBS DETACHED DISCOIDAL CORES RETOUCHING THE EDGE EDGE CHIPPING LOCALITY SUBURB FLAKE FIRST APPEARS ASSOCIATION FOURTH GLACIAL PREVIOUSLY HAPHAZARD SHAPING THE CORE PREPARATION DETACHMENT OVAL SECTION TORTOISE PLATFORMS VERTICAL SCARS PRESENT PRODUCTION ONES PROPORTION SIZE VARIATION POSSIBLE PRODUCE THE METHOD MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC MOUSTERIAN TAYACIAN MANIFEST APPEAR PERSIST OSCILLATION THE FOURTH REMAINS MODERN MAN NEANDERTHAL 1960S CAVES ROCK SHELTERS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FIRE DISCOVERED THE CAVE LE MOUSTIER LES EYZIES THE CLASSIC DORDOGNE REGION OF FRANCE TYPOLOGY DISTINCT THE PLAIN ULTIMATE PERSISTENCE ACHEULEAN TRADITION ADDITION BONE INDUSTRY APPEARS HERE THE FIRST TIME JUDGING BANDS TRIBES PEOPLE SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS INTERSTADIAL MAN MADE GREATEST PROGRESS AT THIS TIME THE HAND BLADES NEEDLES SKIN BONE TOOLS THE HARPOON THE SPEAR SPECIAL FISHING CONSISTING OF PRIME IMPORTANCE INTEREST TECHNIQUES MANIFESTATIONS OF CEREMONIES THE ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY PATTERNS THE LOCATION SOCIAL LIFE COLLECTIVE FERTILITY PRIVATE PROPERTY SOCIAL STRATIFICATION PRIMITIVE TYPES DISAPPEARED THE CHRONOLOGY OF WESTERN EUROPE CHTELPERRONIAN AURIGNACIAN GRAVETTIAN MAGDALENIAN GRAVERS COMMON ITSELF INVENTION MADE POSSIBLE CLIMATE COLD STEPPE NORTH SIMILAR SIBERIA CANADA SOUTH CENTRAL STEEPLY BACKS CURVED BLADE IMMEDIATELY OVERLYING THE STRAIGHT GRAVETTE CHARACTERISTIC EVOLVED THE FINAL STAGE FONT DIMINUTIVE NUMBER SCULPTURED TORSOS DEPICTING FEMALE FORM THE VILLAGE SOUTHERN FRANCE ELEMENT AT THE BEGINNING TOOL NOSE HEAVY MARGINAL RETOUCH JAVELIN BTONS DE COMMANDEMENT ARROW PERSONAL ADORNMENT WORN PIERCED TEETH DECORATED BITS UPPER PALEOLITHIC ART RELATED MURAL ART PORTABLE ART FINGER ENGRAVINGS SCULPTURES THE WALLS OCCUPATION LAYERS THE WHOLE ALMOST CERTAINLY INSPIRATION CUSTOM HUNTING MAGIC TODAY LIVING PRIMITIVE PEOPLES SOLUTREAN THE SOLUTREAN THE SITE MCON BEAUTIFULLY MADE FLINT WORKMANSHIP SCULPTURE LOW RELIEF INCISED FAUNA FLOURISHED COLD THE ROCK SHELTER DOMINANCE ANTLER REMARKABLE WORKS OF ART WIDE SPEAR THROWERS GEOMETRIC PHASES STRATIGRAPHICALLY THE HEIGHTS ATTAINED BY THE PEOPLE THE ART FINE MURAL SUBJECT PAINTIN