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About 40,000 years ago, near the dawn of the 30-millennia-long
period known as the Upper Paleolithic, the first anatomically
modern humans suddenly and mysteriously revolutionized their
cultures with dozens of specialized tools, weaponry, and
artifacts. They became deft hunters capable of bringing down
massive animals, they tolerated harsh environmental
conditions, and they equipped themselves to travel vast
distances in search of new frontiers. Many questions still
remain about these peoples, including when and how they
journeyed to the New World, but experts agree that the answers
could someday crystallize from the ever-emerging technological
evidence Stone Age humans left behind. In this interactive
matching game, consider what roles ten different kinds of
primitive artifacts from Europe and North America played for
our earliest ancestors. To launch the
interactive, click on
the image at left.—Lexi Krock
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