palaeolithic
- n second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC
- a of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic)
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- Dating refined for Atapuerca site where Homo antecessor appeared
One of the issues of the Atapuerca sites that generates the most scientific debate is the dating of the strata where the fossils are found. A study has clarified that the sediment of Gran Dolina, where the first remains of Homo antecessor were discovered in 1994, is 900,000 years old. The findings at the Lower Palaeolithic cave site of Gran Dolina, in the Sierra de Atapuerca mountain range ...
Feb. 7, 2014 - Science Daily
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- Farouk Hosni in Al-Ahram Weekly
This is a very important discovery and sheds more light on human life and history during the Palaeolithic era, a lesser recognised period in Egypt,Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said.