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Expanding Intellectual Horizons: Art and Ideas in the Upper Paleolithic and New Stone Age

Expanding Intellectual Horizons: Art and Ideas in the Upper Paleolithic and New Stone Age


1. Realize that symbolic expression is a uniquely human ability and that anatomically modern humans are the first to use symbols.

2. Understand that for the first half of their existence, anatomically modern humans looked like us but did not think like us.

3. Describe the intellectual leaps, including but not limited to tool technology and the use of raw materials, that took place during the Upper Paleolithic.

4. Be aware of the artwork, both mobiliary and parietal, that Upper Paleolithic peoples created.

5. Identify the evidence of complex social systems among anatomically modern humans.