grouping of the earlier Châtelperronian and later Gravettian cultures). The Gravettian culture was located across Europe. Gravettian sites generally date between 33,000 and 20,000 BP. The Solutrean culture was located in eastern France, Spain, and England. Solutrean artifacts have been dated c. 22,000 to 17,000 BP. The Magdalenian culture left evidence from Portugal to Poland during the period from 17,000 to 12,000 BP. Central and east Europe: 33,000 BP, Gravettian culture in southern Ukraine. 30,000 BP, Szeletian culture 22,000 BP, Pavlovian, Aurignacian cultures 13,000 BP, Ahrensburg culture (Western Germany, Netherlands, England) 12,000 BP, Epigravettian North and west Africa, and Sahara: 32,000 BP, Aterian culture (Algeria, Libya) 12,000 BP, Ibero-Maurusian (a.k.a. Oranian, Ouchtatian), and Sebilian cultures 10,000 BP, Capsian culture (Tunisia, Algeria) Central, south, and east Africa: 50,000 BP, Fauresmith culture 30,000 BP, Stillbayan culture 12,000 BP, Lupembian culture 11,000 BP, Magosian culture (Zambia, Tanzania) 9,000 BP, Wiltonian culture West Asia (including Middle East): 50,000 BP, Jabroudian culture (Levant) 40,000 BP, Amoudian culture 30,000 BP, Emireh culture 20,000 BP, Aurignacian culture 12,000 BP, Kebarian, Athlitian cultures South, central and northern Asia: 30,000 BP, Angara culture 11,000 BP, Khandivili culture East and southeast Asia: 50,000 BP, Ngandong culture 30,000 BP, Sen-Doki culture 16,000 BP, Jōmon period starts in Ancient Japan 12,000 BP, pre-Jōmon ceramic culture (Japan) 10,000 BP, Hoabinhian culture (Northern Vietnam) 9,000 BP, Jōmon culture (Japan) Oceania: 40,000 BP, Whadjuk and Noongar culture (Perth, Australia) 35,000 BP, Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Wathaurong culture (Melbourne, Australia) 30,000 BP, Eora and Darug culture (Sydney, Australia) 30,000 BP, Arrernte culture (Alice Springs, Central Australia) See also Upper Palaeolithic Europe Late Glacial Maximum Mesolithic Neolithic Neolithic Europe Behavioral modernity Cro-Magnon 1 Aurignacian Epigravettian Sungir Cultural universal References Gilman, Antonio (1996). "Explaining the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution". Pp. 220–239 (Chap. 8) in Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. External links The Upper Paleolithic Revolution Picture Gallery of the Paleolithic (reconstructional palaeoethnology), Libor Balák at the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Archaeology in Brno, The Center for Paleolithic and Paleoethnological Research Pleistocene Quaternary geochronology Historical eras