<Li> Evidence of a massacre near Lake Turkana, Kenya indicates upper paleolithic warfare . </Li> <P> The Upper Paleolithic in the Franco - Cantabrian region: </P> <Ul> <Li> The Châtelperronian culture was located around central and south western France, and northern Spain . It appears to be derived from the Mousterian culture, and represents the period of overlap between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens . This culture lasted from approximately 45,000 BP to 40,000 BP . </Li> <Li> The Aurignacian culture was located in Europe and south west Asia, and flourished between 43,000 and 36,000 BP . It may have been contemporary with the Périgordian (a contested grouping of the earlier Châtelperronian and later Gravettian cultures). </Li> <Li> The Gravettian culture was located across Europe . Gravettian sites generally date between 33,000 to 20,000 BP . </Li> <Li> The Solutrean culture was located in eastern France, Spain, and England . Solutrean artifacts have been dated c. 22,000 to 17,000 BP . </Li> <Li> The Magdalenian culture left evidence from Portugal to Poland during the period from 17,000 to 12,000 BP . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Châtelperronian culture was located around central and south western France, and northern Spain . It appears to be derived from the Mousterian culture, and represents the period of overlap between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens . This culture lasted from approximately 45,000 BP to 40,000 BP . </Li>

An era of human history beginning about twelve thousand years ago also known as the new stone age