" The relative status of various humans, some of whom had modern advanced technologies that included engines and telegraphs, while others lacked anything but face-to-face communication techniques and still lived a Paleolithic lifestyle, was of interest to the first generation of cultural anthropologists.

Some anthropologists, such as Tim White, suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period.

Greece was inhabited as early as the Paleolithic period.

It would appear this sets the date by which Homo sapien Upper Paleolithic cultures begin replacing Neanderthal Levalo-Mousterian, and by c. 40, 000 BC Palestine was occupied by the Levanto-Aurignacian Ahmarian culture, lasting from 39-24, 000 BC.

In Paleolithic times, the representation of humans in cave paintings was rare.

Hutton's theory led him to conclude that reliance on Bruiel's initial sketch resulted in many later scholars erroneously claiming that " The Sorcerer " was evidence that the concept of a Horned God dated back to Paleolithic times

Traces of Paleolithic human settlement have been recovered from the area, but it was peripheral to areas of advanced culture.

By the time of Vere Gordon Childe's work, The Dawn of Europe ( 1947 ), which affirms the Mesolithic, sufficient data had been collected to determine that the Mesolithic was in fact necessary and was indeed a transition and intermediary between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

Anthropologists such as Tim White suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic, based on the large amount of “ butchered human " bones found in Neanderthal and other Lower / Middle Paleolithic sites.

However, it may have been for religious reasons, and would coincide with the development of religious practices thought to have occurred during the Upper Paleolithic .< ref > Nonetheless, it remains possible that Paleolithic societies never practiced cannibalism, and that the damage to recovered human bones was either the result of ritual post-mortem bone cleaning or predation by carnivores such as saber tooth cats, lions and hyenas.

It is quite possible that the sling was invented during the Upper Paleolithic at a time when new technologies, such as the atlatl and the bow and arrow, were emerging.

As early as the Paleolithic period, the Central Hessian region was inhabited.

The region has been inhabited since the Paleolithic age and was occupied by the Gauls.

The mace was developed during the Upper Paleolithic from the simple club, by adding sharp spikes of flint or obsidian.

The Cosquer cave is an underwater grotto in the Calanque de Morgiou, underwater, that was inhabited during Paleolithic era, when the sea level was much lower than today.

The Korean Peninsula was inhabited from the Lower Paleolithic about 400, 000-700, 000 years ago.

Cyprus was settled by humans in the Paleolithic period ( known as the stone age ) who coexisted with various dwarf animal species, such as dwarf elephants ( Elephas cypriotes ) and pygmy hippos ( Hippopotamus minor ) well into the Holocene.

Archaeological excavations, such as those at the Cosquer Cave near Marseilles, show that the coast of Provence was inhabited since at least the Paleolithic era.

The Paleolithic culture named Acheulean was named for its first identified site, in Saint-Acheul, a neighbourhood of Amiens.

Wadjet ( or ; Egyptian, " green one "), known to the Greek world as Uto () or Buto () among other names, was originally the ancient local goddess of the city of Dep ( Buto ), which became part of the city that the Egyptians named Per-Wadjet, House of Wadjet, and the Greeks called Buto ( Desouk now ), a city that was an important site in the Predynastic era of Ancient Egypt and the cultural developments of the Paleolithic.

In the territory now covered by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, there is evidence of primitive inhabitants right back to the Paleolithic or old stone age over 35, 000 years ago.

From excavated tally sticks, researchers have deduced that people counted days in relation to the Moon's phases as early as the Paleolithic age.

At the beginning of the Paleolithic the stone age, the number of these autonomous political units must have been small, but by 1000 B. C.

Despite the name, the skeleton is that of a young man who lived about 33, 000 years ago at the end of the Upper Paleolithic Period ( old stone age ).

Archaeological excavations revealed the existence of human on Vietnamese territory as early as the Paleolithic age.

The Bornholm Museum offers an insight into the history of Rønne and the island of Bornholm, dating from the Paleolithic era to the modern age, including the history of occupied Bornholm during World War II.

One of the most frequent criticisms of the Paleolithic diet is that it is unlikely that preagricultural hunter-gatherers suffered from the diseases of modern civilization simply because they did not live long enough to develop these illnesses, which are typically associated with old age.

A number of archaeological sites in the region, such as Monte Poggiolo, show that Romagna has been inhabited since the Paleolithic age.

Inhabited since the Paleolithic age, the city area nurtured paddy field agriculture in the fertile Nara Basin since ancient times.

It is believed that, during the last ice age, the area was probably inhabited by small groups of Paleolithic hunters / collectors, like elsewhere in the Mediterranean.

It was important to Darwin to relay the arguments of whether or not all races were of the same species — he had spent much of the preceding book tracing humans back to the Paleolithic age, and now he had to bring them back to the present time again.

For example, archeologists believe the first Mesolithic migrations ( Jōmon ) traveled across to Honshu around the 10th century BC, supplanting Paleolithic people that walked from Asia to Japan overland over 100, 000 years ago when the sea level was lower during the Pleistocene ice age.

Research done in the area has shown habitation since the Paleolithic age.

Tools made of flint from the late Paleolithic ( about 12, 000-8000 BC ), at the end of the last ice age, are evidence for the earliest human settlement in the area.

Evidence of human habitation dating back to the early Paleolithic age ( 150, 000-200, 000 ) years has been discovered in the Karain caves, of the north of Antalya city.

Music can be theoretically traced to prior to the Oldowan era of the Paleolithic age, the anthropological and archeological designation suggests that music first arose ( amongst humans ) when stone tools first began to be used by hominids.

The area of Pisidia has been inhabited since the Paleolithic age, with some settlements known from historical times ranging in age from the eighth to third millennium BC.

Basque itself appears to be a language from the age of metal, while other leads point to a Paleolithic origin, e. g. aitzurra ' hoe ', aizto ' knife ' with a probable root ( h ) aitz ' rock, stone '.

The inhabitants of the Andamans are of Negroid origin and migrated from Africa thousands of years ago, way back in the later Paleolithic age.

The Pyu, the earliest inhabitants of Burma of whom records are extant, went on to found settlements throughout the plains region centered around the confluence of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin rivers that has been inhabited since the Paleolithic age.

Human presence in the area as early as the Paleolithic age is testified by archaeological excavations.