The Aterian is a Middle Stone Age (or Middle Palaeolithic) stone tool industry centered in North Africa, from Mauritania to Egypt, but also possibly found in Oman and the Thar Desert. The earliest Aterian dates to c. 150,000 years ago, at the site of Ifri n'Ammar in Morocco. However, most of the early dates cluster around the beginning of the Last Interglacial, around 150,000 to …

The Soanian culture is a prehistoric technological culture from the Siwalik Hills in the Indian subcontinent. It is named after the Soan Valley in Pakistan. Soanian sites are found along the Siwalik region in present-day India, Nepal and Pakistan. The Soanian culture has been approximated to have taken place during the Middle Pleistocene period or the mid-Holocene …

Australia and parts of Southeast Asia remained in the Paleolithic stage until European contact. The oldest firmly dated rock-art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Nawarla Gabarnmang rock shelter in south western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.Dated at 28,000 years, it is one of the oldest known pieces of …

The Gravettian was an archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic that succeeded the Aurignacian circa 33,000 years BP. It is archaeologically the last European culture many consider unified, and had mostly disappeared by c. 22,000 BP, close to the Last Glacial Maximum, although some elements lasted until c. 17,000 BP. In Spain and France, it was …

Lower Paleolithic. Religion prior to the Upper Paleolithic is speculative, and the Lower Paleolithic in particular has no clear evidence of religious practice. Not even the loosest evidence for ritual exists prior to 500,000 years before the present, though archaeologist Gregory J. Wightman notes the limits of the archaeological record means their practice cannot be thoroughly ruled out.

The Bølling–Allerød interstadial (Danish: [ˈpøle̝ŋ ˈæləˌʁœðˀ]), also called the Late Glacial Interstadial, was an abrupt warm and moist interstadial period that occurred during the final stages of the Last Glacial Period.This warm period ran from 14,690 to 12,890 years before the present ().It began with the end of the cold period known as the Oldest Dryas, and ended abruptly ...

The Epigravettian is a similar culture appearing at the same time. Its known range extends from southeast France to the western shores of the Volga River , Russia, with many sites in Italy. The later phases of Magdalenian culture are contemporaneous with the human re-settlement of north-western Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum during the ...

L'histoire de la Sicile a vu l'île contrôlée par des puissances extérieures méditerranéennes (romaine, vandale, ostrogothe, byzantine, islamique, espagnole), mais connaître aussi de longues périodes d'indépendance, comme sous les Sicéliotes d'origine grecque et plus tard comme l'émirat autonome des Kalbites, puis le Royaume de Sicile, fondé en 1130 par Roger II, …

The Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia.The term Middle Stone Age is used as an equivalent or a synonym for the Middle Paleolithic in African archeology. The Middle Paleolithic broadly spanned from 300,000 to 30,000 years ago. There are considerable dating …

La Sicile est une île d'Italie bordée au nord par la mer Tyrrhénienne et située à l'ouest-sud-ouest de la Calabre méridionale. Au nord-est de l'île et à une trentaine de kilomètres de la côte, se situe l'archipel volcanique des îles Éoliennes (ou Lipari). Parmi elles, l'île de Stromboli, à 61 kilomètres au nord de Milazzo, est connue pour son volcan.