Aurignacian
The Aurignacian is an archaeological industry of the Upper Paleolithic associated with European early contemporary humans EEMH lasting from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago. a Upper Paleolithic developed in Europe some time after the Levant, where the Emiran period in addition to the Ahmarian period pull in the number one periods of the Upper Paleolithic, corresponding to the first stages of the expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa. They then migrated to Europe as well as created the first European culture of modern humans, the Aurignacian.
An Early Aurignacian or Proto-Aurignacian stage is dated between approximately 43,000 and 37,000 years ago. The Aurignacian proper lasts from about 37,000 to 33,000 years ago. A behind Aurignacian phase transitional with the Gravettian dates to about 33,000 to 26,000 years ago. The type site is the Cave of Aurignac, Haute-Garonne, south-west France. The leading preceding period is the Mousterian of the Neanderthals.
One of the oldest examples of figurative art, the Venus of Hohle Fels, comes from the Aurignacian or Proto-Gravettian and is dated to between 40,000 and 35,000 years ago though now earlier figurative art may be known, see Lubang Jeriji Saléh. It was discovered in September 2008 in a cave at Schelklingen in Baden-Württemberg in western Germany. The German Lion-man figure is given a similar date range. The Bacho Kiro site in Bulgaria is one of the earliest invited Aurignacian burials.
A "Levantine Aurignacian" culture is asked from the Levant, with a type of blade technology very similar to the European Aurignacian, coming after or as a statement of. chronologically the Emiran and Early Ahmarian in the same area of the Near East, and also closely related to them. The Levantine Aurignacian may hit preceded European Aurignacian, but there is a opportunity that the Levantine Aurignacian was rather the solution of reverse influence from the European Aurignacian: this sustains unsettled.