Talk:Middle Paleolithic

what happened before this? 's a good question.

Copyright violations
Also a lot of the information on this page appears to have been copied and pasted from here so i will remove this information.--Fang 23 (talk) 14:06, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

✅--Fang 23 (talk) 14:12, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

No animals?
This article is only about humans. Where there no beast around at the time? --Addingrefs ( talk | contribs ) 22:31, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

The Middle Paleolithic is a term only used in refrence to human evolution and human cultures. For information on animals that existed during this time see the article on the Pleistocene period.--Fang 23 (talk) 19:45, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Burial for secular reasons
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Middle Paleolithic burials at sites such as Krapina, Croatia (c. 130,000 BP) and Qafzeh, Israel (c. 100,000 BP) have led some anthropologists and archeologists, such as Philip Lieberman, to believe that Middle Paleolithic cultures may have possessed a developing religious ideology which included belief in concepts such as an afterlife; other scholars suggest the bodies were buried for secular reasons.

I propose to remove or rephrase the last clause, that other scholars have suggested the bodies were buried for secular reasons. The citations are a link to a search engine, and a book written by Philip Lieberman who asserts an ideological basis for the burials. The word secular refers to a distinction which necessarily did not exist at this point in history, and thus seems unnecessarily contentious given that the significance of the burials is the emergence of ritual and symbolism. The human bodies are laid out and found with burial goods.

The title for the link to the search engine refers to a magazine article discussing cultural exchange between humans and neanderthals. The article refers to Gargett, who argues that the neanderthal bodies may not have been buried deliberately but crushed and entombed in accidents; and also refers to an informal comment from Mussi, saying that she is convinced the early neanderthal burials were deliberate and functional, and that the humans later in the Middle Paleolithic era added the symbolic element. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gfns (talk • contribs) 05:28, 13 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Agreed. It's highly unlikely that at this period there was a perceived difference between secular and religious. Dougweller (talk) 14:55, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

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confused chronology
until 50 or 30 tya???2A02:8108:9640:1A68:4DF8:A0AF:4F2D:BE71 (talk) 08:55, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Pleistocene
If we aim to be encyclopedic, and the Middle Paleolithic took place during the Pleistocene period, why is the term "Pleistocene" not mentioned a single time in the text of the current version of this article? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:34, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I have added a sentence. Dudley Miles (talk) 08:13, 24 June 2023 (UTC)