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Upper Palaeolithic

noun

  1. the latest of the three periods of the Palaeolithic, beginning about 40 000 bc and ending, in Europe, about 12 000 bc : characterized by the emergence of modern man, Homo sapiens


adjective

  1. of or relating to this period

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