UPPER PALEOLITHIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Upper Paleolithic mean? 

• UPPER PALEOLITHIC (noun)
  The noun UPPER PALEOLITHIC has 1 sense:

1. the time period during which only modern Homo sapiens was known to have existed; ended about 10,000 years BC

  Familiarity information: UPPER PALEOLITHIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPPER PALEOLITHIC (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)