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Aurignacian
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.37|The expansion of European early modern humans|early modern humans from the [[Levant where the Levantine Aurignacian stage has been identified]]
Key facts
- Archaeological culture.name
- Aurignacian
- Archaeological culture.map
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- Archaeological culture.mapcaption
- Cave lion drawings from the Chauvet Cave, 37,000 to 33,500 years old, and a map of Aurignacian sites
- Archaeological culture.mapsize
- 300
- Archaeological culture.region
- Eurasia
- Archaeological culture.period
- Upper Paleolithic
- Archaeological culture.dates
- 43,000 – c. 28,000 BP
- Archaeological culture.typesite
- Aurignac
- Archaeological culture.precededby
- Ahmarian, Châtelperronian
- Archaeological culture.followedby
- Gravettian
- Archaeological culture.definedby
- Breuil and Cartailhac, 1906
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Venus vom Hohle Fels-01.JPG
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- Commons category
- Aurignacian
- start time
- 38000-00-0
- end time
- 29000-00-0
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Article
17 sectionsContents
- Main characteristics
- Art
- Subsistence economy
- Gallery
- Tools
- Population
- Association with modern humans
- Genetics
- Location
- Europe
- Near-East
- Asia
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|upright=1.37|The expansion of European early modern humans|early modern humans from the [[Levant where the Levantine Aurignacian stage has been identified]]
The Aurignacian () is an archaeological industry of the Upper Paleolithic associated with Early European modern humans (EEMH) lasting from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago in most areas and lasting until about 17,000 years ago in Ukraine in the form of the Epi-Aurignacian. The Upper Paleolithic developed in Europe some time after the Levant, where the Emiran period and the Ahmarian period form the first periods of the Upper Paleolithic, corresponding to the first stages of the expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa. They then migrated to Europe and created the first European culture of modern humans, the Aurignacian.