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UPPER PALEOLITHIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time period during which only modern Homo sapiens was known to have existed; ended about 10,000 years BC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Holonyms ("Upper Paleolithic" is a part of...):
Palaeolithic; Paleolithic; Paleolithic Age (second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,000 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC)
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