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Initial Upper Paleolithic
First stage of the Upper Paleolithic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Initial Upper Paleolithic (also IUP, c. 50,000–40,000 BP) covers the first stage of the Upper Paleolithic, during which modern human populations expanded throughout Eurasia.
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