Talk:Upper Paleolithic

Dates

Of course, the dates are approximations. But at least they should be given consistently across articles. Beginning: 40,000 BCE or 30,000 BCE (as the Paleolithic article states)? End 10,000 BCE or 10,000 years ago (as per Mesolithic)? — Sebastian (talk) 22:02, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Moreover, and worst, "ago" or "BP" are nonsense, because changin every day, at least every year! For What do we have a common chronology???2A02:8108:9640:AC3:9DB2:EB0C:5F7E:C058 (talk) 07:48, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

You need to read Before Present. Doug Weller talk 09:30, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Para 3, Sent 2 Clarification Request

Paragraph 3, sentence 2 starts out talking about some new technology which isn't specified, could someone specify? The previous sentence talks about bone artifacts but the bone page doesn't really help... I suppose that the bone artifacts are the supposed new technology but I would appreciate if someone had the time to research and find out a good way to clarify sentence 2 or expound on the bone artifacts just a hair. Thanks!, Alex the Nerd (talk) 21:09, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Bad source

We have two items referenced to an unreliable source, John Weinstock. "Sami Prehistory Revisited: transactions, admixture and assimilation in the phylogeographic picture of Scandinavia". This is from a doctoral thesis that's received only one cite.

The first text referenced reads as follows: "By 45,000 BP, humans lived at 61° north latitude in Europe.[3]" The 61 degrees is an error. The cited paper is referring to the famous archaeological site of Kostyonki (palaeolithic site) located in Kostyonki, Voronezh Oblast which is at 51°, 24 minutes.

The second text referenced: "At the end of the Upper Paleolithic, a group of humans crossed the Bering land bridge and quickly expanded throughout North and South America.[3]" I think there are plenty of reliable sources for this, so we don't need to use an unreliable one.

With regard to the first text, I think we should stick with Ust'-Ishim man (45,000 BP, Siberia, latitude 57.7°) since this is the only one reliably dated to 45,000 BP. The other early ones at relatively high latitudes are significantly more recent, e.g., Oase1 (41,640-37,580, Romania 45°), Kostenki14 (38,680-36,260, Russia, 51°). Zyxwv99 (talk) 00:33, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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To add to article

Important: please add a listing for the Bromme culture to this article. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 23:53, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Dates for Rhino drawings

They don’t match the dates on the image details on Commons which is a problem and we probably need to use at least the dates from Chauvet Caves. @Tewdar: Doug Weller talk 17:50, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

@Doug Weller: Yeah, I mean, you can add whatever text you like on Commons... 😁 there is some dispute on the dating, perhaps we should expand the range given? Or just remove the dates entirely?  Tewdar  17:56, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

@Tewdar Removing the dates might make readers look at the commons details, range would be better. Doug Weller talk 17:58, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

This article supplement gives dates for rhino panel around 33,000 ybp, which is roughly what Commons says, so we should probably just use the Commons dates imo.  Tewdar  18:21, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Ok. Doug Weller talk 18:50, 18 June 2022 (UTC)